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 MoreIdea Camp 2015: Meet the 25 #RDgrantees and their ideas
Featured People: Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
Dr. Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, a London-born urban anthropologist with Nigerian-Irish/English-Guyanese roots, dedicates her research and teaching to global expressive cultures as forms of resistance, migration and belonging.
Jayne has participated to the Idea Camp 2015 to give an Idea Talk on the relationship between the commons and migration in Europe – now, how urgent is that?
Read MoreIdea Camp 2015: Day to day compilation videos
ECF's second Idea Camp took place from 23 to 25 September 2015 in Botkyrka, Sweden. This year’s theme “Build the City” applied the principles and ethics of the commons. The Idea Camp explored how citizens and communities can get directly involved in participatory democratic processes that shape and govern our cities. The Media Lab (ZEMOS98, Canan Marasligil, Charlie Tims and the ECF Labs team) has documented the Idea Camp through a variety of audiovisual material you can all find compiled in the Build the City: Online Resources on ECF Labs. We have gathered the three day to day video compilations of the Idea Camp in this post.
Read MoreFeatured People: Vladimir Us
Vladimir Us is an artist and curator working with Oberliht, one of the Connected Action for the Commons hubs. In this interview filmed during the Idea Camp 2015 at the end of September, Vladimir talks about the specific Moldovan context in which Oberliht works and the notion of commonality and public space as seen as part of a democratic structure.
Read MoreLampedusa Mirrors - video
Lampedusa Mirrors is a theatre coproduction between Eclosion d’artistes (Tunis) and Teatro dell’Argine (Bologna) that was conceived in the framework of our Tandem Shaml Cultural Manager Exchanges. In 2015, young theatre makers from Tunisia and Italy developed a gripping performance which reflects on life at the island of Lampedusa as a symbolic site of the ongoing crisis.
Read More100% Amsterdam: Full Video of the Performance
In December 2014, together with Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam and the Publieke Werken Foundation, ECF presented the show 100% Amsterdam by Berlin theatre collective Rimini Protokoll. Watch the full video of the performance in Dutch with English subtitles. (Photo by Ernst van Deursen)
Read MoreECF statement on loss of life at the Mediterranean Sea
ECF mourns the continuous loss of life at the Mediterranean Sea which has sadly reached another peak last weekend. We commemorate those who have tragically perished at the Southern borders of Europe and express our deepest sympathy with those women, men and children who are still suffering at sea at this very moment.
Read MoreECF Princess Margriet Award Laureates Presentation Films
On Tuesday 31 March 2015 took place the presentation of the 2015 ECF Princess Margriet Award for Culture honouring Athens Biennale (GR) and the Visual Culture Research Center (UA). You can watch these two films which were shown at the ceremony, presenting the work of both laureates.
Read MoreFeatured People: Visual Culture Research Center, Ukraine
The Visual Culture Research Center was founded in the Ukraine capital of Kiev in 2008 as a platform for collaboration between academics, artists and activists. It is making an unprecedented contribution to the regional cultural debate at a time of enormous political and economic upheaval. Read our feature length overview.
Read MoreMedia Coverage - Conflicting Memories, Ukraine
In the frame of the Conflicting Memories, Ukraine: a political crisis from a cultural perspective event on 26 February, we have collected images, audio and video from the event as well as articles written by renown political scientist Ivan Krastev in the Dutch media.
Read MoreVideo: Short presentation of the 9 supported Collaboration Projects (2013-14)
Balkans Art and Culture Fund (BAC) and the partnership between the Swiss Government, the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and organisation art∡ngle, which is the implementer of BAC, were presented on 24 February 2015 at the Art Gallery of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The seven regional collaboration projects (COLABs) selected on the basis of an open competition were promoted on that occasion. You can watch a video presenting the project.
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