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PROSPER is an international project co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the EU which is exploring the theme of environmentally challenged regions of the Balkans. As part of the project, a one-month residency will be organized at Euboea (Evia) island (Greece). The residency is open to international artists, designers, thinkers, and ...
Ahead of the working session How do we make it work? A panel on working conditions and status of the artist at the IETM Sofia Plenary Meeting 2024, we are excited to release a new publication Fair Pay in the Arts: The talk of the town of the elephant in the room? written by Elena Polivtseva. Through this publication, our aim is to extract insights ...
American conservationist Aldo Leopold once wrote that “one of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” Creatives working on topics of sustainability and ecological literacy constantly grapple with the emotional toil that stems from dealing with accelerating climate change, biodiversity loss, and other ...
This new study published by ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen and written by Sara Whyatt and Ole Reitov tackles the global deficiency in knowledge, data, and awareness regarding the challenges to artistic freedom. It delves into the current state of systems that monitor and document violations of artistic freedom, identifies gaps in their ...
To use our senses is to connect with the world. To go out into the living landscape and engage with it in making art is to intensify and transform our connection with the more-than-human world. This is why wildpainter and artist-educator Jan van Boeckel emphasises direct, unmediated bodily experience. We will talk about how such an artistic ...
On 1 June 17.00 hrs at the Jurányi Lab (Budapest) Petra Ardai and Eszter Babarczy will talk about the Common Ground Dialogues project, the role of art in society and reflect together with the audience on what makes a human being human. Common Ground Dialogues is a collaboration between Hungarian, Slovak, French and Dutch partners from the cultural ...
The Council of the European Union has adopted conclusions on empowering the cultural and creative sectors through data-driven audience development. This document presents the vision of the 27 Member States of the EU on the role of data in understanding, engaging, and rebuilding audiences, highlighting both the potential and opportunities, as well ...
Mario Draghi, former President of the European Central Bank (2011-2019) and Prime Minister of Italy (2021-2022) is preparing a report on the future of European competitiveness to define strategic priorities of the European Commission for the 2024-2029 policy cycle. Culture Action Europe is making a case for culture as a (potential) driver of ...
IETM and KVS, in collaboration with IDEA Consult, are excited to announce our first joint event discussing the internationalisation of the Flemish performing arts! We warmly invite stakeholders in Brussels and beyond to join us on Wednesday 29 May at KVS in Brussels to reflect together on the structural needs of the Flemish performing arts sector ...
We applaud the current Commission for prioritising the improvement of working conditions in the cultural and creative sectors (CCSs). We see a timely opportunity to address this matter comprehensively by developing a new strategic framework for culture and integrating social conditionality thoughtfully into the EU's future funding programmes. To ...
