Founding
The beginning of organised social life in Žrnovo - Postrana.
Founded 1911
About us
From a reading room to a public cultural centre. The society was born in Žrnovo - Postrana as a place of education, gathering, and the preservation of cultural memory.
The founding session is recorded on 31 December 1911.
Founding
The society was founded at the initiative of the late Don Nikola Batistić, priest, professor, writer and poet, as recorded in the minutes of the founding assembly on 31 December 1911.
Don Pero Kalođera, the Žrnovo parish priest, was unanimously elected as the first president. Throughout its history, the society has been supported by many emigrants, the most significant of whom was the late Jozo Laus.
A society exists so that a place may live, so that tradition is passed on, and so that culture is not reduced to decoration.
Key moments
Statute of the society
A contemporary legal basis for the work of the association.
Public cultural work
Programmes, archive, stage, and local gatherings.
What the society carries
Cultural and educational work
Lectures, performances, gatherings, and public content.
Local memory
Archive of place, people, events, and customs.
Community
Volunteers, local committee, and generational handover.
Donors and support
emigrant supportJozo Laus
Throughout its history, the society has been supported by many emigrants, the most significant of whom was the late Jozo Laus, whose name the society keeps in gratitude.
diasporaŽrnovo emigrants
Many families displaced from Žrnovo and the surrounding places have sent support — material, political, and spiritual — across the decades so that the society could survive wars, poverty, and forgetting.
todayLocal community
Today the society lives on membership fees, volunteers, and the support of the people of Žrnovo and Postrana, who recognise it as their public space for gathering, celebration, and remembrance.