Our MOST project has come to an end with an amazing three-day-long music festival. Dóra Badics from our Sound Pillar went to the city of Veszprém to represent us at the BALKAN:MOST Festival. Now she talks about the event and her unique experience in detail.
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Art residency in Lepenski Vir – First Europe
FIRST EUROPE aims to promote and celebrate Europe’s archaeological heritage, with a focus on the captivating site of Lepenski Vir in Serbia. A team of Máté Czakó, Pier Lorenzo Pisano and Ljubomir Nikolic has been working on the artistic concept of the project. Recently, they selected two artists (Alice Norma Lombardi and Patryk Matela) to join the residency. The artistic team and the project partners started working together between July 10 and 22. Mátyás Marofka, the coordinator of the residency, reports on the event.
MANIFEST Art Residency in Zsennye
Within the framework of our MANIFEST project, 12 artists and artistic groups were given the opportunity to participate in the program’s residency in Hungary. The project is dedicated to cultivating collective memory on the topic of the transatlantic slave trade through art projects.
“Environmental protection, ecological transition, cultural sector, green communities” – Dezdemóna Kovács about LeCAKE
Between May 1 and 6, the LeCAKE consortium (consisting of 8 senior professionals and 16 young ambassadors) met in Italy, more specifically in Rieti and Rocca Sinibalda, to work together on local strategic cultural projects. One of the Hungarian participants, Dezdemóna Kovács, reports on the days spent together.
“…there are two reasons why people start working in the cultural sector: they are either artists or would like to support the arts…”
Under our PP Cult pillar, we are launching a new project called ECHO Academies. Our colleague Bianka Faddi travelled to the kick-off meeting and wrote a personal blogpost about the event:
“… it was very comforting, like meeting an old friend”
Our colleague Juli Mihályfy recently joined us to take over the leadership of the PP Sound pillar. Juli was recently at WOMEX, where she not only met the partners involved in the MOST project, but also surprised us with report illustrated by many photos:
“European creativity will shine through the digital world” – Interview with Alexandre Leforestier
Panodyssey is the only social media platform dedicated to writing that helps authors share their creations with as many people as possible in a secure and ethical way. But how the Panodyssey story began? We asked Alexandre Leforestier, CEO of the platform:
What’SAP – local work of the Hungarian team
After last summer’s Academy, the trainees started their months-long local work – the Hungarian team (Heléna Ménesi, Szilvia Markos, Viktória Csaba, Zsófia Kozma and Zalán Haragonics) with Indahouse Hungary in Hernádszentandrás. But how is the joint work going? We asked the trainees about this:
Think global, act local?
Stronger Peripheries is a large-scale cooperation project supported by the EU’s Creative Europe programme, gathering 14 partners, from 10 European countries. It acts within the performing arts sector through the creation of artistic productions, the training of creative and cultural workers, and the proposal of new cultural policies based on the promotion and assessment of participative practices. The project’s latest event, ‘Towards fairer international cultural cooperation: visions from the peripheries’, took place in Barcelona. The seminar was attended by our colleague Fanni Tóth, who tells us how she saw the meeting:
“It was exhilarating to see an audience”
MOST MUSIC programme’s Urban Policy pillar is an incubator for projects connecting the music sector and cities. The programme helps develop and implement initiatives that draw the ties between the creative sector and the region’s urban environments closer. The first round of the Urban Policy pillar seek to facilitate collaboration between local institutions and people with great ideas.