Self-organizing of Artists for the Improvement of their Position

Round table
Friday, October 9, 2009, at 11 am
Kino Šiška Centre for Urban Culture, Trg Prekomorskih brigad 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia





Moderated by Maks Soršak.
Panelists: Marija Mojca Pungerčar (Artservis), Jadranka Ljubičič (Odprta zbornica), Jurij Krpan (Asociacija), Denis Miklavčič (SUKI at Glosa), Nemanja Cvijanović (artist, Reka/Venezia), Dragoslav Krnajski (artist, Belgrade).

The round table Self-organizing of Artists for the Improvement of their Position is dedicated to the status and position of the cultural workers with a special emphasis on their initiatives that attempt to improve their working conditions. The guests from Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia will explain the main reason for the self-organizing cultural forms on the local and national level, what their purpose is and what they have already achieved. They will talk about the circumstances of their activities and their tactics in self-organization. They will also present the extent of the dialogue established with the state or city authorities in solving the problem of the conditions of cultural production and the formal status of the artists, as well as in improving the system of social transfers for artists etc.

The panelists are the representatives of art & civil society initiatives from Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia or the self-organized artists/cultural workers (formal or informal associations, syndicates, and media) that strive to improve the conditions of production in art and culture.
The aim of the round table is to inform the public about the activities of the self-organized cultural initiatives on the national and international level and to stimulate cultural workers to get connected and embark on collaboration.

The round table is a part of the project Let's Talk Critic Art (2009-2010) which examines the critical aspects of contemporary arts (round tables, public interviews), documents them, and archives them (online documentation, publication).
The project is conducted by the cultural portal SEEcult.org (Serbia) with the partners SCCA-Ljubljana / Artservis (Slovenia), Kulturpunkt (Croatia), and Forum Skopje (Macedonia).
The partners are the members of the informal network of cultural portals inSEEcp. It was founded in 2006 with the aim of connecting the editorial boards of the portals and stimulating the international cultural collaboration in the former Yugoslave countries.

The project Let's Talk Critic Art is financially supported by European Cultural Foundation.

Third World Culturelink Conference

call for papers - programme - registration form

Networks – The Evolving Aspects of Culture in the 21st Century Zagreb, Croatia, 13-15 November 2009 With the support of: UNESCO Office in Venice - UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe (BRESCE); Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (Hivos); Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, Croatia; Ministry of Culture, Croatia Call for Papers  The Culturelink Network celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. To mark this occasion, we are organizing the Third World Culturelink Conference under the title "Networks – The Evolving Aspects of Culture in the 21st Century", to be held from 13 to 15 November 2009 in Zagreb, Croatia. The conference is envisaged to bring together Culturelink Network's members, researchers, professionals, and many others who perceive networking as one of the most intriguing phenomenon of contemporary culture. The Third World Culturelink Conference will aim to investigate the role and relevance that cultural networks hold for cultural development. A retrospective overview of the cultural networks phenomena in the past 20 years will pose as grounds for debate on new perspectives of cultural networking in the 21st century. Special consideration will be given to issues regarding the position of cultural networks within cultural policies structures, as well as to the effective usage of innovative ICT and networking applications that significantly develop the modes and scopes of activities of cultural networks. The event will include discussions on the promotion and affirmation of cultural diversity and intercultural communication through networking processes and will closely look at case studies from all regions of the world, thus providing comparative examples and experiences on a global level. We invite the submission of papers to be included in the Third World Culturelink Conference programme. Paper abstracts should thematically correspond to the themes and topics listed in the preliminary conference agenda. Conference participants interested in holding a paper/presentation, should comply with the following requirements: all prospective speakers must submit a presentation proposal and a short CV, presentation proposals should be given a precise title that falls well within the scope of the chosen programme theme, and proposals should be submitted in the form of a written Abstract or Executive Summary on not more than one page (approx. 500 words). All proposals should be submitted for revision by 15 July 2009 to clinkconf@irmo.hr. Conference languages are Croatian, English, French and Spanish. For the conference programme, please see here. Contact: Conference Secretariat, Culturelink/IMO, P.O. Box 303, Vukotinovićeva 2, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia; tel.: +385-1-4877490; fax: +385-1-4828361; e-mail: clinkconf@irmo.hr; http://www.culturelink.org/clinkconf.html

Forum 'Culture 2007-2013 Programme – possibilities of co-operation'

Organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, Cultural Contact Point Croatia and Croatian Movement & Dance Institute in cooperation with Cultural Contact Points Austria and Slovenia on June 1st at the Mimara Museum in Zagreb.

Programme:
 
9.00-9.15   Registration

9.15-9.30  Foreword: Božo Biškupić, Minister of Culture
 
Presentations:

9.30- 9.45  Vesna Jurić Bulatović ( Museum for Arts and Crafts, Zagreb)

9.45-10.15  Stephane Re (Institut Française de Zagreb) and Emma Lecoeur ( L’Oreal Croatia)

10.15-10.45  Alemka Lisinski (T-Hrvatski Telekom) and Snježana Pintarić (Musem of Contemporary Art, Zagreb)

10.45-11.15  Marina Dijaković (Zagrebačka banka) and Vesna Kusin (Gallery Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb)

11.15-11.45  Polona Lovšin (Riko Group, Slovenia) and Ranko Novak (Brumen Foundation, Slovenia)
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11.45-12.30  Coffee break
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12.30-13.00  Dubravka Jusić (Vipnet) and Ivica Prlender (Dubrovačke ljetne igre)

13.00-13.30  Leonie Hodkevitch (Austria): ”Sponsoring: Alter Ego in Arts”

13.30-14.00  CCPs Austria, Slovenia and Croatia: Presentation of the Culture 2007-2013 programme

14.00-14.30  Matjaž Farič and Ksenija Kaučič (Flota, Slovenia), Manfred Biskup and Liz King (Verein für Neue Tanzformen, Austria), Alfred Masal (Offenes Haus Oberwart, Austria), Barna Petrany (Pro Progressione, Hungary), Mirna Žagar (Croatian Movement & Dance Institute, Croatia): Dance Explorations Beyond Front@

14.30-15.00  DISCUSSION/ CONCLUSION

(Source: CCP Croatia)