After submitting our contribution to the public consultation of the next generation of the EU Culture Programme in December, we are currently busy preparing a more detailed position paper on the Culture Programme as well as preparing our demands for our second campaign objective – earmarked support to culture in the next generation of EU structural funds. The … Continued
– We are many individuals that value and shape contemporary European cultures. We are more than many. We are more than producers and consumers. We are committed to cultural rights, education and active citizenship. – We believe that the strong tradition of public funding of the arts across Europe makes a difference to the diversity, … Continued
The Culture Programme is the only instrument of the European Union exclusively dedicated to support arts and culture. Today, the 15th of December 2010, is the deadline of the European Commission’s public consultation on the next Culture Programme. The Commission will use the input from the consultation to design the next generation of the Culture … Continued
To read Culture Action Europe’s contribution to the consultation on the Culture Programme and we are more campaign’s demands on the Culture Programme go here.
Life without art from European Cultural Foundation on Vimeo.
Part of the we are more campaign adventure over the next three years will consist of stimulating a joint reflection on what kind of Europe we would like to live in by the year 2020 and beyond, also looking at the role of arts and culture in helping to develop fair, equal and sustainable European societies.
Listen to engaging speeches by Culture Action Europe’s President Mercedes Giovinazzo, the Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism, Sport, Media and Youth, Androulla Vassiliou, the Director of the European Cultural Foundation Katherine Watson and campaign ambassador Péter Forgacs. During the campaign launch, Chris Torch also conducted a series of short interviews, gathering different views on why … Continued
Clubture Network, and its partners Culture Action Europe and Asociacija, are proud to present the Exit Europe position paper; the product of multi-annual efforts to connect independent cultural organisations in the region of former Yugoslavia, and to facilitate their participation in European debates on the development of cultural policies.
In the framework of the preparations for the EU Belgian Presidency conference on culture and social inclusion, Culture Action Europe drafted a short position paper on the European perspective on the subject. Read the paper here.