Due to the pandemic, the Cultural and Creative Spaces and Cities Urban Exploration Madrid has been turned fully digital.
The participants of this Urban Exploration event will explore Madrid through interviews with agents working on, for and with childhood rights. More details about the event will follow soon.
The book launch of "Forces of Art - Perspectives from a Changing World" on 26 November at 3 pm (CET) is co-hosted with Hivos and Prince Claus Fund. This thought-provoking and wide-ranging book will challenge assumptions and stimulate new ideas about how crucial art and culture are. You can watch the book launch via Facebook and on the Forces of Art website
During this Community Conversation, European Alternatives and Youth of European Nationalities (YEN) will discuss influencing democratic processes in Europe among young people with guest speaker Magid Magid. Whether it be citizen assemblies, guardians of the future, fighting for intergenerational rights or self-governing in city-states, we ask what are young people doing out there for their futures.
The conversation will be hosted in zoom. In order to access the zoom link, we ask you to register by filling out this form.
A Cultural Deal for Europe: A central place for culture in the EU’s post-pandemic future aims to bring together the cultural sector and European policymakers to engage into dialogue, share ideas and co-develop strategies together for ensuring the central role of culture in the future of Europe. It is organised by Culture Action Europe (CAE), European Cultural Foundation, and Europa Nostra.
The online debate will take place online on 18 November 2020 3 pm – 5 pm CET and will focus critical questions about culture in Europe’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and the future of Europe. With opening remarks by European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel and the European Parliament CULT Chair Sabine Verheyen.
Register via this link by 16 November.
In a frame of the Cultural and Creative Spaces and Cities (CCSC) project, Timelab and the University of Antwerp, in cooperation with European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and Trans Europe Halle (TEH), organise the hybrid co-creation lab: Common Ground: Building a Foundation for Homes of Commons. The event is free and will take place both physically in Ghent, Belgium (for a maximum of 50 people) and digitally (unlimited).
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 helps us transform our futures.
Perhaps Corona taught us all that nearness as a concept - between persons, between political actors - is what we need to become interlocal citizens. What consequences does that have for our democracy? And for our arts and culture? A lecture and Q&A by Pascal Gielen.
Creative and cultural organisations can play a lead role in driving the green transition, according to adelphi. They can enact change within their own communities and organisations, and by shaping discourse in the public sphere. But where to start inside your organisation? And how to embed sustainable practices in your regular work?
Conversation festival LAMPA is a Latvian festival of democracy and conversations. For the organizers believe everything begins with a conversation. This year the festival has changed its format to online/offline, due to the Covid19 pandemic. What did they learn, and what can we?
The Corona crisis has had effects on European reporting too. How did the initial national reflex affect pan European reporting? And how do two of Europe's independent publishing platforms - Réka Kinga Papp, editor in chief of Eurozine and Kyrill Hartog, editor in chief of Are We Europe - see their future?
The Corona crisis is adding a new chapter to the ongoing protests against the political classes in Serbia, culminating in the saddening violence by state police against demonstrators. But Belgrade is at the streets for years already, demonstrating against corruption, and for a future.
Iva Cukic of Ministry of Space takes us on a tour through recent Belgrade activism.
In this webcare session we welcome journalist Daniel Trilling - contributor to our Lost in Media publication - for a conversation on Europe, Corona and workers rights across borders.
The Culture of Solidarity Fund continues to support imaginative cultural initiatives - big or small - that reinforce solidarity and deal with the aftermaths of the pandemic for European societies.
This second round also looks to re-unite Europe and its people in solidarity through supporting local cultural players in building alliances across nations, borders and differences with a broader European idea in mind. It specifically welcomes proposals that grow immediate crisis responses into more future- oriented solutions and extend from local levels to building cross-national alliances and initiatives of pan-European solidarity.
See https://www.culturalfoundation.eu/library/second-round-culture-of-solidarity-fund-is-announced
In this Q & A session - hosted on facebook - the team behind the open call of our Culture of Solidarity fund will be present to answer any question on the fund and its’ workings.
The fifty participants to Culture Lab Europe present their initiatives for solidarity and European public space.
Our continent is awash with changes, debates, challenges and complex realities that concern all of its inhabitants. Yet Europe's media landscape remains dominated by nation-centric media or platforms that are based outside of Europe. Isn't it time to have a proper European platform or a new European media initiative ?
Culture of solidarity is an art of building/rebuilding invisible bridges. How? This will not be achieves through the festival culture, based on one-off events, or by activity in social or spiritual spheres which veers away from organic inter-human relations immersed in long-standing practices, and remains limited to short-term projects, susceptible to the pressures of the media and mass-market. The escapism of the beneficiaries of social prosperity and the cult of individual freedom is not enough to hammer out ecological solidarity with the Other. The multi-kulti world is sunk in crisis, because the freedom to cultivate discrete identities and pride in the wealth of diversity does not translate into an ethos of community which takes responsibility for the whole. What’s the answer then?
In a frame of the Cultural and Creative Spaces and Cities (CCSC) project, we’ve organised along with the University of Antwerp, and a special contribution of l’Asilo, a digital co-creation lab Commons Sense: Let’s Create a Bottom-Up European Democracy. The digital event will take place on the 22nd and the 29-30th of June. The Co-Creation Lab is free and you can register here.
All over Europe new working tools, ideas and support mechanisms of and for cultural initiatives have popped up during the past weeks. Some of them might be temporary, some might be here to stay. Some of them are developed by you, a lot of them by others. All of them try addressing our ‘new normal’. But how normal is this new situation?
We invite you to join our webcare sessions: 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.
In this webcare session we will together touch on the notion of crisis as the new normal. Is that true indeed? And what should the privileged learn from those whose lives have been characterized by a permanent crisis? How to look beyond the crisis? This session will be hosted by Brazilian artist and activist Lala Deheinzelin, who specializes in thinking about just transitions to a better future.
Note: what is shared in the conversation is not intended to be shared outside of the conversation. We think it is important to make these web care sessions confidential spaces and look forward to exploring how they could function together with you.
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All over Europe new working tools, ideas and support mechanisms of and for cultural initiatives have popped up during the past weeks. Some of them might be temporary, some might be here to stay. Some of them are developed by you, a lot of them by others. All of them try addressing our ‘new normal’. But how normal is this new situation?
We invite you to join our webcare sessions: 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.
In this webcare session we will together explore the workings of representative democracy with its’ party system and the great material it offers for the arts.
We have invited some special guests to host this session: TheatreState is a theatre company based in Leeds (UK) that creates playful, surprising shows that blend the personal with the political to reimagine the world as we know it. We are Tess Seddon and Ali Ford and all the brilliant people who create and play with us.
Note: what is shared in the conversation is not intended to be shared outside of the conversation. We think it is important to make these web care sessions confidential spaces and look forward to exploring how they could function together with you.
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All over Europe new working tools, ideas and support mechanisms of and for cultural initiatives have popped up during the past weeks. Some of them might be temporary, some might be here to stay. Some of them are developed by you, a lot of them by others. All of them try addressing our ‘new normal’. But how normal is this new situation?
We invite you to join our webcare sessions: 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.
In this fifth webcare session we will try collecting as many resources for funding, home residencies, online events et al that deal with the notion of Europe as a shared public space.
Note: what is shared in the conversation is not intended to be shared outside of the conversation. We think it is important to make these web care sessions confidential spaces and look forward to exploring how they could function together with you.
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[update, April 30 2020: Cancelled]
Dear all,
Could it be more typical? Due to unforeseen circumstances in this weird times we need to cancel this event. We have two more sessions on the agenda, and much look forward to seeing you there.
All over Europe new working tools, ideas and support mechanisms of and for cultural initiatives have popped up during the past weeks. Some of them might be temporary, some might be here to stay. Some of them are developed by you, a lot of them by others. All of them try addressing our ‘new normal’. But how normal is this new situation?
We invite you to join our webcare sessions: 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.
In this fourth webcare session we will together touch on the notion of crisis as the new normal. Is that true indeed? And what should the privileged learn from those whose lives have been characterized by a permanent crisis?
Note: what is shared in the conversation is not intended to be shared outside of the conversation. We think it is important to make these web care sessions confidential spaces and look forward to exploring how they could function together with you.
All over Europe new working tools, ideas and support mechanisms of and for cultural initiatives have popped up during the past weeks. Some of them might be temporary, some might be here to stay. Some of them are developed by you, a lot of them by others. All of them try addressing our ‘new normal’. But how normal is this new situation?
We invite you to join our webcare sessions: 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.
In this third webcare session we will together discuss if and how the newly formed grassroots solidarity movements might find an international equivalent?
Hosts Shelagh Wright and Peter Jenkinson are cultural change agents working locally andinternationally with activists in culture, development and progressive politics, including with Reshape, Laboratories of Care and Compass UK.
Note: what is shared in the conversation is not intended to be shared outside of the conversation. We think it is important to make these web care sessions confidential spaces and look forward to exploring how they could function together with you.
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All over Europe new working tools, ideas and support mechanisms of and for cultural initiatives have popped up during the past weeks. Some of them might be temporary, some might be here to stay. Some of them are developed by you, a lot of them by others. All of them try addressing our ‘new normal’. But how normal is this new situation?
We invite you to join our webcare sessions: 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.
In this second webcare session the team behind the open call of our Culture of Solidarity fund will be present to answer any question on the fund and its’ workings.
Note: what is shared in the conversation is not intended to be shared outside of the conversation. We think it is important to make these web care sessions confidential spaces and look forward to exploring how they could function together with you.
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Culture Lab Europe is intended as a live platform to strengthen cultural movements that reclaim European democracy. Cultural activists and mediators will establish connections with colleagues from across Europe and work on common initiatives that can strengthen European public space. Culture Lab Europe provides a safe and inspirational working environment based on principles of free and open culture.
All over Europe new working tools, ideas and support mechanisms of and for cultural initiatives have popped up during the past weeks. Some of them might be temporary, some might be here to stay. Some of them are developed by you, a lot of them by others. All of them try addressing our ‘new normal’. But how normal is this new situation?
We invite you to join the first of our web care sessions: 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.
Note: this is not an opportunity to discuss your current ECF granted project. Also note: what is shared in the conversation is not intended to be shared outside of the conversation. We think it is important to make these web care sessions confidential spaces and look forward to exploring how they could function together with you.
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Most African migrants, refugees and asylum seekers arriving in Europe have done so by taking on dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean Sea. As bodies pile up beneath oceans and upon Western shores, the world has been quick to call this a "migration crisis."
Yet the real issue has been the uneven and often thoughtless coverage of migrants in the media, in particular the European media’s coverage about African migrants. Why are migrant perspectives excluded from mainstream media? Who really gets to tell migrants' stories? Panellists will discuss the challenges of reporting on migration and consider how migrant voices can be better heard.
In this 40th edition Netwerk Democratie assesses what the series of lectures on ‘New Democracy’ has resulted in: from do’s & don’ts, alternative models, and new instruments for democratic innovation to the role of governance, co-creation, education and leadership.
Our project manager Menno Weijs participates in a public panel on the role of foundations in financing the fight for more diversity, more equality and more justice.
DNI grantee Another Europe is Possible host ‘30 Years After the Fall of the Iron Curtain. Discussing the transformation of Europe thirty years on.’
A media crisis on refugees.
A public discussion starting from our Lost in Media book and local realities.
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