The Corona Virus changes the world and also the culture in Europe. How do cultural workers deal with it? What effects does the virus have on the world of culture and how do the different countries of the European Union deal with it? We discuss these questions with the Council of the River // Cities [...]
European cultural foundation launches a solidarity fund! The Fund – setup in partnership with other foundations – is looking to support imaginative cultural initiatives – big or small – that reinforce solidarity and the notion of Europe as a shared public space in response to the current crisis and its aftershocks. It is open to [...]
23 - 29 March 2020 Batumi, Georgia Connecting Georgia is an artist-led project exploring post-industrial waterfront heritage in the context of urban planning and community development. The project is connected to the Creative Europe funded project Memory of Water that gathers six partners in Europe and funded by the Swedish Institute, Third Country Participation in the Baltic Sea region. [...]
We organised a meeting in Stockholm to summarise our learning, teaching and training activities within the framework of I_Improve. The meeting took place at our host Intercult's offices in Stockholm on August 18th to August August 22nd. The aim with our meeting was to gather input from each other, discuss our learning activities and plan [...]
Shirley Basfield Dunlap PH.D Associate Professor & Theatre Arts Coordinator Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD Director Shirley Basfield Dunlap and actors of New Nordic voices and their production “For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf” had a workshop about different theatre- and storytelling techniques st Folkets hus in [...]
Welcome to a Q&A with the cast of New Nordic Voices about the play “For colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the Rainbow is enuf.” National Black Theatre of Sweden is joining the talk to discuss their work with NBTS - a consistent platform to African and Afro-Swedish plays, stories and African descent artists. We will reflect [...]
WORKSHOP WITH ARTISTS - TURN YOUR OWN STORY INTO A PERFORMANCE PIECE Join us for a workshop together with the cast of New Nordic Voices. We will work with various theatre- and storytelling techniques to explore Ntozake Shange's 'For Colored Girls' - as well as sharing our stories. Together we will transform our experiences [...]
"But bein alive & bein a woman & bein colored is a metaphysical dilemma / i havent conquered yet / do you see the point" - Ntozake Shange Playwright and poet Ntozake Shange whose most acclaimed theatre piece is the 1975 Tony Award-nominated “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf”, now makes [...]
Call for participation: UrbCulturalPlanning (UCP) We are looking for you that are an artist, designer and/or creative to take part in UCP residencies in 7 countries in the Baltic Sea Region. Do you want to add value to local communities, create dialogues and contribute to the development of local projects? Apply now! The UCP project aims to [...]
Still and for a long time we will all be going back to memories from the Levadia artist residency . Thank you Municipality of Levadia for the engagement in organising the event. Your river and people will keep the memories! What is coming next in our European journey in the project Memory of Water? [...]
