Mobility and Movement -23 June – July 3, 2011 - Byala, Bulgaria

Various aspects of the globalized world affect cultural practices today. Phenomena of movement and mobility are objects to aesthetic perception, the arts, artistic and cultural dialogue and the management of local communities and creative processes. This final international event of ANIMATED will unfold on key themes that became central to the analysis and workshops conducted in the project. Two parallel platforms will enrich each other in addressing them.
Venue
Culture Community Centre, Byala, public spaces Byala, Byala galleries and museum.

Hosted by Intercultura Consult, partner of ANIMATED and with the kind support of Byala Municipality, Varna region, Black Sea Coast, Bulgaria.

23 June – July 3, 2011 - the international artistic platform will start with have a launch and end with a final presentation including daily interim interventions in public space. Ten artists curated by uqbar and invited colleagues from Hungary, Germany, Ukraine, Denmark, Spain and Bulgaria will work in the mode of a summer camp that lasts ten days. They will use artistic processes and the multicultural location of Byala to deal with topics such as tourism, space, cultural diversity and landscape, and transient states. On the photo –Transient Spaces summer camp 2009. http://www.transientspaces.org/.

July 1, 2010 - International arts and culture manager seminar will gather participants from Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Germany, Ukraine, Denmark, Spain and Bulgaria. They will work informally through the days, running workshops and a one day public presentation focusing on aspects of movement and intercultural dialogue. It will address emerging overlaps of the arts management, community management and cultural management. Useful tools for cultural administrators will be presented that focus on arts marketing, arts programming and audience development. The program foresees input from guest speakers and specialist from the European Community and neighboring regions on the Black Sea Coast. The program of includes also two presentations of products created by ANIMATED.
For further information please email contacts@inter-cultura.eu.

Analysis 4 in Berlin - Ways of unbounded communication

Organized by Uqbar from 4 to 7 May 2011


The aim of Analysis 4 in Berlin from 4 to 7 May 2011 was to learn about the physical, cultural and informational accessibility of the museums in Berlin. The group visited the Neues Museum and the Pergamonmuseum, while at the Jüdisches Museum there was a meeting with a representative of the museum education department there who presented their accessibility programmes and future plans.




Socially disadvantaged groups mean a major aspect of cultural accessibility. Deriving primarily from the phenomena of migration and emigration, discussions and presentations at Uqbar raised the problematic issues emerging from social disadvantages and provided some possible answers for these situations.

Programmes fostering accessibility or reflecting on cultural and social diversity are of vital importance in the field of cultural access and Lifelong Learning. These are the two main topics that the two Budapest events organised by the VIVO Foundation in collaboration with the Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art as well as Analysis 4 in Berlin were focused on. Discussing these matters proved to be a very useful experience, which should be beneficial in shaping future accessibility programmes and strategies.

Report_ Analysis 3 - Audience Developement and Culture programming

The partners in the project ANIMATED GRU 2009-1-IT2-GRU06-06530 4 Intercultura Consult and our host – Sofia City Art Gallery thank all thirty-seven participants for sparing some sunny hours on a Friday morning and dedicating time to discuss openly some of the central issues regarding culture and the city today!



Our guest lecturers on April 1, 2011 were Ms. Dorothea Kolland and Ms. Patricia Piringer.
They gave wonderful presentations and eagerly explored the arts scene in Sofia outside the programme.

It was a pleasure to have a chance to share openly some concerns about “the gap that is opening between creators and participants” in the cultural process, to discuss the interrelation between “real and virtual audiences” and analyse the “assessment of project sustainability and public appreciation”; to consider the “effective stages at which public involvement should start” when one plans an artistic project or a cultural event!(PDF presentations were circulated to the participants and are available upon request!).

The lively discussion with the participants (and among them) testifies to the fact that the topics of “Audience Development” and “Culture Programming” are important to the European professional context at both municipalities and cultural organizations level and moreover to Sofia as a candidate city for European Capital of Culture! The format of this meeting was geared towards close analysis and a discussion.

That is why we appreciated the involvement of a diverse Bulgarian network of arts professionals and cultural managers. To further our professional cooperation The ANIMATED partners are working on combining conclusions from this analysis and the other 2 sessions in 2011 in out final report of the project.












We were pleased that stakeholders from the various aspects in which culture is important took part in the event– the vice mayor responsible for Culture, representatives of the Sofia City municipal committee on Culture , of the Sofia Culture programme, of the Ministry of Culture department for Communication, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, managers and arts professionals from Museums and art galleries, independent artists and artist initiatives, journalists.
The ANIMATED partners look forward to welcoming you again in Bulgaria on June 23 in Byala, Black Sea Coast Bulgaria!