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The situation of artists & cultural workers | New study
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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated pre-existing trends, including unprecedented income loss, growing precariousness, and inequalities in the European cultural ecosystem. Facing destitution, many workers may leave the sector and thousands of institutions may close. With them, accumulated knowledge and skills would be permanently lost, and the cultural ecosystem would be profoundly weakened. A solution to tackle this challenge includes strengthening…
The future of museum professionals in the digital era
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The book entitled “The Future of Museum Professionals in the Digital Era – The Success Story of Mu.SA“, Achilles Kameas and Panagiota Polymeropoulou (editors), is the outcome of the online conference organized in 2020 by the Mu.SA partnership in the framework of the SSA EU Mu.SA project. It delivers 12 contributions from the Mu.SA partners such as Hellenic Open University, AKMI…
Theatre Insights – Stories from Fabulamundi Film
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Theatre Insights – Stories from Fabulamundi a PAV production in collaboration with Kublai Film a project by Belloni / Boato / Danesin directed by Giulio Boato dramaturgy Davide Carnevali and Giulio Boato sound and music Lorenzo Danesin. Eight different texts narrating the European Fabulamundi project, created with the aim of supporting, promoting and disseminating the contemporary playwriting of the countries involved. ISTANTANEE – Sguardi e storie da Fabulamundi aims to be…
Artists are Human Rights Defenders | ARC’s New Safety Guide
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Designed to help artists navigate the risks they encounter, such as persecution and/or censorship, so as to enhance the understanding of artists’ and cultural actors’ work as human rights defenders, Artists at Risk Connection has developed a practical guide entitled “A Safety guide for artists”. On February 3, 2021, a group of artists and experts gathered to celebrate the launch…
[OPEN] Club Day Panel – Support your local Music Scene
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On Tuesday, 2nd of February, 2021 Live DMA moderated the Club Day Panel – Support your Local Music Scene. Panelists discussed why local live music stages are key for safeguarding Europe’s cultural diversity, boosting European artists’ and encouraging social cohesion. This panel aimed to foster a better understanding of the often harsh realities live music stages are facing and to…
Brexit | Eurovision Talk Fest
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What are the challenges of the UK based cultural organisations and artists related to their mobility, cross-border collaboration and touring post brexit? What is the future for the cultural exchange on the two sides of the channel? Deveron Projects first launched the Eurovision Talk Fest in March last year, an annual day of discussion, dance, and friendship building, featuring numerous…
A Cultural Deal for Europe
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There is no recovery or future for Europe without culture. The European cultural ecosystem is convinced that Europe needs a new Cultural Deal, a transversal, overarching framework that should demonstrate the EU’s political commitment to place culture at the heart of the European project. Culture is what brings us together. It is at the basis of the European project and…
Audience Development within Fabulamundi | A new approach to Democratic participation
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The right to participate in the cultural life of the community and to enjoy the arts is the fundamental human right, as described in the Article 27 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Although the role of culture in society and the relationship between art and ideology has undergone major changes over the centuries, culture still is a factor in…
Diversity in Culture? ENCC Webinar
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After many years of working on culture and disability, equality and diversity are central topics for the ENCC network as of 2018. On 1 December 2020, ENCC gathered with experts, human rights campaigners, trade unionists and cultural operators to discuss and reflect on: – how equality could be a focus for reshaping cultural centres after COVID-19 – how to unhinge…
Painting the Rainbow | Freemuse report launch | LGBTI
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The three-hour seminar dedicated to human rights and artistic freedom will include special address by Andrzej Kulig- First Deputy Mayor of the City of Krakow for Social and Municipal Policy and a keynote speech by Maria Arena, Chair Subcommittee on Human Rights in the EU Parliament. Artists all around the world are discriminated against because of their actual or perceived…
CCFG Live! 2020
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The Cultural Creators Friendship Group (CCFG) is a cross-partisan coalition in the European Parliament (EP) with members from six different political groups. CCFG aims at improving the whole European cultural ecosystem – i.e. the Cultural and Creative Sectors (CCS) – and especially the situation and conditions of creators, e.g. authors, performers and artists. The first CCFG LIVE! Event took place…
A Cultural Deal For Europe | Conclusions
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Concluding words from EP CULT Committee Chair Sabine Verheyen, Secretary General of Culture Action Europe Tere Badia, Director of the European Cultural Foundation André Wilkens and Secretary General of Europa Nostra Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailovic. The high-level event “A Cultural Deal for Europe”, co-organised by Culture Action Europe, the European Cultural Foundation and Europa Nostra, coordinating the European Heritage Alliance. 18 November,…
