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Creative Collaboration is a British Council project in partnership with artists, cultural leaders and creative entrepreneurs across South East Europe and the UK (the British Council SEE region includes the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Austria, BiH, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Israel, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia).
The project uses innovative approaches to networking to encourage arts and cultural leaders from different countries and different art forms to talk together, learn from each other and develop new partnerships for effective cross-border working.
Launched in Istanbul last year, with support from the UK’s award-winning theatre group ‘Improbable’, the project is bringing together leading arts professionals to work on the issues that are most important to them such as public space, arts and professional development, social inclusion, cultural leadership and creative cities.
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We want to help the region’s artists and cultural leaders to develop the networks and skills they need to build a better society, support economic growth and enrich the cultural life of Europe and its surrounding countries. |
During May and June 2008 we held four Open Space events throughout the region. Kosovan artists and cultural leaders had the opportunity to participate in three of them:
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Bucharest, Romania 14-16May, Public space (Florina Jerliu, and Arianit Loxha architects from Prishtina) |
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Athens, Greece, 23-25 May, Inclusion through Arts (Dren Maliqi, Rizoma Gallery) |
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Varna, Bulgaria 6-8 June, Creative Cities: How can we develop our cities to be more creative and diverse? (Veton Nurkollari, Dokufest) |
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Jerusalem, Israel 16-18 June, Looking In and Facing Out: how can we best use international partnerships to enrich professional development in the arts? (no participants from Kosovo) |
Delegates of the Open Space events had the opportunity to:
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Be part of an international networking event – enabling participants to build networks of influence across the region and in the UK, and in their own area of professional interest |
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Experience a unique and innoative method of working – Open Space Technology |
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Be inspired by art relevant to the theme of the space. |
‘The most useful part of the meeting was the discussion in the coffe break’. Have you ever felt like that after a meeting?
Open Space Technology works like one long coffee break. It is an unusual but highly effective way of getting people to work together because:
All participants are invited to define the agenda and convene a session on the issue they feel is important
Participants are then free to choose the sessions they want to attend and contribute to
Participants are pasionate about the issues being discussed.
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We are now inviting applications for our Collaborative Project fund. |
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This fund will support a series of collaborative cross-border arts project in South East Europe and the UK. |
The application form for the fund is attached. Please read the application form for further details of the fund as well as the specific assessment criteria your project will need to fulfil. Download the application form here.
The fund will be available not only to the participants in the Open Spaces, but all members of the creative sector in Kosovo with good ideas and the capacity to run a cross-border project.
Concept plans will be accepted by 10th October while elaborated proposals will be invited by end November 2008.
For further information about the project please contact , at:
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