Artistic Actions on the River Erkyna: Mary Conroy
Mary Conroy is the Irish artist representing Ormston House at the second artist residency in Levadia, Greece. Mary worked with a workshop, inviting inhabitants of Levadia to common exploration and creation. Together with Mary Michou, they have collected wild flowers at the Riverside park near Diokitirio. This morning the eco-bundles made during yesterday's workshop for Erkyna's Garden will be unwrapped. See more of Marys work at Instagram or Facebook! [...]
Meet the Artists of Memory of Water!
Six artists from six European post industrial waterfront heritage zones participates on the second of their six residencies, this one in Levadia, Greece. During the week, the artists will create a programme of inclusive and participatory activities related to local heritage sites as a counterpoint to top-down policies often associated with the regeneration of post-industrial European cities. They will work with citizens, community groups, politicians, urban planners and other stakeholders to create inclusive events and artistic interventions in order to inform [...]
Memory of Water: Artist Residency – Levadia 15-20 April
The Memory of Water artists from the six partner cities are visiting Levadia for a week of artistic actions on, along and in the River Erkyna. They are looking forward to reconnect with the citizens and communities they met in January and to make new friends this week through the artistic actions and co-creations along the River Erkyna. The artist-led community engagement, from 15-20th April in Levadia, Greece, will build on the work of the first, which explored issues [...]
10th EUSBSR Annual Forum in Gdańsk
The 10th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region will take place from June 12th to 13th in Gdańsk. This year’s programme will concentrate on the motto ‘Reduce, Reuse, Rethink’. The programme will feature seminars on topics such as circular economy, smart specialisation, industrial symbiosis, digital bioeconomy, and sustainable working life. As every year there will be time and space for back-to-back meetings, lots of opportunities for networking and getting up-to-date about the latest political, economic, [...]
Memory of water: Digital Lab (Wednesday 17th April)
What is Memory of Water Digital Lab? Are you interested in post industrial water-front development? Is the waterfront in your city the source of creative inspirations? Join the Memory of Water Digital Lab online on Wednesday 17 April, hosted by the city of Levadia where artists from the Creative Europe funded Memory of Water project are making their artistic interventions. You will also have the opportunity to glimpse what's happening in other partner cities: Gdansk (Poland), Govan (Scotland), Ostend (Belgium) and [...]
Baltic Youth Camp 2019
Are you young, eager and interested in politics? Be part of the first Baltic Sea Youth Camp! The Baltic Youth Camp is a three-day festival where youth representatives from the Baltic Sea Region gather to explore friendship, culture and politics through workshops, small seminars and social activities. The first ever Baltic Sea Youth Camp will come about at Gdańsk from June 8th to 11th. The event will take place at Hotel Orle on the Island of Wyspa Sobieszewska. The camp is aiming at [...]
Live Online Dialogue 25 April 2019
Do you want to debate the future of Europe with EU-decision-makers? Culture Action Europe are organizing an 8-hour long live online dialogue with MEP candidates on 25 April 2019 from 10.00 to 18.00. There will 4 chatrooms with focus on different topics that are related to the future of Europe. The main themes will be Education & Research, European Values & Identities, Labour & Working Conditions and a Sustainable Future. There will be a number of MEP candidates and policymakers contributing to the dialogue [...]
Young City in Gdansk
Sharing visions on the development of Young City (MLODE MIASTO) was the main topic of the second meeting within City Lab's programme of Memory of Water project. It took place on 14 March 2019 in the Old Town Hall in Gdansk (the venue of the BSCC). Our City Lab's offer the space for public discussion on forms and directions for developing post-shipyard area in Gdansk, taking into consideration its cultural heritage value both tangible and intangible. This process, initiated by [...]