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2006 11 15 14:58

The 8th Annual Baltic Development Forum - Helsinki, 29-31.10. 2006

Baltic Development Forum is a leading independent network for decision makers, stakeholders and experts in the Baltic Sea Region. The leading theme of the Helsinki Summit is the Baltic Sea Region in the global playing field. The meeting will be also dedicated to Energy Safety, Branding, the New Northern Dimension and Russia's role in the Baltic Sea Region.

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2006 11 15 15:03

NIFCA's FINAL OPEN STUDIOS

ART WORKERS in RESIDENCE – 25 October 2006 in Helsinki: NIFCA’s Palmstierna Studio House – Studio Johan Tobias Suomenlinna B 45 00190 Helsinki Finland

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2006 11 15 14:22

Rethinking Nordic Colonialism: Opening of Act 4

16.06.-09.07.2006 in Rovaniemi, Finland/Sapmi Following the trends within Sámi culture and politics, the exhibition Colonialism Within: Indigenous Rights and Multicultural Realities and a parallel conference will rethink the colonial history and its present-day consequences in the Nordic region from an indigenous perspective. The venue of the exhibition is a deserted locomotive engine shed in the woodlands of Rovaniemi – the gateway to the Sámi homeland area Sápmi. ... read more>>

2006 11 15 15:23

Conference: 'Cultural Portals: A New Era of Cooperation'

20 - 22 October 2006, Dubrovnik, Croatia Based on the results of a survey sent out to some 500 cultural portals around the world, the participants will consider how cultural portals respond to their users' and stakeholders' needs, and will explore new possibilities of cooperation. ... read more>>

2006 11 15 15:26

TRAINING OF TRAINERS' SEMINAR:MOBILITY AND CULTURAL CO-OPERATION IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL SPACES

Bucharest, Romania, 27th October. The training aims to develop new thoughts and insights into issues of intercultural competence and cultural co-operation in the age of digital spaces. ... read more>>

2006 11 15 14:39

The Newsletter from the Baltic Sea INTERREG III B:

Highlights of the newsletter: - Experiences and observations – 9th call project consultations - Preparatory work on the Baltic Sea Programme 2007-2013 - Financial control – how does it work? - Finalised projects: New Hansa ... read more>>

2006 11 15 15:31

Nifca's Symposium on Critical Documents.

“Slowly learning to survive the desire to simplify” 15-17 September at Iaspis, Stockholm. In the context of today’s political and cultural climate, it is worth analysing again how stories are constructed and what effects they have. The symposium’s participants from various fields such as art, film, media criticism and politicaltheory will discuss the structure of narratives and the construction of history. They will especially scrutinise the media’s increasingly monopolized representation of reality, and as a consequence, the art world’s current interest in the political. ... read more>>

2006 11 15 15:37

European Tour for Global Responsibility

With the opening event in Riga on August 23rd, began a colourful campaign Eurizons conducted by 50 young hitchhikers traversing nine European countries. On the way panel discussions, concerts, street theater and film presentations will accompany the campaign, e.g. the Open-Air Festival “Free&Easy” in Munich on September 5th.

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2006 11 15 15:41

Baltic Sea Festival

17- 27. 08. 2006, Helsinki, Turku, Tallinn and Stockholm
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2006 11 15 15:29

Central And Eastern European Performing Arts Market (CEEPAM)

London, UK, 21-22 November 2006. The first Central and Eastern European Performing Arts Market (CEEPAM) is to be held as part of FEEAST, the Festival of Central and Eastern European Art, with the aim to encourage networking among culture professionals involved in producing and presenting international performing arts. ... read more>>

2006 11 15 14:31

Best Global Website Award for

‘Nordisk Sprog’ (’Nordic Language’) has been developed by the Nordic Council of Ministers and Radio Denmark. On the website, rap music is used as a starting point for various activities which are to help young people to explore the Nordic languages in a context that they find stimulating. ... read more>>

2006 11 15 15:44

Blue Sea Film Festival

The 13th Blue Sea Film Festival will be held in Rauma on 13-20. 08. 2006. During the festival, there will also be held the 12th Baltic Herring – a short film competition for the residents of the Baltic Sea area. ... read more>>

2006 11 15 15:47

Festival Sounds of the North, (03-05.08.2006, Gdańsk, Poland)

Festival Sounds of the North is an annual international event that presents traditional folk music culture of nations inhabiting the Northern Hemisphere. The festival takes place every summer during the Dominican Fair.This year the Festival is focused on Scandinavian folk music. I ... read more>>

2006 11 15 15:51

Finnish Art Festivals - Everything, to Everybody, Everywhere

The Finnish summer is like no other, the best summer there is, think the Finns. It produces the best potatoes and vegetables not to mention strawberries, bilberries and other berries. We think that our nightless and comfortably warm summer squeezes out the best taste, the best everything. ... read more>>

2006 11 15 16:18

Baltic Sail 2006

For all those interested in sailing vessels and their tradition. July-August - various venues around the Baltic ... read more>>

2006 11 15 16:22

BaltiCCycle 2006: AROUND THE BALTIC SEA

30 06 - 08. 09. 2006- the international bicycle ride to promote EuroVelo No10 ... read more>>

2006 11 15 16:25

A Soul for Europe

Berlin, Germany, 17-19 November 2006; conference on European heritage and future. ... read more>>

2005 11 30 00:00

Conference ''Prosperity and Sustainability - local co-operation in the Baltic Sea Region''

16-18 August 2006, Visby, Sweden ... read more>>

2006 11 15 16:36

CBSS Drawing Competition for Children

The Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat is announcing a drawing competition for children “People around the Baltic Sea”. The best drawings will be used for producing greeting cards for the CBSS Secretariat. ... read more>>

2006 11 15 16:40

The Baltic Sea NGO Forum

The Baltic Sea NGO Network warmly welcomes NGO-representatives in the region to participate in the 6th Baltic Sea NGO Forum, in Stockholm, Sweden, on 5-7 October 2006. ... read more>>

2006 11 15 16:51

32nd ARS BALTICA Organising Committee Meeting, 18 - 19 May, Helsinki

Already for the 32nd time in its history the ARS BALTICA Organising Committee gathered for its general meeting. This time it took place on 18 - 19 May 2006 in Helsinki. ... read more>>

2006 11 15 16:42

International Forum on Musical Performance and Pedagogy

Veliky Novgorod, Russia (28 June 28 – 3 July 2006) The event is dedicated to the 145th anniversary of the composer Anton Arensky. It comprises two main events: a contest for young musicians and a scientific conference “Music Education: History, Present Day, and Future”. ... read more>>

2006 11 15 16:55

Festival Dissapearing Europe 08-09.06.2006

Book promotion, symposium, photo exhibition ... read more>>

2006 11 15 17:08

Connection Barents

   19.06-03.07. 2006, in the Barents region. An interdisciplinary project
   in in the bordarland of Norway, Finland, Sweden and North-West
   Russia. Among 25 participants there are performing artists, visual
   artists, musicians and authors. ... read more>>

2006 02 09 14:13

Cultural Management in Changing Environment

23-24 November 2006, Tartu, Estonia ... read more>>

2006 02 09 14:17

33rd ARS BALTICA Organising Committee Meeting

Gdańsk, 27-28 November 2006 ... read more>>

2006 02 09 14:19

Creative Clusters, Newcastle, 5-8 November 2006

This independent policy forum fostering debate about
creativity and the creative economy, about culture and
commerce, holds its 2006 Conference in
NewcastleGateshead, UK under the theme of
Mainstreaming Creativity.

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2006 02 09 14:26

Best Global Website Award for

On 25 October the award was presented by the Localisation Research Centre in Dublin which recognises those who achieve excellence in locally relevant cross cultural online communication. ... read more>>

2006 02 09 14:49

Moving Baltic Sea

Environmental and Cultural Youth Exchange Project. Call for partners. (The Eu Youth Programme Action 5)

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2006 02 09 14:59

The Black/North SEAS: SEAS DATES

The Black/North SEAS platform is getting closer to the artistic exploration phase: SEAS DATES in port cities on either sea. About 30 Black Sea and North Sea artists will be paired and sent on such DATES, which will be launched in Constanta, Romania, at the SEAS gathering and cultural policy conference on 13-17 September 2006.

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2006 02 09 15:14

International Production Management for Performing Arts Course

The course for cultural organisers, special event managers and producers, will be held at AMSU (The Amsterdam -Maastricht Summer University) in Amsterdam on 28-31 August 2006.

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2006 02 09 15:16

RESEO Conference: Valuing Opera Education; 8th - 10th June, Tallinn

the Estonian National Opera (Tallinn).
The conference for opera education professionals and their fund-raising colleagues organised by RESEO (European Network of Education Departments in Opera Houses) will explore two questions: Why is opera education valuable and how can this value be measured? The conference will also look at the growing pressure many opera companies are under to engage more creatively with their communities.

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2006 02 09 15:20

Nordic Spring

The Nordic cultural presentsation in Latvia has been organised for the second time thanks to the sponsorship of the Nordic Council Of Ministers Office in Latvia, the Royal

Danish Embassy, the Danish Cultural Institute, the Embassy of Finland, the Royal Norwegian Embassy and the Embassy of Sweden.

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2006 02 09 15:25

BALTIC SEA INTERREG III B PROJECT CONFERENCE - Setting Regions in Motion, Malmö, Sweden, 16 - 17 May

A two-day conference organised by the Baltic Sea INTERREG III B Neighbourhood programme and Region Skane aims to present 120 projects from the Baltic Sea Region that have been held within the programme. A two-day conference will try to give an input into the future of the INTERREG III B. The main goal of working sessions, discussions and workshops is to review already existing projects in order to find the weakest and strongest points of the programme in order to be able to draw conclusions for the next phase of the programme 2007 – 2013.

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2006 02 09 15:35

Funding Opportunities in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

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2006 02 12 09:45

Europos Parkas - Artists in Residence, Lithuania

The international artists residence is situated in beautiful
landscape just 19 km north of the town centre of Lithuania's
capital, Vilnius. The Centre of the European continent - a
symbolic cross-roads of diverse cultures throughout the
ages - is nowadays a meeting point of artists. ... read more>>

2006 02 12 10:09

Henrik Ibsen Year 2006

Throughout the year 2006 a wide range of events will be arranged both in Norway and abroad, which will highlight the importance of Ibsen’s legacy and provide opportunities for new interpretations of his writings.

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2006 02 12 12:53

The new www-guide in the field of the Danish music - feel invited!

http://www.danishmusic.info/ is a new project launched by the Music Centre of the Danish Arts Agency. It aims to give a vivid and wide view of the Danish musical landscape. ... read more>>

2006 02 12 13:04

Council of the Baltic Sea States - Icelandic Presidency 2005-2006

Iceland will hold the Presidency of the Council of the Baltic Sea States from 1 July 2005 to 30 June 2006. Iceland became CBSS member in 1995 and is taking over the Presidency for the first time. Although Iceland is not adjacent to the Baltic Sea, it belongs to Northern Europe and its contribution since the early 1990s to democratic development, trade and investment in the Baltic Sea area is really significant.

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2006 02 12 13:06

Nordic Cultural Institutions to Close

The Nordic Music Committee (NOMUS), the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA), the Nordic Literature and Library Committee (NORDBOK) and the Nordic Centre for the Performing Arts (NordScen) will stop operating as official Nordic institutions in 2007 due to the structural changes concerning cultural co-operation in the Region agreed by the Ministers of Culture.

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2006 02 12 13:09

Artists' Appeal for a Europe founded on its culture: ''Appeal of a Thousand''

In June 2004, a hundred European artists and cultural operators launched an "Appeal for a Europe Founded on culture", which was sent to Mr. Romano Prodi, then President of the European Commission, as well as to the 25 Heads of State and Government of the European Union. On the occasion of the "Meeting for a Cultural Europe” in May 2005 and the-like conferences that will follow it was decided to re-launch the appeal and aim to collect a thousand signatures of artists and cultural operators from across Europe to support the appeal.

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2006 02 12 13:12

IN SEARCH FOR PARTNERS - THE EUROPOS PARKAS FESTIVAL 2006 - 2009 , LITHUANIA

Lithuania opens for cultural and geographical diversity. ... read more>>