THE CITY: Artistic Image & Social Practice in times of global change | CALL
Ten artists from Russia and Europe are invited to participate in a virtual residency
project organized by EUNIC in St. Petersburg, Russia´s „cultural capital“.
Europe
The film festival: artspringnale 2021. Signals! OPEN CALL
Visible despite the pandemic: artspring berlin is planning various hybrid forms of presentation for art and culture in the borough of Pankow during May.
Summer School: Post-COVID resilience of cultural industries | C-Ship Project
C-SHIP (Cultural Entrepreneurship) is an intensive training program designed by ICHEC in response to the current crisis and launched under the framework of the United Nations International Year for the Creative Economy and Sustainable Development.
Museum of Embraces and Encounters: PHYSICALLY DISTANCED HUGS
When was the last time you hugged someone? For the Goethe-Institut’s online video project “Museum of Embraces and Encounters”, artists from all over the world talk about moments of meeting and intimacy, but also of an encounter with a criminal. A collection of stories about embraces: as an expression of close encounters, but also as a symbol of reconciliation, of overcoming opposites. The stories are told by artists from all parts of the world.
ÆFLUENTS: Production and investigation residency
ÆFLUENTS is looking for innovative projects which can bring forth thought and discourse around themes of territory, water, the effects of the current pandemic on society, social sustainability, contemporary interpretations of the rural world and art as a tool for symbolic production and social change.
NEMO publishes detailed overview of museum reopenings in Europe
NEMO has gathered information about museum reopenings and closures from 31 European countries. The overview lists details about reopenings, political and sector communication as well as hygiene measures. The overview is accompanied by a NEMO statement calling for museums to reopen and get support to stay open.
¡ESCAPE! | Faki Festival Open Call For Theatrical & Online Performance Works
Artistic proposals are expected to challenge physical/political realities and carry us into post-pandemic worlds, where new forms of togetherness, criticality, curiosity, fun, and discovery become once again imaginable.
EP-CULT Committee | Cultural and creative sectors in post-COVID-19 Europe – crisis effects and policy recommendations
Cultural and creative sectors (CCS) have been hit hard by the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study analyses the so far effects of the crisis on the CCS, as well as the policy responses that are formulated to support the sectors. Based on the analysis, policy recommendations are formulated to further improve the resilience of the CCS in Europe in the medium and longer term.
Back to the Future – Making Events Post-Pandemic
Will we party post-pandemic? How will that transform our venues and programmes? And how will we define that very collective experience we call events? Join this Trans Europe Halles session to get inspired, hopeful, and ready to act.
Theatre ‘Production Jam’ Risks Creating a Lost Generation of Young Artists, European Directors Warn
Leading theatre directors in Europe are warning that the pandemic shutdowns are not only threatening the long-term viability of theatres—they are also seriously risking the development of the new generation of theatre artists.
Registration open for NEMO Webinar on future of museums
NEMO invites you to a free webinar where Ece Özdil, Jüniör, will guide you in the search for meaning during the pandemic and a time when the role and relevance of museums are questioned. By presenting museum trends and related design methods, she will help the participants reflect on a meaningful future for museums.
New “Market Analysis of the Cultural and Creative Sectors in Europe”
KEA European Affairs has co-authored the updated “Market Analysis of the Cultural and Creative Sectors in Europe” commissioned by the European Investment Fund (EIF) under the Cultural and Creative Sectors (CCS) Guarantee Facility Capacity Building programme.
Perform Europe Survey
Perform Europe supports experiments to make touring of performing arts works in Creative Europe countries more sustainable and inclusive. The ultimate goal of Perform Europe is to design a future support scheme for cross-border touring and digital distribution of the performing arts.
European support for financing to the cultural and creative sectors in Denmark
EIF supports REinvent Finance to make new financing available to Nordic film and TV series production companies, backed by the Cultural and Creative Sectors Guarantee Facility (CCS GF) and the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI).
New European Bauhaus INFOsessions
The information session that focuses on the creative sector is scheduled for February 24th 2021.
Cultural Relations Platform Study is out! Impact of COVID-19 on CCS in Partners Countries
Assessing the Impact of COVID‐19 on the Cultural and Creative
Sectors in the EU’s Partner Countries, Policy Responses and their Implications
for International Cultural Relations.
Researchers debate: Waiting for the jab
Four researchers analyse the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the cultural and creative sectors and give insight from their research.
Pearle* launched the 2021 Europe presenting the phases of re-opening of venues and cultural live events
Following the initiative launched in May 2020, today Pearle* publishes a new edition of the map.
Connection in Isolation: On the Red Couch with Lutz Leichsenring
Lutz Leichsenring joins Factory Berlin to discuss the success of “United We Stream” on reconnecting the music scene and its audience during isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Call for Applications: Status and Working Conditions of Artists and Cultural and Creative Professionals
The fourth topic of Voices of Culture 2019 – 2021 will ask questions about the challenges and opportunities for the status and working conditions of artists and cultural and creative professionals. How can new priorities, policies, actions and funding streams better address this issue?
Talking Europe with Themis Christophidou, Director General of DG for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture
The next digital edition of Talking Europe, organised in partnership with the European Commission, invites Themis Christophidou, Director General of DG for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, to discuss recent exceptional measures implemented to support education, culture, youth, and sport in light of the challenges posed by Covid-19.
Meet the Innovators: Brave New World
The pandemic has changed the fashion landscape, limiting manual processes and physical meetups — but it has also created new opportunities in other areas. Find out more and learn how Fashion for Good is helping to shape a brave new world for fashion during and after COVID, through this online event.
ConcertWithYou
International Yehudi Menuhin Foundation has launched an online platform to support and promote musicians by broadcasting videos of their performances.
EU FUNDING FOR CULTURE 2021-2027
An introduction into 13 EU programmes and their funding opportunities for the Cultural and Creative sector, published by the Creative Europe Desk Kultur (DE).
SURVEY: CORONA & CULTURAL AND CREATIVE SECTOR
Take part in KREATIVES SACHSEN survey, aimed at self-employed cultural and creative workers in Germany or those who worked in this sector in the past year.
Liveurope Festival 2020 line-up talks international touring, covid-19 & future
Liveeurope took the occasion of the festival to sit down with the artists to talk about their careers, international touring, the importance of venues for their professional development, their hopes for the music scene after Covid-19, and more.
What’s next? VEGA Selected one-day conference and showcase
Opportunities, signals and creativity in a virtual and post-pandemic live music industry
«Architecture Matters»: 21 projects supported in a remarkably successful call for applications.
In response to the postponement of the Venice Biennale of Architecture due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia supported 21 projects from all over Switzerland.
European Cultural and Creative Cities in COVID-19 times | Report
Using cultural jobs statistics from Eurostat and the JRC’s Cultural and Creative Cities Monitor, this report identifies highly vulnerable cultural jobs and creative cities.
Infodesk Corona: #CultureBeyondCovid Video Series
#CultureBeyondCovid series looks ahead to the European cultural landscapes of tomorrow.
