Date: Wednesday June 3 2020 Time: 12.30-13.30 Place: Intercult Facebook Page There are probably very few people working in culture, design and urban planning that have not heard the word participation over the past ten years. Maybe even a few times too often, even if it is now being exchanged with the words collaboration and [...]
Webinar: State of Culture in Europe in the times of COVID Friday 15 May 2020 From 12.30-13.30 Organizer: Intercult / Europe Direct Intercult/ Culture Action Europe The Cultural and Creative Sectors (CCS) all over Europe are hit severly by the COVID-19 pandemic. Live events and performances had to be cancelled, while most cultural venues were forced [...]
Connecting Georgia (2019-2020) is an artistic project that aims at developing and discussing tools that can be helpful to tackle the challenges for sites with post-industrial cultural heritage. The project connects the city of Batumi with other european cities engaged in the Memory of Water Creative Europe EU project. From the last decade some [...]
23 - 29 March 2020 Batumi, Georgia Connecting Georgia is an artist-led project exploring post-industrial waterfront heritage in the context of urban planning and community development. The project is connected to the Creative Europe funded project Memory of Water that gathers six partners in Europe and funded by the Swedish Institute, Third Country Participation in the Baltic Sea region. [...]
During 14-19 October the artistic residency in Gdansk took place - a part of the project Memory of Water, which is developed by members of the River Cities Network. The residency was hosted by the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, and at Intercult we are happy to be the lead partner of the Memory of Water-project. [...]
Take part of the short documentary film about Gdansk Shipyard to the right. Description of the film: Gdansk Shipyard. The world-famous place of birth and victory of Solidarity. Place of construction of modern ships and a source of prosperity of Gdańsk for almost 150 years. For large machines and small people, always full, consciously [...]
Take part of the film from Levadia! The residency in Levadia in Greece is a part of the project Memory of Water. It is 13 minutes long and shows artists and participants of the project, and shows the importance of the Erkyna river, for the city and for the people there. Watch the film [...]
Still and for a long time we will all be going back to memories from the Levadia artist residency . Thank you Municipality of Levadia for the engagement in organising the event. Your river and people will keep the memories! What is coming next in our European journey in the project Memory of Water? [...]
The polish artist Iwona Zajac made mural paintings during the Memory of Water residency in Levadia in April. Iwona discovered an empty house by the River Erkyna on St. Stratigou Ioannou which inspired her to find out about the Levadian family that lived there. Read Iwonas story about the artwork and watch the fantastic [...]
Iwona Zając – a visual artist (b. 1971). Graduated from the Painting Department of the Gdańsk Academy of Fine Arts in 1999. In 2017 she obtained the title of doctor of art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. Zając pays attention to the location of a project – she starts with collecting detailed [...]
