Banat Cultural Center (BCC), a family-run creative industry involved in artistic creation, cultural, and publishing production, is distinguished by its activities that range from the local to the global level, fostering the tradition and concept of the historically multicultural Banat. BCC is headquartered in Novi Miloševo, in a building that houses a gallery, a library, and spaces for cultural-artistic programs and events, along with a permanent book sales exhibition of BCC's publications (around 300 titles published so far).
This spatial core of BCC interweaves the intangible cultural heritage not only of Novi Miloševo and the Municipality of Novi Bečej but also strives to encompass the entire multilingual and multicultural Banat, nurturing the specificities of the language, customs, traditions, and ways of thinking of the Pannonian, Prečanski, and Banat people. BCC's activities are based on encouraging the creation of new, original artistic artifacts, books, paintings (as well as films, multimedia projects, cultural events, etc.), which it presents to both professional and general audiences.
BCC's publishing activity, in addition to publishing contemporary poetry, prose, and scientific works from various fields, boasts a rich series called "Homeland," where contemporary folk oral poetry, created in the style and tradition of oral literature, is carefully recorded even in modern times. In its production, BCC also nurtures the "Heritage" series, which deals with both the intangible and tangible cultural heritage of this region and the entire Banat. In the "Translations" series, numerous books have been published in the languages of national minorities in Banat, related to their cultural identity. The literary works published by BCC nurture the specificities of the language and speech in Banat, which differ from the literary standard but are very much alive, present, and rich among the people.
Contemporary literature, art, and science produced by BCC often highlight elements of the authentic cultural pattern and way of life in Banat, both traditional and modern, which in this way are not only recorded but also brought to life in new artistic works.
Banat Cultural Center also organizes five traditional cultural events in multiple cities (Theodor Pavlović Days, Sima Cucić's Spring, European Facebook Poetry Festival, Book Illustration Festival BookiLL Fest, Mother Angelina's Book Shines) and regularly exhibits its publications at book fairs in Belgrade and Novi Sad, and foreign language editions at fairs in Frankfurt and Leipzig at the stand of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia.
The Vlahović artistic family, led by writer Radovan Vlahović, who is the founder and director of Banat Cultural Center, deeply imbues their literary, visual, and multimedia works with all those Banat spices as specific features of the visible and invisible authentic cultural treasures that form the identity of Banat.
The tangible artistic artifacts that testify to this can be seen in the gallery of Banat Cultural Center in the books and paintings not only of the Vlahović family but also of other authors from the Banat Cultural Center family from all over Serbia and numerous foreign countries.
