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Dear friends, partners, artists and supporters
The Intercult and SMartSe teams wish you all a Happy New Year!
We look forward to meeting and engaging with you during 2015 – a year with continued challenges in the politically polarized Europe. The call “United in diversity!” is nowadays something up to each of us, as organisations or individuals, to stand up for. We will continue to work for an inclusive and intercultural society with art, culture and activism as our driving force.
Thanks for your engagement, collaboration and exchanges with us!
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CORNERS
There's a lot of activity in the CORNERS project – we just got back from Umeå/Ersboda and are now in Puglia, Italy. And we're preparing for our next project this spring; CORNERS Haninge (Stockholm), Sweden.
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CORNERS is a platform for artists and audiences, designed and driven by cultural organisations at the edges of Europe.
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CORNERS Puglia Xpedition – 8–20 December
The “heel of the Italian boot”, such as other locations of CORNERS Xpeditions, is a perfect example of border territory, a passage area focused on the construction of a new multicultural Europe, where beautiful landscapes meet the culture of hospitality grown especially in typical port cities such as Bari, Brindisi and Taranto. CORNERS artists, 25 of them, arrived in Puglia on December 8 to meet and engage in a unique collective movement of inspiration.
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CORNERS Ersboda – Turning Umeå inside out – 17–30 November 2014
CORNERS in collaboration with Umeå 2014, brought 15 international artists & animators into direct contact and co-creation with people living in Ersboda, Umeå. The artists came from Northern Ireland, The Basque Country, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Sweden, Poland, Bulgaria. In Ersboda they engaged in participatory works with children, young people, adults and visitors. 4 projects were presented as well as a huge Potluck Party in Ersboda as Grand Finale.
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In Between
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Light Project
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Papyrint
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Birdhouse Gallery
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250 discussed the Future of Culture Institutions in Europe
On 8 December representatives from the whole Swedish culture sector gathered at Stockholms Kulturhuset City Theatre to discuss the right to culture regardless of identity and background – to broaden the influence within the culture sector. "It comes down to will", "No more policies, take action" were some of the appeals from the panels.
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Also, Sabine Frank held a keynote-speech and presented the OMC working group-report on cultural diversity and Riksutställningar/Swedish Exhibition Agencies launched its report on diversity in Swedish museums, ordered by the Government. This was the fourth Intercult and Europe Direct Intercult conference in the series The Future of the European project, in collaboration with Region Västerbotten.
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Brokering Migrants Cultural Participation
The project (MCP Broker) aims to enhance and stimulate the cultural participation of migrants by improving the capacity of their local cultural public institutions to interact with them. Intercult has joined forces with Region Västerbotten through Bella Lawson Officer of Cultural Affairs and four European cultural organisations: Interarts, Platform for Intercultural Europe (PIE), EDUCULT and ECCOM.
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Learning Partnerships
The BMCP project is about new tools and action. In Sweden, professionals from 13 culture institutions (theatre, opera, museums, concert halls, libraries) participated in 3 two day seminars, so called learning partnerships, taking place in Skellefteå, Stockholm and finally Umeå in connection to the annual Human Rights convent MR-dagarna. The themes were recruitment, migration knowledge, human rights and culture.
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Al-Harah Performing Arts Training Center in Palestine – the teaching has started
This fall the vocational school for theatre (PARC) opened. 36 students from a variety of cities, villages, refugee camps around the West Bank and Jerusalem participate. Intercult's partnership is prolonged thanks to the Swedish Institute's program Creative Force.
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500 creative freelancers joined the shared production house SMartSe
SMartSe – founded by Intercult together with SMart in Belgium, is helping groups, collaborations and freelancers with simple tools to manage the complex administration of cultural activities. Performing artists, illustrators, musicians, cultural strategists, game designers and more are using SMartSe today.
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Intercult informs newsletter goes out to those who have registered via our web site or signed up in connection to an Intercult event. The staff at Intercult also suggests colleagues in the sector whom we think are interested in information about Intercult's work.
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