
The "Festival of Music Inspired by Folklore" takes place for the 30th time this year.

The opening of the 13th Rauma Biennale Balticum takes place on 11 June at 6 pm.

This German-Polish exhibition project (start: 11 June) is supported by ARS BALTICA.

ARS BALTICA is going to participate actively in this forum (St. Petersburg, 20/21 May).

More than 60 world famous musicians participate in this ARS BALTICA event.

The ticket sale for this year’s ARS BALTICA event JazzBaltica starts on 3 May 2010.

For the eighth time, the ARS BALTICA project presents a Literary Conference for New European Literature and a Reading Gala

ARS BALTICA is on the agenda with a presentation for an audience of about 150 decision makers, civil servants and creative industry practitioners from the whole BSR.

ARS BALTICA will be represented at the first meeting of the newly established CBSS "Senior Officials Group for Culture".

As of 1 st January 2010, after six years of operating at the Balic Sea Cultural Centre in Gdañsk, the rotating Secretariat of ARS BALTICA network will be transferred to Landeskulturzentrum Salzau.

Main topic: EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region in the field of cultural policies

ARS BALTICA received recognition in the Declaration concluding the meeting.


ARS BALTICA received a very positive statement in Riga declaration at the 8th Conference of the Ministers for Culture of the Baltic Sea States "Future of Culture in the Baltic Sea Region".


The programme is dedicated to fine artists living in Germany.

Concerts within the frame of "Christopher’s Picnics" are one of the festival highlights.

Jamaica and Spain, Belarus and Tibet – artists from all over the world will come to Gdynia.

The festival presents Verdi, Puccini, Mozart and offers "opera for children".

'Let's talk!' aims on sharing experience and finding partners for EU wide cooperation.

Come and see international approaches to 'new thoughts in painting' (until 15 Aug)!

Registrate for the event in Warsaw before 30 June in order to get the best prices!

Stimulation of collaborate Nordic-Baltic research within the field of contemporary art.

The exhibition "Blickwechsel" is open from 13 June until 15 August 2010.

Enjoy the unique atmosphere of playing and dancing in the streets of

Apply now for a training programme with individual coaching and regular dialogues!

The festival presents the best musicians and conductors from

The German-Polish co-operation project "Wystawa" is shown until 20 June 2010.

Welcome to one of the most famous musical events in Lithuania!

Join the event and learn about the latest Polish film productions!

The Bergen International Festival is the largest of its kind in the Nordic countries.

Enjoy this traditional jazzfestival with a total number of about 80 concerts!

Five courses on the relation between culture and economics (Netherl., 28 June – 11 Aug.).

Come to Vaasa/ Finland and enjoy a huge music event with 2000 performers!

Apply now for an interesting summer time in

The International Contemporary Dance Festival takes place from 4 to 9 May 2010.

The deadline for application for the course (31 July – 8 August 2010) is 10 May.

"Blick/Kontakt" (17 April until 30 May 2010) shows the craftworks of 21 artists.

Between 11 April and 25 May, the exhibition presents artistic craftwork from the Nordic.

The deadline for sending in the application is 14 May 2010.

Cultural operators may participate in this workshop in Paris/ France (17-19 June 2010).

Printing artists are asked to send in their candidate prints until 15 May 2010.

Until 23 April 2010, the Literature House in Rostock shows impressions from Lapland.

The event is part of a larger programme and takes place in Poznán/ Poland (22-25 April).

Register now for this international conference!

Artists are invited to send in applications for the programme until 15 April 2010.

Writers may apply for a three months residential scholarship in the ‘Villa Decius’.

Deadline for application is April 15th. The scholarship funds Ibsen related projects.

This new forum focuses on “Musical Diversity – Looking Back, Looking Forward”.

With a series of nine classical concerts, Klaipeda welcomes the spring.

This year, the festival (18-21 March 2010) focuses on the subject of glamour.

The "Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts" accepts applications until 2010-04-05 .

The current application period for FILI's grants for translators ends on 2010-04-01.

The call for papers for this international conference is open until 31 March 2010.

Applications have to be sent to the University of Antwerp until 2010-04-01!

The deadline for application is the 10th of March 2010.

The European Cultural Foundation supports cultural collaboration across Europe.

Exhibitions, concerts, films and more about the Sami culture in northern

Until 21st of March, “Winterjazz” presents a foretaste of the concerts taking place in April.

The exhibition starts on 12 February 2010 and presents about 130 works and projects.

The festival presents music performances, theatre, light and sound installations.

The showcase festival presents the best and most outstanding Estonian talents.

The ticket sale for the annual literature event on the Åland Isles starts on 11 February.

The registration for the conference "The Sea of Creativity. Perspectives of Creative Industries in the Baltic Sea Region" is open until 5 February 2010. The conference takes place in Vilnius/ Lithuania.

Cultural professionals from the Nordic and the Baltic countries can now apply for an accomodation grant.

Registrate now for a 5 weeks workshop in Vordingborg/ Denmark!

Tromsø will resound with Fryderyk Chopin’s music celebrating the composer’s bicentenary of birth.

The Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) presents two exhibitions by Lithuanian artists to complete its 2009 exhibition cycle.

The Christmas market on the square has become something of a winter festival – more than just buying and selling, it features a rich cultural programme, too.

The artworks in Building Memory explore different aspects of 60 years of Europe's most problematic and contested history from a focus on architecture, monuments, and community and geo-political perspectives.

The exhibition is a part of the official culture programme for the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP15 in Copenhagen :: 7-18 December 2009.

The opening of the exhibition takes place on Friday, 27 November at 7 p.m.

ICCPR2010 aims to explore cultural policies, their meanings, roles and impact in an interdisciplinary and international environment.

This is an international conference on the inter-relations between local, regional, national and European culture policy making.



All the relevant documents for the application process are available now.

The results of the four working groups will feed into the next working plan (2011).

Save the dates 8-9 September and 17-19 October 2010!


Find your way to funding opportunities on an EU level!

The conference is aimed at senior policy-makers, practitioners and researchers.

New: support to the specifics and needs of European cultural festivals!

Register for the seminar before 15 June!

The agreement for strengthening cultural co-operation in Northern Europe was signed in St. Petersburg/ Russia on 20 May.

Feel free to fill in a questionnaire about the meaning of culture for the EU!

Apply now for the award for the best of cultural heritage achievements.

Take the chance to learn about funding possibilities and find new project partners!

The international event is organised under the umbrella of the Spanish EU Presidency.

The EU Committee of the Regions invites to "integration through territorial co-operation”.

The label shall highlight sites the symbolize European integration, ideals and history.

This meeting place is organised by the Ministry of Culture of

The "European Capitals of Culture" were launched in 1985. On 23 - 24 March 2010 the European Commission organises a celebratory event and a strategic conference in

In January, the Spanish Minister of Culture presented the main lines of cultural policy during the Spanish EU Presidency.

The installation created specially for the atrium of the Justus Lipsius building of the European Union Council uses a LED screen.

The Spanish prime minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero had a speech in the Spanish Congress.

The 2010 program, events and the international contact plan was shared with the foreign press in Istanbul.

The opening ceremony will take place in Széchenyi Square and will emphasize cooperation with the other two capitals of culture, Essen in the Ruhr Region and Istanbul.

The Chances and Challenges of the European Union’s Eastern Partnership

The winners of the EBBAs will receive their awards in Groningen on 14 January 2010.

The concluding conference ‘Create. Innovate. Grow.’ will serve as a meeting place, in which policy-creation themes will be discussed from a European perspective.

In 2010 the Prize will be awarded both as a European and German television prize as well as a European radio prize to German-language programmes in the European Union and Switzerland.

This pan-European training programme has arisen from the will to foster cultural diversity as well as transregional and transnational cultural exchanges.

European Neighbours' Day is an initiative of the European Federation of Local Solidarity (E.F.L.S.)

Objects, artifacts, costumes, photos, films and blueprints that played a role in the Linz09 program will bring back memories of some of this year's highlights in the House of Stories.

Hungarian artist Daniel Halasz was awarded the First Prize for his portfolio "Imaginary Diary" which uses the genre of the postcard.

The European Commission has presented a report on the aims and objectives of arts education, its organisation, the provision of extra-curricular activities, as well as initiatives for the development of such education at school.

The European House for Culture is a cultural organisation initiated by the European Festivals Association (EFA).

40 projects had been selected from among 95 applications to receive funding (a total of €5m) within the EU's Media International programme.

The candidates must present a programme with a lasting impact that contributes to the long-term cultural, economic and social development of the city concerned.

The new site will have "a simpler, more uniform layout, with content presented in a more logical way," and represents the first step on the road towards a "more consistent corporate identity throughout" the Europa website family.

The European Commission is asking all professional and amateur photographers to submit their photographs to the competition.

An international nature conservation project with the aim to protect various landscapes along the former Iron Curtain and to preserve their natural and cultural assets.

The manifesto for the European Year of Creativity and Innovation will be published later this year by the 27 ambassadors and will focus strongly on education policy, culture design and research.

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt attended the meeting of the European Council to discuss priorities of the Swedish Presidency in the European Union.

The network supports the circulation and performance of existing high quality ensemble repertoire and initiates exchange of music, knowledge and new ideas.

Brussels will host two big events this autumn: on 28 September the Culture Programme Conference; and on 29-30 September the European Culture Forum.



