Planet Dom

Planet Dom, a four-day festival held in Split from November 21 to 24, is organized by the Multimedia Cultural Center together with the Platform of Youth Center and the Youth Associations Coalition, under the patronage of the City of Split. The program features musical and interdisciplinary performances, club nights, talks, video screenings, installations, workshops and other forms of progressive contemporary culture, presenting a cross-section of the work of this key cultural institution in Split.

Dom Mladih (Youth House) was designed back in 1977 and was first conceived as the Home of Socialist Youth, a large multifunctional cultural complex. Building started in preparation for the Mediterranean Games hosted in Split in 1979. Yet, as so often happens in this region, once political leaders had boasted of major investment in a brighter future and stressed their dedication to youth, the project was stopped in 1984 with only the rough construction finished. Only partly in use, the building turned into a serious financial, political and even safety problem for the city. According to the available official data, it remained empty and without purpose for the following fifteen years. The turning point arrived in 1994, when alternative artists occupied the building through the Art Squat project, after a three-month clean-up joined voluntarily by many young people from Split. In 1997, the City of Split founded the Youth Cultural Center, a public institution for creativity and for cultural, technical and artistic performances, which managed The Youth Center until 2005.