CREATIVE EUROPE

strategies and opportunities

Chris Torch

Senior Associate, Intercult (Stockholm)

Program Director , Rijeka 2020 – European Capital of Culture

Board member: Culture Action Europe

Member: European Experts Network on Culture (EENC)

Kultur i Väst – EU infodag24 augusti 2016

A PRODUCTION AND RESOURCE CENTER

• Since 1996. A hub for local, regional and international cultural action. Organises seminars and workshops. Creates co-productions. Arranges guest performances from abroad. Develops new audiences. Advocates progressive cultural policy.

• Since 2008. A national mission as The European Resource Center for Culture and a European Union mission as Europe Direct office in Sweden.

Intercult 1993 - 2011: EU kulturprojekt

Sarajevo (theatre production) 1993 * * = Intercult as Main OrganiserBacchanalia (theatre production) 1996 *Landscape X (project) 1997-1998 *THEOREM (network) 1998-2006 - multi-annual cooperationAlbanian Traces 1999 *Hotel Europa 2000 *Culturebase.net (network) 2002 och 2006Comedia Network (network) 2002-2004 – multi-annual cooperationBaltikum-Adriatico 2003 *SEAS/Second Wave 200525++ 2006European Operations (Operational Grant) 2006 *Black/North SEAS 2007-2010 * - multi-annual cooperationHome not Home 2008 – European Year of Intercultural DialogueEuropa Direkt - Intercult becomes Stockholms Europe Direct 2009-2016*CORNERS/Research & Development 2011-2012 *CORNERS – turning Europe inside out 2014-2018 *

VARFÖR

TRANSNATIONELLT

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Kultur & Demokrati

”CULTURES DO NOT DIALOGUE

WITH EACH OTHER.

THEY COMPETE, CLASH, FIGHT,

INTERACT AND MUTUALLY

INFLUENCE EACH OTHER.”

DR. DRAGAN KLAIC (1951-2011)

att utveckla

interkulturell kompetens

VARFÖR TRANSNATIONELLT?

Internationell Utblick

Interkulturell Insikt

VARFÖR TRANSNATIONELLT?

inter // local

citizen // visitor=

practicing democracy

with participatory arts

SEAS Xpedition – Hopa, Turkey, September 2010

CREATIVE EUROPEEU CULTURAL PROGRAMME

2014-2020

SHARED SPACEtouring – multiple encounters

co-productions

peer learning

PARTICIPATIONaudience development

intercultural competencecapacity building

career development

Cultural Impact

Analysis

- compared to environmental impact

- compared to economic impact

4 kriterier för internationellt utbyte

• programrepertoar, utställningar, möten, konsert

• publikutveckling, målgrupper, människa till människa

• praxisskolor, träning, utbyte, samproduktion

• policyarbetsmarknad, styrelser, resurscentrar, pengar

Utmaningar i framtiden

• Arts & Urban Re-Invention

• Arts & Foreign Policy

• Arts & Migration

Nya arenor för kultur

• Hälsa & Miljö• Migration & Integration• Ungdomar• Utrikespolitik• Sociala frågor• Turism• Arbetsmarknad

… som leder till blandad finansiering ...

• Arbetsmarknadsfonder• Integration och social utveckling• Creative Europe (2014-2020)• DG Youth, DG Relex• Erasmus+ (Lifelong Learning)• EU strukturfonder• m.fl.

PARTNERSKAPANDEviktigt!

• träffa varandra innan ni gör ansökan• ha tydliga och gemensamma mål• delegera arbetet bland alla Partners• fördela ansvaret jämnt bland partners• lämna tid för socialkontakt med varandra!

NÄTVERK

plattform för partnerskap

• IETM [informal european theatre network]

• Culture Action Europe [european forum for arts and heritage]

• River//Cities• Platform for Intercultural Europe• culturebase.net• ENCATC ... m.fl.

www.cultureactioneurope.org

att forma projektet i FASER

olika faser,olika finansiärer

Black/North SEAS

a European platform

Arts, Urban Re-Invention

& Public Space

2007-2010

funded i 40 månader av EU

Kultur programmet

the shipyards in Gdansk, Poland - 2004

Klaipeda, Lithuania in the harbour

BARI - Flota/Ljubljana

july 2004

Gdansk, Poland in the shipyards

Odys-Seas - Leszek Bzdyl & Robert Rumas/Gdansk

august 2004

Events[Already realized]

2004Klaipeda, Lithuania (july)

Kaliningrad/Svetlogorsk, Russia (july)

Liepaja, Latvia (august)

Gdansk, Poland (september)

Ljubljana, Slovenia (december)

2005Rijeka, Croatia (june)

Koper, Slovenia (june)

Stockholm, Sweden (august)

Podgorica, Montenegro (september)

Udine, Italy (october)

Helsinki, Finland (november)

Black SEAS 2008Odessa, Ukraine (23 may-1 june)

Varna & Balchik, Bulgaria (3-11 june)

Mangalia, Romania (9-15 june)

Black SEAS 2009Istanbul, Turkey (20-28 march 2009)

North SEAS 2009Helsingør, Danmark ( 4-8 august)

Göteborg, Sweden (13-23 august)

Tromsø, Norway (12-20 september)

Skegness/Lincolnshire, UK (24 september-3 october)

• SEAS Xpedition Turkey with international team. Istanbul to Hopa – September 2010

… and …

• SEAS X Batumi (Georgia) – September 2010

• SEAS X Stockholm (Sweden) – November 2010

SEAS X 2010BACK TO THE BLACK SEA

Akçakoça, Turkey

September 2010

SEAS Xpedition – Hopa, Turkey September 2010

research & development

2011-2012

turning Europe inside out

2014 - 2018

Partners

turning Europe inside out

what is CORNERS about?

• shifting perspectives, putting the periphery centre stage

• connecting outer regions of Europe, crucial for exploring diversity and conflict

• gathering and distilling cultural narratives

how?

• more than 40 artists and researchers from 10 countries go on Xpeditions to explore 4 regions - CORNERS R&D 2011-2012

• new work inspired by the regions are co-produced and presented across Europe -CORNERS 2014-2018

turning Europe inside out

Audience Links

turning Europe inside out

Digital Thread

Ersboda/Umeå (Sweden)

Haninge/Stockholm (Sweden)

Prizren (Kosovo)

Belfast (Northern Ireland, UK)

Vranje (Serbia)

Northumberland (England, UK)

Rijeka & Zagreb (Croatia)

Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Donostia/San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain)

Gdańsk (Poland)

Middlesbrough (England, UK)

Taranto, Puglia (Italy)

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Events

turning Europe inside out

CORNERS North Xpedition8-21.8 2011

CORNERS NorthXpedition #1august 2011

North Xpedition img

A vast wild nature. Meeting the Sami community,

asylum seekers and other culturally active locals.

CORNERS Caucasus Xpedition 27.9 - 13.10 2011

CORNERS Caucasus

Xpedition #2

october 2011

Examples of individual artistic methods

stories heard on one street corner

retold on another …

Caucasus Xpedition img

Rich with cultural and demographic diversity.

Enclaves, autonomous regions and break-away

republics such Abkhazia and South Ossetia,

underline the ethnic, religious, cultural and

political complexities of the South Caucasus.

CORNERS Balkan Xpedition 15-29.4 2012

CORNERS BalkanXpedition #3april 2012

CORNERS East Xpedition 18.8-1.9 2012

CORNERS Pugliadecember 20124

Xpedition

funding

main funder: Xpeditions:

City of Ljubljana, City of

Stockholm, City of Gdansk, City

of Umeå and more

and own investment by

co-organisers

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CORNERS Balkan Xpedition april 2012 – Tito’s Bunker