Kulturalny Kolektyw

The Culture Collective of the University of Gdansk/Poland was formally launched in October 2004 as one of the student’s groups by the Academic Culture Centre of the University of Gdansk. The projects deal with political, social and ecological issues utilizing different media including literature, music, film or comix. The main goal is to encourage students to organize projects and events connected with their own society – students have an enormous energy, which can be used to get experience, to learn how to cooperate with others and become responsible for the received tasks.

» www.kk.ug.edu.pl

 

La Fée Nadou

LA FEE NADOU is an artists residency and provides work space for artists (theatre and dance companies, music groups, plasticiens,…).

LA FEE NADOU organises workshops, concerts and shows in their eighty square meters rehearsal room and in the villages around.

LA FEE NADOU is also an living environment for the people and visitors here to experiment social and ecological design, architecture and living-forms.

The last years there has been several meetings with Moviemiento to organise cultural projects as „LE REVE ROULANT“ and „TEMPORARY HOMES“

» www.lafeenadou.com

 

Freiraum e. V. Übersee

The Freiraum e.V. is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2009 in the small village of Übersee (Germany) midways between Munich and Salzburg. The premises are situated in the center of Übersee – just opposite the train station.

The foremost objective of the Freiraum e.V. is to be an accessible, open-minded platform for all kinds of activities and events – and not only to host cultural events. Thus each and everyone is welcome to start and implement their ideas of an cultural event in their local community.

Another very important objective would be to provide a platform of conversation and community building. Locals and foreigners, familiar and unfamiliar faces, young and old, all of them are mixed together in a friendly and inviting atmosphere. They are provided with a unique opportunity to get together – in a way hardly possible otherwise – and to initiate a dialogue.

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So the clubhouse becomes a meeting point in a number of ways. Through different events and the opportunity to use free of charge space in the building and its surroundings, varied and exciting projects have been implemented. The members of the organisation have started to organize concerts, cabaret shows, book readings and poetry slams. They also work with young people in the field of media education, they setting up a music studio and many other community projects. One main goal of the concept is to offer an affordable cultural program and to stop rural exodus. Although big cities have a strong pull on audiences and sort of “monopolise” cultural diversity, we think there is no need for centralisation. Especially in the field of culture and art, there should be a wide diversity of “stages” to support different, especially non-mainstream, expressions and tastes. The Freiraum e.V. started in 2009 without any public funding and is therefore able to preserve autonomy. The social-enterprise principle is interpreted by the organisation, by gaining money through commercial events in order to support social work. Why not taking part in a way of life, which is not defined by exclusion and survival of the fittest but by inclusion and survival by cooperation instead? See you at the next Freiraum event!

» www.freiraum-uebersee.de

 

Bildungs-Logger Lovis

“Lovis” is a replica of a freight lugger from the 1920s. In order to keep traditional seafaring alive, the ship was renovated and modified into an educational and project ship from 1998 to 2000. Since then the ship is not operated commercially. We offer Sailing, boat building, protection of the sea, development policy, free and emancipatory education…. We also engage ourselves on shore. We are glad to work together with people who would like to experience something special or want to change something in politics and society.

During a Trip on Lovis School classes, youth and adult groups can experience traditional maritime shipping in the context of educational journeys and leisure travels. Space is provided for political, social and cultural initiatives for networking and concrete actions. We also o fer seminars of which the participating groups determine the topics. Seafaring, ecology, history, gender, climate, migration, theater…? We provide the backgrounds and knowledge to implement the ideas together with the groups sailing with us.

» www.lovis.de

 

Kinobuss

Kinobuss (CinemaBus) is a Cinema on Demand, a travelling cinema in Estonia. Kinobuss was established in 2001 by a group of Estonian film professionals to recreate the local cinema network which collapsed in the beginning of the 1990s – to keep the cinema-going culture alive in small towns and villages where the cinemas didn’t exist (anymore) or had been closed down.

Today, Kinobuss works as an exhibitor (travelling cinema), an independent distributor, a film and media educator and as a platform for projects that unite film-culture-education-creativity. Kinobuss main tasks are to promote Estonian films locally and internationally; to bring European films to the communities; to develop understanding and usage of the visual language (film) on a school and hobby education level; to distribute knowledge of film-making amongst children, youth and teachers by providing workshops, courses and trainings.

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One of the main goals of Kinobuss is to combine and integrate film-making (storytelling) with education to enrich the ways of learning and teaching. Kinobuss is mainly project-based and financed by Estonian Cultural and Educational Funds, as well European Funds (within the international co-projects). Throughout the years, Kinobuss has been invited to visit other countries, within festivals and international co-projects – to introduce the Estonian film culture and educate teachers and youngsters to make films. Main reasons to engage the project: We want to keep alive the network with Moviemiento and other organisations involved in the international cooperation on the field of audiovisual culture and media literacy.

» www.kinobuss.ee

 

Principality of Sealand

Sealand was founded as a sovereign Principality in 1967 in international waters, six miles off the eastern shores of Britain. The history of Sealand is a story of a struggle for liberty. Sealand was founded on the principle that any group of people dissatisfied with the oppressive laws and restrictions of existing nation states may declare independence in any place not claimed to be under the jurisdiction of another sovereign entity. The location chosen was Roughs Tower, an island fortress created in World War II by Britain and subsequently abandoned to the jurisdiction of the High Seas.

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The independence of Sealand was upheld in a 1968 British court decision where the judge held that Roughs Tower stood in international waters and did not fall under the legal jurisdiction of the United Kingdom. This gave birth to Sealand’s national motto of E Mare Libertas, or “From the Sea, Freedom”. The official language of Sealand is English and the Sealand Dollar has a fixed exchange rate of one U.S. dollar. Passports and stamps have been in circulation since 1969 and the latter decade of the 20th century saw an impressive expansion in its activity both socially and industrially as it began to develop a growing economic base which underscored its long-standing membership of the international community of States.

» www.sealandgov.org

 

Uma Casa a Arder

The group organizes cinema and video workshops, focusing on the language and teamwork frame of cinema as tool for reintegration of different comunities in Portugal. The past year we organized a 3 month cinema workshop in the Prison establishment of Guimarães, with incredible results. And several other smaller cinema workshops/actions in social neighbourhoods in Porto.

 

 

 

 

Deople Network e.V.

Deople stands for ‘design for people’ . We are a platform for open knowledge exchange, networking & collaboration. The aim of the organization, as stated in the constitution, is ‘education’. We are an association that works in interdisciplinary teams on innovative ideas for the challenges of our time. We welcome new members and want to connect with other institutions and groups in the creative industries. Our members promote an open exchange of ideas, methods and best practices.

» www.deople.org

 

Little Mountain

Little mountain is currently in transformation to the unique incubator of Design and Technology in Eindhover.

» www.littlemountain.nl

 

Globale Medienwerkstatt e. V.

[in GERMAN] Globale Medienwerkstatt e. V. verbindet zwei Aspekte: globales Lernen und die Arbeit mit Medien als themenorientierte, politische, sowie künstlerische und kulturelle Bildungsarbeit. Die Globale Medienwersktatt arbeitet projektorientiert und vernetzt. Die inhaltliche Auseinandersetzung bezieht sich auf Themen wie Geschlecht, Rassismus, Nationalsozialismus, globales Lernen, Menschenrechte, Umwelt, fairer Handel, gleichberechtigte Nord-Süd-Beziehungen. Medienschwerpunkte sind die Bereiche Audio, Video und Multimedia.

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Die Arbeit der Globalen Medienwerkstatt zielt auf partizipative Mediennutzung, die gleichzeitig einen starken Focus auf die inhaltliche Auseinandersetzung mit sozialen Themen legt. Die Globale Medienwerkstatt erstellt darüber hinaus Lern- und Lehrmaterial. Sie bietet Multiplikatorenschulungen an und entwickelt Projekte im Kunst- und Kulturbereich. Die Globale Medienwerkstatt sieht sich als Plattform und arbeitet in medienpädagogischen, künstlerischen, wissenschaftlichen und journalistischen Kontexten.

» www.globale-medienwerkstatt.de

 

Contemporary Art Center – Skopje

aka: Right to the Village Network

Contemporary Art Center is among firs organizations in the region of Western Balkans that initiate discussion and create specific programs and projects that support cultural and social development of rural regions and communities. Created more than ten years ago Program for cultural and social development of rural regions of CAC has spread ideas of community driven cultural development over entire region of western Balkans creating numerous partnerships with similar and local organizations in the region. CAC Program for cultural and social development of rural regions has been recognized as one of leading organizations in this field.

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Our programs and projects are ongoing in 6 countries in over 200 villages and over half million population. CAC is leader of regional project Rural Communities Culture which is ongoing in Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. RCC project is long‐term cooperation project dedicated to improvement of cultural life and giving active contribution to the issues of social development of rural regions of Western Balkans, project financed by Swiss Cultural Program in western Balkans in amount of 500.000 CHF and co‐ supported by other donors in the region (FOSIM, European Cultural Foundation, Austrian Development Agency – depending from country) Since this year together with our partners from the region and local partners in the communities we establish cooperative platform and informal network “Right to the Village” ‐ Alliance for Rural and Small Communities Cultural Development active in 6 countries of Western Balkans and Greece. Most important achievement of CAC is that we managed to be recognized locally on community level in the villages as partner of trust and start‐up point for initiating positive changes and ideas that lead enforcement and speeding of local developmental process. With our support (expertise, consultancy, advising – things that CAC secures for the communities) almost 1.000.000 Euros from different donors and bodies were invested directly in the communities for fulfilling different local needs.

» www.rtvnetwork.net (website down)