This year’s Civil Society Days will focus on migration and on how Europe can be made more open and adapt to what needs to be seen as a structural change. Culture Action Europe will be participating, on the 31st of May 2016, in the panel dedicated to “Social integration and the role of CSO”. Find … Continued
(Version française, versión española) Culture Action Europe and Agenda 21 for Culture-UCLG are keen to promote your actions and ideas in a study they are undertaking for the European Economic and Social Committee of the EU on Culture, Cities and Identity. Therefore, our aim is to gather, with your help, concrete examples and best practices … Continued
Jamm’Art – the 72-hour massive online conversation – starts now. At any time during the next 3 days, we encourage you to join, read, share thoughts and mix them with others, starting from important questions on the role of artists and intellectuals in society, today. Today from 12 pm to 3 pm, you will also be able … Continued
Active in audience development? Take Part! This is a Call to Action to participate in the “Study on audience development – How to place audiences at the centre of cultural organisations”. We are launching an open invitation to collect and investigate a number of European practices in order to explore and point out the key … Continued
The InterCultural focus group, powered by Culture Action Europe explores, develops and promotes the role of cultural diversity and intercultural exchange in our European societies and impacts decisions that provide the framework for interculturality in Europe and beyond. This focus group operates based on and developing Culture Action Europe’s mission to “put culture at the … Continued
We invite everyone online to join and contribute in collectively reflecting on today’s role of artists and intellectuals. registrations opened at www.jammart.eu What is a Jam Session? Borrowing the concept from the jazz world, a Jam Session is an event, a web site, an open space, a tool, a discussion and more all wrapped into a 72- hour exchange of ideas … Continued
Culture Action Europe is pleased to inform you that, jointly with the Agenda 21 for Culture-UCLG, it has been awarded the contract for an EESC (European Economic and Social Committee) study on “Culture, Cities and Identity in Europe”. The study will be presented at a high-level conference on 20 and 21 June 2016 organized in partnership with the ‘Culture and Education’ Committee of … Continued
Using data provided by Eurostat, the Budapest Observatory shows that, by 2013 and 2014, central government spendings on culture of 23 European countries dropped below the 2004 amount. It underlines, however, that “more than half of all public money on culture is spent locally”. The full memo is available here!