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By the Goethe-Institut & Prince Claus Fund The world is currently facing a critical situation: alarming changes in nature and our environment are all around us; biodiversity is disappearing; air and water sources are increasingly polluted; sea levels are rising; and extreme weather phenomena are escalating. Now, more than ever, we need the arts and ...
With society’s margins more and more centred on stage, contemporary performing arts seem to be all about inclusion - but is raising awareness and centring marginalised identities enough, or is this just another wave that some artists and performers are riding until exhaustion? By analysing three recent performances, we wish to pose a series of ...
Location: Belgrade 26-28 June, 2023 Organisers of a conference held in the frame of the Erasmus+ funded programme Strategic Higher Education Partnerships for Innovation, a.k.a SHAKIN, are calling for submissions for proposals by 1 April 2023 on the theme of the event. The conference, which will look at sharing footnotes of subaltern knowledge and ...
Grant-funding and capacity-building opportunities within the Culture and Creativity for the Western Balkans programme are organised around the following four thematic windows: Improved local cultural spaces through improved public-private partnerships. Artists, media professionals and cultural operators mobilised, connected and enabled to promote ...
The third edition of the Cultural Deal for Europe’s Annual Policy Conversation, entitled ‘ Culture is the new energy for Europe,’ took place on 28 February in Brussels. It consisted of a dialogue with three Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and the Vice-President of the European Commission Margaritis Schinas. Ukraine was front and centre at ...
The report entitled Free to Create: Artistic Freedom in Europe, explores the challenges European artists and cultural workers face in the practice of their right to freedom of artistic expression. It reflects the work carried out by the Council of Europe, other organisations promoting freedom of expression and human rights artists’ and cultural ...
The ILO (International Labour Organisation) has published the conclusions of a technical meeting on the future of work in the arts and entertainment sector. Discussions focused on opportunities and challenges for decent work in the sector in the context of digital technologies, globalisation, environmental sustainability, demographic changes and a ...
4 days, 5 performances, English surtitles 5–8 April 2023, Mladinsko Theatre Ljubljana, Slovenia Simona Semenič no title yet Directed by: Tomi Janežič CRISES Directed by: Žiga Divjak Sex Education II: Ability Directed by: Tjaša Črnigoj Elfriede Jelinek WOMEN AS LOVERS Directed by: Nina Ramšak Marković SOLO Directed by: Nina Rajić Kranjac More info
Creative Scotland warmly welcome the announcement today as the Scottish Parliament considered the Scottish Government’s 2023/24 Budget. This announcement reverses the £6.6m reduction proposed in the Draft Budget, in December last year, and restores their Grant-in-Aid budget to £63m. The Board of Creative Scotland will now consider what this change ...
BETA CIRCUS Participatory experience is an action that aims to create an European transnational opportunity to explore the participatory circus as a future trend to engage the public participation in the circus creative process, letting the audience to become co-authors, editors, and observers of the artistic work. By applying the participatory ...