Application deadline for the second edition of TANDEM Community & Participation is on Wednesday 15 October, 2014. This exchange programme supports cultural organisations to set up long-term partnerships with peers across the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the UK. Applicants actively promote citizen participation and community engagement through arts and culture. TANDEM Community & Participation started … Continue reading
Introduction – Every single detail matters If we understand art mediation as “a strategy to build up a bridge between a specific work of art and its audiences”[1], therefore enhancing the opportunity to facilitate understanding of a particular artwork, it is not difficult to conclude that every specific work of art needs to be analysed … Continue reading
New TANDEM programme supports cultural organisations building cross-border partnerships between Ukraine and EU. Deadline for application: 15 September, 2014. Ukraine is a country in turmoil; major social and political changes have a high impact on the understanding and communication between different groups and regions in the country. Now, more than ever, there is an urgent … Continue reading
REHSIGN is looking for : designers/architects/artists/whizz-kids wanted for workshops & talks in Kulturni Centrum Rehlovice (CZ) The aim of the řeh-sign project is to explore the various possibilities of international cooperation of designers and to bring a design fair to the periphery. The organisers of the project invite designers (students, young and senior designers, architects) … Continue reading
It’s been almost two months since the meetings of partner organisations and learners attended together in Wrocław, Poland, during the 12th edition of the SURVIVAL Art Review. SURVIVAL is organised each year in a different space, which always shapes the theme and character of it. This year, artists and lecturers were asked to refer to … Continue reading
Grundtvig ends, CAfE continues For the last official Grundtvig meeting a small village in northern Bohemia of Czech Republic has been chosen. The region, formerly part of the so-called Sudetenland, is a beautiful low mountain range; by car only 45 minutes away from either Prague or Dresden. We are talking of course, about our partners’ … Continue reading
Mediation instruments for contemporary art in public space: a debate-workshop with Allan Siegel at Aquamediale IX. “I do not get it!” sure you have heard it while in front of a contemporary art piece. Indeed contemporary art can be sometimes a bit “cryptic” as its message is mostly contained within a plastic materialisation of complex … Continue reading
The European Cultural Foundation is running an online campaign for people to share their vision of what public space is. See more here. To participate: Share (in any language) photos, films, words, drawings and sounds that respond to your own vision of what public space is (or could be). On any social media platform, tag your … Continue reading
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