This year's edition of Culture Action Europe’s Beyond the Obvious gathering will take place with the title "Handle with Care | Culture for Social Well-being" featuring the Handle with Care Agora. International/European projects working with the topics of care, community and individual well-being, health, mental health and culture are welcome to apply for participation.
Handle with Care | Culture for Social Well-being will take place in Elefsina, Greece between 7 and 10 June. The event will gather practitioners, organisations and institutions, policy-makers, thinkers, researchers, activists and artivists from the cultural, social and health sectors working on topics related to care, well-being, health and culture with the aim to collectively explore the significance of care as an ethical and political obligation for our societies and the role culture and cultural professionals can play in this. The agora will bring together different perspectives from arts, heritage, human rights, health, research, politics, activism etc. sphere and mix initiatives from Greece with similar projects coming from all over Europe and beyond and to create an open space for networking and peer learning.
30 selected projects will present their initiatives during the gathering, will have free access to the conference and will be awarded a bursary of 300 euros to support their participation in the Handle with Care | Culture for Social Well-being gathering. The deadline for submitting applications is 30 April. Find more information here.
Handle with Care is co-organised by Culture Action Europe and Elefsina the European Capital of Culture and is co-financed by the European Union.
