In this quarter’s newsletter, Culture Action Europe focuses on the rise in the arts and cultural milieu to calling out the need for protection and promotion of artistic freedom. Pandemics have jeopardised nationalism and localisation tendencies already present within the EU before Covid19, further shrinking political, civic, artistic, and new unregulated public spaces online. Recent … Continued
The European Commission has called for an “innovative and aesthetic” approach to fully realize the Green New Deal in people’s lives. Through focus on design, sustainability and investment, the New European Bauhaus aims to be an intersectional project that transforms environmental, economic, and cultural goals for Europe. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen first hinted … Continued
The Week of Contested Heritage offers workshops, a keynote presentation with discussion and a session with policy-makers. Tune in for thought-provoking reflections about the current Zeitgeist that requires institutions and individuals to think about change. The Heritage Contact Zone (HCZ) project proposes a tool for that change, to open up spaces for difficult conversation about … Continued
Within the framework of Germany’s presidency of the Council of the European Union, NEMO and the German Museums Association co-organised the online conference Museums and Social Responsibility – Values revisited from 17-18 September 2020. This conference focused on what social responsibility means for museums. Through their daily work, museums make a significant contribution to social responsibility by … Continued
KEA European Affairs and Culture Action Europe have a pleasure to invite you to an informal brainstorming and consultation session to collectively shape the Manifesto for a Modern Cultural Policy. The meeting will take place online, 11 am (CET), 22 October, 2020. Registration is required, open for Culture Action Europe members only. The Manifesto, initiated … Continued
From the 2020 Rome Charter Conference, October 1 – 3, 2020. The Rome Charter is a transnational group of over 45 cities and 95 advisors that has started an initiative to support the right to participate in cultural life as a condition for a better society. The convening took place from October 1 – 3, … Continued
Panellists: Lise Korsgaard, Chiara Organtini, Ben Walmsley, Daniel Wetzel. Chair: Jonathan Goodacre. This session looks at how participation and engagement in culture is being affected by the new world of crisis and social distancing and how, as cultural professionals, we should respond. At a time when artists and audiences have found new ways to relate to each other, we will … Continued
“The cultural institution – what needs to change?”, with the panellists: Teodor Celakoski, Félix Dupin-Meynard, Victoria Durrer, moderated by Dea Vidović. In the discussion on balance between elitism and cultural democracy we tackled the question of excellence and managerialism which is a dominant principle in which cultural institutions are run nowadays. It seems through many examples that none … Continued