Sunday, August 24, 2008
Friday, August 22, 2008
Opportunities. Artist Residency Programme
Want to spend 3 months in 2009 as artist in residence in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland or Slovakia? Artists from these countries have the oppportunity to do just that.
This 'Visegrad Artist Residency Programme' has been running since 2006 for the purpose of facilitating artistic exchanges for citizens of the Visegrad countries. To apply, artists have to find a host organization, which will accept their residency project. Selected artists will receive a residency fee of EUR 750 per month and the host organization will receive EUR 750 per month to cover expenses related to the residency.Deadline for the 2009 residencies is September 10, 2008.
Further Information:
- Visegrad Fund - Residency Programme
- Partner Search
- Two Artists in Residency that have been supported by the programme: Tibor Szemző and Joanna Rajkowska
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Reading. European Capital of Culture
Want to know more about the European Capital of Culture ? An impressive collection of resources, reports, date on the Programme as well as its social, cultural, economic and environmental effects can be found online:
- European Commission Resources: http://ec.europa.eu/culture/our-programmes-and-actions/doc413_en.htm
- Detailed Wikipedia Entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Capital_of_Culture
- Impact08 Reports and Papers: http://www.liv.ac.uk/impacts08/Dissemination/index.htm
- Impact08 Bookmark Collection on del.icio.us: http://delicious.com/impacts08
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Funding. Cultural Cooperation between ACP and EU Countries
The European Commission funds cultural cooperation projects between cultural operators of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States and with operators withing the European Union.
Grant Aims: Projects should reinforce the technical, financial and managerial knowledge and capacities in the cultural sector in the ACP States. Generally, the promotion of an enabling environment for creativity, cooperation and exchanges, independence aims to contribute to poverty reduction and sustainable development. The total budget is 2,3 million Euro.
Grant Type: Co-financing for cultural actions with a multiregional scope:
Further Information:
Grant Aims: Projects should reinforce the technical, financial and managerial knowledge and capacities in the cultural sector in the ACP States. Generally, the promotion of an enabling environment for creativity, cooperation and exchanges, independence aims to contribute to poverty reduction and sustainable development. The total budget is 2,3 million Euro.
Grant Type: Co-financing for cultural actions with a multiregional scope:
- Multi-annual cooperation projects (Lot 1): projects in partnership with a multiregional outlook, comprising a number of multi-annual cultural activities aiming to a better structured and professionalized ACP cultural sector.
- Cooperation measures (Lot 2): pilot innovative partnership actions in the field of cultural industries, projects may be sectoral or cross-sectoral in nature.
Further Information:
- www.acpcultures.eu; Reference: EuropeAid/127205/D/ACT/ACP/Multi
- an information session will be held at the ACP Secretariat in September the 22nd at 15h00.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Opportunities. Your Content on Europeana
The European Commission is currently testing Europeana, an online repository for European digital cultural content. Scheduled to be launched in November 2008 - they are looking for cultural content providers until the end of September.
The aim is to create the prototype of a European digital forum containing direct access to 2 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers. The EC has earmarked over $180 of funds for the ambitious project for 2009-2010 and is looking for further public and private investment.
At this stage, digital content will be selected from already digitised sources in Europe’s museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. The prototype aims to have representative content from all four of these cultural heritage domains, and also to have a broad range of content from across Europe. At this stage, the project is looking for more content providers - particularly for film and sound content.
Should you be interested in participating, you will need to complete a Technical Requirements Questionnaire which can be found here.
Further Information:
The aim is to create the prototype of a European digital forum containing direct access to 2 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers. The EC has earmarked over $180 of funds for the ambitious project for 2009-2010 and is looking for further public and private investment.
At this stage, digital content will be selected from already digitised sources in Europe’s museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. The prototype aims to have representative content from all four of these cultural heritage domains, and also to have a broad range of content from across Europe. At this stage, the project is looking for more content providers - particularly for film and sound content.
Should you be interested in participating, you will need to complete a Technical Requirements Questionnaire which can be found here.
Further Information:
Monday, August 18, 2008
Funding. International Theatre Partnerships
The Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany supports international theatre partnerships and exchanges with 'Wanderlust'.
Grant Type: Project Funding, 2-3 years starting from 2009/2010 season
Grant Conditions: The participating theatres are free shape these partnerships according to their interests and capacities. Possible ideas are the exchange artistic personnel, hosting of guest productions and co-production to be performed at both locations. A German theatre needs to be involved. Applicants must co-finance their partnership with at least 25 % Further Details
Grant Size: up to 150 000 EUR per partnership over 2-3 years
Agency: Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany
Deadline: 15 October 2008; applications can be submitted online
Further Information: Wanderlust
Grant Type: Project Funding, 2-3 years starting from 2009/2010 season
Grant Conditions: The participating theatres are free shape these partnerships according to their interests and capacities. Possible ideas are the exchange artistic personnel, hosting of guest productions and co-production to be performed at both locations. A German theatre needs to be involved. Applicants must co-finance their partnership with at least 25 % Further Details
Grant Size: up to 150 000 EUR per partnership over 2-3 years
Agency: Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany
Deadline: 15 October 2008; applications can be submitted online
Further Information: Wanderlust
Sunday, August 17, 2008
News. Extending Music Copyright from 50 to 95 years
Today, success comes earlier and death later; so who said there are only bad news for musicians?
The European Commission has picked up on this change in the industry and demography by proposing to extend copyright protection for music from 50 to 95 years. The key aim is to bridge the income gap that some performers face in older age. This way, Mika will continue netting on his first-ever hit Grace Kelly beyond his 74th birthday and Annie Lennox benefit from the royalties of 'Sweet Dreams' in her 80's.
This year, beloved oldies such as 'Great Balls of Fire' and 'Good Golly Muss Molly' - would enter the public domain - if Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard were Europeans. However, American artists have long benefited from better protection - another reason for Europe trying to catch up. So, will this help maintaining European talent? The United States are still one step ahead: copyright today exceeds the life of the longest surviving author by 70 years - definitely the better deal for your loved ones.
Possibly, this discussion is purely academic because - lets face it - do you really believe that our great grandchildren will swing to Katy Perry's 2008 summer hit 'I kissed a girl' when we can barely remember such gems as Paris Hilton's 2007 debut 'Stars Are Blind'?
Further Reading:
The European Commission has picked up on this change in the industry and demography by proposing to extend copyright protection for music from 50 to 95 years. The key aim is to bridge the income gap that some performers face in older age. This way, Mika will continue netting on his first-ever hit Grace Kelly beyond his 74th birthday and Annie Lennox benefit from the royalties of 'Sweet Dreams' in her 80's.
This year, beloved oldies such as 'Great Balls of Fire' and 'Good Golly Muss Molly' - would enter the public domain - if Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard were Europeans. However, American artists have long benefited from better protection - another reason for Europe trying to catch up. So, will this help maintaining European talent? The United States are still one step ahead: copyright today exceeds the life of the longest surviving author by 70 years - definitely the better deal for your loved ones.
Possibly, this discussion is purely academic because - lets face it - do you really believe that our great grandchildren will swing to Katy Perry's 2008 summer hit 'I kissed a girl' when we can barely remember such gems as Paris Hilton's 2007 debut 'Stars Are Blind'?
Further Reading:
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