Europe Now | Europe Next: Odessa encounter, Friday 27 April
(2007 02 14 01:18)
Latest news: the Odessa encounter - 27.04.2007
Welcome to Europe Now | Europe Next! The new website of the culturebase.net project is an interactive space committed to the Europe of today and the Europe of tomorrow. In an exciting new venture and the first of its kind, Europe Now | Europe Next will bring artists together from across an expanding EU in a series of Encounters.
Selected artists from across the EU will be meeting and working with local artists and inhabitants in host cities Constanta, Budapest, Odessa, Warsaw and Gdansk, producing online, video, text and audio encounters to which everyone is invited to respond. This will provide an opportunity to explore the characteristics and personal and collective histories of these new European cities and a means to discover ways of working together across cultures in a new Europe.
Europe Now | Europe Next will provide an unprecedented cross-fertilisation of ideas surrounding European enlargement. The project will highlight the values and issues facing the current EU (the Europe of now), those states which are looking to join the EU (the next Europe), and the new, neighbouring countries.
Europe Now | Europe Next will further highlight the importance of artists within the wider community by giving them the opportunity to share what they have learnt from projects in areas such as communication and identity within a range of different cultures.
Europe Now | Europe Next is a partnership project funded by EU Culture 2000. The partners are Baltic Sea Cultural Centre (Poland), Visiting Arts (UK), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Germany), Danish Centre for Culture and Development (Copenhagen) and Intercult (Sweden).
Associate partners of the project are Collegium Budapest, The Power of Culture (Amsterdam), Architecture + Dialog (Gdansk), and The Academy of Fine Arts (Gdansk).
Europe Now | Europe Next is an extension of the on-line database of international artists culturebase.net
Europe Now | Europe Next is now online at www.europe.culturebase.net
You are invited to post your artistic works and join the debate
There are 3 encounters running:
#1
Cultural versus National Borders
01 January – 31 July 07 (currently running)
Hosted by: House of World Cultures
See the program and list of participating artists in Life Encounter in Budapest (19-20. February)
#2
The Black Sea
25 January – 26 June 07 (currently running)
Hosted by: Intercult
#3
Intercultural Dialogue
11 February – 12 March 09 (currently running)
Hosted by: Visiting Arts
The pictures used in the article: 1 - Gergely László and Katarina Šević from the seria Home Museum; 2. Péter Levente Szabó from the seria Solarom. Both are the artistic contributions of the Cultural versus National Borders encounter.
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