>> Create something good for the city you are living in. Anibar Animation Festival is the only animation festival in Kosovo, which has had 7 successful editions until now. Each year the festival gets bigger, last edition having had seven days of film screening in four cinemas (two of them 23 being … Continued
Are artists and intellectuals sufficiently represented in the political discourse today? Should they be? Do arts thrive in democracy? And do democracies thrive via the arts? Do artists and intellectuals necessarily need to consider their impact on society? Should artists live off their arts? How? We, the people of culture, let our fragmentation reduce our … Continued
Cultural practices and participation are key factors for social and personal well-being and contribute to citizens’ ability to deal with social and economic change. But these factors are seldom recognised in the existing, conventional systems of measurement. CAE has therefore addressed this issue by designing and disseminating an ad hoc information system, based upon qualitative … Continued
AGE OF UNCERTAINTY & THE FREEDOM OF ARTISTIC EXPRESSION By Sara Whyatt, Consultant on Human Rights and Freedom of Expression I really wasn’t going to talk about President Trump, as so much is being said I don’t see that I can add to it. But as each day of his presidency brings another offence to … Continued
From 2014 to 2017, Culture Action Europe embarked on a journey aimed at assessing the impact of culture on people’s wellbeing, starting from the direct experience of cultural practitioners and organisations and from their public. The purpose: cultural organisations should be able to become accountable for their contribution to the wellbeing of both their own … Continued
Why this toolkit? To build capacity within the arts and culture sector, providing knowledge on how artists can exercise their rights, and on how to support our collaborative partners. To support and encourage arts organisations and cultural workers in informing and encouraging their colleagues and members to protect, defend and support artists and cultural operators … Continued
Since 2013, CAE is carrying out a project – MEASURING THE IMPACT OF THE ARTS IN SOCIETY – to provide practitioners evidences on the impact of cultural practices and participation on the well-being of citizens and resilience to change and to create and share tools for cultural operators to structure and assess their impact on … Continued
From 2014 to 2017, Culture Action Europe has worked to collectively reflect on how the paradigm of the Sharing Economy is impacting on the cultural sector. This paradigm has impacts both at the organisational level and on the production side of such cultural organisations. The work of these three years has created a growing working … Continued