The Calvert Journal invites you to their Calvert Journal Film Festival; 7 days of New East cinema online, a digital film festival showcasing the diverse cinematic talent of Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. The festival will feature 7 films, screened online for free during the week from 12 to 18 October; each day a different film will be available for 24h.
Read MoreCommunity Conversation: The Black Archives and VIBE on archiving and diversifying narratives
The Black Archives is a Dutch unique historical archive for inspiring conversations, activities and literature from Black and other perspectives that are often overlooked elsewhere. Voices of Iberia in the Black Europe [VIBE] is a project by Educar and La Rampa magazine inviting Afro-Iberian artists to enter in dialogue with the current Black Lives Matter movement.
Both Black Archives and VIBE present on their plans, and afterwards we’ll have a conversation on how digging up and recounting stories from the past can help us transform our futures.
Lampa Conversation Festival: "What kind of future awaits us?"
This year’s Lampa Conservation Festival took place in September. In the session our director, André Wilkens, took part in, technological advancement, changes in social fabric, rising inequality, climate change, the global pandemic, geopolitical struggles were the topics to be discussed. What kind of future awaits us, and how to prepare for it?
Read MoreCulture of Solidarity: Second round grantees
We welcome these second-round grantees who grow immediate crisis responses into more future-oriented solutions and extend from local levels to building cross-national alliances and pan-European initiatives.
The projects range from Europe-wide campaigns on the topic of European solidarity to grants that support groups who are most severely affected by legislative or financial adversities during the pandemic, and from proposals on greening the future of our continent to projects revealing untold histories of Europeans.
Read MoreForum on European Culture
The third edition of Forum on European Culture took place September 17 - 20.
According to the organisation “Now more than ever, we need the power of artists and thinkers to imagine a better future for Europe.” Want to find out what they imagined? Youtube!
IDFA: two documentaries on Belarus
Together with IDFA we present two documentaries by Polish director Miroslav Dembinski shedding light on the current situation in Belarus. The two films are free to watch for a week. Start date: September 17 2020.
Read MoreOpen Letter: European Democracy Action Plan
The open letter on the European Democracy Action Plan and freedom of artistic expression is submitted in response to the public consultation launched by the European Commission on the European Democracy Action Plan (EDAP). We - signatories - call on the EU to take positive action to monitor and promote freedom of expression in all its forms and submit the following recommendations:
Read More'Keep the UK in Creative Europe'
Over 250 European cultural leaders and arts organisations have signed an open letter - drafted by D6 Culture in Transit - urging the UK’s Secretary of State, Rt Hon Oliver Dowden to reverse the decision to take the UK out of Creative Europe, the EU’s funding programme for the cultural and creative sectors.
#Together4CreativeEurope
Belarus’ Cultural Formation
Today the EU Council meets as “the EU has called the Belarusian political leadership to participate in a genuine and inclusive dialogue with broader society to avoid further violence. The EU supports the Belarusian population in their desire for democratic change.” You can follow the video conference via this link.
We hope the outcomes will support the changes in Belarusian society now that the society experienced “a revolution in its mentality, a complete reboot of its thinking process,” as visual artist and writer Artur Klinaŭ had hoped for in his 2015 contribution to our Another Europe book.
On amazement and borders - a longread by Quinsy Gario
Over summer we present you some thought pieces on the current state of Europe, with an eye to the various Black Lives Matter demonstrations globally. Kicking off the series is Dutch artist Quinsy Gario with his text “On amazement and borders”, firstly published in our annual magazine Common Ground.
Read MoreSummer of Solidarity
Summer of Solidarity, the first pop-up continent-wide, European, collaborative, storytelling media initiative has officially launched. This summertime, collaborative, journalism and creativity initiative that collects human stories from across wider Europe in the summer of 2020. Visit their website for more info.
Read MoreCommunity Conversations: Democracy festivals, Corona and the future of conversations
Ever since March 2020 we have been hosting community conversations on topics that matter to Europe and the communities we are involved in. We believe speaking in a community of care and with peers from all over Europe to exchange on new realities, share fears and dreams, listen to and support one another, helps in dealing with the Corona crisis and its’ aftermaths.
join us for the next one on September 11, 2020, at 14:00 AM - 15:30 PM CET.