THURSDAY 15
(@ UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG -Vasagatan 1)

14.00 – 17.45
Annual General Meeting (for CAE members only)
Room B33

17.30 – 18.00
REGISTRATION

18.00 – 19.00
OPENING INSPIRATIONAL TALK
with Katrín Oddsdóttir
(Elected Member of the Icelandic Constitutional Council)
A story of a marvellous victory? Past, present and future of the Icelandic constitutional endeavour
A three-act interactive chat open to public

FRIDAY 16
(@ BREWHOUSE, Åvägen 24)

8.30 – 9.30
REGISTRATION

9.30 – 10.30
OPENING
Mercedes Giovinazzo (President of Culture Action Europe)
Joakim Larsson (President of the Regional Council of Västra Götaland, Sweden)
Per Olsson Fridh (State Secretary to Minister for Culture and Democracy, Sweden)
Jonathan Michael Hill (Head of Cabinet to European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Youth and Sport)

11.00 – 12.30
PARALLEL SESSIONS # 1

• IDEAS ROOM • Express
with Kathrin Merkle (Council of Europe), Nir Boms (cyberdissident.org), Rachael Jolley (Index on Censorship), Rasoul Nejadmehr (Västra Götaland Region)
moderated by Clymene Christoforou (ISIS Arts)

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• STORIES ROOM • Create
with Patrick Bartos (Creative Region Linz & Upper Austria), Peter Gorgels (Rijskmuseum), Iolanda Pensa (Share Your Knowledge)

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• SCENARIO ROOM  • Create | Express | Participate*
with Robert Manchin (Europa Nova), Sara Whyatt (campaigner and researcher on freedom of expression and human rights) and Luka Frelih (Ljudmila)

12.30 – 14.00
Sverige – Get Together – Lunch 1

 14.00 – 15.30
PARALLEL SESSIONS # 2

• IDEAS ROOM • Participate
with Catherine Cullen (Agenda 21 for Culture), Nicholas Anastasopoulos (Researcher and Architect at NTUA), Teodor Celakoski (Clubture)
moderated by Bel Olid (AELC)

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• STORIES ROOM • Express
with Fredrik Elg (City of Malmo), Olena Pravylo (Congress of Cultural Activists), Cecilia Guida (Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto)

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• SCENARIO ROOM  • Create | Express | Participate*
with Robert Manchin (Europa Nova), Sara Whyatt (campaigner and researcher on freedom of expression and human rights) and Luka Frelih (Ljudmila)

15.30 – 16.00
Coffee and Break

16.00 – 17.30
CAE WINDOW
working areas for an in-depth exploration and update on CAE’s activities

• Culture and human rights with Mary Ann DeVlieg (ARJ Working Group)
• Culture and wellbeing with Annalisa Cicerchia (Università Tor Vergata)
• Culture and welfare with Sarah de Heusch (SMartBe)
• Culture and new economic models with Cristina da Milano (ECCOM)
• Intercultural dialogue with Niels Righolt (DCAI/CKI)

****special parallel sessions****

• Kick Off Meeting – Pilot Cities 2015-2017
  with Jordi Pascual (Agenda 21 for Culture) and Culture Action Europe
  (for members’ cities only)
  STARTING AT 15.30 – coffee served in the room
• High Level Coordination Group – working session
  (for HLCG members’ only)
• SCENARIO ROOM  • Create | Express | Participate*
  with Robert Manchin (Europa Nova), Sara Whyatt (campaigner and researcher on freedom of expression and human rights) and Luka Frelih (Ljudmila)  

17.30 – 18.30
PLENARY CONVERSATION

SATURDAY 17
(@ BREWHOUSE)

9.00 – 10.00
PLENARY CONVERSATION
A Focus on Sweden
with Linda Harju (Borås City), Magnus Aspegren (Riksteatern), Staffan Rydén (Västra Götaland Region)
moderated by Chris Torch (Intercult)

10.00 – 10.30
Coffee and Break

10.30 – 12.00
PARALLEL SESSIONS # 3

• IDEAS ROOM • Create
with Alex Mezsmer (VISARTE), Divina Frau-Meigs (Sorbonne University, Paris), Luka Frelih (LJUDMILA)
moderated by Philippe Fanjas (Association Française des Orchestres)

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• STORIES ROOM • Participate
with Haris Biskos (SynAthina – Municipality of Athens), Julien Dorra (MuseoMix), Sotiris Diamandis (Kado Paradiso), Susanna Dahlberg (Regionteater Väst)

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•SCENARIO ROOM  • Create | Express | Participate*
with Robert Manchin (Europa Nova), Sara Whyatt (campaigner and researcher on freedom of expression and human rights) and Luka Frelih (Ljudmila)  

12.00 – 13.30
Sverige – Get Together – Lunch 1

13.30 – 14.30
RECOMBINING THE THREADS – PART ONE
Glancing at the future through the scenarios

14.30 – 15.00
Coffee and Break

15.00 – 16.00
RECOMBINING THE THREADS – PART TWO
Sense making plenary conversation 

with Alexandros Mistriotis (Artist, Greece), Niels Righolt (The Danish Centre for Arts and Interculture), Walter Zampieri (European Commission)
moderated by Luca Bergamo (Culture Action Europe)

16.00 – 16.30
CLOSING INSPIRATIONAL TALK
with Anna Rosling Rönnlund
(Co-founder of the Gapminder Foundation)
Understand the world we live in by using photos as data
introduced by Mercedes Giovinazzo (Culture Action Europe)
open to public

16.30 – 18.00

SCREENING OF THE MOVIE
BLUEBERRY SOUP
with director Eileen Jerrett
open to public

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* Participants in this session need to commit to attend parallel session #1, #2, #3 and the time dedicated to CAE window.