Meet Wieslawa Tokarska
Intercult presents Wieslawa Tokarska - one of our Polish-Swedish artists working on the project "Creative Waves- Batic Sisterhood of change". The project collaboration focuses on artistic creation of traditional crafts from Poland and Sweden and competence in how to communicate your work through digital channels. Wieslawa Tokarska is a trained seamstress and for 20 years she has had her own sewing studio for women's clothing in Poland. There she designed and sewed party dresses, wedding dresses and clothes for dance [...]
ZAPROSZENIE NA CYKL SPOTKAŃ KOBIECE INSPIRACJE
RZEMIOSŁO ARTYSTYCZNE – DROGA OD HOBBY DO ZAWODU Jak to się zaczęło i dlaczego działamy? Haft to nie tylko haft, a gotowanie to nie tylko potrawa! Dziś́ myślimy o tradycyjnie kobiecych zgromadzeniach wokół rzemiosła głownie pod kątem ich efektów końcowych, zapominając, że w kulturze ludowej były one również̇ wykorzystywane do podtrzymania ważnego budowania społeczności i siostrzanych wspólnot. Ten aspekt zainspirował międzynarodowy projekt Creative Waves – Baltic Sisterhood for Change. Creative Waves – Baltic Sisterhood for Change to przedsięwzięcie, które powstało, by [...]
Meet Halina Rosa – Our expert artist of Creative Waves
Our new project “Creative Waves- Baltic Sisterhood of Change” focuses on working with craft traditions and how to communicate these skills through digital channels. It is now time to introduce you our expert artists from Sweden! Halina Rosa is a Polish folk artist, painter and designer that lives in Stockholm. She has designed patterns from the provincial regions in Poland and Sweden and some of them have been patented. Her favourite themes in both painting and design are motifs from [...]
Invitation – Creative Waves inspirational meeting
INVITATION to women from Polish community Baltic Sisterhood of change- Creative Waves inspirational meeting STOCKHOLM Saturday 26 february 2022 Embroidery is not just embroidery, and cooking is not just food! Today we think of traditionally female gatherings around crafts mainly in terms of their final results, forgetting that in folk culture they have also been used to maintain important community building and sisterhoods. This aspect inspired the international project Creative Waves - Baltic Sisterhood for Change. Creative Waves, Baltic [...]
EUROPEAN YEAR OF YOUTH 2022 –MUCF becomes international coordinator
The European Year of Young People is an initiative of the European Commission to highlight the importance of young people throughout the EU. During the year 2022, the whole EU will be involved in issues concerning young people: highlight how the green and digital transitions within the EU offer opportunities for young people, support young people, especially those with limited opportunities to gain relevant knowledge and build skills make young people better understand the various opportunities available to them and [...]
Euroregion Baltic presents Creative Waves
Our partner Euroregion Baltic has presented our Creative Waves project on their website and social media. Read more about what we are doing and our future activities and events here! http://www.eurobalt.org/creative-waves-baltic-sisterhood-for-change-project-co-financed-by-the-council-of-the-baltic-sea-states-project-support-facility/
Woven Network Sweden: Take Over
In case you missed it, the artists of Woven Network Sweden have weekly takeovers on our Instagram (@intercult). They will provide some insight into their work and process. Woven Network Sweden is a project that aims to highlight and explore women’s voices and experiences around the Covid 19-pandemin in Sweden. Over the course of five months the four participating artists will partake in a series of digital events and artistic research, which will result in a concluding digital exhibition. Learn [...]
WOVEN NETWORK NORDICS: DIGITAL EXHIBITION OPENING – Emma Hirsk
On January 14 we celebrated the digital exhibition opening of Woven Network Nordics project! Our four international artists [Brynhild Bye-Tiller (NO), Emma Hirsk (SE/IE), Dina Abu Hamdan (DK/JO) and Katarzyna Piórek (SE/PL)] presented their work which is focused on the COVID-19 pandemic affecting the role of women and women artists, using digital tools and socially engaged approaches. Emma Hirsk works with the theme of grief cartography. How do we experience grief and trauma within the context of the pandemic? [...]
WOVEN NETWORK NORDICS: DIGITAL EXHIBITION OPENING -Brynhild Bye-Tiller
On January 14 we celebrated the digital exhibition opening of Woven Network Nordics project! Our four international artists [Brynhild Bye-Tiller (NO), Emma Hirsk (SE/IE), Dina Abu Hamdan (DK/JO) and Katarzyna Piórek (SE/PL)] presented their work which is focused on the COVID-19 pandemic affecting the role of women and women artists, using digital tools and socially engaged approaches. Brynhild Bye-Tiller showed us how she worked with social photography during the pandemic. “The coronavirus showed us which profession performs a social [...]