Partner Search Archive (2006 - 2007)
The organisations below were previously listed on our partner search bulletin board.
Some organisations may be seeking parthers for future Calls for funding, e.g. within the EU's Culture Programme 2007 - 2013. So it may be worth making enquries where contact details have been provided.
(Note. Entries are often submitted by contributors for whom English is not a first or native language).
Navigare
NGO arts company seeking partners, specialising in cross-artform and multi-media projects: theatre, pupptery, drama and related in non-theatre contexts. Contact: David Napthine, Director T: +44 1388 663851 E: changelinguk@googlemail.com W: changelingproductions.org.uk The project Navigare comes from the need to set up a route of involvement for the European Community citizen -to the new allocation and planning of the environmental, cultural and infrastructural resources that will be developed in the framework of the re-definition of urban spaces in the port areas of the European Community. The project Navigare aims to develop an action of sustainable development founded on the cultural potentialities of excellence that can be noticed in the sea cities. In substance it is to involve the citizens in the “process of definition of the strategic lines for the realization of the new urban areas in the port cities” in the framework of the new Communitarian planning 2007-2013... For much more info, please contact: Daniele Sferra
Marco Polo System geie
Venice - Italy
Tel + 39 041 2501718 or Tel: + 39 041 5311108
Fax + 39 041 2501720
Mob: + 39 393 9941728 (posted June 2007)
Tower Opera Swansea City Opera (SCO)
SCO is planning to undertake a major European Union contemporary opera project involving communities from five EU Member States. The project will involve young professional singers, local choirs and school children from each partner, participating in performances alongside professional opera practitioners from the UK and the other partner member states. The opera, composed by Alun Hoddinott, Wales’ most eminent composer, is called TOWER and has been written specifically for youth and community involvement. Together with the accompanying education programme, it has been conceived as a way of offering easier access to contemporary opera. It will also involve a Community Education project developed with collaboration between the 5 partners.
The subject of the opera is Tower Colliery in South Wales and the dramatic story of the workers´ buy-out, which saved the pit from closure. In 1994 Tower Colliery at Hirwaun in South Wales was bought by 240 workers, whose members each put in £8,000 (approx.11,676 EUR) in redundancy money. The pit is now the only co-operative run coalmine in the world and the story is an important piece of European history. Deadline for applications (late) October 2007. Preparation and educational work to begin Sept/Oct 2008 culminating in performances in 2009. Contact: enquiries@swanseacityopera.com (www.swanseacityopera.com) Bridgett Gill, General Manager: 01874 690 254 (Posted June 2007)
Common Ground Scotland
We are an arts organisation with established projects. We are not in ourselves currently actively seeking partners, but I am sure that there are people out there who might want to work with us. How do we make people aware of the status of our project? Common Ground Scotland has a vision for cross cultural dialogue using the traditional arts as 'the common ground'. We have been established for 5 years. This year we have expanded our summer schools to a six week period at Glaisnock House which is being established as a centre for creativity. Common Ground will be a distinct week within that six week programme. Our websites are http://www.commongroundscotland.com and http://www.glaisnock.org Posted 15 June 2007
OBJ
Partner search for the realisation of a ELM II- European Literary Marathon 2008 project Fondazione Aida is a professional theatre in Verona (Italy) recognised by the Italian Ministry of Culture. Established in Verona in 1983, it is now a cultural centre that deals not only with theatre, but also with different cultural events and projects to spread culture among people. Since 2002, Fondazione Aida has implemented three local literary marathons, in co-operation with the Verona University dedicated to national literary masterpieces:Dante's ‘Divine Comedy’ (2002), Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso" (2003), and Homer's "Iliad" (2004).
This year (2007) we have been project leader of the first edition of the ELM-European Literary Marathon, a Culture 2000 project (www.literarymarathon.eu)in collaboration with other 7 european partners, that saw the organisation of 8 literary marathons in 8 different countries simultaneously on the 9th of May(Day of Europe).Thousands of citizens have been involved as readers and public in 8 public readings dedicated to national masterpieces that took place simultaneously in public locations for 8-10 hours.
The initiative had really a great success and now we are looking for other partners in order to realise a new edition 2008 of the ELM II –European Literary Marathon in the framework of the European Commission Open call for proposals-DG EAC/07/2007 for European Intercultural Dialogue Year (deadline July 31 2007).
The aim of this new proposal is to repeat the successful experience realised in 2007 by organising a second Literary Marathon with some new aspects in order to be in a wider European level to promote and communicate the different cultures parts of our common European Literary heritage.
It will be located into a theatre, a cinema, or a square and it will be free-entrance. Readers will be chosen among citizens volunteers: students, housewives, professionals, retired people, etc..
Some of the main objectives of the proposal for the ELM II are:
1. Create a unique and innovative European event that involves at least 6 countries in 6 different places at the same time that through its organisation would provide an “arena” for intercultural dialogue
2. Facilitate the access to what is generally considered ‘high culture’ and widen cultural participation by regular people in Europe
3. Promote an active involvement of citizens as readers and listeners as well as cooperation and networking between cultural organisations
4. Make a comparative study of European literature
5. Attract the younger generation to appreciate and become involved with European literature
Suitable partners could be: Municipalities, Universities, Schools, Cultural organizations, Libraries, Literary Festivals, Theatres and similar.
For any question or request for information, please contact Miss Cecilia Cinelli at Fondazione Aida, phone 0039-045 8001471/045- 595284, fax 0039-045 8009850,
e-mail: estero@f-aida.it, web: www.fondazioneaida.it. (Posted 11 June 2007)
Culture 2007 - UK / Ireland
Arts Practice Heart Performance CIC (UK - theatre& dance) ACE ( Ireland - creative writing) and SKISS (Sweden - visual arts) are looking for a partner for a Culture 2007 collaboration based around arts practices, processes within the context of healthcare and the healing process. We are particularly interested in collaborating with a partner from one of the 'new' EU countries or Southern Europe with a working practice in the area of film/video and/or music. For more information about the shape and details of the project please contact Gordon Sharp heartdancing@mac.com (Posted 11 June 2007)
Media Competence The European Society for Education and Communication
ESEC was founded in 2005 out of the German Society for Pedagogy and Information (GPI). ESEC s goal is to create a Europeanwide network of partners researching in the field of media and communication. One of ESEC’s contributions is the so called Erasmus EuroMedia Award, given annually to outstanding media productions dealing with the European discourse. For 2008 ESEC is now preparing a European initiative called "Media Competence for the Trans-cultural Dialogue of Religions in Europe ". The main intention is to bring experts and all interested people in the field of media, education and religion together to discuss the role of media as an agency of interreligious/transcultural discourse in Europe . This initiative is based on 3 big conferences ( Berlin , Vienna and Paris ) plus several smaller workshops of experts. Contact Information: Christian Kuei Wang: christian.kuei.wang@univie.ac.at. See http://www.esec-online.net (Posted 01 June 2007)
Centroid
JobInVest intends to submit a grant application for a project called "Young European Press". Their partner search comes on the back of an initial project called "Young Journalists" -financially supported by the European Programme "Youth for Europe"- consisting of a theoretical part (teaching activities including issues as: active citizenship, the freedom of press, social responsibility, ethics in journalism) and a practical part (making a common newspaper called "Young European Press"). The new project aims to start up a European youth newspaper. The newspaper is proposed to cover all the countries which are members of the European Union and it will include the following sections (32 pages): News, Job and Career, Education, Events & Nightlife, Social and Debate. JobInVest are writing the application for the pan-European ‘open’ call (deadline 31 July 2007) and now hope to find relevant partners that have experience in the field of intercultural dialogue, education or journalism. More information can be obtained from project coordinator Daniela Laursen by phone. +45 - 88 92 73 19, Mobile +45 23 26 13 76 or by e-mail: Daniela.laursen@jobinvest.dk. See http:www.jobinvest.dk. Posted 25 May 2007
Online resource - Theatre
I am working with Arts Council England to produce a careers resource (print-based and an online version) aimed at young people with an interest in working in the theatre industry. I would like to be contacted by people working in all sorts of roles, from wig makers to, lighting technicians to stage managers, who would be interested to tell their story of how they got where they are - in order to inform and inspire young people. Ideally I am looking for case studies who are under 35 and working in their 1st/2nd jobs, but I am also interested to hear from people who are in their first few years of self-employment. Please get in touch if you think you might be able to help. An up-to-date CV would be really useful in the first instance.
mailto:sara@stpr.co.uk (Posted 19 May 2007)
Misinterpretation
"Mother was convinced for 30 years that Joni Mitchell's hit Yellow Taxi went ‘They made paradise and went to Juniper Park’, when in reality she sings ‘They paved paradise and put up a parking lot...." Have you isheard a lyric of a song and convinced yourself of a certain word or sentence and then find out you had been wrong all along or the same with a painting or even narrative of a novel or film..?
I am working on a project which explores misinterpretation and am inviting you to send in all your misinterpreted ideas.. Please email mailto:andrewharper100@yahoo.co.uk (Posted 19 May 2007)
Les Eurotopiques
Seeking partners for the first part of a project, "Eurotopia" -i.e. artists to take place in the Festival "Les Eurotopiques". Need for partners/contacts and pleased to send an outline for the whole project via email. e-mail: m.piontek@lavirgule.com (Posted 19 May 2007) Festival of European Cultures The Italian Ministry of Culture is involved in the organization of a 'Festival of European Cultures' in the framework of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008. The Festival aims to involve a multitude of actors in order to develop an exchange among different schools of thougth and to deal with every form of art (dance, music, performing arts). The Italian Ministry of Culture is looking for international partners to be involved in the project. Partner's profile: - cultural associations - public bodies Themes: - folk culture, music and dance; -popular cultural heritage and history; - traditional music; - local performig arts. Valentina Parise Benedetta Caporioni Marta Di Dedda CCP-staff Antenna Culturale Europea - Roma tel. 0039 06 6723 2608-2376 fax. 0039 06 6723 2425 e-mail: marcucci.internazionale@beniculturali.it (Posted 11 May 2007)
Singing Out Europe
A search for two co-organisers from different European countries: to generate a network of choirs on the European level. So the co-organisers ought to be institutions devoted to choral music. The main objective of the project is to take up and maintain a cooperation and sharing of experiences between European amateur choirs. The exchange concerns vocal techniques, traditional repertoire, ways of working, sustaining activity, ideas of increasing mobility of amateur choirs in Europe, and taking up joint activities. An important theme is also sharing the roots of choral singing in all countries, finding specific features of each European country hidden in traditional and folk repertoire. Further info via: Joanna Stankowska
Beata Majka
Agnieszka Kochanowska
Baltic Artistic Agency
Kościuszki 61, 81-703 Sopot, Poland
tel. 0048 585558458
mobile 0048 606 748 227
e-mail: munduscantat@sopot.pl
www.bart.sopot.pl
www.munduscantat.sopot.pl (renewed July 2007; originally posted June 2007)
Festival Participation La Virgule
The Cross-border Centre for Theatre Creation, is looking after europeans artists to participate to his festival "Les Eurotopiques". "Les Eurotopiques" will be a festival where ten theatre projects will compete on the theme of Utopia. Presented by professional teams coming from Nord-Pas de Calais, Belgium and four European regions, the projects will be shown to the public and to a professional jury, in the form of drama readings in original language, which are to be re-voiced or surtitled. The awarded reading will be given a financial aid to produce the final version of the play, which could then be presented in La Virgule's programme the following season. Maud Piontek
Secrétaire Générale
La Virgule - Compagnie Chotteau
82 bd Gambetta
59200 Tourcoing
Tel: 03 20 27 13 63
Fax: 03 20 27 13 64
www.lavirgule.com (Posted 11 May 2007)
Seeking a French Producer to develop a documentary (Proviso: MEDIA related)
Regarding a documentary which encompasses UK/France during WWII & Tanzania 1949-1980's. It is a true story about love and a life of adventure. A synopsis of the whole story can be made available. Anyone interested in working on the documentary may contact:
Jacqueline Ambrose
ambrosenterprises@yahoo.com(Posted 11 May 2007)
European Year of Intercultural Dialogue [DEADLINE PASSED, JULY 2007]
Realization of Events in different countries to sensitize the citizens on the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008 promoting the European active citizenship and the intercultural knowledge. Objectives: 1. To promote the Dialogue Intercultural by Events that encourage the year 2008 as European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. 2. To diffuse and to sensitize among the citizens in general and among the youths in particular, the importance of building cultural bridges in a united and multicultural Europe. 3. To impel the tolerance and the mutual understanding between the cultures and the European towns and especially between the youths of the different European countries. Main activities: 1. To develop Cultural Events to sensitize on the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008 (exhibitions, lectures, meetings, vision of audiovisual materials, reading...) 2. Creation of a Telematic Forum Intercultural of Dialogue differentiated between sectors (audiovisual, scenic arts, literature, cultural patrimony...) 3. Events to define among the partners with a great mediatic diffusion 4. Publicity and visibility of the actions Contact: SR. PEDRO ALVAREZ-GARCÍA C/ Descalzos, 59 bajo
31001 Pamplona – España
TF: +34-948228009
W. www.netboga.net E. proyectos@agpgroup.org (Posted 25 April 2007)
Culture Diffusion
We are a culture diffusion company from Shanghai,China. Our expertise are with organising culture and art exhibitions. We are planning a travelling exhibition across Europe. The main subject is : "Art Makes Life Happier". The exhibition will help Europe to gain knowledge of present Chinese design product which have traditional cultural charateristic. We are seeking European partners who interested in Chinese culture. Please contact us at annie_cai@taza.com.cn. We will offer further information about us as you need.
Posted 25 April 2007
Interkunst e.V
We are an organization from Germany (Berlin) called Interkunst e.V. which organises the international theatre and music project "INSTANT ACTS against violence and racism". At the moment we are looking for young performing artists for the tour in September 2007. Every time our group is a mixture of young artists, who are coming from different countries and cultures as well as from various stage disciplines (theatre, dance, music, circus, etc). We are looking for the people who are creative and open for new experiences and who are motivated to present on the stage their own point of view concerning violence and racism. Knowing your activity and experience we want to ask if you could put us in touch with suitable artists. More information is enclosed. Please don’t hesitate to ask us about details. I hope to hear something from you soon. With greetings Arkadiusz Zietek Interkunst e.V
Postfach 62 03 62
10793 Berlin
Phone: +49 30 781 40 01
Fax: +49 30 781 40 02
interkunst@t-online.de
www.interkunst.de Posted 20 April 2007
RF Series
RF Series seeks contact with promoters / art operators / managers / Agents from all over Europe. It is an INDIA based foundation (so could have 'third country' appeal). It is currently working with all performing arts of (the notoriously colorful) Rajasthan. So the Foundation is promoting many performing arts like Music, Dance, Puppets, Acrobats -e.g. Gypsies of Rajasthan; Rhythm of Rajasthan; Nomad Dancer of Rajasthan; Ancient Poets of Rajasthan; Traditional Storytellers of Rajasthan; Kathputly: Puppetry Tradition of Rajasthan; Acrobats of Rajasthan. nitin@rajfolkseries.com Posted 20 April 2007
Interreg Project on Music Industry
We are preparing a project that is concerned on developing music industry in the northern areas. Interreg IIIB Northern Periphery programme has admitted preparatory financing for us to further develop the project idea. At the moment the partnership has partners from Finland, Sweden and Norway, and now we are hoping to expand the partnership to Northern Ireland and Scotland (Northern Periphery region covers the whole of Northern Ireland except for Belfast, and whole of Scotland except for Glasgow and Edinburgh).
Attached you can find a brief description on the project idea. The project plan will be further developed in Luleå, Sweden, on 28-30 March. At this phase molding the plan to better meet your needs is completely possible, since nothing has been definitely decided yet. If someone from Northern Ireland or Scotland would be interested in joining the project, attending the Luleå workshop would be recommended, since the project plan will be finalised there. We are prepared to cover part of the travel expenses for the participants. Contact: Kaj.Kostiander@tokem.fi (Posted 10 March 2007)
MEUTECH
My name is Olivia Florentina Paun, writing on behalf of Ortadoðu Teknopark Inc., the management company of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara/Turkey. The Middle East Technical University, as the leading research university in Turkey since the 1950s, has a wide level of knowledge and practice in project management, from scheduling to book keeping, coordination, and control. As of today, METUTECH manages 30 national and international projects (4 of which are EU projects), most of them having multipartners, from universities to industry, NGOs, etc. Promoting innovation (through involvement in FP6 projects, assisting on IPR, contributing to cultural transformation towards innovation), supporting entrepreneurship (building a centre of excellence on game/simulation/animation, organizing the "New Ideas New Business" competition), being part of the regional development (cluster management, regional innovation strategy-Mersin, technology foresight), enhancing international collaboration and networking are only very few of METUTECH's key objectives. For more information, we invite you to visit our website: www.metutech.metu.edu.tr At the moment, we are preparing a project proposal for the European Culture Programme (2007-2013). The project aims to perform a fesibility study on religious tourism, to encompass several partnering European regions (countries) and the Tarsus (Mersin) region, best known as the birthplace of Paul the Apostle, located at the Mediterranean shore, in South-Eastern Turkey. The study is an invitation to reflect upon the contribution that tourism can make to dialogue between civilizations and it is necessary to identify strategies to promote the religious tourism. (Posted 14 Feb 2007)
European Culture Programmme Center - Lithuania
Lithuania is one of countries, which became a member of European Union not long ago (in 2005), has cultural heritage with particularly old traditions. Lithuanian ethnic culture distinguishes itself by its many-sided, diverse and long-lasting layer of spiritual activity. The part of national heritage which survived and reached us is various and interesting. These are the values being formed for centuries, artistic expression, customs, folklore, decoration of everyday things and etc. We, modern people, feel strange about the fact that Lithuanians sang all day long. A song together with dance, theatre and art existed in all the ethnographic regions of Lithuania. Until these days Lithuania is called a country of songs. Each region has a unique melody of songs, folk traditions, which survived till now and are still cherished by people of various ages. However, cultural spaces, which are developing more rapidly, and spreading opportunities of communication constantly influence the needs, demands and opportunities not only of society, but particularly of modern and active youth. Professional art often alienates from cultural traditions, becoming universal and losing its national character. Thus, it is very important to educate and develop interaction between cultural heritage and professional art. The integration of art (music, theatre, art and dance) and growing demand of communication and cooperation are becoming more urgent in the spheres of culture and educational activity. The development of cultural heritage of his/her own country as well as discovery and acknowledgement of cultures of other European countries is a very significant factor in the medium of school youth.The project “Intercultural cooperation of educational institutions on the basis of youth creation with the support of Professional art” was created with the aim to show the cultural peculiarities of our country to young people from other European countries and to get acquainted with their cultural spaces. The aim of the project is to provide opportunities to the young people of school age (12-18 years) for communication and cooperation while creating cultural-creative projects not only with the youth and professional artists of their own country, but also from other countries, referring to the help, experience and skills of professionals in order to develop cultural competence of young people, to get acquainted with the culture of other European countries, their ethno-traditional and professional art. The project seeks to develop general cultural space, based on common cultural heritage of Europeans, and to develop cultural cooperation of cultural institutions and their employees. Also we aim to educate the abilities of school age youth to act better in any of art fields, adopting the experience of professionals and integrating separate art spheres (music, art, dance, theatre). The principal aim of this project is to educate creative abilities of school age youth in the context of professional art and intersubject integration, which are based on the intercultural cooperation. In that way we hope to encourage the formation of European citizenship. The organizer of the project is Vydūnas secondary school of Klaipėda (Lithuania). The education in this school is based on stressed music and other arts teaching. The information about the school You will find on the site: www.vyduno.lt . Director of the school Arvydas Girdzijauskas
Address: Darzu g. 18, LT-91245 , Klaipėda. Lithuania
Tel./Fax: 8-46 411005
E-mail: arvydas.girdzijauskas@gmail.com Responsible person of the project – Sandra Rimkute
E-mail: rimkute_sandra@yahoo.com
Tel. 00 370 600 85714 (Posted 14 Feb 2007)
Challenging Walls
We are currently working in Berlin on an EU Culture 2000 project called Challenging Walls http://www.challengingwalls.eu This is an art-peace project which aims to initiate dialogue between peoples living/coming from countries that have history of physical (as well as mental) walls. Employing diverse combination in art and scientific research, and personal experiences/insights about the wall issues, this project will bring together a pair of artists/photographers who will work together with a researcher, curator/cultural manager in Cyprus, Northern Ireland, Germany, Israel and Palestine. In the process, we will to engage a pair of photographers coming from the opposite side of the walls in these respective countries while working with experts on the topics to gain a better perspective on the subject/s that they wish to cover in the two months of photo shooting.Below is the CALL FOR ARTISTS for photographers from Cyprus, Northern Ireland, East Germany and Palestine. If you know of photographers from these countries who might be interested to apply for this project, please feel free to forward this information (Posted 02 February 2007) Diaphane Diaphane is an association of photographers created in 1991. It is based at Montreuil-sur-Breche in the Oise area in France . Its aim is to bring about a wider diffusion of photographic art and of all practices concerned with visual imagery. In the context of the European Union Cultural Programme 2007 Diaphane is looking for partners to elaborate and realize a cultural project involving photographic art. Please find information attached relevant to the project, a schedule plan and details concerning partner profiles. Pour l'Association Diaphane, JB Bochent (00 33) +3 22 46 47 97 Posted 19th January 2007
Kids Art Gallery Project
The Hellenic Audiovisual Institute (I.O.M.), the national applied research organisation in the field of audiovisual communication in Greece, is seeking for partners to participate in the Kids Art Gallery project, developed within CULTURE 2007 EU programme (Strand 1.2.1 Cooperation Measures- deadline:28.02.2007). Please find attached our Company profile and a brief description of our project. Irene AndriopoulouMedia Researcher I.O.M. Email: archives@iom.gr, iom@iom.gr Tel: +30 210 9098699Fax: +30 210 9098693Website: www.iom.gr archives@iom.gr (Posted 19th January
Rios de Ouro
The project «Rios de Ouro/ Gold Rivers» wants to have a continuous actions related to a very specific cultural heritage: the gold mines exploitations, trough two of their distinct expressions – the “Conheiras” as open air gold mines explorations, and the “filão” mines trough out the subterraneous/ underground diggings. These archaeological and geological mining sites of extreme interest, were an antropic target in several historical periods and they have left severe and profound paisagistic marks, associated to the explorations of the Quaternary fluvial terrace. This project has a main goal, the divulgation of these geo-archaeological sites, and the production of knowledge with the realization of quality investigation based on the partners example with the protection and investigation associations of similar realities. The main activities we wanted to develop, involves six scientific publications about the gold mines explorations: three archaeological works with investigation, and other three with a child and youth character with resource to illustrated texts; the realization of an International Congress about this theme; a web site with all the information about these gold mines, and the composition of all the information gathered that will be useful on the composition of an musealized space dedicated to these geo-archaeological places. Archaeologists, Geologists, local population that is able to preserve these sites and the main community who wants to visit and understand them. These geo-archaeological sites do not have any kind of specific budget, so what we want with this program, is some kind of visibility on the Portuguese and European cultural collective. Contact: arqueologia@cm-viladerei.pl Posted 19th January 2007
Rivers/Cities
In October, during an initiating meeting in Warsaw, representatives of 5 countries: Poland, Great Britain, Sweden, Croatia and Austria, and 9 organisations have decided to establish the RIVER//CITIES Platform. The River//Cities Platform aims at developing a platform for international exchange of ideas, projects, experience, and expertise.We are looking for partners - river cultural festivals or cultural organizations that have already done projects connected with the river, those who are focused on social and environmental issues and want to expand their ideas into a more international context. The next River//Cities meeting is going to be held in London, UK from 1 till 2/3 of March 2007. The plan is to invite more potential partners and develop a programme and concrete actions for the future cooperation. We hope to establish the background for European applications. The meeting will be held under the theme ,,Bridging the culture and environment" and hosted by Thames Festival London For more information please contact Agnieszka Wlazel awlazel@filmfederacja.pl 0048 22 42 42 687, 0048 661 113 393 0048 22 42 42 687, 0048 661 113 393 0048 22 42 42 687, 0048 661 113 393 Posted 19 January 2007
Time hopping: connecting Middle Age and the XXI Century through traditional music
Looking for Festivals, musicians, dancers, music schools/academies, associations, museums with a similar repertoire and background (for a detailed description see below), interested in sharing and analyzing practices, with the aim of re-descovering historical traditions, and in participating to a Culture 2007 bid, 1.2.1 Cooperation Measures (deadline February, 28th, 2007). Organised by Provincia Piacenza – Culture Department (http://www.provincia.pc.it/sezione.asp?IDat=7) (coordination) and Appennino Folk Festival (www.appenninofolkfestival.it): music festival that hosts in the territory of the socalled “four provinces” (Piacenza, Pavia, Genova e Alessandria, belonging to the regions of Emilia Romagna, Lombardia, Liguria and Piemonte) the main music groups that propose a traditional music repertoire. The last edition (2006) has explored the links between traditional, ancient, and medieval music. Associated partners are Enerbia: one of the main groups of traditional music in Northen Italy. The last CD has been distributed by the World Music Magazine. Its music is used in the sound track of the movie from Ermanno Olmi " I cento chiodi" that will be presented during the Berlin Film Festival (February 2007), (www.enerbia.com); Cultural Association Le vie del Sale: it deals with research, valorization and diffusion of the cultural heritage of the “Four Provinces”
Liceo " M.Gioia", Piacenza (high school): Music laboratory and choir; " Pioppi Film " Association – Film production; Comune di Vernasca (http://www.comune.vernasca.pc.it): it manages the Vigoleno Castle (http://www.castellidelducato.it) Contacts:
Maddalena Scagnelli
maddascagnelli@netscape.net
enerbia@libero.it Maddalena Rusconi
sviluppo.progetti@provincia.piacenza.it
mrusconi77@hotmail.com Posted 12 January 2007
European Cister Roots
The Cistercian order, who once helped to bind Europe together and had a huge influence on the shaping of cultural face of our continent, can help to do so once again. A better acknowledgement of our common past can be the basis for better understanding the different characteristics of European countries and, as a consequence, a greater capacity to live in harmony. Aims are to: Spreading knowledge of the life of Cistercians and the history and significance of the monasteries.Improving knowledge of our common history and cultural heritage beyond present-day borders.Promote the intercultural dialogue.Putting together all the already existing Cister’s nets. Estimulate and achieve a long term co-operation between different cultural operators.Promotion in an international scale, of the historic, cultural and natural patrimony connected with Cistercians.The project will be developed by several actions: Workshops; cultural exchanges, “Cistercian room with interactive book”; cultural routes, international congress of Cister in 2008; exhibition of conventual sweets and liqueurs from all Europe; database with all the Monasteries where monks still live; development of studies and investigation; exchanging arts, music and theatre. Contact: 00351262580800/00351262580825; eduardo.nogueira@cm-alcobaca.pt Posted 12 January 2007
Romantic Cities and Love Stories
Starting with the Love Story of D. Pedro I and D.ª Inês de Castro, and the Monastery of St.ª Maria de Alcobaça, the aim of this project is the constitution of a multiple town net associated to the great European Love Stories. These Stories can be historic, legendary, mythologyc or artistic creation, such as Tristan & Isolde; Romeo & Juliet; D. Quixote de La Mancha & Dulcinea; Henry I & Leonor of Aquitaine; Dante Alighieri & Beatriz; Lancelot & Guinevere; Orfeu & Eurídice. General aims of the project is to To promote and celebrate the Greatest Love Stories (but also the culture, monuments and cities connected to them) of this common European heritage, promoting cultural and artistic exchanges, and encouraging a long term cooperation between the associated partner countries. The main activities to be developed in this project are: the constitution of a European network of the “Romantic Cities and Love Stories”; creation of tourist guides in order to widespread these stories, its cultural and monumental heritage and landscapes connected to them; an itinerant photographic exhibition; the edition of a exhibition DVD and the launch of a Internet Site Project date is due to be November 15, 2007 til November 30, 2008. Contact: 00351262580800 / 00351262580825 / eduardo.nogueira@cm-alcobaca.pt
Posted 12 January 2007
Kultur A.S.(Istanbul/Turkey)
Partners for the European Union CULTURE PROGRAMME (2007-2013) [EACEA No 09/2006 Support for Cultural Actions] This will be a cooperation project between several European countries, encouraging future working relations for the development of a much larger initiative on the heritage and culture domains. PARTNERS' RESPONSIBILITY Attending meetings with the other partners for communication and coordination purposes Finding and selecting potential authors in your country Finding publishers and translators in order for the chosen works to be sent to Young Authors Week(YAW!) in other countries Coordinating the YAW! which will be held in your country PLANNED PROJECT The purpose of this project is to introduce and promote amateur and young authors who have written novels, stories, poems, scholarly works or collected folktales but have not been able to find a publisher or are new to the market. A Young Author's Week (YAW!) will be organized in each partner country with the intention of making it an annual event. All of the books will contain elements which support our objective of enhancing common cultural heritage shared by Europeans. Priority will be placed on the selection of the works which have a European cultural/societal approach. If interested in becoming a partner please contact us. Ms. Tulay VURUCU (Project Manager)
Culture Inc.
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Fulya Mh. Mevlut Pehlivan Sk. No:23/B
Gayrettepe/ISTANBUL
t: +90 (216) 425 28 49 f: +90 (212) 213 35 50
m: +90 (539) 324 35 88
e: euromed@kultursanat.org
u: www.kultursanat.org
(Posted 28 December 2006)
Community Cultural Project
The municipality of Sarteano (Siena, Tuscany, Italy) is looking for partners for a project to be presented within the framework of a community Cultural Project for 2007. The aims of the project are : to provide travel grants for those involved in cultural projects , to support the circulation of artworks and artistic and cultural products, to promote intercultural dialogue. The project main purpose is to establish a jazz orchestra with musicians who come from various nations. The orchestra will work on an original production which will be performed in European festivals. For further information please contact:
Sergio Bologni
Comune di Sarteano
Corso Garibaldi, 7
I – 53047 Sarteano (Siena)
Fax +39 0578 269208
e-mail: s.bologni@comune.sarteano.siena.it Added 21st December 2006 Cultural Routes in Port Cities
The City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and the Development Society are looking for partners for the Project called "Cultural Routes in Port Cities" in the framework of CULTURE 2007. The cultural routes in port cities promote an Atlantic International cultural route, within the framework that state UNESCO and European Council about cultural heritage. It will be study all the old documents from the port cities participants. All these documents will show the cultural and economic past of the involved cities. This situation permitted to keep contact through the centuries and to have commercial and cultural exchanges. The main aim of the project is to establish an Atlantic cultural route between Europe, Africa and Latin America, gathering the tourist cultural offer from each city. Budget: 1.120.440,84€ We need your answer if you are interested in participate before the 26 th December 2006. María Esther García Rivero.Técnico Financiación Europea / European Funding Expert. Sociedad de Desarrollo de Santa Cruz de Tenerife. C/ Imeldo Serís, 83 - 38003 S/C de Tenerife. Tel. +34 922 533 353 - Fax +34 922 532 302 egarcia@sociedad-desarrollo.com finaciacion@sociedad-desarrollo.com http://www.sociedad-desarrollo.com
(14 December 2006)
Contemporary sculpture
As a reason of upcoming event, the Gallery Art Factory is seeking partners for International open-air festival SCULPTURE GRANDE 2007. Next edition of the SCULPTURE GRANDE 07 take place at the very centre of Prague /Czech Republic/ at Wenceslas square from July to September 2007. Concentrating on new media – light sculptures, edition 07 presents classical sculptures together with New Generations, both using contemporary language. The Turner Prize winner will be announced at Tate Britain in December 2006. Other artists taking part in Sculpture Grande 06 were from Spain , Mexico , Cuba , Germany , Slovakia and Czech Republic . Since the Gallery Art Factory is a project leader in CULTURE 2007 we are at this point seeking partner who will participate in the activities of the project. With this respect, a partner is not expected to have a specific and essential involvement in the design and implementation of the project, nor to contribute funds. info@galleryartfactory.cz www.sculpturegrande.com (added 20 October 2006)
Culturespace Ltd
Culturespace Ltd is a progressive company which specialises in organising events, campaigns and specific projects. We also have a research and policy development function. Here are some examples of our areas of interest. These are indicative - in fact we work with clients with imaginative techniques to respond to a very wide range of project demands. Regeneration and social policy research.The co-ordination of specific people-focused events, campaigns and projects such as increasing environmental awareness.Tackling problems that are affecting people such as anti-social behaviour or poor health using innovative methods involving the creative industries.Improving access to learning and employment through skills development and developing strategic employment partnerships.We involve reputable creative practitioners in our work if appropriate, drawing on our extensive network of professionals. This enables the project participants to experience some of the most powerful and enjoyable activities around. Please contact us if you are thinking of commissioning work in areas that we may be able to help you with.
Contact: info@culturescape.co.uk or enquire through our website www.culturescape.co.uk
Nyla Nasser, Culturespace Ltd
(added 03 October 2006)
Environmental Circus Ltd
We are looking for partners for an environmental circus project here in Cornwall and ideally in Brittany (France), Spain and Eastern Europe. Our partners could be circus/dance organisations, film makers for performance or town/city arts departments.
Brett Jackson, Artistic Director, Swamp Circus mrbrett@btopenworld.com
03 October 2006
Partners required to develop Insite within a European context Insite is a Cultural Tourism programme that commissions, promotes and supports a series of cultural initiatives celebrating sites around the county of Essex in a contemporary and innovative way (see www.insite-essex.co.uk). Our approach to Cultural tourism as a means of empowering people to celebrate their unique identity has attracted much attention. I am now looking at developing our plans for the future, and believe that our model will form a great basis for a European cultural programme. I am therefore looking for potential partners that may wish to work with us to develop Insite within a European context.
Rob West, Project Director, Essex Development and Regeneration Agency
Rob.West@ExDRA.co.uk
21 September 2006
Developing new models of teaching and learning in the arts within higher educationMy current role is managing a project named Artswork, a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in the Creative Industries. We’re working across a number of creative fields - interactive digital media, fashion & textiles, publishing, broadcasting, music technology and performing arts – to enhance the employability of graduates in the arts. Artswork is a creative interface between the worlds of higher education and the wider world. Whilst I have no immediate project proposals, we would be interested in working with European partners in developing new models of teaching and learning in the arts within higher education and are looking to share the research and outcomes from our work with others. I would be grateful to hear from any partners with a shared interest, any other universities looking to be involved in the new programme or any artists/creative partners with a desire to work on such a project.
Adam Powell, Artswork Manager, Bath Spa University
A.Powell@bathspa.ac.uk
1 Sept 06
To enhance Global Citizenship / racial awareness in primary schools by using the arts I would like the project to highlight poverty issues in Africa and would hope that input from the project would lead the schools into fund raising work for Unicef. This could be done as an enterprise topic. My remit is for primary schools only and I would like the project to focus on the plight of children, as I feel our kids would relate to that. I am a seconded teacher working as cultural coordinator with Renfrewshire council. I am presently trying to link with out local museum which has links to Africa and am hoping to involve Renfrewshire Arts, who have just amalgamated with the museum. Any input at all appreciated!
Linda Molvik, Cultural Coordinator, Abbey House, Paisley, Scotland
linda.molvik@renfrewshire.gov.uk
1 Sept 06
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