cS Newsletter No. 18 > November 2024

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culture Solutions Newsletter

No. 18 > November 2024

Dear cS friend,

We hope that you enjoy this final culture Solutions newsletter of 2024. Whether you are an EU official, an artist, a cultural sector actor or a culture enthusiast, in this newsletter you will find the latest EU cultural relations news and trends as well as updates on our new projects, events and publications.

The cS Explains section showcases cS work and cS Explores shares external content and opportunities. This newsletter also marks the launch of a new section, cS Enjoys, a sharing platform for creative works - be they visual, sound, literature, theatre or performance-based - that our members would like to share with our network. Brace up for a long read, perfect for the upcoming holidays.

Thank you for your attention and continued support, and we wish you a happy Christmas and New Year.

culture Solutions team

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cS Explains

Podcast

(Re)generating trust #3: AU-EU Youth Cooperation breaks barriers through art

Space for dialogue Cultural relations

In this podcast episode, we hear the powerful views of four artists from Kenya, Somalia and Italy, and one of the co-creative Directors of the ArtXChange project. We explore how the participants experienced co-creation, a process in which they blended their art techniques and cultural perspectives, a geographical and technical encounter. “This is what it feels like to be alive. I didn’t know, but now I know”, shared a participant, pointing to the life experiences behind strategies.

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Articles

What next for EU International Cultural Relations: Questions for the Commissioners-designate for Culture, International Partnerships and Foreign Affairs

Policy analysis Cultural relations

culture Solutions poses key questions to the three Commissioners-designate directly related to International Cultural Relations: Glenn Micallef, Jozef Síkela and Kaja Kallas, as well as to other EU services.

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Events

High-Level Forum 2024: Future Africa-Europe

Our chair Elise Cuny attended the Future Africa-Europe High-Level Forum 2024, where experts from different sectors (from finance and health to green and digital) discussed the future of the partnership between the neighbouring continents – built on equal footing, mutual learning, and shared opportunities.

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cS Internal Dialogue

culture Solutions hosted an enriching and insightful debate among members on how the current political trends are impacting culture and will do so in the future, and questioned whether they can compromise the potential of culture for promoting dialogue, understanding and democracy.

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Conference: Envisioning Decolonial Futures through Archaeology

Our board member, Linda Mbeki, participated in two roundtable discussions of the conference Envisioning Decolonial Futures Through Archaeology, organised by the University of Cambridge and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.

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AFIELD Forum: Systems Change by Artists

Our chair Elise Cuny attended the AFIELD forum "Systems change by artists". The AFIELD network gathers more than a hundred artists from all around the world who implement projects with social impact on their communities: dance classes, school programmes, professional trainings, refugees’ integration, singing, designing, thinking of livable cities... Their projects show the role of artists in society, its value, for citizens and public spaces.

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cS Explores

EU policy and politics

The last G20 ministerial meeting closes with robust Declaration: Culture as a pillar for a new international paradigm

Cultural relations News from G20 Brazil

How the commissioner-designate for culture responded to the European Parliament’s questions

Cultural relations News from Culture Action Europe

EU Ministers of Culture approve the 'Cáceres Declaration' at the Informal Meeting of Culture Ministers

Cultural relations News by La Moncloa

Declarations of the G7 Meeting on Culture

Cultural relations News by G7 Italia

Cultural relations and climate at COP16 in Cali

Green Cultural relations News from EUNIC

Publications

'I may not be human but I sing from my soul' - AI divides African musicians

Digital News from the BBC

CULTURAL OLYMPIAD EVALUATION

Cultural relations Report by Dr. Beatriz García for Paris 2024

European Networks and Cultural Governance: How Culture Makes Policy

Cultural relations Book by Carlotta Scioldo, commissioned by ENCATC

EUNIC Sustainability Toolkit: A Practical Guide for Cultural Relations Institutes

Green Sustainability Toolkit by EUNIC

Mobility Funding Guide to the Caribbean

Cultural relations Guide by On The Move

Research Report: Just Sustainability from the Heart of Communities. The Transformative Power of Socio-Cultural Centres

Green Report by the European Network of Cultural Centres

A Cultural Relations Approach to Development: Why and how the British Council approach to development works

Cultural relations Report by the British Council

Cultural and Creative Industries – 2023 Activity Report

Cultural relations Report by the Agence Française de Développement

Events

ARCHE 2nd Member States and Associated Countries Workshop

Cultural relations 03.12.2024 Event in Rome by The Italian Ministry of Culture

Culturescapes: strategies and funding for a thriving socio-culture in the non-urban

Cultural Relations 17.12.2024 Webinar by European Network of Cultural Centres

Cultural Deal for Europe: Annual Policy Conversation

Cultural Relations 04.02.2025 Online Hearing by Culture Action Europe

"Heritage at risk", an exhibition at the Geneva Museum of Art and History

Cultural Heritage Until 09.02.2025 Exhibition by the Geneva Museum of Art and History

Asia-Europe Training Seminar on Youth, Digitalisation and Intercultural Dialogue | 6-12 October, Budapest, Hungary

Cultural Relations Post-seminar roundup by the Asia-Europe Foundation

Opportunities

Supporting Ukrainian artists and cultural organisations to co-create/showcase

Cultural relations 06.02.25 Call for submissions by European Commission

Call for Papers for an Edited Book “Cultural Diversity, Cultural Networks, and Cultural Policies: The Legacy of Biserka Cvjetičanin’s Cultural Optimism”

Cultural relations 20.01.25 Call for papers by The CultureLink Centre

UNESCO Creative Cities Network Call for Applications

Cultural relations 31.01.25 Call for submissions by UNESCO

The CrossCulturalProgramme (CCP) Fellowships

Cultural relations 05.12.24 Call for submissions by ifa

Erasmus + Funding Opportunities

Cultural relations 22.04.2025 Call for proposals and tenders by the European Commission

Third call for individual mobility of artists and cultural professionals

Cultural relations 30.11.2024 Call for proposals by the European Commission

Multimedia

Cultural Resources Library

Cultural relations Archival Library by Culture Unleashed

ASEF LinkUp 2024 | Rethinking Cultural Diplomacy: Innovative Approaches and Collaborative Strategies

Cultural relations Webinar recording by European Heritage Hub

The views expressed in cS Explores do not represent the official position of culture Solutions.

cS Enjoys

Kharkiv: Capital of Alternative Photography

Documentary series on Arte.tv

Kenya: Liboi shares Yule single

Liboi, interviewed for our (Re)generating Trust podcast series, shares her new single "Yule"

Ntate

A short film by cS Board Member Linda Mbeki and Ali Aschman

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Photo credits (top-left to bottom-right): 1. Hermann Krouße , Landschaft im Winter. Deutsche Fotothek, Germany - Public Domain. 2. Hermann Krauße, Ortschaft im Winter. Deutsche Fotothek, Germany - Public Domain. 3. Hermann Krauße, Hirtsteinhaus im Winter. Deutsche Fotothek. Public Domain. 4. Hermann Krouße, Ortschaft im Winter. Deutsche Fotothek. Public Domain.

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