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City of Lund 2009

Layout: Kerstin Andersson

Program illustrations: Susanne Johansson,

www.susannejohansson.com

Photo: Amelie Herbertsson

Translation part 17: Joanna Le Pluart och Nicole Tyszkiewicz

at Crystal Clear Communication (Sweden/Italy)

Translation appendix: Tamarind

Typeset in Helvetica Neue.

Paper: Munken Print

Print: Hrnqvist & Co, Ulricehamn 2009

www.lund2014.se


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1.1 Why does the city which you

represent wish to take part in

the competition for the title of

European Capital of Culture?

What, for it, would be the main

challenge of this nomination?

What are the citys objectives forthe year in question?

BECAUSE WE WANTAND NEED THIS

Becoming European capital of culture will change Lund for all time.

That is why we are applying.

Lund wants to be European capital of culture 2014 and the city needs it.

Considered as a European cultural city, we havent earned the title - yet. We are

applying because Lund has an unexploited potential as a cultural city. In our

application, we want to show how we will use the European cultural capital as a

springboard to develop the city culturally in the long term. We explain where we

want to go, how we plan to get there and show that we are already well on our

way.

That journey, and the transformation it implies, is of the greatest value in the

project.

We begin in an ancient university town in southern Sweden.

THE LUND OF MANYSMALL STAGES

Lund is the city of opposites and duplicity.

Lund, the secretive little town, that you never get wise to; closed,

impenetrable; friendly, but not with open arms; serious and laborious like a

convent, that you dont enter willingly, and yet leave with regret; that you think

you can flee, but which you nonetheless return to.

That is what August Strindberg wrote about the city when he lived here over

one hundred years ago.

Lund is a paradox.

Lund is an ancient city - over a thousand years old. At the same time it is a

young city, with a young population and innovative industries.

The city is both Danish and Swedish: built with the churchs help to make

Skne more Danish and transformed into a university town to make Skne more

Swedish.

Lund is a self-sufficient city. There is everything you need here. At the same

time it has an ironic view of itself and can be self-critical. Were going to be

cultural capital of Europe? Lund? What fun!


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Here, the traditional is united with the rebellious in a strange mixture.

An academic farmers village, the city has been called. A city on the periphery

of Sweden, but close to the middle of Europe.

Well-rooted but with a mobile population.

Narrow and open at the same time.

Provincial but important anyway.

Youll never get wise to Lund.

Lund is on the verge of its greatest transformation ever.

Lund is growing at a faster rate than any other city in Sweden.

The ESS (European Spallation Source) research facility will be built here. It

is an investment of 13 billion Swedish crowns. An investment in the future of

humanity. It will change Lund.

We are in the process of building four new city neighbourhoods.

It sure sounds good, but we have a problem: our cultural growth hasnt

managed to keep up.

Lund has too few institutions and arenas to grow culturally as well.

There are few forums in which to act professionally.

There are few stages for culture.

Lunds amateur culture is flourishing, but many Lund dwellers leave the city to

take their talents further afield.

This isnt only due to a lack of arenas.

Lund also has a problem with its image.

Lund is sometimes called the ancient city of learning. How damning does that

sound?

Lund is certainly a city rich in tradition and cultural heritage, and that is

one of its main strengths, but there is also challenge and novelty here. The

unestablished and the wild grown.

Theres a lot happening in Lund which doesnt really show. Perhaps because it

all goes on in separate spheres. The university and student life are one sphere,

business is another and civil society a third. There are invisible barriers within

the city. If Lund is to grow culturally we have to break down those barriers.

So what do we do?

For a long time, Lund has relied on itself and found its own solutions.

World improving innovations and smart theories. There is a light-hearted jargon,

students farces and playful pranks here. A particular spirit, thats hard to put

into words, but thats also hard to ignore.

Perhaps there is a barrier around the city as well? A barely perceptible

membrane that seals it in.

It cant work like that today. Lund may well be peculiar but its also part of the


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And we have responsibility for our own development what is known as the

regional experiment.

The second is that we have a young population, with an unbounded energy that

should be safeguarded and allowed to develop. On its own terms.

We are a mixed region. Skne represents the new Sweden. Skne is an

intercultural landscape and it is perhaps not as ordered as other parts of

Sweden. The link to Denmark has changed us. We have quite suddenly become

part of a European context. We have realised that we have close neighbours

around the Baltic Sea. This is something new and different, its close by, and the

change happened fast. We havent quite managed to keep up.

This region hasnt arrived. Skne hasnt found itself yet. Skne is confused,

messy, naturally beautiful, different, and yet still a whole.

We dont need to compete with one another in Skne.

We can complement one another.

We can be an alternative metropolis.

A whole in which Lund can find its niche as just the place for many small

stages. Other municipalities can define themselves in their own way.

By seeing Skne as an alternative metropolis, we open up to a development

that is otherwise reserved for proper metropolises.

As a candidate to be European capital of culture, Lund takes the rest of Skne

on a journey. Lund is a part of the Skanish whole. (Some Skanish people might

contradict us Lund dwellers on this point, but theyre just going to have to live

with it.)

Together we take the step into Europe.

THE EUROPE OF SHORT CUTS

Europe is growing.

The EU is widening. Several states are joining the union.

The EU is also growing in depth, taking on more tasks, such as defining a

common cultural policy, for example.

But while the EU is growing, it appears that its citizens havent kept up.

Interest is still weak on a grassroots level. Participation in EU parliamentary

elections is steadily diminishing. In June this year, 43% of the EUs voters

took part. In Sweden the figure was barely higher. That is not good. It is

almost embarassing. At the same time, xenophobic movements are gaining

ground, both here and in large parts of Europe. In some way this tells a story


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of failure. A meeting between people, or rather a non-meeting, which ended in

indifference or fear.

But what causes this? Is it because Sweden is located on the periphery of

Europe? This is a common opinion here. But this is something we share with

many countries. Perhaps with most of the countries in the EU. It seems as

though the EU is distant from its citizens. The idea of Europe as a community is

far away. We only have a vague idea of a Europe that seems a little frightening

and separate from us. The EU, thats just bureaucracy and summit meetings.

You might think. And here lies the big challenge:

How can we get closer to each other?

How can we meet in a real and profound way?

As European capital of culture, Lund, together with Skne, takes up the

challenge.

To become part of the world. To create meetings that succeed, not to shy away

from conflicts, thereby gaining new perspectives on ourselves.

Our solution is spelled networks and culture.

So whats the thinking?

Europe is in a transitional phase. Production of knowledge is going to secure

the future. Not industrial production. This is what the EUs Lisbon Strategy sets

out and increasingly, efforts are being made in this direction.

This obviously has consequences. Creativity becomes a resource and culture

can play a much bigger role.

But what happens when culture becomes the driving force in social

development?

One thing we know: new technologies and media have changed life on the

collective level just as for the individual. We get greater opportunities but also

increased needs to express ourselves and realise our ambitions. A feeling

of being unique. Everyone has to find their own ways to keep their identity

together. Regardless of what we think of it, identity is less defined by the old

institutions: family, workplace and church. We are not born into a given pattern.

Belonging to a culture is not just a matter of course. We jump between cultures,

with the remote control or on a walk from one neighbourhood to the next.

Traditions and inherited values dont always seem to fit a chaotic existence.

Precarious working conditions, mobility over physical borders or mental and

cultural barriers create uncertainty. Each and every one of us has to decide:

What do I believe in? How do I want to live my life so that it is meaningful?

We have to find the answers ourselves, in our meetings with others.

That is how we create culture.

It can feel like a fantastic freedom. And a heavy weight to bear. However you


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innovation. We get the rest of the world interested in Lund and attract

people here through action and involvement. We want to develop Lunds

self-image and reputation, starting from the free creative power that is to be

found here.

Aim 2: To open up

We give more access to Lunds stages, for spectators, participants and co-

producers.

We make sure there are more meetings in Lund between people from cultural

life, associations, business, the university, schools, authorities and elsewhere.

We make more people into participants in the shaping of Lunds future that

more people should see Lund as a whole.

Aim 3: To make ones place

We make many more cultural arenas in Lund, for many different

purposes, indoors and outdoors. We make sure that more

associations, businesses and other existing activities are created

in Lund that contribute to the citys cultural development. We

increase the capacity within Lund of acting sustainably and in a

rapidly changing world.

The alternative metropolis of Skne is the idea of Skne as an attractive cultural

arena, a balanced whole which is developed in a sustainable way. We connect

three aims to this story:

Aim 4: To use Skne

We prove that Skne can be used as a cultural arena. A region with the same

possibilities as a metropolis, but in addition, Sknes particular qualities of

landscape, geography and cultural diversity. We want to develop Sknes self-

image and reputation, as a young, mixed, intercultural region.

Aim 5: To involve Skne

We start from Sknes cultural diversity to offer a broader cultural range,

specialised in places where each and everyone can go according to their

interests or needs and engage as spectators, participants and co-producers.

We promote more cooperation between people from different parts of Skne

and within various sectors.

We encourage more local operators to contribute to regional development

Skne as a whole.

The Europe of short cuts is the idea of linking up Lund, Skne and Sweden with

the rest of Europe through networks and cultural exchange. We connect three

aims to this story:


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Aim 6: To meet in networks

We make it easier for more citizens and cultural operators in Lund, Skne and the rest of Sweden to

belong to international networks, and to be more present and active in them than before.

Aim 7: To meet in knowledge

We set up creative environments in

Lund and the rest of Skne to read,

gather, develop, understand and convey

knowledge about the new eras cultural

production in network cultures.

Aim 8: To meet around challenges

We create lasting forums, on the Internet or as recurring physical meetings

in Lund or elsewhere in Skne, in which we can get together to identify and

meet common challenges in a diversified Europe. We want to show how

network cultures can constitute democratic forces in society and develop

their potential as such.

In our international work, we will focus particularly on our most immediate

context: the Baltic region. Denmark, and in particular the resund region, have

an obvious role in that our societies are woven together; so does Latvia, since

it also has a European capital of culture 2014. But all the countries around the

Baltic will be prioritised in our European dimension. (Albeit, without excluding

cooperation with the rest of Europe.)

WE ARE READY

We realise.

This is a big project.

We have lofty ambitions. But where do you get without ambitions?

Besides, we are focused.

Everyone that knows Lund understands that this is a big conversion for the

ancient city of learning.

And that is why we are applying.

As European capital of culture, Lund can catch up in terms of cultural growth.

In Skne. Together with Skne. In Europe and together with Europe.

Lund needs this.

Lund wants this.

Lund is ready to change.

Lund is ready to become European capital of culture 2014.


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1.2 Explain the concept of

the programme which would

be launched if the city was

nominated European Capital of

Culture?

THE FIFTH FREEDOM

We first notice our freedom or lack of it in our relations with others, not in our

relations with ourselves.

Hanna Arendt (German philosopher, 1906 1975)

The EU is based on capital, goods, services and people being able to move

freely; these are called the four freedoms.

They are four rational freedoms that should build an integrated, modern society

in Europe.

A piece of the puzzle is missing.

The fifth freedom.

The piece of the puzzle that gets people to meet. In a real and profound way. A

freedom built on emotional grounds. Not rational ones.

The tool is culture. Culture in a broader sense. Via existing stages, arenas and

expressions, but also via personal stages, arenas and new expressions.

Both should dare to challenge each other to find new routes, to put culture into

new perspectives.

The aim is one; to get people to meet.

In a real and profound way.

In Sweden, a country that likes to consider itself as one of the most modern in

the world, a wild-grown fifth freedom can challenge rational society, stir things

up and make us into a part of the mixed European family, rather than part of a

square, international system.

Why precisely in Lund and in our region?

There is deep tradition and history here. Established expressions with their own

stages and well constructed networks which reach out into the region and the

whole of Europe.

The young and the challenging are also present.

The unestablished, in which networks and stages are set up in the moment.

Both virtually and physically. Where we can quickly make new ties. Reach

people all over Europe.

Under the notion of a cultural capital, we gather to show our most unexpected

selves.

And together with the rest of Europe we create projects in which the fifth

freedom inspires and challenges, but above all gets people to meet.

In a real and profound way.


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MEANINGFULMEETINGS


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1.4 Which geographical area

does the city intend to involve in

the European Capital of Culture

event? Explain this choice.

3.6 MILLION PEOPLE

Lund will be the hub of the cultural capital year.

Skne is Swedens southernmost region.

A naturally beautiful and exotic mix of town and country. This will be our arena.

The resund region, with its 3.6 million inhabitants, is our catchment area.

And as European capital of culture, we will invite the rest of Sweden and Europe

to take part.

LUND IS THE HUB

If Lund becomes European Capital of Culture for 2014, Lund will be the hub of

all the activities that are connected to Lund 2014. The Lund 2014 organisation

has its headquarters in Lund, the information centre and collective exhibitions

are located here, and this is also where the big events like the inauguration

and the closing ceremony will take place. Additionally, the vast majority of the

cultural capital activities will take place in Lund.

When we refer to Lund as a geographical location, we mean the whole

municipality, not just the city or the city centre. The villages and the smaller

rural neighbourhoods are also important arenas. Proximity to nature and to the

countryside is a distinguishing characteristic of Lund and Skne. So this aspect

will be used as a particular quality in the programme.

The municipality of Lund has 107,300 inhabitants, of whom 25% live outside the

city itself.

We estimate that the population will have increased to 117,600 inhabitants by

2014.

This is where we gather.

This is where we create the Lund of many small stages.


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SKNE IS AN ARENA

Skne is our arena. All the events take place within Skne.

Skne consists of 33 municipalities and is home to 1.2 million people. The

population will have increased to 1.3 million by 2014.

170 nationalities are represented here.

Skne represents the new Sweden.

Skne is the alternative metropolis.


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THE RESUND REGION IS THE CATCHMENT AREA

Since the fixed link (a combined bridge and tunnel) between Sweden and

Denmark was completed in 2000, the area around the resund strait has grown

into one integrated region. Every day, close to 70,000 people cross over the

resund strait. The communications are good. Every twenty minutes a train

leaves from Copenhagen for the Swedish side and Lund.

When the city tunnel in Malm is completed in 2010, the travel time from the

Danish side of the strait to Lund will be only twenty minutes. The frequency of

trains will be doubled to six per hour.

The ferry traffic between Helsingr and Helsingborg carries 30,000 passengers

every day.

With 3.6 million inhabitants within close range, the resund region is the

obvious catchment area for an event of this kind. As mobility over the strait is

already high and communications are already good, we will use this as an asset

to attract audiences from Denmark to the cultural capital programme.

We see the richly populated catchment area as one of the factors which will

contribute to this projects success.

WE INVITE THE REST OF SWEDEN AND EUROPE

We will involve the national media in tracking the activities in Lund and Skne.

We will make particular efforts to reach out to people with events, by working

with the media, through digital movie broadcasts and tours to other locations

around Sweden, among other things. We will also take this as an opportunity to

show Sweden to Europe.

It is easy to get here.

There are rail connections, ferries and two international airports.

As European Capital of Culture we will be active and visible in Europe.

The choice of Lund as the site to build the ESS (European Spallation Source)

will put the city on the map. We will help drive this positive development as well

as exploiting it to our advantage. The success factor is the networks to which

we connect ourselves. We invite Europe to join us and participate!

We are already active in networks and forums which reach out far over Europe

and will be so to an even greater extent.

We will make use of Europes short cuts.


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1.5 Do you already have the

support of the local or regional

political authorities? Or are you

planning to ask for their support

at a later date? Explain.

THE MUNICIPALITY OF LUND ISTHE SENDERThe municipality of Lund is behind the application. The municipality of Lund is

the sender and has a wide support base. Both the ruling parties and the main

opposition parties support the application, which bodes well for the future

continuity of the project.

In 2005, Lunds municipal council decided that Lund would present itself as a

candidate to be European Capital of Culture.

In September 2008, the council decided to send Lunds application in. In

connection with this, the intention to finance Lund 2014 to the tune of 75 million

SEK altogether between 2010 and 2014 was also established.

In June 2009, Lunds municipal executive committee decided to send in the

application.

Besides political support, support within the municipal organisation plays a

strong role in the success of the project. That is why we in the Lund 2014-team

have made such an effort to inform and involve the municipalitys employees.

During the spring, we met about 300 people to discuss and exchange ideas. We

gained new perspectives which have greatly improved our application.

We have informed all the municipal employees via regular newsletters.

In the day to day work on the application, the Department of Culture and

Leisure, the Urban Planning Department, the Technical Services Department

and the Municipal Office have been particularly active.

We consider it paramount that all parts of the municipal organisation should be

active in the cultural capital work. The rest of the municipality will be even more

involved in the coming years, as the project grows.

The cultural capital project will affect most aspects of the municipalitys work.

Its hardly surprising; it will change Lund for ever!

THE SKNE REGION AND THE CITY OF MALM ARE WITH US

During 2008, the municipality of Lund held talks on the cultural capital project

with the Skne Region and the City of Malm.

After qualifying to go through to the final round in December 2008, we invited

the Region of Skne and the City of Malm to participate in the steering group

for Lund 2014. Since then, politicians and the highest ranking civil servants in

the Cultural Administrations have been taking part.

Thanks to their participation, the projects regional dimensions have gained

clear outlines. In May 2009, Sknes regional Board made a declaration of intent

for the Skne Regions commitment to the cultural capital project. The Skne

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Board writes that it is in agreement with the expectation that it will contribute

significant financial support for the project in the years 2010 2014. During

2009, the region has contributed 275 000 SEK to finance Lunds candidature.

The Skne Region is with us.

In May 2009, Malms municipal board also made a declaration of intent about

the City of Malms commitment to Lund 2014. The City of Malm is with us.

The team has involved civil servants from the Region of Skne and the City of

Malm in developing and producing the application.

This has been valuable. They will continue to be involved in the relevant parts of

the application.

LUND UNIVERSITY IS WITH US

Lund University has been involved in the project from the start and supports it.

The universitys administrative board made a declaration of intent in May 2009

regarding its commitment to Lund 2014. During spring, a number of institutions

in Lund University have been involved in producing the evaluation plan (see

question 6) and in some of the projects.

Malm University supports us and will be involved.

Kristianstad University supports us and will be involved.

The resund University supports us and will be involved.

ALL THE IMPORTANT REGIONAL AUTHORITIES ARE WITH US

The Skne Association of Municipalities, which consists of the regions 33

municipalities, supports the project.

The County administration, the Swedish States regional authority, supports the

project.

The resund committee supports the project.

The resund Bridge Consortium which owns and runs the link over the

resund strait supports the project.

Wonderful Copenhagen the Copenhagen areas marketing organisation

supports the project.

Lund has a solid basis for its application - in Lund, in Skne and in the wider

resund region.


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1.7 How does the event fit

into the long-term cultural

development of the city and,

where appropriate, of the region?

FINDING FAVOURABLE WINDS

We believe in the importance of finding favourable winds.

By this we mean that a European capital of culture can never be produced

inside a protected workshop environment, but must be part of societys

development as a whole.

This isnt about changing course to follow the direction of the wind;

rather about finding positions where the wind blows in the same direction as

you want to go.

That is why, early on in the work on the candidature, we carefully read political

development documents and entered into talks with several of those who are

behind the documents. We wanted to create a project with a strong vision,

attitude and ambition, but also to place it at the intersection of a number of

different lines of development in Lund and Skne.

Not least, to ensure that the legacy of Lund 2014 will live on (see question 1.15).

There are three important lines of development in Lund; the establishment of

ESS (the European Spallation Source research facility) and MAX IV (the next

generation Swedish synchrotron radiation facility), the vision for 2025, and the

cultural policy strategy. We also think that Lund 2014 will contribute to Sknes

development, and have connected the project to the regional development

programme and the cultural policy programme. The event also contributes to

local and regional work on sustainable development.

ESS AND MAX IV

After ten years of preparatory work and campaigning, it became clear at the

beginning of June 2009 that the European research facility ESS would be

located in Lund. ESS will become the worlds leading facility for materials

research and life sciences with neutron-based spallation technology. ESS

will be in use around 2020 but Lund has already come under the spotlight

throughout Europe. The establishment of the facility will be followed by the

media on a broad front. Lund 2014 wants to exploit this attention as well as

contributing to it.

The choice of Lund as a location for the new facility clearly shows that the

international research community and a number of European states consider

Lund and Skne to be ready for this enormous development. A location chosen

for scientific, geographical, communicational, cultural and natural reasons.

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The establishment of ESS will have long-term effects on development in Lund

and Skne. ESS will increase growth in the region, employment will rise by 700

people a year until 2040. The facility will also have an impact on the demands

made on public services, which will have to be further internationalised.

Infrastructure and communications must be developed. The range of cultural

activities is good but can be strengthened in the long term through Lund 2014.

In spring 2009 PriceWaterHouseCoopers released the report ESS in Lund

effects on regional development which was produced in cooperation with

Skanish municipalities, the county administrative board in Skne and the Skne

region. It says, In all likelihood, Lunds application to be European capital

of culture will have a bigger and more overriding effect on cultural activities

within the region than that of the establishment of the ESS itself. In the same

way as the application has been put together, cultural policy in Lund will also

be shaped for an international market. The application has an innovative and

challenging content with all the prerequisites to put Lund and Skne in the

international spotlight, in the same way, although slightly toned down perhaps,

as the winter Olympics put Grenoble on the map.

ESS and Lund 2014 are cooperating closely. Common communication efforts,

exchange of expertise and common processes are a matter of course. The

ESS-secretariat in Lund has repeated on several occasions how important

cultural development is for the success of the ESS-project, and that Lund 2014

has an important role to play in the citys ability to attract researchers to ESS.

Another very large establishment which got the go-ahead in spring 2009 is

MAX IV an investment worth 2.6 billion SEK. This will be the worlds leading

synchotron light facility - a super-microscope of sorts. Construction will begin

in 2010 and is estimated to take five years. Together ESS and MAX IV will make

Lund into the worlds foremost location for materials research, with the eyes of

the world upon it!

VISION 2025

Lunds vision for 2025 was adopted last year. A large part of this vision is about

meetings and participation:Lund is an attractive and natural arena. Here, ideas,

business and culture meet to enrich one another. [] In Lund there are natural

meeting places for a lively dialogue, with participation and influence. []

Through increased cooperation between the municipality and other agents in

the region, nationally and internationally, the conditions are created to make an

attractive region. Development is spurred on by everyones commitment to and

responsibility for Lund. Everyone can stand on the stage as well as being in the

audience.


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Lund 2014 took the contents of these texts as a starting point for The Lund of

Many Small Stages.

LUNDS CULTURAL POLICY STRATEGY

When the municipality of Lund decided to apply to become European capital of

culture in 2005, the aim was to develop the city over the long term.

To transform the city.

To take a broad grip on the citys cultural development.

That is why the first big step was to develop a cultural policy strategy, which

would lay the foundation for Lunds application.

After several years work, involving several hundred cultural operators, citizens,

civil servants and politicians, Lunds first cultural policy strategy was adopted in

2008. It provides the direction for municipal cultural policy, with a broad impact

which goes well beyond the area of the culture and leisure administration. It

affects the entire municipality.

Lunds cultural policy strategy is based on the catchword hospitality. Lund will

be the hospitable city.

Lund will open its doors to the surrounding world.

The future of the city lies in being part of the world around it. But hospitality, as

agreeable as it may sound, is not just a matter of course.

Hospitality doesnt just mean opening the door a crack and tolerating whoever

steps inside.

It means being prepared for a meeting about which we know nothing.

An encounter that can change us and our environment.

The French philosopher Derrida writes about hospitality: this is the double

layer of hospitality; to calculate the risk of course, but without closing the door

to the incalculable, that is, to the future and the foreigner.

Besides this basic conceptual tie, the aims for Lund 2014 are in agreement with

the areas of Lunds cultural strategy policy in the following ways:

Aim 1 agrees largely with the area Being attracted to culture

Aim 2 agrees largely with the areas Developing ones talents and

Experiencing one anothers cultural heritage

Aim 3 agrees largely with the area Living on creativity

During 2008 and 2009 we produced an action plan based on the strategy. It

includes concrete efforts to increase the temperature of Lunds cultural life

during the period 2010 to 2013. To prepare the city for its year as cultural

capital. The work of producing the action plan has therefore taken place

in coordination with Lunds cultural capital application. Of the proposed


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33 initiatives presented in the action plan, about half are connected to the

application. These efforts are described in appendix A.

Cultural policy strategy is developed to work over the long term; long after the

cultural capital year 2014 too. The next action plan applies to the period after

the cultural capital year. The ambition is to capture and preserve the legacy

after Lund 2014 (read more in question 1.15).

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME FOR SKNE

Since the 1st of January 1999, the Region of Skne carries the regional

responsibility for development in Skne. The experimental work in the Skne

and Vstra Gtaland counties will be made permanent starting from 2011. This

means that the Region of Skne is still responsible for business, culture, public

transport and other issues that have to do with regional development.

The overall objectives in the regional development programme are Growth,

Power of Attraction, Financial Strength and Balance. The objectives for Lund

2014 are in agreement with the aims of the Region of Skne in the following

ways:

Aim 4 agrees largely with the aims of Power of Attraction and Growth

Aim 5 agrees largely with the aims of Financial Strength and Balance

SKNES CULTURAL POLICY PROGRAMME

The Region of Sknes cultural policy programme is called, Open landscapes

art and culture in Skne. The vision is that this cultural policy should contribute

to a dynamic, open and democratic society characterized by humanist values,

broad citizen dialogue and interest in the diversity of expression from the past,

the present and the future. It should provide identity and a sense of belonging

while fostering social cohesion. Culture should be experienced as a force that

contributes to the development and wellbeing of the individual and society.

Lund 2014 and the objective,The alternative metropolis lies exactly in line with

the following strategic orientations in Sknes cultural policy programme:

Sknes cultural diversity should be recognised and make its mark on the

resund region, nationally and internationally. (Aim 4)

Culture should be vigorous in all parts of Skne and should contribute to

giving people a good life regardless of age, gender, ethnicity or interests.

(Aim 5)

Personal endeavour should be encouraged. (Aim 5)

Through the understanding of its significance, culture should be a highly

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Skne region. (Aim 5)

Through the method for and the organisation of Lund 2014, with outsourced

projects and project owners, we are basing ourselves on the following two

strategic orientations in Sknes cultural policy programme:

The freedom of artists and of artistic expression are to be protected and

supported even when they challenge and provoke prevailing norms.

The professional integrity of cultural institutions is a prerequisite for the

dynamic development of the entire cultural sector.

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Lund 2014 has involved the municipal offices unit for environmental strategy.

This unit develops Lunds work toward long-term sustainability. Lunds

programme for ecologically sustainable development, LundaEko, focuses

(as does Sknes environment programme) on the ecological dimensions of

the notion of sustainable development and captures the local perspective in

national and regional environmental work.

The guiding light is a holistic view of transport, green areas, waste management

and such like. All kinds of things which will contribute to the happiness and

wellbeing of future generations in Lund. Among other things, by taking on

the presidency of the newly created Climate municipalities Association, Lund

has the opportunity to stay at the forefront of climate work during the next

few years. As a starting point for this, Climate Council One is organised

by Lunds Youth Council. This will take place in conjunction with the COP 15

climate summit in Copenhagen. Youth from all over the world will be invited to

establish contacts for the future. By continuing to be a pioneer within fair trade

and clarifying what it means to be a Fairtrade City, the unit and the municipality

take global responsibility for human wellbeing. The municipality has taken on a

coordinator for Fairtrade City Lund, to ensure that the commitment to fair trade

on the part of individuals and business gets the opportunity to flourish. The

environmental strategy unit intends to take on an advisor to support all those

who want to carry out sustainable events within Lund 2014.

The unit has overall responsibility for ensuring that Lund has relevant

environmental aims, and has been entrusted by the municipal council with

the task of drawing up new climate objectives for the municipality. During

2009 an extensive citizens debate was started on how Lund should achieve

the long-term reductions in greenhouse gas emissions required to avoid the

catastrophic consequences of climate change. The discussions main aim is

to get all agents in society to contribute to the solution of the climate crisis.

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society, including private individuals as well as industry. Good precedents exist

of linking researchers from Lund University to the municipalitys climate work,

so there are plans to turn the reference group, which was set up in view of a

limited project during 2008, into a permanent body.

It bodes well for the realisation of a sustainable cultural capital year. Besides

Lund 2014 being carried out in accordance with the highest environmental aims

of Lund municipality, Lund 2014s framework projects, Sustainable Events and

Event Prepared Areas (see appendix A), will contribute to making Lund the

most sustainable cultural capital year ever. (Framework projects are special

projects which support other projects.) Moreover, Lund 2014s aim 3 is linked to

sustainable development.

In this way we take responsibility for sustainable development in the very long

term, in Lund & Skne.

A CITY AND A REGION IN TRANSFORMATION

Lund 2014 is part of a city and a region in transformation.

Lund 2014 is an important part of that transformation.

We are investing heavily in sustainable development.

We have created a fascinating event that connects to the broad visions and

aims in Lund and Skne.

Weve got the wind behind us!


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1.8 To what extent do you plan to

forge links with the other city to

be nominated Capital of Culture?

LATVIA AND SWEDEN

Latvia and Sweden have a common past.

The period during most of the 1600s is still called The good old Swedish time

in Latvia. Here in Sweden this Latvian time isnt called anything in particular.

We still regard the Baltic countries as being quite far away. As European capital

of culture, Lund hopes to change this and instead create a strong, present,

relevant link between Sweden and Latvia.

This is highly topical, not least today. The economic crisis in the Baltic countries

is one which rests largely on lending from Swedish banks. So Latvias problems

can quite easily become Swedens problems.

We are building up our cooperation between Lund 2014 and the Latvian cultural

capital in three ways:

The general Swedish-Latvian theme

Ties between the cultural capital organisations.

Ties between local and regional operators here and in Latvia.

THE SWEDISH-LATVIAN THEME

What unites Sweden and Latvia is not just a common history and a shared

future as EU-members, but also a shared sea - the Baltic.

During the autumn, under the Swedish presidency, the EUs council of

ministers is expected to adopt the Baltic Sea Strategy. (See question 1.11)

Even though this strategy only hints at cultural aspects under headings such

as innovation, entrepreneurship and tourism, we take it for granted that two

concurrent cultural capitals in Baltic States should work towards increased

cultural exchange, in the spirit of the Baltic Sea Strategy. Together, Lund and

the Latvian cultural capital can focus on culture as a progressive force in the

development of the Baltic area. Lund has already established cooperation

with the Ars Baltica network in Gdansk to facilitate a broad approach to these

issues.

In addition to this general Baltic policy basis, we have preliminarily identified

a number of thematic orientations which are relevant to cooperation between

Lund and Latvias cultural capital, regardless of which city is nominated:

New Skanish cooking and new Latvian cooking

The good old Swedish times Swedens role in Latvias history and

Latvias role in Swedens history

The brain drain

Exchanges between Lund, the city of music and Latvia, the country of

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Evaluation

Common meetings with Nordic funds and contributors

Coordination or harmonisation of applications to EU programmes

Communication in each others countries and neighbouring countries

Activities in Brussels

Volunteering programmes and trainee posts

Talks with Riga are ongoing about the following programme ideas:

Riga and Lund will cooperate on the project Amber Road, on the ancient

amber routes through Europe. This can become a part of Lunds Crafted

Freedom-project (see appendix).

Lund will take part in the Choir Olympics which will take place in Riga in

2014.

Rigas and Lunds respective cultural nights will take place in September

various exchanges will be worked out.

Riga and Lund are both part of the European Fantastic Film Festivals

Federation. A cooperation between Lunds Fantastic Film festival and

Rigas International Fantasy Film Festival and the project Phantasmagoric

is under discussion.

Discussions have begun on Lunds participation in Rigas Inspiration Field

of Music-festival

Coordinated programmes around the common area of interest science

and art are under discussion, on Lunds side within the framework of the

Boomerang (see appendix).

We have an ongoing dialogue with Liepaja on the following programme ideas:

Architecture projects that involve students of architecture from Liepaja

and Lund in urban development.

The area of performance arts for children and youth is of particular

interest to Liepaja. Talks with bibu.se have begun about possible forms of

cooperation.

Poetry projects. An introduction to Latvian poetry could well be included

in Vox Europa (see appendix)

Rock music. Latvian indie-bands could be part of Mejeriets European

Indie Music Festival (se appendix)

Lund and Liepaja are cooperating on Latvian gastronomy.

We have an ongoing dialogue with Cesis on the following programme ideas:

Latvia was once occupied by Sweden. Lund could in some way take part

in Cesiss project on Latvias past as an occupied country.

Cooperation around Lunds church opera project.

New media projects, mainly on the connection between Latvia and

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Cooperation on guest performances in chamber music.

Cooperation on handicrafts and design.

Cooperation focusing on literature, choir music and performance arts.

BETWEEN INDEPENDENT OPERATORS

As part of Lunds connection to Latvias cultural capital, Lund 2014s Swedish

and Latvian independent operators will be encouraged to meet to create their

own cooperation projects for Lund and Latvias cultural capital programmes.

The connection between the two cultural capitals cannot be limited to cultural

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meeting between independent operators based on their respective cultural

capital concepts and orientations together with the set financial framework.

During spring 2010, Lund 2014 will invite representatives of the Latvian

network, The Association of Non-governmental Contemporary Art, and other

independent operators selected by Latvias cultural capital organisation, to

meet equivalent operators in Lund and Skne. These workshops will take place

annually for three years, from 2010 to 2012. The meetings will alternate between

Sweden and Latvia, with Mejeriet as the local host in Lund and NOASS as the

local host in Riga. The project will start in 2011 at the earliest and will be made

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1.9 As regards The European

Dimension, how does the

city intend to contribute to the

following objectives:

to strengthen cooperation

between the cultural operators,

artists and cities of your countryand other Member States, in all

cultural sectors;

to highlight the richness of

cultural diversity in Europe;

to bring the common aspects of

European cultures to the fore?

Can you specify how this event

could help to strengthen the

citys links with Europe?

THE EUROPEAN DIMENSION

The European Dimension is central in the concept the fifth freedom. It is the

starting point of both the thematic and logistical handling of the European

Dimension.

How will Lund 2014 strengthen cooperation between the cultural operators,

artists and cities of our country and other Member States, in all cultural

sectors?

Through projects working with aim 6 meeting in networks and aim 7

meeting in knowledge (see project map question 2.1).

Through our national strategy (see question 1.17).

Through the programme City of Festivals (see Appendix A), where festival

productions are used to build new networks. Lund 2014 has already

successfully started this process by establishing three festivals.

Through the programme Reading the Unwritten (see Appendix A) where

cooperations are strengthened by collective knowledge production.

How will Lund 2014 highlight the richness of cultural diversity in Europe?

Through projects working with aim 8 - to meet around challenges (see

project map question 2.1).

Through an increased ambition in regards to accessibility (see question

1.17).

Through the programme What We Can Do Together (see Appendix A)

which thematisises intercultural issues from different perspectives.

How will Lund 2014 bring the common aspects of European cultures to the

fore?



Through a concept that permeates the entire project, and that emphasises

a common challenge; the need to meet.

Through the programmes Challenges, which illustrates common

challenges, and Europeans, which illustrates issues about European

identity (see Appendix A).


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Can you specify how this event could help to strengthen the citys links with

Europe?



Through a concept that permeates the entire project, and that emphasises

a common challenge; the need to meet.

Through the programmes Challenges, which illustrates common

challenges, and Europeans, which illustrates issues about European

identity (see Appendix A).


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2014 company is designed to maximize learning and network effects/

synergies.

By establishing Lund Innovation Centre for Culture, making it possible for

ideas to develop and become regular, sustainable activities.

In particular through the programme Sharing the City which develops

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1.11. How does the city plan

to get involved in or create

synergies with the cultural

activities supported by the

European Institutions?

MANY ROADS TO EUROPE

Lund 2014 wants to be a clear link between Lund, Skne, Sweden and the rest

of Europe.

With its special location on the southernmost tip of Sweden out towards the

Baltic, Skne constitutes a Swedish springboard to continental Europe and

the Baltics. There are many established contacts and forms of cooperation, on

which we can easily build further.

IN THE SPIRIT OF THE BALTICSEA STRATEGY

With Sweden holding the presidency of the EUs council of ministers in the

second half of 2009, the adoption of the Baltic Sea strategy will be a prominent

issue. This is a whole new strategy, based on the EUs Nordic dimension, which

focuses on cooperation around the Baltic. Environment, security, accessibility,

power of attraction and prosperity are the main orientations. The strategy will

be followed up by an action plan, due to be implemented in 2011.

The idea is that this should not just affect the member states on the

government level, but also operators on many different levels in the Baltic

Sea area: regional authorities, municipalities and international and non-

governmental organisations.

We can already see clearly that parts of our programme have great potential

to work in the spirit of the Baltic Sea strategy. Lund 2014 will therefore seek

synergies within the following priority areas in the strategy:

To preserve and reinforce the power of attraction of the Baltic region, in

particular through education, tourism and health. (the area, An accessible

and attractive region)

To safeguard the regions full potential within research and innovation (the

area, Prosperity)

To support entrepreneurship, strengthen small and medium enterprises

and increase the efficient use of human resources (the area, Prosperity)

The aim of this, besides the obvious advantages in finding favourable

winds and working in the same direction as other strategies, is to show the

significance of Lund 2014 as an international project. Not least in view of

negotiations with the Swedish state about national financing. The municipality

of Lund also already has plenty of experience of exchanges across the Baltic

Sea. Cooperation with Latvias cultural capital will be partly based on a dialogue

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EXAMPLES OF COOPERATION AROUND THE BALTIC

The south Baltic programme is a concrete tool for us to work with in the spirit

of the Baltic Sea strategy. This is a border-transcending programme that runs

under the EUs territorial objectives 20072013 (Interreg IV A). The aim of the

programme is to reinforce pre-existing cooperation in the Baltic region but also

to develop new forms of cooperation. Lund 2014 will link certain projects with

South Baltic.

For the last fifteen years, Lund has been one of the municipalities in the Euro-

region Pomerania. The region consists of municipalities in Skne, northeastern

Germany and western Poland.

Their task is to reinforce and develop cross-border cooperation between

citizens on both sides of the Baltic. Many previous and planned forms of

cooperation focus on culture and youth. The Euro-region Pomerania supports

Lund 2014s candidature and will be a forum for future project cooperation.

We have a lot of experience of working with the programme Youth in Action.

Among other things, in 2007 the project BANGOL Five.One. was carried out.

This project was nominated Europes best youth project 2007. It brought a

hundred young people, politicians and civil servants from six different countries

together to discuss Europes future, for a week in Lund. The pursuit of the

fifth freedom was launched during this project. This pursuit will continue in

August in Skne within the framework of the Youth in Action project, In search

of a common and inclusive Europe which involves 60 young people from

six different countries. Besides these larger projects, Lund has taken part in

around 20 youth exchange projects. The theme in these exchanges has been

everything from culture and identity to drug issues and sport.

Within Lund 2014, we also intend to initiate projects in the Baltic and Russia

with the help of SIDAs Baltic unit. Projects which, after the feasibility study

phase, could be financed by other Baltic programmes, for example South

Baltic.

Since 2005 the Municipality of Lund has run a number of youth and

competence-developing projects with both Riga and Vilnius. The projects were

aimed at people active in the youth and culture sectors. On this occasion,

we are planning a large project financed by the Leonardo programme. A

project that involves people employed in the cultural sector in Lund swapping

their workplace with their equivalent colleagues in Latvian and Lithuanian

municipalities. For Lund 2014, this means a personalised connection between a

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Lund 2014 will also draw project owners attention to the fact that the Nordic

Council of Ministers supports projects in which civil society and NGOs

cooperate with parts of Russia that border on the Baltic, for example the

Kaliningrad region. Since 2005, parts of the municipality of Lund have run such

development projects both within the non-profit and the municipal sectors.

EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS AROUND THE RESUND STRAIT

There is also a series of InterReg-projects that have Skne and Sjlland

(the resund region) as their starting-point. The main aims of these regional

cooperation programmes are: to promote sustainable economic growth, to bind

the region together, and to promote day-to-day integration. Below are a few

examples of resund projects which are of interest in relation to Lund 2014.

Kreativ Metapol is a three-year project with the aim of binding together a

number of regional platforms over the Strait and creating the conditions for

innovative connections between culture, business, education and planning.

This harmonises very well with the idea of the alternative metropolis, which,

through creative cooperation and efficient use of resources, is developed as

a whole. The project has 14 participating municipalities, seven Danish and

seven Swedish, among them Lund and Malm, as well as the Skne region. In

addition, Malm College, Roskilde University Centre and Copenhagen Business

School are taking part in the project. During the further development of the

Lund 2014-programme we will make the most of Kreativ Metapol, in particular

the mapping of the creative activities in the resund region and the building of

their knowledge network.

IBU-resund (Infrastructure and urban development in the resund region) is

working on building a consensus for investments in infrastructure and good

regional development. The project aims to increase knowledge on how to build

up a sustainable transport system, how energy efficient urban development

can become a reality and how the resund regions competitive edge can be

strengthened. Lund 2014 will follow the projects progress to identify synergies.

EU CULTURAL POLICY

During 2007, the EU adopted a new cultural policy agenda, a European agenda

for culture in an increasingly globalised world. No concrete action plan has yet

been connected to it, but Lund 2014 strives to be at the forefront in terms of

the development of cultural policy and will function as a best practice example

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Intercultural dialogue, diversity and mobility coincide with Lund 2014s

aims 1, 6 and 8.

Culture as a catalyst for creativity coincides with Lund 2014s aims 3, 6

and 7.

As our ambition is to include and particularly highlight the creativity of young

people and network cultures, we must pay attention to the particular conditions

that characterise them, for example alternative forms of employment and

systems of qualification. We therefore have much to gain from drawing on the

experiences and best practice examples within these areas. This particular

focus implies a slightly different angle of approach to what culture is, how it is

created and who creates it. We also hope to be able to generate knowledge

about the new cultural landscape that the network cultures have contributed to

creating, and of which they form a significant part.

Much cultural innovation takes place within the networks, the testing of new

and hybrid cultural forms and new forms of cooperation. These have practical

implications for Europes cultural development. This is also connected with

the issues raised in the EUs Lisbon strategy, which are clearly apparent in the

culture agendas second aim.

Another important issue is the significance of networks for democracy in

Europe. This development and the issues that follow in its wake are central to

our work up to and during the cultural capital year.

CULTURE 2007-2013

The EUs cultural programme, Culture 2007-2013 aims to support projects

and initiatives for cross-border work in European cultural diversity and to share

our cultural heritage.

We see the following connections:

To facilitate transnational mobility among people active in the cultural

sector coincides with Lund 2014s aims 1, 6 and 8

To encourage mobility in cultural and artistic works coincides with Lund

2014s aims 7 and 8 and

To stimulate intercultural dialogue in Europe coincides with Lund 2014s

aims 1, 4, 6 and 8.

With the fifth freedom as a basis, many projects within the framework for

Lund 2014 can seek support from Culture 2007 2013. From autumn 2009

onwards, we will be selecting a few larger so-called platform projects and

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EUROPEAN NETWORKS

Lund is increasingly active in various European networks. This has been further

emphasised through our candidature to be European capital of culture 2014.

Trans Europe Halles (TEH), with its headquarters in Lund, organises and

coordinates 56 independent cultural centres (49 members and 7 associated

centres) in around 20 countries in Europe. Lund 2014 and TEH have been

cooperating closely for several years. Through the organisation which has a

vast experience of EU-projects, we can reach out and talk to the free, network-

based and sub-cultural culture scene in most of Europe. TEH is one of the

partners in the development of the Innovation centre. For the time being,

discussions are underway on how cooperation can be deepened further

between Lund 2014 and TEH.

The municipality of Lund has long been a member in the Les Rencontres

network and participates regularly in its activities. Membership has given us a

forum for discussions that puts cultural issues on the EUs agenda.

The BANGOL (Baltic Area Non-Governmental Organisations and Leisure)

network, which was started by the leisure administration in Lund in 2005,

includes young people and youth workers from Riga, Vilnius, Kaliningrad,

Hamburg, Frederiksberg and Lund. BANGOL will continue to be a basis for

work on developing meetings between young people in the Baltic region.

Cooperation with the city of Malm will give us the opportunity to take part in

discussions that are held several times a year within the Eurocities network and

its relevant cultural forums. At these meetings, where the municipality of Malm

has its own representation as one of the 65 members, strategic cultural policy

issues are discussed in a clear EU perspective.

In the communication strategy for Lund 2014, one of the important ingredients

is the use and development of new European networks. Networks that will

remain long after 2014 and that build on relations directly between operators,

organisations and people.

EU-RESOURCES WITHIN LUND 2014

There will be an EU unit within the Lund 2014-companys Matchmaking and

Service department. It will have the task of writing applications to various EU-

programmes for Lund 2014s framework programmes, and will act as an advisor

for external project owners that intend to seek partial funding from the various

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1.12 Are some parts of the

programme designed for

particular target groups

(young people, minorities, etc)

Specify the relevant parts of

the programme planned for the

event.

THE YOUNG 2014

We have allowed Lunds youth itself to create an alternative 2014.

Its working name is U2014. U as in the Swedish word for young, or as in

underground. Its a group that challenges the established scene and cultural life

on its own terms.

It has to be on the same theme, the fifth freedom, but has full freedom to

interpret the concept. That is the only requirement.

What can we expect from U2014?

To be perfectly honest, we dont know. At the time of going to press (mid-June)

we have yet to see their programme proposal, which we will unreservedly

include in the application.

On the other hand, we are quite sure that they will produce a programme that

will be engaging and provoke strong feelings. A programme which is certain to

challenge our application - and that is precisely why it will make it even edgier

and better.

Who, if not the young, will shape the culture of the future?

ONE THIRD

At least one third of the cultural capital years activities will be done by, with or

for children and youth. That is what we have decided. We are looking forward

with great excitement to U2014s proposal.

Even the ordinary programme features a whole lot of projects that are created

by, with and for youth. BANGOL Festigress is a large combined congress

and festival, estimated to involve 1,500 young people from the various Baltic

countries. We are also active in the development of the so-called BANGOL-

centres around the Baltic, one of which is to be set up in Lund. These centres

will function as a combination of youth culture incubators and information

and orientation centres on international opportunities for youth. SWITCH is a

project that engages young people in taking over power in society. The House

of Dreams implements a project with young people about investigating existing

fears and what can be done about them.

The student scene, made up to a large extent of youth and young adults, will

create a years programme under the leadership of the Academic Society.

LitteraLund is a Lund 2014-project which has already turned Lund into a

Swedish centre for childrens and youth literature. bibu.se has put Lund on the

map as a city for performance art for children and youth.

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ACCESSIBILITY FOR ALL

One of the Lund 2014-companys core values will be accessibility (see question

3.1.1). But accessibility isnt just a matter of course. Not everyone has the same

pre-conditions to join in.

That is why we will make particular efforts to lower the threshold for

participation.

During the year, visitors and participants in the event will have the opportunity

to consult written material in alternative forms. Information will be available

in Braille, in simple Swedish and in various foreign languages. Information

will be provided to the hearing-impaired through sign-language interpretation

transferred to electronic format. Sign-language interpretation will be available at

various events.

Based on the needs of the individual and the aim of the activity, Lund will be

able to offer accessible information via e-services. These should be of good

quality, fast, simple and accessible to meet the requirements that the WAI (Web

Accessibility Initiative) has established as a standard for accessibility on the

web.

But taking part isnt only about experiencing culture.

Its also about creating.

About making your mark.

About acting and getting involved.

In projects such as the Forum for Integrated Art and ArtInclusion, we show

opportunities for involving disabled people in cultural life as creative agents.

Another example is MINO, in which we give particular space to theatre in

minority languages.

Read more about these projects in the appendix.

One important tool in the preparation work for the cultural capital year is the

involvement of the operators active in the Integration and Diversity rounds.

For the last three years, Lund has been holding this weeklong inter-sectoral

event where individuals and associations confront many peoples experiences

of discrimination on the basis of sex, transgender identity, ethnicity, religion

or other beliefs, disability, sexual orientation and age. Over these first few

years, a number of lectures, exhibitions and debates focusing on issues of

discrimination have taken place. This very well-functioning and appreciated

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In the year 2014, Lunds Integration- and Diversity week will be the biggest

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AND NOT JUST IN THE CITYCENTRE

The municipality of Lund isnt just the city centre, but also a lively countryside

in which five villages contain a quarter of the municipalitys inhabitants. To

meet the thoughts, ideas, wishes and needs of these citizens, a number of

workshops will be held during 2009-2013, with the aim of developing ideas

and projects in the years programme. We have already started this work in the

smaller villages of Dalby, Veberd, Sdra Sandby and Genarp. Read more about

this in the appendix.

The Leader Lundaland project is one tool in this process: a grass-roots activity

partly financed by the EU, which Lund 2014 has worked hard to establish. Over

a period leading up to 2013, this project will develop the countryside in the

municipalities around the city of Lund. This will become an important forum for

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1.13 What contacts has the

city or the body responsible for

preparing the event established,

or what contacts does it intend to

establish, with

cultural operators in the city?

cultural operators basedoutside the city?

cultural operators based

outside the country?

Name some operators with whom

cooperation is envisaged and

specify the type of exchanges in

question.

MANY COOPERATIONS

Lund 2014 has established contact with practically the entire cultural arena in

the city and the surrounding region, of which about 80 organisations are today

direct cooperation partners. We feel it is unrealistic at this stage to focus on

finding further partners. A range of national and international contacts have

also been established.

We have divided our cooperation partners into two categories: primary

partners, that is players with whom we have had direct dialogue, and secondary

partners, with whom our primary partners have been in dialogue regarding

specific Lund 2014 projects.

Full partner information and partnerships outside the field of culture can be

found in Appendix B.

Lund 2014 has today the following local, regional, national and international

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Lund .

HumLab, Lund University

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Virtual museums,

Uppkra Reborn and A Walk Through Lund in Space and

Time .

Aura Art Society

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Lund Grand Tour .

Kulturen, Lund

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: The revolts and

Rebellions of Skne, Whos the owner? and Sub Surface .

Kultur Lund

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Dramatic Art and

Democracy - possibilities of community art .

Kulturmejeriet

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Lund European Indie

Music Festival. .

Kulturnatten (Lund Culture Night)

Type of exchange:

Cooperation on the extended part of the festival

programme for 2014.

The Regional Archive

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Improved Access to

European Cultural Heritage .

LitteraLund

Type of exchange:

LitteraLund was initiated as an element of Lunds

candidacy for European Capital of Culture. Cooperation

on the extended part of the festival programme for 2014.

CULTURAL OPERATORS AT A LOCAL LEVEL

The Academic Society in Lund (AF)

Type of exchange:

Partnership around infrastructure, logistics and

volunteers. Also projects in collaboration with specific

societies within AF (for example The Lund Carnival). .

Anagram Produktion AB

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: The Battle of Lund, One

European a Day and Europe from a comedy point of

view .

ArchFilmLund

Typ av utbyte:


programme for 2014.

Bibu.se

Type of exchange:

Bibu.se was initiated as an element of Lunds candidacy

for European Capital of Culture. Cooperation on the

extended part of the festival programme for 2014.

Dalby Villiage Society

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Dalby Folk Music Festival

.

Fantastic Film Festival

Type of exchange:


programme for 2014.

and also the project Phantasmagoric.

Genarp Culture Society

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: The Genarp festival

Culture Delights .

The Historical Museum in Lund

Type of exchange:

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Partner in future projects.

Malm Symphony Orchestra

Type of exchange:


Media Meeting Place Malm (Media Mtesplats Malm)

Type of exchange:


Mix Musik

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Monofestivals in a Global

City .

Moderna Museet Malm

Type of exchange:

Moderna Museet Malm opens at the end of 2009.

Moderna Museet Malm and Lund 2014 have however

held meetings concerning possible projects for 2014.

Moomsteatern Theatre

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Lund - Forum of

Integrated Performing Arts and Moving Media .

Moving Media South Sweden


Musik i Syd (Music in the South)

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: An internationa chamber

music series and Lund International Choral Festival -

initiated as an element of Lunds candidacy for European

Capital of Culture. Musik i Syd and Lund 2014 also have

an on-going dialogue about further collaborations (an

opera based on Molire, being one of them). .

Opera Workshop - Malm Opera

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Ulrika Eleonora - An

equestrian opera .

Partner in project collaboration: The Parliaments of Skne

.

International Garden Society

Type of exchange:

Partner in future projects. This collaboration will include

the alotment garden societies in Lund.

Kivik Art Centre

Type of exchange:

Partner in future projects. Preliminary discussions

between Kivik Art Centre and Lund 2014 have been held.

The Kivik Art Centre gallery section opens 2014.

Malm Art Academy

Type of exchange:


Kultur Skne (Culture Skne)

Type of exchange:

Project development, research, kommunication and

information.

Lilith Performance Studio

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Lilith Performance Studio

2014 .

Malm konsthall

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Birds and modern

scientists .

Malm Museums

Type of exchange:

Project collaboration: The revolts and rebellions of Skne

Malm City Theatre

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Whos the owner? and

Run Like a Criminal.

Malm Opera and Music Theatre

Type of exchange:


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Teatercentrum (South)

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Childrens Culture Lab .

Teater Foratt

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: The Crash World Test .

Teater Inc

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: The Family .

Teater Insite

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: The Crash World Test .

Malm Theatre Academy

Type of exchange:


between Malm Theatre Academyand Lund 2014 have

been held.

Teatr Weimar

Type of exchange:


between Teatr Weimar and Lund 2014 have been held.

resund Film Commission

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Phantasmagoric. Further

collaborations are planned.

SKG, Tjrnedala art gallery

Type of exchange:


between SKG and Lund 2014 have been held.

CULTURAL OPERATORS AT A NATIONAL LEVEL

Crystal Palace

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Crafted Freedom .

Ord p Scen (Word on Stage)

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Poetry Slam The First

Open European Championship .

Dansstationen och Palladium

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Lund 2014 have an

on-going dialogue with Dansstationen and Palladium

concerning a possible Chinese dance and performance

appearance, Jin Xing, and Beijing Modern Dance

Company.

The Regional Museum in Kristianstad

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: The revolts and rebellions

of Skne .

Sknes Dansteater (Skne Dance Theatre)

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Sub Surface and RepNet

Skne Organ Weeks

Type of exchange:

Collaboration around those parts of the festival that are

specifically designed for 2014.

Spiritus Mundi

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: SWITCH .

KHVC (Konsthantverkscentrum)

Type of exchange:


The Wans Foundation Exhibitions

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Breaking Barriers

Teater 23

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: My Friends Europe .


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CULTURAL OPERATORS AT ANINTERNATIONAL LEVEL

Belarus Free Theatre

Type of exchange:

Project collaboration: The pilot project Eurepica

Challenge (Feb/March 2009). Belarus Free Theatre will

also collaborate with Mnteatern in The Art of Being

Human.

CityArts Dublin

Type of exchange:


NOASS

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration (see question 1.7).

Religions for Peace Europe

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: What We Can Do

Together .

REX Cultural Centre Belgrade

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Wash Your Hands and

Dont Panic!

Trans Europe Halles

Type of exchange:

Network partner

Workz

(previously Zentropa Interaction, Zentropa WorkZ och

Reflection in Action)

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Measure This!

Secondary Partners

The following cultural operators have been contacted by

our partners concerning collaborations for specific Lund

2014 projects. In some cases partnerships have been

formed.

The Curator Programme, Stockholm University

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: The Boomerang

Eric Ericson International Choral Centre

Type of exchange:

Project collaboration: Lund International Choral Festival .

Folkets Hus och Parker

Type of exchange:

Contact established concerning tours and live digital

distribution.

Gustavsbergs konsthall

Type of exchange:


The County Music Organisation in Kalmar

Type of exchange:

On-going dialogue about a project under construction.

Riksteatern

Type of exchange:

Envisaged partner in project collaboration: Soko Motu,

Dramatic Art and Democracy - possibilities of community

art and The Backyard of Europe .

The Story Lab

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: Measure This! and Border

of Dreams .

SWEBLUL - Swedish Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages

Type of exchange:

Partner in project collaboration: MINO .

Tornedalsteatern, Samiska teatern Tyst teater och Uusi

Teatteri

Type of exchange:

Project collaboration: MINO .


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Swedish Film Institute

Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts

The Swedish Model

Vetenskapssocietn.

SEB

INTERNATIONAL

Carte Blache, Bergen, Norge

Dahteater Serbia

Danske Bank

The Dancing Dervishes in Konya, Turkey

El Haddawi , Germany

Europeana

Iceland Dance Company, Reykjavik, Island

Kunstmuseet Kge Skitsesamling

World Council of Churches

MediaXchange (London/Los Angeles)

Parfyme

Rytmisk konservatorium Copenhagen

Scottish Dance Theatre, Dundee, Skottland

Tanz NordWest, Bremen Oldenburg, Tyskland

Teater och performance studier, Copenhagen University

LOCAL

Department of Archeology, University of Lund

Filmstaden Lund

Flyinge Kungsgrd

Peoples Cinema Lund/ Kino

Frs & Frosta Sparbank Arena

Writers Scholl, Frfattarskolan, University of Lund

Grand Hotel, Lund

Society of Foreign Affairs, AF

Lunds UN Society

Lund Chamber Music Society

Faculty of Engineering, University of Lund

Pilgrimsplats Liberiet

Department of Theology, University of Lund

REGIONAL

Dunkers Culture Centre

Fridhems folkhgskola

Krcentrum (South)

Malm Comedy Klubb (MACK)

Malm Museums

Academy of Music in Malm

Skurups folkhgskola

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Alnarp

Landscape architecture

Ystad Art Museum

NATIONAL

ABM-centrum - The coordinating office for Archives,

Libraries and Museums in Sweden

The Swedish Inheritance Fund

Swedish Arts and Business Society

The Writers Centre in Sweden

Intercult, Stockholm

Royal Humanistic Science Order

National Library

RFOD (the Swedish Folk Music and Dance Association)

National Archive

The National Public Art Council

Swedish Academy


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AND A SERIES OF INNOVATIVE PROJECTS

We are counting heavily on the fact that different projects in the programme will

be innovative. To give a few examples:

SokoMoto is the worlds first performance art production based on

cognitive research on primates.

Sknes Parliament is using new methods of participatory performance

art to tackle controversial and important issues about democracy and

identity.

Border of Dreams develops new methods in combining role play with

social and mobile medias.


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1.15 If the city in question is

awarded the title of Capital

of Culture, what would be the

medium- and long-term effects of

the event from a social, cultural

and urban point of view? Do

the municipal authorities intendto make a public declaration

of intent concerning the period

following the year of the event?

ABOUT EFFECTS, TARGETS ANDTHE UNFORESEE

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