Youth Cultural Center - Bitola (YCC) is an independent, non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit youth organization.
It was formed in 1997 named Youth Cultural Association (YCA) as non-formal group of enthusiasts, young people and young intellectuals, part of them as freelanced artists, musicians, actors, organizers and people with advanced ideas. The first steps in the development of YCA were realized by organizing various cultural events (poetry evenings, concerts, alternative theatre performances and exhibitions). As a result of growing needs for more intensive activities in the field of culture, in September 1999 YCA was registered as NGO. After the period of internal reinforcement, restructuring and lack of finances YCA in April 2000 rents a working office and started working on the development of different projects. In May 2002 due to organisational restructuring YCA has been transformed into higher form of NGO and changed its name in Youth Cultural Center - Bitola.

Vision: Our vision is developed democratic society where young people are leaders of the progress.

Mission: To unite and develop the creative potentials of young people in the region of South Eastern Europe and to raise the level of youth participation in civil society.

Goals:
 Development of urban cultural production and intercultural exchange
 Building membership capacities and development of voluntarism
 Development of skills of young people
 Support of civic initiatives and campaigns

Programs:
 Cultural agenda
 Education
 Publishing
 Civil society development

Main activities:
 Organization of cultural events (concerts, exhibitions, promotions, debates, philosophy and cinema evenings, theater, performances…)
 Education of youth (courses, workshops, seminars, training)
 Networking and partnerships with other cultural institutions and NGO’ s

YCC- Bitola is open for the young people (15- 35) no matter race, nationality or religion.

Executive Board
Marija Nasokovska – President
Maja Zivkovska
Kristina Biceva
Igor Tomeski
Zlatko Kurcievski

Supervisory Board
Anica Tantarova
Toni Jovanovski
Aleksandar Markovski

Executive Director
Zlatko Talevski

Administrative Director
Saso Dodovski

Program Managers
Todor Ivanovski
Meri Nasokova
Maja Petrovska

Administrative assistant
Dejan Dodovski

Secretary
Katerina Kaleskovska

Total membership 80, active volunteers 30

Contact

Contact address
Kliment Ohridski Lam. 2/ 3
7000 Bitola
Macedonia
Phone +389 (0)47 23 30 20
Fax +389 (0)47 20 39 25

Working days :Monday to Friday

Working hours
09:00-16:00 (winter)
09:00-17:00 (summer)

E-mail: mkcbt@mt.net.mk