Today is a sad day.
Our friend and colleague Osman Kavala is in unlawful detention for 1000 days today.
VAHA - Oasis: Building common ground for spaces of public discussion and dialogue in Turkey and neighbouring Europe
VAHA [meaning OASIS in Turkish] will connect and enable up to 50 independent arts and culture spaces and organisations for public programming to shape 16 local hubs interconnected within an international solidarity network.
Open call to participation closes September 14.
Courageous Citizens: Levent Duran
Courageous Citizens grantee Levent Duran searched for creative ways of talking about the social knot around the mandatory army service in Turkey.
Read MoreNew York Times opinion piece by Osman Kavala
Our friend and colleague Osman Kavala published an open letter on his 710 days in prison.
Read MoreA letter from Osman Kavala: 15 months in prison without indictment
After fifteen months in prison without indictment we share Osman Kavala’s statement on his imprisonment.
Read MoreWindows into Protest: a Tandem Project
Learn more about Windows into Protest, a project emerging from our Tandem network - our programme for cultural managers across the EU and beyond. It is a project in partnership with three countries where protest in many different forms has been taking place: Ukraine, Turkey and the UK.
Read MoreAnother Europe: the Book
Since our beginnings in the 1950s, ECF has been pursuing the idea of a Europe that goes beyond historical, cultural and political borders and proposes new ways of doing things. The Europe ECF imagines extends well beyond the EU, embracing the countries that touch our borders to the east and to the south. These guiding principles run through the pages of our new publication Another Europe, which brings together a treasure trove of insights and experiences from partners and participants working with us in the European Neighbourhood over the past 15 years.
Read MoreReframe - Perspectives on Europe through comics from Algeria, Turkey and the UK: Exhibition Report
Reframe is an exhibition portraying the work of nine artists from Algeria, Turkey and the UK who use their distinctive styles and viewpoints to ‘reframe’ perspectives on Europe. This report details the specifications of the exhibition, which has been shown at the Philanthropy House in Brussels from 19 March to 12 May 2014, and its surrounding events and offers reflection in the form of collected evaluation forms and the Visitor's book in addition to collated publicity and advertising material and conclusion remarks.
Read MoreRemixing Europe: unveiling the imagery of migrants in European media
REMIXING EUROPE is a publication unveiling the imagery of migrants in European media. It is a Doc Next Network publication, produced in the framework of Remapping Europe, A Remix Project Highlighting the Migrant’s Perspective. This investigative and artistic project explores the tools and concepts of remixing media as a method to re-view, re-investigate and re-consider prevailing imageries of migrants in European societies.
Read MoreLocal Cultural Policies Handbook – Steps, Tools and Case studies
This publication pulls together new methodological tools and diverse practical experiences from civic participation in local cultural policy development from across Turkey.
Read MoreÇanakkale 2010 – A Story of a Year
This publication tells the story of an unusual year-long civic project that took place in the Turkish city of Çanakkale in 2010, carried out by Anadolu Kültür, who have been closely involved with the European Neighbourhood programme since 2005.
Read MoreAn Alternative Gaze - A Shared Reflection on Cross-Mediterranean Cooperation in the Arts
An Alternative Gaze - A Shared Reflection on Cross-Mediterranean Cooperation in the Arts, published by the ECF, 2008.
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