touring artists is a member of the network Mobility Information Points (MIP)

Mobility Information Points (MIP) are information centres and/or websites in several European countries, and one in the USA, who aim to tackle administrative challenges that artists and cultural professionals can face when working across borders. Relevant issues can be around visas, social security, taxation, customs etc.

MIP are members of On the Move and usually key players at national and European levels who advocate – together with other networks and organisations – for better conditions for artists and cultural professionals working internationally.

Find the MIP presentation and the contacts here.

IETM: Porto reports

These thought-provoking and informative reports from the plenary meeting (programme) in Porto highlight the most pivotal points which were debated:
– Producing in the margins
– The forces of the market
– Artistic creation outside the urban areas
– Live time, alive in time

IETM has relaunched it’s call for a new Secretary General. The job description and the application conditions are here, the deadline is 1st of September.

CAE: BEYOND THE OBVIOUS CONFERENCE 2018

Culture Action Europe’s upcoming annual Beyond The Obvious conference is entitled ctrl+shift HUMAN: Arts, Sciences and Technologies in Code Dependent Societies and will take place in Timisoara, Romania from 25 to 27 October, 2018. This will also include Culture Action Europe Members’ Forum and Annual General Meeting. CAE will bring together various experiences and practices from the fields of arts and culture, sciences, technologies, activisms, theory and politics, to explore possible cross-disciplinary answers and diverse actions towards the challenging relations between Technology and Humans. How to keep our humanity in this and find new forms of sense making in a post productive and global society? What are the new models in those relations, and which role does culture, the arts and education play? Are our institutions ready for it, aware of their new role?  Which organizations and policies are needed to foster alternative, transsectorial and intercultural competences?

More at Beyond the Obvious

Research Project “Performing Arts within the Cultural Landscapes in Europe”

The documents and links, collected and assembled since last year, are describing the current status of the performing arts in European countries. They are formed like a bibliography and cover the following topics:

  • Artists searching for cooperation and work opportunities in other European counties,
  • Information centres and theatre institutes which research and compile information for artists.
  • Cultural-political networks using this material to develop arguments for the promotion of the performing arts,
  • Academic institutions searching for sources about the situation of the performing arts in Europe.

The documents and links have been split into five areas:

  • Information about national cultural politicians and the promotion of culture, presentation of the cultural landscape
  • The existing structures within the cultural landscape of the performing arts: institutions / festivals / projects / promotion
  • The social situation of artists (income, professional status, life circumstances)
  • Mobility (forms of and opportunities for mobility, promotion, barriers to mobility)
  • Social debate and aesthetic developments

Three research areas are available:

This research was initiated by the Flanders Arts Institute, Brussels, and ITI Germany (as member of the European Network of Information Centres for the Performing Arts / ENICPA).

Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, a large part was completed in workshops of the European Secretariat of German Culture NGOs, with associations of independent performing artist from various European countries, the Federal Association of the Performing Arts (Bundesverband Freie Darstellende Künste), as well as members of Project Passage 23E.

In the coming weeks, ENICPA members and relevant networks and institutions are invited to contribute further information.

Please contact the board of ENICPA to take part.

CAE reacts to the European Commission’s proposal for a post 2020 EU Budget

Culture Action Europe welcomes that the European Commission’s proposal from May 30 keeps Creative Europe as a self-standing programme, with a budgetary increase from 1.4 billion € (2014-2020) to 1.8 billion € (2021-2027). CAE welcomes continuity of the programme as a promising development strongly promoted by CAE and its members.
While awaiting further details that describe the financial allocations, CAE encourage European Institutions to ensure that at least 1% of each of these policy domains is allocated to culture.

Read: Creative Europe: Programme Analysis and Recommendations

Press release: Stand alone programme for Creative Europe secured

Join: 1% for Culture Campaign

On the Move General Assembly Lisbon

Polo Cultural Gaivotas Boavista welcomed on 22-24 May in Lisbon On the Move’s members for the network’s General Assembly and related meetings. Jana Grünewald (ITI) and Christine Heemsoth (IGBK) chaired the meeting of OTM’s Info Mobility Points working group. The series of events enclosed:
– A joint Board meeting session with On the Move and FACE members
– A workshop with On the Move’s members
– The General Assembly
– The opening of the Alkantara Festival
– A public session on 24 May (video available here thanks to Howlround) – Tips and Advice for Artists and Cultural Professionals to Internationalize Their Careers and Artistic Practices. A public discussion with On the Move’s members.