Events
CREATIVES DURING CORONAVIRUS: ONE YEAR ON
Join Blick Studios online with Black Box on Monday 26th April at 8pm for “Creatives During Coronavirus: One Year On” with a selection of their guests from 2020.
Sector: All CCs and cross-sectoral
Events
Office hours Corona crisis: Aids for arts, culture, creatives
Are you a Berlin-based freelancer, self-employed or own a small business in arts, culture or the creative industries? In order to give you orientation in the daily changing situation and to guide you through the jungle of the measures in place, Creative City Berlin offers regular info sessions online.
Organisations and initiatives
Art, now more than ever: Strategic Plan 2021-26
The Canada Council for the Arts strategic plans outline the organization’s direction for strengthening the arts sectors’ capacity and its impact on the public. This strategic plan was written during a pandemic that will forever change the lives
of hundreds of millions of people around the world.
Funding
Recovery support for the creative sector
In response to the significant impact the pandemic has had on businesses and individuals working in the creative industries, the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) is launching a new business support programme and grant fund for the cultural and creative sectors, as part of its Regional Recovery Plan.
Organisations and initiatives
Open Call for the tri-continental project «Quilombo»
SALTS (CH) and Waza art center Lubumbashi (DR Congo), with Lago Mio Lugano artist residency (CH), are delighted to announce the coalition-based project «Quilombo», comprising an exhibition, a three-month residency in two Swiss cities, and a catalog. «Quilombo» is presented in collaboration with Culturescapes 2021 Amazonia.
Funding
Allianz Kulturstiftung | Call for Projects 2021: The art of bringing Europe together
With their call for proposals, they wish to reach parties using artistic and cultural means to create open spaces enabling critical discourse about Europe’s future, and also support exchange and networking across borders.
Organisations and initiatives
Bottom-up Leadership
This Trans Europe Halles call aims at helping their members to retain activity in their centers and boosting local communities and their interactions.
Organisations and initiatives
Summerhall: ARTIST DEVELOPMENT 2020-21 | Open Call
Summerhall’s re-imagined artist development programme in the light of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated public health restrictions.
Events
Art Activism in Times of Crisis – Special Guests: Guerrilla Girls
This web panel series, initiated by Fontys Master Performing Public Space, represents an online platform for exchange and discussion reflecting on relevant topics in the cultural sector with a focus on public space.
Organisations and initiatives
Open Call Residency Habitación
In the framework of the European project Who Cares? Centro Huarte offers an international residency program for two or more artists that will take place from September 1 to October 24, 2021.
Organisations and initiatives
Open Call for Ideas – Rehearsing (for) the Future
In Rehearsing (for) the Future, artists self-identified as Asian wherever they are based as individuals, collectives or Asian-and-non-Asian mixed groups are invited to propose research-based ideas that respond to our times in a post-COVID-19 context and imagine the future that the artists would like to shape and contribute.
Tools & Resources
Harvard Business Review IdeaCast: How the Creative Economy is Changing with Covid-19
A conversation with Adobe’s Scott Belsky about how creative work is more important than ever.
Research / Surveys
The impact of Covid-19 on the global creative industry
A creative talent survey on production trends by Genero.
Stories / Good practices
Cape Town artists stage protest over management of Covid-19 relief funding
Artists gathered in Cape Town to give protest performances over the management of funding meant to offer relief to the industry.
Tools & Resources
Local Networks: (a guide to) Reimagining the Work of Cultural Centres
With this new, in-depth publication, ENCC hopes to bring new insights and ways of thinking to the conversation about local cultural and socio-cultural work, including pointers for rethinking our work in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis.
Events
The role of the artist in crisis and recovery
Join the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy for a roundtable conversation with Nashville artists Elisheba Israel Mrozik, Taria Person, and Pam Marlene Taylor.
Events
Talking Loud: Amanda Parker and Jenny Williams
The De La Warr Pavilion and Towner Eastbourne are delighted to host an online conversation with Amanda Parker and Jenny Williams.
Funding
Glastonbury and Young Vic share in £400m from Covid arts fund
Culture secretary announces details of second tranche of grants and loans for arts and heritage sector.
Events
Register now: Summit on European Cultural Politics and New Digital Solutions
What challenges do European artists and cultural actors face – during this pandemic and in the future? How can civic tech contribute to their work? Join the conversation now!
Research / Surveys
COVID-19: Impact Survey on the Arts Residencies Field – Survey II of III
This continuing partnership between Res Artis and University College London (UCL) aims to document the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the creative sector in the short, medium, and long term.
Events
MOVE IT #1 (Digital) Networking
Kulturförderpunkt Berlin’s first edition of “MOVE IT” is dedicated to a challenge that already existed before the Corona crisis, but has become more prominent as a result of it: How to network internationally? An international network is particularly relevant for artists and cultural professionals who aspire to transcultural, cross-border, or international projects.
Funding
An extra $135 million to help Australia’s creative sector rise
The Morrison Government will inject an additional $135 million to support thousands of jobs in the arts and entertainment sector, as it continues to come back from the impacts of COVID-19.
EU response
Research4Committees Study
The Situation of Artists and Cultural Workers and the post-COVID-19 Cultural Recovery in the European Union – Background analysis.
Funding
Scotland’s Creative Digital Initiative
A new £1 million digital support programme for creative and cultural businesses has launched.
The Creative Digital Initiative will help the sector develop digital capabilities in response to the limitations imposed by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Advocacy Initiatives
Secure a future for cultural life in Europe | Open Letter
Following the open letter published by more than 110 pan-European networks on 30 October 2020 “Make culture central in the EU recovery”, the group comes together again to reiterate their call to the national governments and the European Commission.
Events
Rebuilding Europe: what happens next?
This is a follow-up event to the release of the GESACxEY study entitled Rebuilding Europe: The cultural and creative economy before and after the COVID-19 crisis.
Funding
Extra support for cultural and creative businesses
The West of England Combined Authority (WECA) is launching a new business support programme for businesses and individuals working in the creative industries, as part of its Regional Recovery Plan.
The programme is aimed at small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) working in the creative industries, including creative freelancers, that require support as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Funding
Harnessing the Power of the Arts to Enhance Communities | Bloomberg Philanthropies Annual Report 2020
Bloomberg Philanthropies believes in the power of arts and culture to inspire creativity, spark collaboration, and build community. While the COVID-19 pandemic has changed how people view and experience art, the role artists and cultural organizations play in making cities more vibrant places to live has never been more important.
Events
Business Skills for Creative Souls Artists Conference 2021
Reimagine the arts in a reimagined world at this free, two-day virtual event by YES Employment + Entrepreneurship.
EU response
EIF and MVA to support Hungarian SMEs in culture and creative sector with €8.2 million
The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Magyar Vállalkozásfejlesztési Alapítvány (MVA) will provide €8.2 million (HUF 3000 million) to support Hungarian SMEs in the culture and creative sector sustain jobs and recover faster from the COVID-19 pandemic.
