We initiated a four-day event in October 2012 that brought together leading artists and thinkers from diverse disciplines and backgrounds to explore some of main European issues through music, performance, film, exhibitions and debates
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Comics
Europe gets captured by the pens and pencils of up-and-coming and established comic artists.
Read MoreNarratives for Europe: Reading Room - Is the EU Killing Europe?
This report presents the reflections and findings of a group of young professionals and students – the Danube Foundation – who have been in search for shared stories of Europe. Their projectUtopia: European Vistas has been supported by ECF.
Read MoreReport - New Narratives for Europe Seminar 10.05.2010
In 2009, the European Cultural Foundation decided to explore what came to be called ‘New Narratives for Europe’.
Our questioning began with: if there are inspiring stories out there now, being shared by the people of Europe, what can these stories tell us? Who are telling these stories – and where and how are they telling them? And which of these narratives are inspiring – and perhaps even mobilising – for the younger generation of Europeans, both within and beyond the EU?
These questions were already in the air. That ‘Europe needs a story to tell’ is often heard in European political and intellectual circles. While the word ‘narratives’ has already been long used among social scientists and those from the art world, it is now emerging in political discourse.
Four reports of the Eastern European Reflection Group
The European Cultural Foundation and The German Marshall Fund of the United States underwent a process of cooperation with the aim of supporting the capacity of cultural actors to be effective agents of change in Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine. You can read all the reports resulting from this partnership.
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