Creative Collaboration - Arts - British Council

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	Creative Collaboration

Creative Collaboration is designed as a 3 year project for South East Europe(SE Europe) and neighbouring countries. The project builds networks of influence for the UK, nurtures intercultural dialogue through creative collaboration across borders and promotes the quality of UK arts education and training in SE Europe. It also engages UK cultural producers, artists and policy advisers in dialogue with the region.

PROJECT ACTIVITIES
The project will deliver outputs through three product strands – the Collaborative Project Fund, Networking and The Space:

			The Collaborative Project Fund - Cross-border collaborative productions involving artists in three or more countries and requiring solutions to the mobility of arts and artists across the region. Newly developed skills will be applied in these productions. Macedonia is directly involved in three projects: - Successful Arts in Contemporary Environment - The Culture Lobby - Word Express. F ind out more about the other successful projects in our Creative Collaboration Project Fund.
			Networking -Building and sustaining networks for dialogue and debate across the arts communities of SE Europe and the UK. Networking began in Istanbul and we will support its development in the next phases of the Creative Collaboration project.;
			The Space - Creative Collaboration takes place through Open Space events in several cities in the South East Europe region: 1) November 2007- Istanbul (Turkey). Macedonia was represented by three delegates: Iskra Geshoska (Tochka Cultural Centre), Biljana Tanurovska (Lokomotiva Centre for New Initiatives in Art and Culture) and Gordana Vrencoska (European University Macedonia). Central to this event was the use of Open Space Technology. 2) May 2008 – Bucharest (Romania). Our delegates Bojan Karanakov and Aleksandar Radevski, junior professors from the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje, took part in the discussion topic “Who shapes the city and for whom?” Urbanism issues and the content of urban life were central topics to this Open Space event. 3) May 2008 – Athens (Greece). Antoanela Petkovska, PhD and Konstantin Minoski, Sociology professors from the Faculty of Sociology, took on the discussion on the topic of Inclusion of Art and Culture in our societies. A number of project ideas came out as a result of this Open Space.