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Balkan-Arab Exchange Platform –8th – 9th May 2014 - 70 participants from 24 countries
Enlightening hidden passes: the reality of cultural mobilities between Balkans, Europe and the Arab world
The Roberto Cimetta Fund exists since 1999 as a possible funding solution to the ever-increasing internationalisation of artistic practice. RCF addresses the problems of cultural and artistic mobility in geographical areas where this mobility is very difficult: namely the Arab world and the Balkans. All our travel grants concern travelers coming from or cooperating with the Balkans and the Arab world.
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With the support of the Croatian Ministry of Culture, the French Ministry of Culture, the City of Zagreb, the Central European Initiative, the Anna Lindh Foundation, the French Institute of Belgrade and Kultura Nova Foundation, the Roberto Cimetta Fund will be organising an exchange platform entitled “Enlightening hidden passes: the reality of cultural mobilities between the Balkans, Europe and the Arab world”. The meeting will be held at POGON, Zagreb Centre for Independent Culture and Youth, on the 8th and 9th May 2014.
The aim of the exchange platform is to explore the current situation of artistic and cultural mobility between the two regions (Balkans and Arab world). More specifically, the Zagreb Meeting will be the ideal continuation of the RCF Belgrade workshop [1] which was organised on 11/09/2013. This follow-up meeting in Zagreb provides the opportunity to continue to make headway through networking and advocacy to formulate solutions for cultural cooperation. Our meetings aim to build the capacities of the artists and cultural managers we support so that they can structure and develop, on a longer term, cross-border cooperation, networks and art projects.Mobility should be seen as a chain of individual and collective benefits that contribute to peace-building in a context of increasing global exchange.
The programme will start on 8th in the afternoon and continue all day 9th May. Sessions will include discussions on: “re-thinking cooperation – networking, exchange”, “sustainability and economic models of cooperation: space, opportunity”, “pathways of regional cooperation: role, experiences, models, perspectives and challenges”, “What should our advocacy for regional cooperation be?” and “How do we address collaboration between Arab and Balkan operators in the EU institutional framework?”. The programme of the event is available on the home page of our webiste.
Because artists and cultural managers have a vital role to play in society-building (through critical processes, community activism, remembrance, diversity of cultural productions) we believe that their travel between the Balkans and the Arab world is essential and needs to be highlighted and supported. By bringing these actors together we want to advocate for the recognition of the importance of these connexions and allow for real encounters to take place, which foster the trust and affiliations necessary for sustainable partnerships.
Over 70 participants from 8 Arab countries (Jordan, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Algeria, Syria, Morocco, Palestine), 9 CEI countries (Serbia, Italy, Croatia, Austria, Slovenia, Macedonia, Ukraine, Hungary, Poland) and from Irak, Turkey, France, Spain, Portugal, Malta and Greece will provide knowledge and skills and will make sure that concrete results will come out of the plenary sessions and speed or slow dating discussions.
We hope this will serve to build real Balkan-Balkan, Euro-Balkan-Arab and Arab-Balkan networks and sustainable models of international cooperation through mutualisation of artistic practice focusing on promotion of minority cultures, intercultural dialogue, conflict resolution through culture and arts, local micro-funding and international fundraising.
For more information please contact: Angelica Pratolini, trainee, Roberto Cimetta Fund info@cimettafund.org or Angie Cotte, Secretary General, RCF angie.cotte@cimettafund.org