The Freiraum Platform members are active in the areas of arts, culture, civic engagement, education, and learning. They are spread in more than 40 cities across Europe. The Platform is decentralised and participatory, based on a flexible governance model that enables partner members to contribute according to their needs, means and expertise.
AMSTERDAM
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Pakhuis de Zwijger is a place that nurtures debate and, together with the Re:think Foundation, uses art and discourse to explore power structures in politics, culture, economics and science. The organisation has been encouraging collaboration, networking and exchange since 2006. Yasser Almaamoun is a Syrian activist and architect. He works for a Berlin-based architecture practice, is involved in the “Multaka” project at the German Historical Museum (DHM), and is “Foreign Minister” for the artist collective Center for Political Beauty.
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ATHENS
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PAT - Προσωρινή Ακαδημία Τεχνών / (Temporary Academy of Arts)
Deree – The American College of Greece - The Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts Effie Halivopoulou HYLE - Georgia Sagri |
The Temporary Academy of Arts (PAT) is a mobile academy for professional artists and lay people. As an experimental, self-organized training center, it seeks to offer art students alternative teaching methods and the opportunity to familiarize themselves with other social models.
Deree – The American College of Greece is a non-profit, non-sectarian educational institution founded in 1875. It is the largest and oldest American college in Europe. Deree is an international educational hub, housed in a modern, green campus. It is accredited by NECHE (New England Commission of Higher Education) and has a validation agreement with the Open University, UK. Deree offers 34 innovative programs of study, 6 cooperative programs with Clarkson University, and 49 minors through three schools: The School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the School of Economics and Business, and the Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts.
The Frances Rich School of Fine and Performing Arts offers a creative environment for students in fine arts, music, graphic design, art history, theater and dance. In the intellectually invigorating environment of the School, students are exposed to different ways of thinking, and their creativity is nourished and guided by a faculty of distinguished professionals with international backgrounds. The School's Annual Arts Festival creates the opportunity to enjoy performances, workshops, exhibitions and lectures. The College's large art collection, gallery spaces, theaters and performance spaces enhance the academic experience.
Effie Halivopoulou is an artist, researcher, and educator based in Athens. Her installations with painting, video, and sound are commentaries on biopolitics and biotechnology. Halivopoulou. has conducted extensive related scientific/artistic research in collaboration with the National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos, in Athens. Her current videos are collaborative projects that comment on social issues in the public sphere in the dawn of the new normal. Associate Professor and Head of Visual Arts and Art History of Deree – ACG, Halivopoulou. is the founder of the Visual Arts Program in 2008. Visiting Professor, The Burren College of Art, Ireland, and member of the Faculty at the New School for Social Research, New York. Faculty Resource Network Scholar in Residence of New York University, 2016, 2018, and 2020. Through the residencies, Halivopoulou researched socially engaged art and collaborated with the Art and Education programs at Steinhardt. In 2018 Halivopoulou. researched Analog and Digital Abstraction in the same program. In 2020 through a remote residency, Halivopoulou developed a series of abstract videos that offer a glimpse of the ruptures and collisions of contemporary visual narratives in the era of the pandemic.
ΎΛΗ[matter]HYLE (they/them) (Athens, Greece) was initiated by artist Georgia Sagri with the vision of creating an open studio where care and social empathy are put into practice. In 2013 discussions regarding the space's mission took place through the building of its two virtual platforms (main: hyle.gr and archive: hyle.mobi) and have continued since its physical manifestation in the spring of 2015. Operating as a semi-public / semi-private space in the center of Athens it aims to bring together art, politics and sciences as if their coexistence is a new undisciplined field of thought, action and living. ΎΛΗ[matter]HYLE, started as a feminist response to the binary constructions of public and private. It is an independent organism of people, animals, machines and ideas. Situated in an apartment in a central transit node at Omonia Square, it provides communal living space, while it acts as an intimate relational source for the growing artistic community of local and international friends and peers. Its maintenance is collective and sustained by the artists, writers, researchers, poets, and organizers, who also contribute with their practices, in an expanded sense. Collaborators share time, reflect, work or even do nothing at ΎΛΗ[matter]HYLE, and through these processes they form the space’s public program and challenge their work. Since 2020 the space also hosts the one-to-one treatment sessions of Georgia Sagri's artistic and research practice IASI (recovery). ΎΛΗ[matter]HYLE became a non-for profit organization in the spring of 2020.
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BANSKA BYSTRICA
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The initiative Not In Our Town opposes racism and xenophobia and seeks to build an inclusive society. It uses film, social media and organizational tools to promote civic engagement at a local level. Founded in 2011, the Záhrada Cultural Centre is a contemporary arts space and important meeting place that delivers over 200 events a year.
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BARCELONA
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The Fundación Secretariado Gitano (FSG) is an intercultural organization dedicated to supporting, promoting and developing the Roma community in Spain and throughout Europe.
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BASEL
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Hyperwerk Institute
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Hyperwerk is an Institute of the Academy of Art and Design at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland. It understands itself as a learning laboratory that responds to the current developments towards a post-industrial society with experimental design-methods. In the BA in Process Design, methods of support, intervention and innovation in social transformations are developed and tested. One focus is on digital media technologies and the associated social transformations.
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BELGRADE
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Film and TV director Andrijana Stojković has made several short and full-length feature and documentary films. Her work has been shown and won awards at film festivals in Rotterdam, Sofia, Havana, Marseille and at the Raindance Film Festival. She is the founder of All Inclusive Films, a production company committed to contemporary formats with a focus on hybrid docu-fiction forms. She is also a co-founder of Filmkultura, an educational association for audiovisual culture. She teaches courses in "Documentary Filmmaking" and "Contemporary Directing" at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.
KROKODIL is an initiative dedicated to the realization of literary, cultural and socio-political projects with the aim of generating and nurturing a culturally interested public. It advocates the need for conciliatory dialogue and seeks to rebuild broken relationships in the Western Balkans. KROKODIL was founded by the Serbian writer Vladimir Arsenijević. Škograd/Schulstadt/Schoolcity is a collective that works on the long term urban-educational action research aiming to initiate community activities and dialogue in one of Belgrade’s informal suburban settlements called Ledine. |
BERLIN
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Yasser Almaamoun is a Syrian activist and architect. He works for a Berlin-based architecture practice, is involved in the “Multaka” project at the German Historical Museum (DHM), and is “Foreign Minister” for the artist collective Center for Political Beauty.
AthenSYN is a non-profit, Berlin-based initiative of artists, curators, and cultural agents founded in 2016 by Sotirios Bahtsetzsis and Katja Ehrhardt. Focusing on German-Greek collaboration, AthenSYN initiates, curates, and organises festivals, exhibitions, artistic residencies, dance and theatre performances presenting Greek Contemporary Art. In this function, AthenSYN started the biennial AthenSYN Festival with Contemporary Greek Art in Berlin in 2019. Employing art as education, AthenSYN fosters a common policy of cultural exchange through joint art and educational projects aiming at long-term cooperations. Under the direction of Katja Ehrhardt, AthenSYN has been bringing together international partners with Greek artists and institutions in art projects, building a network and infrastructure. In times of migration and globalisation, AthenSYN fosters cultural dialogue, critically examines Europe in the context of contemporary art, and develops joint visions for the future. |
BRUSSELS
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Founded in 1955, the Beursschouwburg is an arts centre and meeting place for young artists situated in the heart of Brussels. It offers a varied program of events: theatre productions, film screenings, concerts, exhibitions, readings, discussions and parties.
Globe Aroma is an artistic work and meeting place where space, time and creative support is offered to artists, creatives and culture lovers. Most of the artists have a background as newcomer, asylum seeker, migrant or refugee. Globe Aroma is a multidisciplinary and participatory place of creation, where shared ownership is central. The organisation supports people who do not get enough or easy space elsewhere to express themselves creatively and artistically. The organisation’s daily workflow consists of three pillars: 1. a studio/workshop where artists develop their oeuvre; 2. collaborative workshops/labs and co-creation projects; 3. cultural excursions in Brussels and Flanders. In the Open Arts House of Globe Aroma - in the heart of Brussels - newcomers, engaged citizens and actors from the migration, integration and arts sectors meet each other. From the affective arrival infrastructure people develop a social and cultural network that reaches out to all corners of Belgium. |
BUCHARESTRuxandra Tuchel
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Ruxandra Tuchel is a journalist und has been working for the public Romanian public service broadcasting authorities SRTV since 1994. From 2011 until February 2013, she was producer and head of the department "TVR Cinema" and has been from 2013 on producer in the department TVR1. Among others, she received the prize from the Romanian filmmaker union UCIN (2012) for the direction of the documentary Teatru–Verite (a production by TVR Cultural in 2011).
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BUDAPEST
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The Eötvös Károly Institute for Politics (EKINT) was founded in 2003 by Open Society Foundations as a framework for shaping public democratic processes in Hungary, to raise awareness of democracy, personal rights, political culture and to encourage solidarity. EKINT’s president is László Majtényi, Hungary's leading data protection officer from 1995-2011 and the Hungarian President’s only opponent in the 2017 presidential elections.
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CARLISLE
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Jane Dudman is an artist, curator and researcher based in Cumbria. She has a research masters and a PhD in Digital Media and Fine Art from Newcastle University. Her work is currently sound and performance based with a particular focus on collaborative processes, the spoken word and everyday life. Her artistic research explores the particularity of ordinary experience through sound manipulation and performance strategies, relating the private to the public. She is currently exploring translation, transcription and collective speaking as a form of sense making. Jane has a background in participatory and socially engaged arts practice and has worked in the UK for the past 20 years creating and managing arts projects in health, education and community settings. She has directed many live art events, several international artists’ exchanges and has shown her work widely in Europe and beyond.
AWAZ Cumbria is a community organisation that has been working to empower the voices of under-represented people and marginalised communities in Cumbria, a county in the north of England, since 2005. Its aim is to make Cumbria a place where everyone is welcomed to live, learn and work; where people respect and celebrate ethnic and cultural diversity; and where all communities work together to tackle discrimination and promote mutual understanding. |
CLERMONT-FERRAND
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The Pelican Theatre is a center developing artistic creation and education for adolescents and young people; it was created in 1973. Since September 2020 the Pelican has opened a new page in its history. The structure still works towards adolescents and young people, as it has done for the last 20 years, but it now works with guest artistic directors from season to season. In addition, to support the salaried team, an Artistic and Scientific Committee has been set up within the association; this Committee is made up of researchers (Ph D.) and professionals in the performing arts and artistic education for adolescents. Thanks to the gathering of these competences, the Pelican intends to continue its research in terms of performing arts with young people and also wishes to widen its offer of artistic and cultural education. Finally, the Pelican has participated as partner in European projects since 2015. In 2021, they have joined the Eye net 2.0 project, led by Novi Sad in Serbia and supported by Europe for Citizens.
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COPENHAGEN
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Founded in 2014, the Copenhagen Architecture Festival takes place yearly over the course of two weeks. Through film screenings, city walks, exhibitions, workshops and discussions it aims to explore how architecture shapes our lives – and how our lives shape architecture. The festival sees architecture as a spatial and a cultural practice.
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CRACOW
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Autonomia is a foundation that seeks to empower girls and young women. Founded in 2007, this NGO strives to help build a society that values equality, freedom, diversity and justice. Adopting an intersectional perspective, the Autonomia team address the systemic basis of discrimination and violence in our society. Empowerment, emancipatory education and empathy for victims of discrimination are the key priorities in their efforts to bring about changes in society. Autonomia's main activities: empowerment, education (to promote equality and human rights, and to fight discrimination), prevention of violence and discrimination, advocacy for victims of violence and discrimination. The president of the foundation is Agata Teutsch.
Beata Kowalska is a sociologist at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. She teaches feminist sociology, gender studies, development studies and postcolonial studies. As a researcher and anti-discrimination activist, Kowalska has studied Muslim feminism and the situation of women in the Middle East. She has lectured at the universities of Cambridge, Vienna, Amman and Buffalo, among others. |
DRESDEN
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Kunsthaus Dresden is a municipal gallery of contemporary art with a varied exhibition and educational program. One of its main goals is to make artistic forms of expression and content accessible to a wider public through its changing exhibitions.
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DUBLIN
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TAP, the Trinity Access Program based at Trinity College, Dublin, offers practice-based educational programs for people from socially disadvantaged and under-represented groups.
The City Arts Office is a specialist service within Dublin City Council that promotes partnership working and supports artists, arts organizations and the city’s communities to deliver quality arts experiences that contribute to Dublin’s cultural life. TASC, the Think Tank for Action on Social Change, is an organization that works both theoretically and practically to raise people's awareness of economic and social inequality and promote democratic processes. |
GENOA & TURIN
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Active in 14 countries, the Youth Empowerment Partnership Program (YEPP) is dedicated to supporting young people in socially disadvantaged communities, both with and without a migrant background. YEPP believes that in order for young people to become actors in creating positive social change, they must be allowed to develop their skills and be offered opportunities for exchange and stimulation.
Centro Studi MEDÌ - Migrazioni nel Mediterraneo, an independent research centre based in Genoa, researches and works on migration dynamics and the changes they bring about in Italy and Europe. |
HELSINKI
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STOA
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STOA is a municipal arts centre in East Helsinki, an international part of the Finnish capital marked by its sizeable immigrant population. STOA’s orientation, particularly in its performing arts programmes, is international and contemporary, and the centre serves as a place for daily users to learn, read and socialize. STOA will also be hosting the Freiraum activities in September as part of its Nomads Festival.
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LJUBLJANA
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Maja A. Žiberna
journalist, researcher, documentarist |
Maja A. Žiberna has been a long-time journalist at TV Slovenia which is part of Slovenia's national public broadcasting organization RTV Slovenia. Her work has mostly been focused on various innovative form(at)s of politics in society and culture. She recently moved to a new position at Radio Slovenia and is among other projects an author of Autonom - podcast about active citizenship. As a researcher she collaborated with theater director Žiga Divjak on two plays in productions of Mladinsko theater titled "6" and "Gejm", both addressing political (mis)treatment of migrants in Slovenia and both award winning at the major national theater festival. Her belief in direct power results in organising community events & projects in which she participates as organiser and reflects them as documentary film maker.
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LUXEMBOURG
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Ian de Toffoli is a publisher, writer, literary critic and theatre producer who teaches at the University of Luxembourg, a university founded in 2003. Rotondes is a cultural centre that nurtures young talent and young audiences and produces a wide range of events: from art to theatre, conferences, educational projects and workshops. LUCA, the Luxembourg Centre for Architecture, is a non-profit organisation that promotes good architecture as a core social value. Open to the general public, LUCA also offers a diverse events program and has represented Luxembourg at the Venice Biennale since 2004.
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LYON
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Christiane Véricel, founder of Image Aigue theatre company, works with actors from different cultures, backgrounds and ages. Children, teenagers and adults find theatrical forms of expression that do not involve words but rather body language and individual expression. Véricel works in socially deprived neighborhoods throughout the world, developing stories of difference, identity and belonging.
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KÖLN
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Since 2008 the ökoRAUSCH Think Tank for Design and Sustainability has been promoting creative entrepreneurs who are oriented towards sustainability. It supports creatives to provide important impulses for society, education, culture and business. The heart of its activities is the ökoRAUSCH Festival for Design and Sustainability, aimed at designers as well as at end users. The festival exhibition presents innovative, sustainable products, concepts and projects of all design disciplines and positions of contemporary art. The accompanying festival programme offers exciting workshops, inspiring lectures and other interesting formats, which provide diverse sources of inspiration for a green lifestyle. With workshops and a blog ökoRAUSCH showcases the diversity of the festival to the public throughout the year. ökoRAUSCH cooperates with creatives from Cologne’s partner cities Tunis, Thessaloniki, Istanbul, Barcelona, Tel Aviv and Bethlehem in celebrating the international facets of sustainable design during the festival and the ECO DESIGN FORUM international.
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MADRID
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The Fundación Instituto de Cultura Gitana (FIGC) is a foundation within the Spanish Ministry of Culture dedicated to promoting and disseminating Roma culture and fighting discrimination. The FIGC works towards the harmonious coexistence of different social groups, the preservation of Roma cultural heritage and the promotion of Roma culture and language.
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MARSEILLE
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Hors d'atteinte publishing house
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Founded by Ingrid Balazard and Marie Hermann, Hors d'atteinte will be publishing its first books in early 2019. The name, which literally means “out of reach”, suggests something subtle and nimble, a place impervious to attack. It's two interconnected series of books, "Literatures" and "Facts & Ideas", develop new interpretative tools and frameworks with a view to understanding a rapidly and profoundly changing world. One focus of the publications will be on feminism, but they will also explore such subjects as populism and nationalism, urban development policy and major environmental scandals.
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MILAN
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Founded jointly by members of the Senegalese and Italian community, Sunugal promotes social and cultural exchange between the two countries. The organization sees itself as a bridge between immigrants and their families in Senegal, carries out development work in Africa, provides information in Italy about the Global South and supports non-European immigrant groups.
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NAPLES
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The artistic duo Giovanna Bianco and Pino Valente – Bianco-Valente for short – have lived and worked together in Naples since 1993. Fascinated by the duality of body and soul, Bianco-Valente’s work deals with science, astrology and literature. In videos and interactive installations, they explore linguistic, spatial and social relationships and processes.
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NICOSIA
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ARTos House is a centre for contemporary art and science dedicated to encouraging both scientific research and creativity: a space where learning, chaos and imagination are brought together. Artist/creators and scientist/creators are given the freedom to let their inspiration guide them – while being supported at a local and international level.
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OSLO
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Den mangfaldige scenen (DMS) is a theatre in Oslo where you are heard and seen as the person you are. It's a place where a sound, a step, a touch or a word becomes an encounter. A locus of cultural diversity where you can grow and mature. Young people here learn to take the stage and maybe even pursue professions in dance, theatre or drama. Our hierarchies are flat: young people can work with mentors to define their own brand of theatre here.
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PARIS
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Ira Bliatka is an independent researcher and instrumentalist. She is interested in topics of public space, inclusion, and participation. She joined Freiraum on behalf of Prague-partner IFD21 and contributed to a project about gentrification and its effects on ethnic and social diversity in Prague and Marseille. She wrote a PhD thesis on the reanimation of border logics in the EU integration project, and taught international politics in Aberystwyth University. Her work focuses on new story-telling formats combining text, image, and sound, and on music as a means to more empathetic, creative societies.
Philosopher and theatre director Mériam Korichi writes about Spinoza, Andy Warhol and human emotions in her books. Her theatre plays and adaptations have been performed worldwide. At the interface between science, theater and art event, she initiated "A Night of Philosophy" in Paris in 2010, which has since taken place every year in a different city in the world. Edouard Burgeat is an artist born in Paris in 1988 and graduated from Central Saint Martins (London) in 2012. His work incorporates various practice such as installation, sculpture, photography, film & drawing. It explores the commonly known History and the relation & connections between times via specific ethnologic, economic, aesthetic and cultural situations. Edouard Burgeat has been involved in the Freiraum since December 2018 and developed the exhibition project between Paris and Ljubljana, with the Goethe-Institut in France and Slovenia. The installation will be a combination of works by Boris Beja and himself, curated by Miha Kelemina & Hana Ostanozbolt. |
PRAGUE
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Decision 21/Participation 21 is a Czech company that uses modern technologies to involve citizens in decision-making processes that concern them. The company developed a voting platform that offers a unique D21 electoral method that has been implemented for municipal and school participatory budgeting. The company also provides surveys for various competitions in cooperation with municipalities, schools, and for-profit and non-profit organisations. The Decision 21 platform has been regularly utilised for participatory budgeting in New York City and is currently employed also to run Czech Social Awards and Czech Nightingale (Český slavík).
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REGENSBURG
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Theater Regensburg is one of Bavaria's biggest communal theatres with own Ensembles in Musical Theatre, Drama, Dance, Young Theatre and the Philharmonic Orchestra and the Opera Choir. Around 700 shows per year reach an audience of 180.000 people in all of the five main stages which are complemented with special venues. The artistic programming of Theater Regensburg aims at a contemporaneity in all five departments with a high amount of world premieres. Contemporary drama and the collaboration with living authors characterises the Drama department which is led by Klaus Kusenberg. Theater Regensburg has also recently joined the network "theaternetzwerk.digital", together with 15 other theatres, carrying forward the search for digital possibilities in theatre.
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RIGA
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The Žanis-Lipke Memorial commemorates the Lipke family, which hid more than 50 inhabitants of the Jewish ghetto in Riga during the Second World War, saving them from the Nazi regime.
Ģertrūdes ielas teātris (GIT) in Riga is a forum for contemporary art, a venue for professional theatre, dance and performance art productions. Local and international artists perform their plays here. The GIT also holds non-commercial concerts and exhibitions and participates in various art mediation and education initiatives. Our guiding values are relevance, courage and audacity, sensitivity, creative exploration, openness, professionalism and determination to achieve well-conceived goals. |
RIJEKA
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Active since 1999, Drugo More is a non-profit organisation that focuses on social and community issues. Because Drugo More believes that art, culture and international exchange are key tools for the organisation of knowledge transfer, they take an interdisciplinary approach to art funding, science and cultural theory. It promotes film, performance, cultural research and educational events.
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ROME
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daSud is an antimafia association founded in 2005. The aim of the association is to fight mafia with culture, political rights and participation. daSud works primarily on formal and non formal education in a roman suburban school, with a special attention on gender equality. Since 2009, the association has its headquarters in Rome and produces campaigns, graphic novels and offers theatre and cinema events from an antimafia point of view. daSud works in collaboration with Italian Ministry of education and representatives of the art world.
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SKOPJE
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Established in 2001, Kontrapunkt is an organisation whose main focus is socio-critical activism and the relationship between art, theoretical philosophy and politics. Kontrapunkt encourages artists and independent groups to organize themselves and generate projects, thus contributing to the development of an independent cultural scene in Skopje.
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SMOLYAN
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Rhodope International Documentary Film Fest (RIFE), set in the beautiful Bulgarian mountain town of Smolyan is continuing the tradition of the earlier Festival for young filmmakers, held in same town in the 80s and the beginning of the 90s, which was one of the most emblematic film events in socialist Bulgaria. The idea for the festival came as an answer to the need of filmmakers to exhibit their work, have a place where they can improve their abilities, learn more in their areas of interest, and hear the opinion of high-profile international film professionals in their line of work. One of the main objectives of RIFE is to create a productive environment, where artists with diverse professional background will have the opportunity to exchange ideas and find similar-minded individuals, but also create lasting creative teams. The key highlight of the festival is the partnership between neighboring countries aiming to present documentary films, create together film educational programs and develop the culture and tourism sector. The regular yearly presence of the festival will support the region in regaining the status of important cultural center in the South-East and will help to establish lasting creative and cooperative multicultural relations between Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey and Germany.
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SOFIA
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The New Bulgarian University in Sofia was founded in 1991 by intellectuals with the intention of modernising post-communist studies in Bulgaria. Rumen Petrov is a sociologist at the university.
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STOCKHOLM
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Mitt 127 is an initiative started up by young people for young people in Skärholmen, a district on the outskirts of Stockholm. Mitt 127 organises festivals, initiates educational programmes and raises political awareness among young local residents. The charity Expo also documents and investigates right-wing violence and extremist tendencies in society and works to raise awareness through education programs in schools.
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STRASBOURG
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Apollonia is a non-profit association of general interest founded in Strasbourg in 1998, part of a vast European network relying in its actions on more than 250 cultural and artistic structures. Apollonia's main goals are the promotion of the contemporary artistic creation and the stimulation of artistic exchanges in Europe. The association also aims to put forward the role of the artist in the society. Since its creation, Apollonia has implemented over 60 research travels in Europe and Central Asia, set up more than 250 exhibitions and artistic projects (residences, workshops, etc.) and thus supported no less than 1300 artistes from France, Europe and beyond. Apollonia has also organised numerous seminars, symposiums and colloquiums on current artistic, cultural and political topics, in addition to over 30 publications documenting the artistic scenes of different countries. Their latest projects are based on the revitalisation of the city with the active participation of both citizens and artists.
The Théâtre National de Strasbourg (TNS) is the only French national theatre outside of Paris, which makes it an especially important venue in the French theatre scene. The TNS puts on more than fifteen plays per season, including several in-house and coproductions. It also hosts a wide range of events called "L'autre saison", admission to which is free of charge. "In a society increasingly threatened by violence and individual withdrawal,” says TNS director Stanislas Nordey, “the strength of our theatres lies in continually forging new ties: the theatre as a rallying point around the words of the poet.” Nordey has called on ten international artists, including German director Falk Richter, to assist in putting together the theatre’s programme. Richter’s play I Am Europe premiered at the TNS in January 2019.
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TALINN
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Founded in 2001, Kanuti Gildi SAAL is Estonia’s first independent performing arts centre. Since it does not have its own ensemble, the centre works with freelance artists and theatre companies and, for most of its productions, the artistic process itself is a central part of the work. Kanuti Gildi SAAL is internationally networked and organizes the SAAL Biennaal performing arts festival in Tallinn.
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THESSALONIKI
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ArtBOX is a creative arts management office that conceives, designs and implements contemporary art projects revolving around the exploration of art as agent of social change, based on long-term strategic planning, in collaboration with local, national and international institutions and artists. Since the beginning of the crisis in Greece and beyond, ArtBOX gradually started shifting its focus to give priority to art for social change practices, with projects such as grEnter and Enterviews on Crisis (2012); and later Artecitya - Envisioning the City of Tomorrow in partnership with Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and Helexo - Thessaloniki Intearnational Fair, funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union (2014-2018). Between 2017-2019, ArtBOX conceived, artistically directed and implemented the project LABattoir - art for social change, in partnership with the Municipality of Thessaloniki, thanks to a founding grant by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. As a continuation of LABattoir, ArtBOX has developed and is currently artistically directing Common Lab in partnership with Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki and in collaboration with Helexpo, in the context of Goethe-Institut’s Excellency Initiatives 2020.
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TIRANA
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The artist Edit Pulaj (*1974) spent a number of years in Norwich and London before returning to Albania in 2009. In her painting she deals with colour and the inherent ability to communicate and interact.
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VILNIUS
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The Jugend Debattiert Alumni Club in Lithuania, which has been active since March 2017, was initiated by participants of the international debating competition, Jugend Debattiert International. The club is dedicated to nurturing the culture of debate in Lithuania and aims to motivate young people to engage in socially relevant topics. It organizes workshops that give young people the chance to express their opinions.
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WARSAW
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Founded in 2009, Fundacja Panoptykon is committed to ensuring transparency in the digital realm and to providing clear boundaries for the use of (state) surveillance: it believes that digital technology should not be used without our knowledge, or beyond societal control or legal frameworks. The organization’s founder, Katarzyna Szymielewicz, is an expert on the risks of digital footprints.
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