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ALERT Extra – Partner Search Bulletin #4for Culture 2000 & other EU programmes offering support for cultural projects

Welcome to the fourth issue of the ALERT Partner Search Bulletin for 2003. This bulletin aims to provide a central focus for projects seeking partners in other European countries. Please note that we have reproduced the description and other information as it has been supplied to us – if you have specific queries about any projects, please contact the project directly rather than EUCLID.

New entries are highlighted in purple. If your project is published in this bulletin and you have found your partners, please send us an email and we will happily take your outline out of the bulletin. Any feedback and comments are always welcome and appreciated.

Before submitting a proposal under Culture 2000, you need to make sure that your overall project fulfils all the formal eligibility criteria. Not all the partner search requests posted in this Bulletin might meet these requirements in their current form. Therefore, you may need to work closely with the organisation submitting the partner searches in which you are interested in order to create a viable application for the Culture 2000 programme.

This bulletin supplements the on-line partner search mechanisms available on the official Culture 2000 web-site (see section 3) and on other similar mechanisms available on other sites (section 5).

If you have a partner search request, please add it to the appropriate database or send the information to [email protected] and we will add the details to the next issue.

The EUCLID Team

Contents

1. Culture 2000: UK organisations seeking partners in other European countries2. Culture 2000: European organisations seeking partners from the UK3. Culture 2000: Partner Requests posted on the official web-site4. Other Partner Requests (linked to culture)5. Other web-sites offering partner search facilities

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1. Culture 2000: UK seeking OTHER EUROPEAN

Alternating Currents The aim of the project is to produce a unique arts/science performance project detailing the life and inventions of Nikola Tesla. A large-scale production involving music, movement and performers along-side the many electrical and engineering discoveries and inventions by Nikola Tesla. Alternating Currents as a project will focus upon the process, as well as the final performances in each partner state, using students along-side professionals in order to create a sense of enquiry, shared information and experimentation which would be beyond the scope of a standard production approach. The intention is to create a production that not only recounts the dramatic life of this forgotten European hero, but also to demonstrate the central importance and on-going value of his scientific insights within Europe and indeed the rest of the world. The organisation is looking to work with culture and arts organisations, further education institutions, particularly those from regions that Nikola Tesla worked and lived in. Contact: David Wilson, For Moving Being ProductionsT +44 2920916965F + 44 2920404216M +44 7812159252E [email protected]

Cultural Heritage - Mail Art + Theatre festival

The aim of the project will be to inform young people about their cultural heritage and about the culture of other European regions/communities, using the tools of art and theatre. The project will examine the history of areas of industrial decline and the effect that this has had communities across Europe. It will encourage the sharing of experiences and cultural heritage. The project will involve the development of a mail art project. Students will be encouraged to explore their own culture and the effects of declining industries on their communities. They will then produce postcard-sized pieces of art illustrating their local history and culture.

Students from participating organisations will post/email their mail art projects to students in other partner organisations to inform them about their cultural heritage and the issues related to areas of industrial decline in their region/town. These projects will form an exhibition in each country.

Throughout the duration of the project, students in each partner country will develop a combined arts piece based on their local culture and issues affecting their communities.

The performances will initially take place in partners’ own countries to raise awareness of local cultural heritage within their community. The partners will then come together in one of the partner countries (or Brussels) for a one-week theatre festival focusing on the shared cultural heritage of in Europe and sharing best practice. The festival will also include an exhibition of all of the mail art projects produced by all participants.

The organisation is looking to work with culture and arts organisations, further education institutions and other organisations with relevant experiences in these fields, particularly those from regions/towns that have experienced industrial decline.

Contact: Corrina PerksEuropean Relations Co-ordinatorStourbridge CollegeT +44 1384343182F + 44 1384 343172M +44 7971422539E [email protected]

European Authors

The project intends to bring together European-based writers.

Contact: Trevor Lockwood author.co.uk T +44 1394 273388 E [email protected] W www.author.co.uk

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European Jazz Objective of this project is to establish a solid and long-lasting network of musicians and jazz organisers from the European jazz community, enabling information and resources sharing, linking musicians and jazz organisers, and providing a wide range of creative opportunities. The network would cover the whole process from education to production and dissemination and involve jazz organisers, musicians and young people from 15 European countries (Finland, the UK, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia).

Although different forms of trans-national collaboration have already been developed by jazz organisers, those links are still sporadic and limit the possibilities to induce a significant impulse. Jazz music needs a more rational but still flexible structure at a European scale, creating an umbrella for existing organisations and providing them an exhaustive database.

This umbrella will be created through a network set up by the use of the new technologies & precise actions to develop existing local infrastructures by providing them sufficient technical and human resources, to encourage artistic collaborations and produce new challenging works, to introduce jazz music to young musicians, to support life in jazz clubs.

Duration of the project will be 3 years operation (& network to be carried forward in subsequent years) Project leader will be 33 Records, independent jazz label, UK

Partners searched are jazz labels, jazz club/venue programmers, concert promoters, festival organisers, musicians, jazz educators/music schools, jazz magazines, jazz broadcasters (radio/TV) from each country listed above. Contact: Olivia Rivet E [email protected] W www.33jazz.com

EURUPA

EURUPA is a European cultural heritage project, which aims to collect, collate and archive images of Europe’s Radical Urban Political Art. The organiser is specifically interested in photographs of Europe’s wall-murals. These depict many aspects of Europe’s countries, communities and cultures, especially within the context of the new ‘one’ European identity.

Contact: David MageeE [email protected]

Festivals of Music – “linking the EU together”

At these festivals would be performed both by well-established performers and young people, who are beginning to make their way in the musical world - plus amateurs of course (of which we have such a wealth of choice, both in the U.K. and in other EU countries). Each Festival could concentrate on: - choral music, opera and other group singing, single performers (or duets etc), music of a particular time or place, music for a particular ceremony, orchestra, smaller groups (brass, woodwind ensembles), “folk” music, particular composers and how they have influenced each other and their times and country (e.g. Handel, Bach, Montiverdi, Gabrieli etc)There would be “master classes” to enable knowledge, experience and skills to be shared – everyone learning from each other. Music would be chosen from all over the EU – or just concentrating on music from a few EU countries at one time (after all we have so much music to choose from). It may also be possible to choose music from a few countries, but whilst encompassing a wide time frame – just to show how music has changed and how it often reflects the history and cultural aspects of the country and the time. Each Festival would require performers to learn music of their own country and music from each other country involved in the Festival. There would be expert information exchanged during the rehearsal period – about each composer, how the music is approached in each country, methods of rehearsal and performance relevant to each country etc.The actual performances would require people from each country to perform music together – learning from each other – exchanging techniques – learning new music – opening new “doors” – singing in each other’s language (and Latin) – learning more about and appreciating each other’s cultural heritage.Performances, in the UK, would be in local Churches and large Houses in the area.

Contact: Brian WilsonEuropa Associates/Chandos SingersT +44 1225 708540M +44 7970 922867E [email protected] Happiness at Work


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At Happiness At Work freelancers who usually work from home can work together under the same roof, creating a new and diverse community. The emphasis is on creating community. They recently had an exhibition in the local community and are now looking for partners in Europe to implement cultural events, exhibitions, groupprojects and to ensure the studios continue to breed new talent.

Contact: Simone Lia E [email protected] www.happinessatwork.org.

Impact of Africa on EU Member States

This project seeks to inspire and create a learning experience using art history and ideas as an educational resource in line with the educational curriculum, bringing together a selection of paintings, objects and photographs reflecting past and present works and efforts of Africans and reflecting the impact of the continent itself on the EU member states.

Contact: Marie T +44 7947 579 508E [email protected]

MAPP Europe - Models for the assembly of performance practice in Europe

MAPP Europe is a developmental project that encourages artists, performance makers and teachers to collaborate with young children in non-verbal communication contexts. The project is designed to encourage and establish models of performance practice through the practice and documentation of improvisation and non-verbal communication workshops within the visual and performing arts. Collaborations between professional artists, performing arts students and young people with speech and hearing difficulties, will form the basis of the first phase of this project, which will take place over a 3-year period.The workshops will take place in Sibiu Romania with a showing of work at the Radu Stanca Theatre, Transylvania in 2007, with a view promoting sustainable arts ventures in the area.

The aim of MAPP Europe is to develop artistic models of non-verbal communication activities for children with hearing and speech difficulties encourage the use of artistic practices within communities and enrich approaches to learning and teaching Introduce artistic models to teachers, care workers, local actors, performers strengthen the necessity of arts practice within communities provide opportunities which encourage sustainable relationships across cultures introduce young people to professional artistic forms through workshops and performances disseminate artistic non-verbal communication models to a wider community

Contact: Claire Hind, Lecturer in Theatre StudiesUniversity of HullT +44 1723 357316E [email protected]

Matrix

The development of a structured, multi-annual programme of work with archaeological collections. The objectives of the project are to establish a network which will: increase community involvement with archaeology increase scientific knowledge of archaeology, with particular reference to its European context diffuse knowledge of the past, using innovative and stimulating means, among the local and scientific

communities.

The programme of work includes collections management, study of collections and diffusion.

Contact: Pat Reynolds Surrey Museums Consultative CommitteeT +44 1483 594624 F +44 1483 594595 E [email protected] W www.surreymuseums.org.uk

Public Access for Public Art (PAPA)

The purpose of the project for Public Access for Public Art (PAPA) is to explore the interface between public art and the web, by creating a virtual web-based gallery – or series of galleries – to display public monuments, sculpture and other art works, from different countries in Europe. It is the intention to create a new cultural and educational resource in the public domain, within the general area of cultural heritage.


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The project will develop a visual and descriptive census of monuments, architectural sculpture, freestanding sculpture and other works of art within the public domain, in selected areas in the UK and other European countries, by means of photography of the works, which will represent different aspects such as views of their spatial context and significant details, and the provision of well-researched descriptions of the works using a standard format.It will seek to deliver this census as a public resource by means of the use of new web-based imaging techniques, including interactive maps; and the development of a multi-lingual web site which will use a database to display images and descriptions in different combinations, in a well-designed and user-friendly format.This web-based presentation will then form the basis for the development of an in-depth educational resource, within the general field of cultural heritage, through the inclusion of commentaries by acknowledged experts on aspects of works in various areas or of different types. These will utilise to the full the ability of the web to include interactive links to images and descriptions.

This project is seen as a new initiative for public art on the web. It is a development of the National Recording Project of the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA) in the UK. It is conceived within a wide European context, to create a cultural and educational resource in the public domain, which will enable the viewer to explore connections, differences and contrasts within the broader framework of European cultural heritage. It sets out to implement a workable model for the presentation of this resource, which can be hopefully refined and extended in later years.

The Public Access for Public Art project will be implemented in association with the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA) in the UK. Partnership with organisations in other European countries is currently being sought. A preliminary choice of areas to be covered (at the moment somewhat fluid) is:UK – Liverpool ((European Culture Capital of 2008); London Docklands (area of former London Docklands Development Corporation); Swindon; Bristol; Cardiff Bay, Wales; Milton Keynes.Other European countries - Barcelona - Spain; Bologna, Italy; Amsterdam and The Hague, Netherlands; Cork (European Culture Capital of 2005), Ireland; Luxembourg (European Culture Capital of 2007).

Other organisations in other areas of Europe are invited to this project as partners. Organisations should be representative of a town or area where there is a significant concentration of public art, of any period, which can

show in microcosm a particular aspect of the cultural heritage of Europe; be prepared to support the cataloguing and documentation of works to be included; and be prepared to act as host for a project to record the works photographically.

Further information, including a Project Design, is available from the Project Coordinator named below. This is also available at the web page www.artisan-design.co.uk/papa

Contact: Jeremy HaslamT+44 1635 44800E [email protected]: Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA) E [email protected] W www.pmsa.org.uk Performance technology cultural exchange

The organisation is seeking theatre practitioners from any European background who are willing to exchange performance technologies with other groups.

Contact: Esko Reinikainen Northern Laboratory Theatre M +44 7801 933068 E [email protected]

The Vitruvian Project

The organisation is planning to set up The Vitruvian Project. This is an archaeological project, which will undertake research into Roman towns, their hinterland, architecture and urban development in the classical Roman era, over two to three years. The aim is to achieve cultural and scientific results that are as innovative as possible and will have positive impact on the protection and exploitation of the heritage. At present this is in the formation stage and we are looking for potential partners, we already have one from Fano, Italy. The project will aim to excavate sites in all the partner countries using appropriate technologies such as GIS, Satellite location, for accurate surveying, with Online Web access and have on-going Videocam, etc.

Contact: Simon West St Albans Museums Service T + 44 1727 819338 F + 44 1727 836282 E [email protected] W www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk


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2. Culture 2000: OTHER EUROPEAN seeking UK (&/or other European)

Actualisation of Cultural Heritage of M.K.Čiurlionis and His Contemporaries in the Context of European Culture (Lithuania)

This project is dedicated to musical heritage of renown European artists of the 20th century – M.K.Čiurlionis, A.Skriabin, S.Rachmaninov, R.Strauss, J.Sibelius, E.Grieg, Z.Noskowski, C.Nielsen, G.Nystroem, V.Raitio and many others.

A core of the project is several sets of contests, concerts, musical actions and performances, master classes, discussion meetings and seminars with participation of popular politicians, philosophers, scholars and artists from Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Sweden, and other countries. The safeguarding of traditions and implementation of innovations, synthesis of different arts, the arts and their influence on the society, recent methodologies of art investigation and other questions will be the main topics of the planned events.

A big number of educational events at schools and camps is also planned with the aim to increase the participation and access to cultural heritage by the general public and in particular young people, including people with disabilities. Following scholarly recommendations a number of attractive methodical materials would be issued. They would be prepared according to recent scholarly requirements and using contemporary forms of presentation – multimedia, CDs, video, film, Internet and others.

During the summer months of 2004 it is planned to organize an International Week of Music and Art Studies in Druskininkai, a famous Lithuanian resort. During the event artists and scholars from the countries taking part in the project and others would discuss the works of the mentioned composers and painters and various questions of their research and dissemination. An International contest of new compositions dedicated to M.K.Čiurlionis and his contemporaries will be announced and carried out. Renowned artists and young talented performers from the countries taking part in the project would prepare and perform compositions from the Golden heritage collection of the 20th century and the best newly created compositions of young composers. New works of painters could be exhibited and discussed the same way.

A video film would be prepared with participation the best performers from Lithuania and abroad. An international team of performers would be organized and would give concerts in countries that are taking part in the project. At the end of the year the results of the project will be discussed.

Contact: Mr. Rimantas Astrauskas T +370 5 261 31 27 F +370 5 26 131 46E [email protected]

Along the Hillfort Route: from the Elbe River to the Finnish Gulf (Lithuania)

Hillforts of the Southern and Eastern Baltic area represent a specific phenomenon of the natural-cultural landscape, which is exclusively characteristic to this part of Europe. Regretfully, quite a lot of sites of this unique cultural heritage, especially those located in the periphery, are presently neglected and unknown to the general public. Hillforts are subject to permanent destruction due to negative natural phenomena and economic activities of people, the wild-running plants damage hillforts and obscure their original shape, the public lack information about hillforts, they are seldom visited.

The purpose of the project is three-fold: to establish an international network of cultural heritage institutions engaged in management of hillforts, to rehabilitate decaying and neglected hillforts, to create an infrastructure of hillfort tourism, to propagate hillforts in the society, to stimulate their integration into the cultural life of local communities.

The project will consists of the methodical, practical and propagation parts.1. The methodical part comprises application of new methods and technologies aimed at eliminating the consequences of hillfort erosion and management of the vegetation. The agenda includes organisation of a seminar during which professionals in various fields dealing with rehabilitation of hillforts would have an opportunity to get acquainted with the latest achievements and share experience. The material of the seminar will be issued in publications on preservation of ancient monuments and a purpose-built website. 2. The practical part comprises work related to management of hillforts. Each country participating in the project will select a certain number of hillforts which are in the state of emergency and which need urgent rehabilitation. A tourism infrastructure will be created at hillforts, namely, the approaches to hillforts will be upgraded, paths, stairs and information stands will be put up for visitors. The intention is to attract additional resources for hillfort management from local authorities and cultural funds. A seminar will be organised to discuss the above-mentioned practical issues. 3. The propagation part includes popularization of hillforts of the region as sites of the common heritage of European culture. At the same time, an effort will be made to integrate hillforts into the cultural life of local communities, to


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encourage the residents to preserve and foster their cultural heritage and to take interest in the local history. A seminar will be organised to discuss the relevant issues. Each country participating in the project will work out one itinerary for hillfort tourism. The itineraries will be joined into a common interregional cultural tourism itinerary which can be tentatively called “Along the Hillfort Route: from the Elbe River to the Finnish Gulf”. The above-mentioned itinerary will be presented in a tourism publication/album and a website propagating hillfort tourism.

Anticipated results of the project are: hillforts of the Southern and Eastern Baltic area will be presented for the public as part of the common heritage of

European culture; local communities will be encouraged to get to know and foster their cultural heritage; international and interdisciplinary cooperation and exchange of experience between hillfort professionals will be

advanced; new methods and technologies for preservation and maintenance of hillforts will be promoted; a network uniting cultural heritage professionals of various countries engaged in hillfort management will be

established; three working seminars will be organized on the following subjects: “Methods and Technologies in Maintenance of

Hillforts”, “Hillforts – an Object of Cultural Tourism” and “Integration of Hillforts into the Cultural Life of Local Communities”;

5 hillforts in participating countries will be rehabilitated, tourism infrastructure will be created at 15 hillforts, jobless people from the country-side will be employed in this connection;

regional itineraries for hillfort tourism will be worked out in 5 countries, 5 information/tourist brochures will be published;

an interregional itinerary “Along the Hillfort Route: from the Elbe River to the Finnish Gulf” will be designed for cultural hillfort tourism;

an album/catalogue/tourist guide featuring the hillforts of the southern and eastern Baltic area will be published; a website propagating hillfort tourism will be set up; cultural/rural tourism will be stimulated, new jobs will be created in the periphery.

The leading Partner will be the Public Institution “Cultural Heritage Salvage Group”, Vilnius, Lithuania. The Project partnership is expected to include organisations working with archaeological heritage issues in five European countries – Germany, Poland, Latvia and, Estonia, as well as northwest Russia.

The project will run for one year.

Contact: Agne Vaitkuviene, CoordinatorE [email protected]: Romas Jarockis, Project ManagerE [email protected] www.heritage.lt/kpip/

ALL'OPERA! (Italy)

This project includes a series of experiences aimed at improving the techniques of education in drama and acting for "Italian opera" singers. Subject will be the birth of the European "homo novus" in 18th century liberal-democratic revolutions and acting and drama in Mozart, Paisiello, Rossini "barbieri".Seminars and laboratories will be given by an Italian stage director in the Institutions and associated partners in their countries. A residential stage will be held by the Italian teachers and by professors selected by the partners.The stage will be held in Italy. The experience will be concluded with public performances.Students will be granted a scholarship.

Co-organisers and partners should come from musical and cultural associations, radio-television networks, opera festivals, academies and conservatories of music.

Contact: Erminio BiandolinoIstituto musicale "G. Paisiello"E [email protected] www.eventidarte.netW www.artepass.org/biandolino.htm

Ancient Dwellings in Piedmont

In the last years there has taken place a gradual recovery of the ancient dwellings that, little by little, return to be open to visitors and become the driving force of the local identity. It becomes necessary to collect all the elements that witness the artistic values and the material culture of the castle. They are in a position to tell the history of our society during the last millennium.

The project idea is to make young artists to interpret the castles through photography. It wants to be an attempt to attract more attention to the castle and its context. The project aims to invite a photographer from each participating country to document three castles for each area involved.


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Aims of the project are Promote the cultural dialogue and the acquaintance of the types of castles construction in the involved countries; Promote creativity and the circulation of ideas and European artists; Document the castles; Make the castles known to a wider public; Share and value the European castles heritage; Sensitise the public opinion towards the acquaintance of the historical buildings; Contextualize the castles in the present; Open new points of view on the castles heritage; Offer new interpretations of the landscape.

ActivitiesThe photographers will work for three weeks in the castles identified. At the end of this every artist will have to make a documentation or report. The working weeks will be documented through video. The photographers, in their works, will have to take into account the castle as a living element: the work will be focused on the life of the castle, on the contemporary particulars in a building of the past but in the meantime it will be contextualised in landscaped space.

The project will start in December of 2004 and will finish in November 2005.

The project aims at producing A travelling exhibition for the involved countries; A catalogue; A video of the exhibition and the photographers work; A web site; Documentary material in order to enrich the archives of each monument

Contact: Marta Ferrero, LANGHE MONFERRATO ROERO Società ConsortileT +39.141 896 72F +39 141 839 005E [email protected] www.lamoro.it

Antigone (Belgium)

This is a cultural project, which provides within a frame-installation of visual arts, the structure for several activities on the given theme. It is a project with educational goals aiming to be achieved through principally artistic ways. The theme is the story of Antigone (theatre play), as told by Sophocles in the 5th century BC and retold by Jean Anouilh in the 40's.

Project goal is To bring closer to the public and to share between several groups of the population an ancient play of high value,

which makes part of the cultural heritage of Europe. To see and work with the idea that a piece of the cultural heritage of one country has more similarities than

differences to the life conditions and situations of the people across the continent and further. To involve the people with the cultural creation of our time. To initiate the people involved to the essence that generates art. This will stimulate people to comprehend art from

within and eventually to refuse to consume it just as a skilful result.

The plan is to present An installation of paintings. The installation has as goal to lead the audience to experience similar emotions as when seeing or reading the

plays. The works shown transfer the emotional essence of the story to a rather abstract interpretation, which holds on to the story thread in a subtle way. The emotional components of the story of Antigone are a complete description of the human "tragedy": pride, passion, love, respect, integrity, doubt, fear, anger, power, braveness, treason, life and death. Through the abstract interpretation of the story we try to isolate the essentials and show that these components could fit to other stories in any time of the human history and of each one of us personally. The installation includes artworks made by the artists of ARTb-gaidaro and will also include locally made artworks of the organised workshops.

the presentation of the plays by means of audio, video or live performances in the exhibition space (organised locally).

Workshops with themes taken from the theme board (organised locally).

Duration: September 2004 to August 2005

Contact: Sofia Kapnissi, ARTb-GaidaroT +32 (0)2-5372376


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Archaeological Map of Middle and Lower Danube Basins (Romania)

Objectives of the project: on-line database for archaeological sites regional teams for GPS survey national center for GIS mapping cooperation in Euro-regions fulfilling educational, scientific, economic and public interestsAim is a multi-language environment for databases (sites database, connected bibliographical database), regarding descriptive or search-key fields (like cultural terms, sites taxa, fields of research), switching between English and national languages

International cooperation the organisers are inviting West-European colleagues to take part to the introducing training Central-European partners are invited to join the international training, as part of the training or as observers Central-European partners are invited to plan joint activities with regional centers, as soon that they begun

operational all partners are invited to make projections for further cooperation, in the course of Europe integration process the organisers are looking for Western partners that could have scientific interests connected to particular areas

of research (for example Neolithic tells, Prehistoric Tumulus, Roman Limes, Sites for Migrations Age, and so on) neighbouring countries are invited to involve themselves in regional projects; the location of most of Romanian

regional centers is suited for projects like: upper and middle Tisza river bazin (involving North-Eastern Hungaria and Eastern Slovakia) – for Satu Mare lower Tisza bazin and Banat (South-eastern Hungaria and Northern Serbia) – for Timisoara Danube Iron Gates and Timok Valley (North-Eastern Serbia) – for Craiova Lower Danube Cultures (Prehistoric, Thracian, Roman, Proto-Bulgarian) – for Călăraşi lower Nistru bazin and Danube Delta – for Braila (and Tulcea) Bucovina – for Suceava

Contact: Eugen S. TeodorNational Museum of History, BucharestE [email protected]

aRT + sCIENCES - Multi-annual project (France)

“art + sciences” will make evident the links between arts and sciences. This will specifically be done by confronting cognitive sciences and contemporary visual arts. The main aim is to dissipate the miscomprehension between artist, art dealers critics etc… and scientists. Although a lot of visual artists have invested themselves in new technologies, the historical mistrust between sciences and art is still very vivid. And it is nurtured with a lot of clichés. The image of the crazy, inhuman and dangerous scientist is still competing with the irresponsible, somehow parasite and anyhow incomprehensive artist.This project shall encourage discussions and cooperation between visual artists, scientists and cultural operators.

Objectives and activities The first event will take place in Giverny, France, under the name “ art + sciences in Giverny 2004” and will

illustrate in an historical spot (Giverny is world famous for Claude Monet’s gardens) that sciences and art still have links, that a “noetica” break trough is on the road, that visual arts are placed in an historical continuum.

According to the local capacities, 6 to 7 visual artists will have exhibitions while one larger exhibition will be dedicated to cognitive sciences and their links with arts.

Having this central exhibition touring in different countries where “local” artists shall replace the artists initiating the process in Giverny

Develop a website as a platform for long term network collaboration with local cultural institutions and scientists Requested partners:The partnership shall include organisations and artists working within the fields of cognitive sciences and visual arts in four or more European countries. A scientific committee or organisation has to take care for the exhibition dedicated to cognitive sciences.

Contacts: Pol Knots, Project Manager and Coordinator E [email protected] Guy Denis, Curator artistic events E [email protected]

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This project aims to be a presentation of the body's alternates in tragedy via various techniques that touch on theatrical studies and analysis, alternative methods of interpretation. These are presented with different forms of art, such as theatre, dance, multimedia, music, all through the play "Bacches" of Euripides, with Dionysus, Penthea and the contribution of chorus.The project will try to answer the questions: What is God? What is good and bad? What is faith? What is the brain? through body performances/interpretations. It will consist of one performance with directors, actors, dancers, lighting designers and musicians from Greece and other participating countries. This performance will be presented in all countries participating in the project. Seminars and workshops will take place, as well as lectures with the participation of theatre departments of European Universities. The performance will be framed by a costume exhibition covering in chronological order examples up to the present. Invited as partners are directors, choreographers, dancers, lighting firms, musicians, multimedia experts, physical theatre artists, who have something different to suggest or who are familiar with the topic of the body as an initial bearer in to the Tragedy.

Contact: Voula ALTER-ART Cultural and Educational Centre of Alternative MethodsE [email protected]

Bridging Cities in Europe (Greece)

This project aims to connect multiple disciplines such as Performance, Dance, Painting, Photography, Music and Architecture. Through the use of these cities should take part in the project and be connected with each other in order to bridge between unfamiliar attitudes and different lifestyles. This will happen through colours and materials reflecting the terrain and the encounters modern techniques of construction sounds

The organisers are planning to implement road works on the net, videos and events. Part of the project will also be the production of a CD-Rom. The schedule will contain a) The real shape of the city running under the motto “We are the people, this is our city”. This will offer to the citizens of the participating European Cities, the chance to present their city to all four corners of the world through texts, drawings or photos. b) Blending of the real & the imagined shape of the city.In each participating country will be searched for a novel that covers a city from another European countries. In Greece for example the book “ A letter to Dublin” by author Vicky Theodoropoulou has been identified. Based on these books a team of directors and cultural professionals will travel to the country presented and produce a documentary of 15 minutes including extracts from the original novel. All European cities are welcome to be part of this project as are authors, artists for events, directors, film producers etc.

Contact: EviE [email protected]

By the way of Memory (Spain)

Since 2000 on October, the towns of Albolote and Peligros in Granada celebrate a week devoted to oral tradition in the province. Presented are tales, romances, legends, games and songs. But there are also performances of oral account in different places in these towns. Part of the week is a competition of Oral Account which welcomes both Spanish and non-Spanish professionals and narrators to take part in.

For this event the organisers are seeking partners from other European countries.

Contact: Irene Ruiz, Federation of Towns “Juncaril”- Albolote and Peligros- Granada T +34 958 465 42F +34 958 516 405E [email protected]

Centre of living history (Lithuania)

Kedainiai is one the oldest towns of the Middle Lithuania. In the 16th - 18th c. the town belonged to the dukes Radziwills and was a center of Protestantism. Kedainiai is famous as the multicultural town with 6 national and religious communities, which had their own churches (Scots Presbyterians, Germans Lutherans for example). Lithuanians, Poles and Russians also lived in the town. Each community left its traces, therefore Kedainiai has a survived old-town of the 15th - 19th c. with the authentic net of old streets and market squares covering the area of 86 hectares.


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In the central part of the old-town, where the Scots lived, near the Reformed church of the 17th c., there is a two-storeyed house (area - 311 square metres), which belonged to the Church senores, built in the 17th c. At that time owners of the house were Scots merchants Arnets, therefore the house is named with their family name. The Arnets house has the most survived authentic inner space of all historical houses of Lithuania. There are survived authentic staircases, lavatory, big cellars etc.

Kedainiai Regional Museum and Kedainiai District Municipality is looking for partners to establish a center of 'Living history' in the house. The center of 'Living history' would recreate the living mode of burghers of the 17th - 18th c. Contacts: Rimantas Zvigulis, Kedainiai Regional Museum T +370 85 54418E [email protected]

City of Time (Czech Republic)

The Northern Moravia city Šternberk was very famous for its traditional clock production (manufacture) in the 20th.century, which has now almost completely disappeared. The municipality wants to renew the old tradition ofclock making by an expressive "EXPOSITION OF TIME". The collection of clocks is unique in Europe, consisting of the exhibits from all over the world (from the Chinese empire to the present day).The exposition will be placed in the historical building (3 floors), serving for all age groups (mainly schoolchildren, families, pensioners) including multi-media.The organisers are seeking partners from the following fields: museums, exhibition halls, clock companies who would like to take part in preparing the exhibition, organising a meeting of curators etc. Any ideas are welcome!

Contact: EUROVISIONT +420 5 4323 7286E [email protected] www.eurovision-eu.com

Cloudberry Dreams (Sweden)

The project will be focused on multidisciplinary interpretation of wetlands, and more specifically on natural peat lands (mires). Peat lands provide a wide range of biodiversity and natural habitats all over the world. For hundreds of years, peat lands have been used for agriculture, forestry and source of energy. In the case of Hällefors, this use has been for example berry picking, peat cutting and haymaking.This project will put this cultural heritage in the centre of attention. In Hällefors, the focal point will be the local product Hjortron (cloudberries). This delicious orange berry is handpicked by local people in the many marshland areas that are found in the region. A local winery produces Hjortron vin, a orange coloured wine for which the cloudberries are the raw material. This project will engage local artists and students at the Preparatory School for Design Education (FIDU), the Hällefors Folk High School and the Culture School in Hällefors, in project activities.Project stages will be: Research

o Enquiry into the cultural heritage of the wetlands in the Bergslagen region: oral histories, local lore, musical expressions, traditional use and culinary use of marsh berries.

o Research into the biological aspects and properties of wetlands flora and fauna. Processing

o Survey of how the data can be applied in the context of a cultural heritage interpretation and treatment programme.

o Invitation to artists and design students to present proposals for projects to be implemented as part of ‘Cloudberry Dreams’.

Project implementation Project execution at wetlands nature reserves in participating countries. Creation of a visitors’ route with art objects

and interactive audiovisual interpretation devices. As much as possible, the multidisciplinary project approach will encompass the implementation of ecological design concepts (‘designing with nature’, implementing solutions that grow from the local conditions).

Production of CD-Rom on project’s research findings with non-linear storytelling (hypertext) segments on cultural heritage of wetlands and slide show of nature images and art works.

Profiling of the common biodiversity, aesthetic and cultural value of marshlands in Europe. Launch of a publicity campaign aimed at the public at large to make the results of project available and widely

accessible.

International Cooperation Kick-off meeting with other project partners; Ongoing and regular exchange of research findings between partners; Visits to wetland areas in region of project partners; Developing of common outreach strategy and publicity campaign; Engaging at least one artist from a project partner country in creating own visitor’s route;


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Launch of a website on cultural heritage of wetlands, online publication of research findings and elements of the CD-Roms that are produced;

Launch of cultural heritage inspired promotion campaign of wetlands products in partner countries, e.g. Swedish hjortron wine promotion in Scotland, and promotion of Scottish peat whiskey in Sweden.

Partner profileInstitutions, NGO’s, public and non-public organizations that are engaged in nature conservation and the protection of wetland areas; (environmental) art producers with an affiliation to wetlands protection; actors in the sphere of experience industry development, with a focus on nature areas.

Partners thus far: Foundation ReRun Productions, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Contact: Tomas Carlsson, Designverkstan Polstjärnan (Polar Star Centre for Competence)T+46 (0)591 64136E [email protected] www.hellefors.se/kommun/kkau/english/designworkshop.htm

Common Heritage – Multiple Cultures (France)

Context of the project :The construction of the A20 motorway, an essential link between northern Europe and the Iberian peninsula, was carried out in the Lot (south-west of France) between Brive and Toulouse until June 2003. Archaeological excavations were carried out on the sites located on the trajectory of the future motorway. More than 40 sites, from Prehistory to the Middle Ages were thus discovered and explored. This allowed greater knowledge about the importance and continuity of human occupation in this area of Europe. The Lot’s “Conseil Général” has defined a programme of conservation and valorisation of archaeological and paleontological resources by creating an archaeological and paleontological centre. The centre will be responsible for the archaeological collections and for elaborating specific exhibitions aiming at providing a better access to culture and heritage to a broad range of publics. Following this policy, the Lot’s “Conseil Général” has produced an exhibition called « A20, the past rediscovered » as well as a book and a CD-ROM presenting the various vestiges of the excavation.

The project's aim is to set up an original touring exhibition supported by a web site and a publication, that will be the outcome of a creative collaboration between experts (cultural mediator, visual artist, multi-media designer) and three schools (12-14 years old pupils and their teachers), located in three different European countries and one applicant country associated to this project.

The exhibition containing archaeological objects of the Lot from Prehistory to the Middle Ages will be travelling from one country to another. Using what is essentially our common heritage, each school will create their own contribution to the exhibition in relation to their present culture, by combining archaeological heritage, visual art practices and multimedia tools. Through the creation of this itinerant exhibition the pupils will enable other people to discover their culture in relation to a common heritage. Each class will therefore play an essential part in the production of aspects of the exhibition and the web site with the help of the three European professionals (a heritage mediator, a visual art practitioner and a multimedia expert).

Based on the exhibition of the Lot’s “Conseil Général”, the book and the CD-Rom, each class will have to : Link present and past : a comprehension of past human beings through a presentation of human life today. Each

class will transform the exhibition relating archaeological objects to present objects. These modern objects can either be existent objects or artistic creations (painting, sculpture, photography…). A contemporary artist will accompany each class for this part of the project.

Use their common heritage as a foundation (archaeological objects) to communicate on their own present culture : the pupils, as future citizens, will have to think about their own culture and the way of transmitting it to others.

Produce mediation tools intended to supplement the already existing ones : they will need to work on the best way of presenting the exhibition in order to make it attractive and comprehensible for the public of the new destination country. A mediator specialised in archaeology will accompany each class for this part of the project.

Create a trilingual Internet web-site : this site is intended to facilitate the accessibility of the exhibition for all the European community members who will not be able to discover it physically. A New Technology of Information and Communication expert will accompany each class for the multimedia part of the project.

Produce a publication intended to present the three versions of exhibition which will have been created by the three European classes based on a common base exhibition (the archaeological objects).

Contribute creatively to the exhibition's contents and set-up. Be involved in the setting up of specific pages on the web site as well as the using this tool to communicate

between each other across national borders.

This project offers a wider vision of Europe, with a multidisciplinary work based on a strong collaboration of children, schools and teachers (history, geography, language teacher, arts, technology,…) from different countries. They will also collaborate with heritage, art and multimedia technology.


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After a period of conception and production, each class will present its exhibition in one of the Member State countries. Each exhibition will be open to the general public and presented in a number of venues chosen by the host country. The exhibition will then be transferred to an associated partner country (applicant State). Key elements Communication on the archaeological knowledge of a region of Europe To discover other cultures through a common heritage The participation of children to all the aspects of the project Mobility of professionals : archaeology, contemporary art and multimedia experts To set up a discussion about different cultures, their differences and their common grounds. To give access to culture for a great number of European citizens To support creativity through artistic productions and new technologies

Contact: Philippe de CarlosE [email protected]

Creative Workhouse (Poland)

The main objective is promoting culture and art as well as a cultural exchange between the countries participating in the project. In order to realize these aims the organisers are going to convert a postmining building in Chorzów, Piotra Skargi street 34c, the Silesian Province, Poland, into the first in a series of Creative Work House that will be created in several partner countries. The history of Silesian cities is a history of mines and steelworks around which the cities were founded. Today these objects are situated in city centres, because such landscape has been shaped by the industry and such landscape should be, at least partially, maintained. The above-mentioned building forms a part of this industrial landscape. The Creative Work House will become a promotion centre of all young talented creators of the Silesian Province and the countries participating in the project.

Contact: Patrycja Domagata Fundacja Proventus – The Proventus Foundation T +48 32 246 0403F +48 32 246 0357E [email protected] www.proventus.org.pl

EMILE Leaving Europe for America – early EMIgrants LEtter stories (Sweden)

EMILE is a pilot project that will promote a cultural dialogue and mutual knowledge and awareness of the culture and history of the European people. The main aim, is to study and compare a part of our common history as told in letters from America written by European emigrants during the 19th and 20th century. The project will be a joint transnational study on emigration history from individual points of view as it can be found in letters and other personal documents.

An exhibition will be produced, built on collections of letters, songs etc. from the partner countries and made available for visitors both as a physical and a virtual exhibition.Linking existing databases and make them easily accessible on websites will be another essential task.The EMILE project shall also encourage discussions and cooperation between cultural and sociocultural operators working in the field of social integration, especially integration of young people.

Objectives and activities1) Develop a platform for network collaboration with local museums, archives, local folklore societies and other

cultural institutions. The main purposes are to develop and expand the digitalisation of the cultural heritage as collections, archives and cultural settings and make them easily accessible on the web.

2) Give a broad access to the material by producing: Physical exhibitions with letters, photographs, immigrant songs, poems and other documents from all

participating countries. Parts of the material shall be translated to English (to facilitate common understanding) and displayed in museums, libraries, galleries and schools

Virtual exhibitions that can be visited on and also downloaded from Internet3) Make the America letters and connected material accessible through Internet by starting the digitalisation of

collections and archives.

Applicant: Lead Partner will be Östergötlands länsmuseum, (The Östergötland Regional Museum), Linköping, Sweden

PartnersThe EMILE partnership should include organisations working with cultural heritage issues in four European countries and with access to collections of emigrant letters.

Duration of the project: 1 year


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Budget and funding:The preliminary project budget will amount to 300 000 EUR. The Culture 2000 grant requested will be 150 000 EUR which is the maximum grant. Each participant has to guarantee financial participation of at least 5% of the total budget.

Contact: Barbro Mellquist, CoordinatorSöderköpings kommun (The Söderköping Municipality)T +45 121 181 61E [email protected]

Dan Malmsten, Project ManagerÖstergötlands länsmuseum /The Östergötland Regional Museum)T +45 13 23 03 91F +45 13 14 05 62E [email protected]

Emotional Painting - Interhuman integration at the artistic-emotional level using new technique and style (Poland)

The idea of Emotional Painting is to create in the initial phase interhuman bonds at the basic level through sessions of common, unconstrained painting in groups. It allows developing sensibility to different emotional aesthetics. The term Emotional Painting – a new style in painting - came into existence during the process of creating a new studio in the cultural center in Mysłowice-Janów, where a professional artist works with children and young people. Emotional Painting means combining visions created by the artist through transformation of traces of group plastic actions with the real world. The Emotional Painting is the resultant of two ways of looking at the world, two ways of interpreting and building a form: a childish and an artistically “grown up” one. The Emotional Painting comes into being in several phases.

1st phaseIts substance lies in common creation of an emotional foundation or ground-work of a painting. It is being created by a random group of people. It resembles common graffiti painting. This purpose is being served through large formats of the compositions, the number of participants and techniques used. Groups taking part in creating the ground-work of the painting are different: children, youth, disabled children, grown-ups. Different are also the professional and social groups that participate.

2nd phaseThis process consists in transforming and arranging the painting. The artist introduces spatial and compositional order into the world of emotions, chaos and chance. He brings together many different traces into a stylistically uniform composition. Adding mass as well as concrete situations – by way of loose associations – serves the purpose of creating the illusion of certain space and convincing the recipient, his aesthetic sensibility, that he has to do with a new world, with a new aesthetic creation. And in fact, it is so. The artist creates and suggests the recipient new contents. Every co-author of the ground-work finds his trace in the finished work and he too will catch sight of the creative metamorphosis. It is a new quality in the so far hermetic branch called painting.

3rd phaseSome sessions of Emotional Painting are addressed to the local communities. The completed ground-work is being changed by the artist in a particular way that is understandable and readable not only to the participants of the session but to the whole local circle. It is made by adding an element that is generally known: situation, personage or landscape.

Goals of the project are To arouse children’s interest in arts as a way to express emotions and personality To have a positive impact on the childrens’ and young people’s aesthetic and emotional receptiveness To gain inspiration by others’ creativity To stimulate (propagate) joint work To create purely plastic tensions To stimulate toleration in a multi-cultural environment To create of a multi-language Internet site promoting Emotional Painting as a new stream in painting and at the

same time a way to positively stimulate the development of children and young people To initiate annual international Emotional Meetings

Contact: Jozef Igla T + 48 32 3171260F + 48 32 3171260E [email protected]

EuRoLiterature - interactive and multimedia exhibition (Romania)


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The project intends to present literary manuscripts (originals/facsimiles), old and rarely books, periodicals, photos, other literary-historical documents, art works (graphic, painting, sculpture), memorial and personal objects, furniture, audio and video recordings (pictures, interviews, music and poetry recitals, theatre performance etc.), literary-historical dates. The unfolding of this project implies a stage designing vision of the exhibitions expose and multilingual approach, using digital multimedia technology. Intended to show short syntheses of European literature, chronological organized, including principal stages of evolution, representative authors and basic moments of European literature, including the following segments: The Antiquity; The Middle Ages; The Renaissance; The Classicism; The Enlightenment; The Romanticism; The Realism; The Naturalism; The Parnassians; The Symbolism; The Praeraphaelism; The contemporary literature (XX century).

THE TECHNICAL PROJECT (the IT infrastructure) has two principal components:1) A computer network with free access for the visitors, incorporated in the structure and the theme of exhibition: 12

info touch systems (computers and monitors 17’, with "touch-screen" system), 1 server (where will be stocked the electronic exhibition); 12 video projectors (which will show all the time images from the electronic exhibition).

2) Virtual exhibition in the digital space will have two variants: A. Interface graphics for info touch systems; B. Web site internet and will include about 10 000 web pages: 1000 photocopies of manuscripts, pictures, literary documents, 1000 pages of historical and literary dates, 100 audio and video recordings.

The exhibition will be realized exclusively electronic (in digital system). Also, the exposing of this will be achieved just electronic (through video projectors or plasma displays) and will be itinerate in 12 European Union capitals. Contact: Sande Vârjoghe – Project ManagerRomanian Literature Museum. T/F +4021-2129651, +4021-212 58 46E [email protected]; [email protected] W www.mlr.ro;

European Emigration to the USA (Sweden)

The organisation is looking for partners interested in the historic emigration to the United States of America. There is a common conception today that there were only poor farmers that left their homes to try their luck on the other side of the Atlantic. However, focus of this project will be those, who left Europe for other reasons - for example because they were culturally interested in their destination or were inclined to be entrepreneurs. People that would nowadays be classed as members of what is usually referred to as the adventure- and experience industry.

The project is conceived as being semi-professional and will incorporate research, studies of history and literature, the composing of music as well as entrepreneurial aspects.One of the objects is to create a musical that can be staged in different forms depending on the targeted audience. Opportunities to develop tourism, to lay a foundation for new pedagogic thinking and to achieve a positive integration effort will be given.

Old will become new without however damaging the historic perspective. The project wants to point out the positive values of the opened borders of today and the resulting benefits this brings, but also wants to illuminate the challenges individuals meet in a new country even in our day and age.

The project is planned to last over three years. English will be used as the common language. Another Swedish participant is the municipality of Ronneby, Sweden. Contact: Lisa Lundqvist, OnStage GruppenE [email protected]

European Storytelling Traditions (Denmark)

Storytelling is one of cultures’ oldest traditions, and storytelling is an innovation on many levels in modern European society. Storytelling has always been a part of human life - as a useful form of retelling life. But the oral tradition has hard times in our modern society, and the old techniques of telling a story to an audience have nearly disappeared.

The European countries have common stories; stories that have passed from storyteller to storyteller during many centuries, and areas have their very special stories. The techniques are the same, but in some areas very special techniques have arisen and developed. A meeting and an exchange between the upcoming storytellers in Europe and the old storytelling traditions contain innovative power.

Project objectives: Research: sources that shows differences and similarities Exchange: conferences, events, laboratories Report and publication / release

Contact: Ingrid HvassVestjyskFortælleTeater


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T +45 97446996 / + 45 22172617E [email protected] www.frejasfjerham.dk (ready in August 2003)

European tour – Tracing Charles IV (Czech Republic)

Charles the IV is remembered as the most important ruler in the age of late Middle Ages, Czech king and Holy Roman Emperor. He united the western world in the Middle Ages.

This project should support a feeling of integrated Europe, which dates back to a long time ago. It wants to break differences and search for linkage through common history. The project will popularise the historical sites and make them more attractive for a wide public, in connection with the history of the European nations

Part of the project will be a performance under the motto “Sights become living”. In this Charles IV and his rule or dominance in interconnection with important historical milestones with respect to selected sites. A main line of a historical period and important historical events, will be presented by a group of actors and one main actor, who will lead the audience through the whole story. The story will be interpreted by means of scenes, consisting of integrated artistic ensembles - video projection, spectacle, dance, music, singing, visual arts, fashion, sculpture, dumb show and florists. Aim is also the creation of an original soundtrack. The performance should be placed in a garden at every chosen site (an enlargement of technical possibilities, increased auditorium size)

There will be regional artists engaged in the project as well. The principal (the leading actor) will also represent his region and its culture. Regional artist will have a chance to cooperate on the project to help to become the chosen site living. There are many ways, how to do it (their active participation in the performance, art exhibition, art demonstration etc.)

During autumn, winter and spring the performance will be prepared together with all the participants. Main impact will be put on its understandability for a wide European public. A series of workshops and seminars will be done before the summer season, when the tour will start.The starting point will be at one of Charles’ IV castles in the Czech Republic, from where the tour will continue through Europe.

Countries, which should be involved in the project are the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy and Luxembourg and in these countries mainly theater, dance, film groups or historical sites (castles, where Charles the IV left his trace) or any interested organizations in the idea described below.

Contact: Barbora Kysilková, EurovisionT +420 543 237 286E [email protected]

Fantasy through Comedy (Greece)

The Greek company “AIORIA” will present a project based on a multi-performance that will emerge through seminars and research of new techniques. Focus will be on Aristophanes play: "Vatrahee"(Frogs), re-discovering the essentials of comedy and mask: the body and its connection with the past and the future.Workshops and symposia will focus on the themes of comedy and the human body, mask, mask techniques, clowning techniques, comedy and text, comedy without text, the actor and the creator, the body and the gesture.

Invited as project partners are actors/comedians, clowns, musk technicians, lighting specialists etc.,

Contact: NatassaE [email protected]

Gastronomy through Theatre (Greece)

The theatrical Company "XYTIRIO THEATRE" is planning a project that is dealing with the cultural inheritance of Europe, mainly with gastronomy in theatre through the ages until today. Starting point will be a modern theatrical play (from the modern Greek author Andreas Staikos' play "Dangerous cooking") with two dominant elements a) cooking as taste, aesthetics, philosophy and art and b) cooking and love, the love of the flesh.

The lead partner would prefer participants from countries with a long and well-know gastronomic tradition (like Italy and France). The project will include not only performances but also symposia, cooking events and other events to cover the theme.

Invited to participate are not only other European theatre companies but also colleges of gastronomy.


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Contact: AlexandraE [email protected]

Initial research on restauration of Vila Tugendhat (Czech Republic)

Vila Tugendhat belongs to one of the world nicest architectonical pieces from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the European famous architect from the first half of last century. Mies' European period was highlighted by his authorial contribution to the construction of the Weissenhof suburbs in Stuttgart, famous glass residences (1927), and primarily the German pavilion at the International Exposition in Barcelona (1928-1929) and the villa in Brno, Czech Republic.

Mies' work was awarded with the most prestigious British honour, the Gold Medal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, the Medal of Freedom of the American President and several honorary doctorate degrees.Villa Tugendhat has been a part of world cultural heritage of UNESCO since 2001.Nowadays this fabulous building is in a state of emergency. Therefore a big reconstruction for the next few years is planned.

Aim of the project: before the own restoration works, we would like to organise a research consisting of exterior survey (mainly dash and parget) as well as the replacement of up-to date parts (furniture, bathroom itemsetc) by the originals from 30´s. We will held various Workshops, and at the end of the project an exhibition.

Partners: Young and professional researchers, universities, students, museums of modern art.We are already in contact with Prof. Ivo Hammer, well-known Austrian restorer, who will take part in the research with his students.


Interflumina (Italy) – Multiannual project

The International Water Culture Center (Centro International Civiltà dell'Acqua) is a no profit association founded in 1998. The Center collects, classifies and processes data of a scientific and cultural nature as well as information concerning projects relating to civilizations whose existence has been based on a close relationship with water. Such information is made readily available to all interested parties: individuals, communities, administrators and legislators. A change in behavior patterns and attitudes towards our heritage of water is widely promoted, reaching young people through the medium of schools and working adults at their various places of employment. This organization is also called upon to take an active part in projects and competitive schemes with prize awarding ceremonies designed to safeguard and make more efficient use of existing water resources. It participates, within its specific realm of competence, in initiatives originating both in Italy and abroad.

The aim of this project is to encourage cultural dialogue and mutual knowledge of the culture and history of certain European countries, using as a common element the route of some of the oldest rivers that cross through them. This should be accomplished through the following actions: reconstruction of exemplary historical landscapes in the selected regions; documentation of their archaeological sites and their most significant architectural and artistic monuments; collection and conservation of the essential characteristics of their many local cultures by making the most of

archives and museums; identification of suitable projects for actively safeguarding, transforming and innovating these assets as a whole so

that they may be used in particular by the new generations.

The best method for achieving all this is through the multi-disciplinary knowledge of the heritage of the regions around these rivers and not only within the geographical limits of their basins. The common experience suggested for following this route is the exchange and comparison of acquired documentation and cultural experiences, as well as the setting up of various specific “active protection programmes” for this heritage. The latter should be put to the reference countries for adoption in order to start the rehabilitation of some of the historical landscapes and the original sense of the most significant places with their monumental and artistic heritage, the highlighting of authentic, original local cultures and a new reading of the transformations introduced by modernity in the region in question.

The way to accomplish these aims in suitable forms and contents for contemporary perception of the place and its history has been identified as a “shared project” backed up by ecological, anthropological, sociological and economic research. This work should be accompanied by the cataloguing of the archaeological and monumental heritage to be found along the course (or part thereof) of the identified rivers, which is evidence of the changes that have taken place in the modern age due to industrial development, plus the preparation of regeneration and improvement plans of derelict and marginal areas.“The shared project” also envisages a plurality of cultural actions for the periodic exchange of knowledge and experiences of exploitation that are proposed for putting these important river settings in a modern context, as well as concrete plans and methods for their active protection and well-balanced utilisation.


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The following organizations have already agreed to take part in the project: Municipalité de Villeneuve sur Lot (France) IBA Furst-Puckler-Land (Germany) Noerhald Kunstforening (Denmark )

Contact: Centro Internazionale Civiltà dell'Acqua OnlusT +39 41 5906897 F +29 41 4566658 E [email protected] W www.provincia.venezia.it/cica

Jazz/Music Festival (Italy)

This Italian organisation is seeking partners involved in the organisation of high-quality music festivals, possibly jazz festivals. A partner in the Accession countries has already been deintified.

Contact: Laura Ambrosino,Round JazzE [email protected]

Landscaping project (Ireland)

The initial project idea was to integrate EU influences in the landscaping of an area (it is currently scrub-land) through collaboration between a landscape architect and artists. The extended phase of the programme may also include a selected team of artists from Ireland and other parts of Europe who will, over a few years, work with the architect to develop a flexi-space through the realization of temporary and site specific artworks within the space. The continuous artistic interventions will transform this (be it green) blank canvas into a plain air gallery and a space for performance and community/cross-cultural forum for engaging with the arts. The Irish area in question has potential for development as a base for artistic and cultural exchanges, exhibitions, and explorations. The organiser is currently seeking partner regions in Europe, which have similar ideas for a project of this nature.

The organiser is aware that the project might be formed further after input from potential co-organisers and is open for ideas and initiatives in response to the initial project idea.

Contact: Rhonda TidyE [email protected]

Meet Modern Europe (Sweden)

The operator plans to present a touring exhibition (vandringsutställning) which could be shown in many countries on the historical development of the HVAC industry. They intend to show the exhibition also at the Frankfurt Fair and believe that this would be an opportunity for many companies to present themselves and their history and ameliorate their public image. This will be an historic presentation of the developments in Europe starting maybe with the ancient Greeks, the Romans and up till today also indicating the future. Emphasis will be on the industrial heritages that gave Europe the modern status.

Contact: Arne ElleforsThe Swedish HVAC Museum in Katrineholm SwedenE [email protected]

Memory, Politics and Architecture (Sweden)

Long-term goal of the idea is to establish a centre for studies in Art and Propaganda in Terez, Prague. This centre should be a place both for artistic investigations, as well as for critical studies in information and propaganda. As a base for cros fertilisation between the Arts and Humanities, as well as Political and Social Sciences. IT should investigate the media’s role in shaping understanding of history and it’s manifestation on the built environment. It should help to understand the present through an exploration of history.

However, the group of organisers whilst keeping this long-term goal in mind, has decided to implemented projects on a smaller scale towards the realisation of the centre. They therefore propose a continued series of activities: The production of a book A series of three exhibitions A concluding workshop

Contact: Project Group TerezinT +46 8 545 855 60F +46 8 545 912 91


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Museum Decision Support System (San Marino)

This project aims to draw up a Risk Matrix for museum facilities, as a support tool both for a self-evaluation of the Index of Risk in the museum facility itself, and for an economical resource planning as regards RISK prevention.

The project has its main objective in the achievement of a quantitative instrument, on a trans-national basis, able to help the Director of museums in defining and putting into effect their own choices concerning resource allocation within the ambit of prevention and preservation of risks.The Risk Management method is used. It aims to examine and get a specific Index of Risk concerning the following factors: Electric Risk Fire Risk Risk at Work Structural Risk Anthropic RiskSuch a Matrix of Index should come complete with a Decision Support System, which should be able to make a cost-effective valuation about the several Museum Directors’ choices.

This project is aimed at giving an operative tool to the Museum Directors, in order to allow them to self-evaluate the risk in Museum facilities, and to examine both the immediate incidence of management choices and the allocation of resources concerning prevention of risk inside the Museum.

Contact: Dr Luigi Pastorelli, SCHULTZ s.a.T / F +378 549 942 750E [email protected]

Network of Fortifications (Italy)

The project aims to promote the setting up of a network of collaboration relationship at local, regional and national level, in order to boost an integrated and sustainable economic and territorial development. Furthermore, the project operates for the definition of recovery strategies of cultural assets, of the fortifications in order to safeguard and enhance a reutilization, achieving relevant spin-off in the economy and employment of the territory in a point of view of respect and armonization.

Contact: Gilberto ZinzaniMarco Polo System GeieT +39 041 272 7011F +39 041 272 7023E [email protected] www.marcopolosystem.it

Otherness in the Arts of Dancing (Greece)

The Greek dance company “PROSXIMA” is planning a European project that focuses on the theme “Otherness” starting with ancient Greece divine forces such as Gorgo (Mermaid Medusa), Artemis (Diana) and Dionysus.

Aim of the project is to use dance as means of communications between the nations of Europe with their different languages, religions and cultures. The project will include Seminars and workshops that will face the otherness in dancing techniques Working with European Arts schools to use new technologies for creating the scenographic background of the

performances Creating an exhibition Co-operation with European universities (departments of Philosophy and Philology) in order to organise lectures on

comparative studies of myths from different countries Producing a trilogy of dance performances created by choreographers and dancers from different countries Producing a CD-ROM aimed at European dancing schools

Welcome are ideas and suggestions from dance companies, lighting firms, music groups, schools of Fine Arts and Universities.

Contact: Amalia E [email protected]

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The Municipal Museum of Fine Arts of Santa Cruz, Tenerife would like to be co-organiser in a project dealing with the restoration of pictorial and sculptural works.

Contact: Esther García RiveroT +34 922 533 353F +34 922 532 305E [email protected]

PIA – Petroglyphs in Animation (Norway)

This project aims at interesting youngsters in ancient cultural heritage through means of modern technologies. Petroglyphs are very old graphics in relief carved in stone by hand using simple tools. When the light changes, or water flows over the dry stone, the shape and form of the reliefs changes. The symbols become alive. Youngsters of today relate to animation. They relate more to animation than to items of heritage, like for example petroglyphs. By providing them with the new technology of animation as a working tool, the organisers want to enable them to relate to heritage through the medium of animation.

Five countries will be involved in the project. PIA will be organized by Norway and Denmark. Norway will have responsibility for finance; Denmark will take care

of the web-site and all the printed information. Every country has a group of three experts with a network related to their profession. These persons are

professionals selected from the fields of culture, education and animation. There will be two meetings each year, alternating between the participating countries. The development and

planning of the project will take place at these network meetings. There will be a web site providing a window for anyone interested. Here it will be possible to follow the PIA project

at all times, with the opportunity to get inspiration and also get involved in the project in different ways. PIA organises courses in animation techniques, with petroglyphs as theme and inspiration. PIA will tour with a national multi-media show

Contact: Helena von BergenT +47 906 758 69E [email protected]

Provincial Climats (Poland)

The objective of this project is to show how painting can be used as mean of expression of customs, rites and folk believes which are preserved in the countries of the organizers of each workshop. Five workshops are supposed to be planned with 20 artists each.

The project should be an encouragement to cultivate old customs and rites which are part of cultural heritage of a given region as well as of Europe in order to contribute to strengthen the consciousness within local communities which value both local as well as European cultural heritage have. It project should help to start a co-operation between professional artists from different countries and should be a source for them to seek common roots of cultural heritage of Europe. It also aims at promoting their work and at contributing to the development of art in Europe. Other events are also planned.

Contact: Jacek GołębiewskiFoundation POMOSTT +48 25 6440175 or +48 602 369 071E [email protected]

Raffaello seeking participation in Culture 2000 project (Italy)

This Italian cultural association is experienced in implementing European co-operation projects funded by EU programmes. They are mainly working on training projects bringing people in Calabria, Italy into employment. So far they have been involved in two Leonardo da Vinci projects (1998 and 2001), 3 projects funded under Socrates (1999, 2000, 2001) and 10 Youth projects (2000-2002). Now Raffaello would like to be part of a Culture 2000 project.

Contact: Magda Agostino, European Coordinator Associazione Culturale RaffaelloT +39 984 761 79F +39 984 794 560E [email protected]

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Malbork is the former seat of the Teutonic Knights' Order and Europe's largest Gothic. The city’s castle and its museum are entered onto the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. It is sometimes referred to as 'the largest heap of bricks north of the Alps." This 13th-century seat of the Teutonic Knights' Order was moved here from far-away Venice. But Malbork is not only the castle. The areas adjoining the castle – the walls and their surroundings– are a tourist attraction per se. However, the present state of the walls means that they require repairs every year but without permanent results. In many places fragments of the walls constitute a real danger to walkers. Near by the Castle there is the 13th century St John Baptist’s Church, which was almost totally destroyed and ruined during the Second World War. Although rebuild after the war, it today requires repair works again.

Aims and objectives of this project are: Archaeological reconnaissance showing the condition and localization of antique architectural elements of the

defence walls Securing endangered fragments of the walls and their foundations. Improving the maintenance of the monuments. Developing enduring solutions for the monuments to serve as possible tourist attractions Establishing a permanent co-operation network between the institutions of the partner cities

Proposed methods used: Actualization of the archeological, geological engineering and hydro geological opinion Reparation of the medieval defence City Walls in Malbork, its fundaments and of St. John Baptist’s Church Creation of a medieval church by light architecture Construction of guided routes on the premises and establishing of a maintenance system by floodlights

Anticipated results: Rescue of European Cultural Heritage Improvement of safety for tourists and habitants walking along the walls Producing enduring, attractive sites to be visited also during dark seasons. Making visitors appreciate the historical value of the site. Strengthening the cultural identity through understanding of cultural diversity.

Contact: Ewelina BonarCity of MalborkF +48-55-647-33-24E [email protected]

Research on the Austin friar period in Europe (Czech Republic)

This project concerns a unique archive belonging to the Austin friar, not processed yet. It contains the objects from the year 1500 to the present time (deeds, hymn-books etc.). The aim of the project is to research the Austin friar period in Europe (their impact and influence), on the basis of proceeding the archive, cataloguing and promotion via new technologies.

Activities: research, fieldwork, exhibition, multi-media promotion of the exhibition, touring exhibition in partner countries.

Benefits of the project: to enlighten the important historical information of a European friar, make the archive accessible and available for the wide public, promotion.

Partners we have contacted: Austin friar in France (Avignon), Poland and Austria plus the Czech gallery of modern art, where the exhibition would be held.

Partners we need: Austin friar in foreign countries, who could contribute to the research and exhibition, museums, galleries, universities etc.


Restoration and conservation of historical sites (Romania)

The National Office for Cultural Heritage in Romania would like to be involved as partner or co-organiser in a project dealing with the restoration and conservation of historical monuments and sites.

Contact: Anca BOGDANT +40 213 356 318 F +40 213 365 069E [email protected]

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The Royal Canonry of Premonstratensians at Strahov is one of the oldest monasteries of the Premonstratensian Order in the world. It has been a working monastery practically ever since it was founded in 1143. It contains aunique library of European scale. The interior of the library was installed in 1794-1797 by its original designer, Jan Lahofer of Tasovice, and modified to an Early Classicist Style. The amazing size of the hall (length: 32 m, width: 22 m, height: 14 m) is compounded by the monumental ceiling fresco by Viennese painter Anton Maulbertsch, painted over six months in 1794.

The library became very famous in European cultural circles - the Austrian Princess and wife of Napoleon Bonaparte Marie Louise visited Strahov Library, and afterwards she sent Strahov Library more books, a Viennese set of porcelain, and, most significantly, a four-volume work on the first Louvre museum. This famous library is not concurrently in a good state - all wooden bookcases, the roof of the hall as well as the ceiling fresco needs to be repaired.

Partners: Therefore the organiser would like to invite other libraries, restorers from all over Europe, librarians to participate on our project of European importance (we would like to restore mentioned parts of the library as wellas hold workshops and arrange an exhibition).


Some-in-one® (Poland)

There are 2 ways to realize this project.1. Wandering Music Festivals.2. Multi-cultural Centers.

For the Wandering Music Festivals the organisation would like to co-operate with some of culture & art organisations in other countries. There will be some festivals that follow one by one in different localization. For example: the first one will be in Warsaw, second one in Prague, others in Budapest, Berlin, Stockholm, Madrid etc. Duration of each festival: up to three days.

During the festivals it will be promote following kinds of music: Classical - symphony or opera music Ethnic music Pop & country music (including rock and roll).

The main idea is to integrate in one Artistic Group any artists and musicians from different countries that perform different kinds of music. This group will be a “taproot” of the festival concerts, because during each one will be a place for young talents.

Contact: Richard Jakubowski“Radosny usmiech” FoundationT +48 22 4355018M +48 501 168051E [email protected]

Safeguard and Promote (Poland)

The project aims at just that: safeguarding and promoting archival holdings which deal with the history of the coal-mining regions of Europe, for example, Upper Silesia in Poland, the region of Ostrava and Karvina in the Czech Republic, the region of Ruhr and Saar in Germany, the Northern Region and Lorraine in France, the coalfield region of Liège in Belgium and Cardiff in Great Britain. Moreover, the objectives also include to strengthen the Archives’ position as guardians of the cultural heritage of European significance and consolidation of the archival network.

To achieve those goals the organisation will focus on evaluation and conservation of the archival holdings, followed by creation of digital database. The project will promote material heritage through international touring exhibitions and website with search engines and links to the archives. Those activities shall improve the cooperation between archival institutions in Europe and show their key role in saving European historical heritage.

The organiser invites most of all archives located in the coal-mining regions of Europe as well as organisations that deal with archival holdings to become partners or co-organisers.

Contact: Tomasz Hajewski, National Archives in KatowiceT +48 322 042 626F +48 322 043 296E [email protected]


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Theatre: A link between the upper and the lower world (Greece)

This project is dealing with Aristophanes’ heroes and his dialogues between the living and the dead. A new play will be written based on Aristophanes heroes, sewing together parts of the plays: "Lysistrata", "Aharnes", "Nefeles"(Clouds), "Heppeas" (Horsemen), “Vatrahee"(Frogs), "Ornithes"(Birds), "Ploutos"(Wealth), "Sfikes"(Wasps), and “Irene"(Peace), which will be performed in European cities. Seminars/workshops and a two-day conference will be included in this project.

Invited to participate are theatre, musical and scenographic companies and lighting designers that are experienced with the topic.

Contact: NicolasE [email protected]

The Fair, The Blind, The Sly (Sweden)

The Concept is to create a plat form for Nordic and European co work with for instance a Norwegian director, Ragna Fagelund, arranger, choreograph, musicians and actors from all Europe. Décor can be produced in each country involved in the tour. The Poet and storyteller can be engaged from the country of the stage setting.

State of the project Script Lyrics 5 Demo of Music with song 8 demo without song 3 Songs demo with Viktoria Krantz and Peter Malmrup

Project vision International contacts established 2003 Financing Culture 2000, Nordic Found, etc. Music arranged and set prepared 2003-2004 Development of project of theater and tour begins in April 2004 First show 2005

Contact: Börje Peratt, Producer and President CULTNETT/F +46(0)8-768 41 11E [email protected]

The House as a Witness of History and a Spiritual Source for Today (Lithuania)

Aim of the project is to reconstruct and rebuild Ziemero manor and its ensemble according to the following plan:1. Pending works:

research, land survey, rescue work, elaboration of the project, change of the roof – strengthening of the construction of the roof and the second floor ceiling, repair – restoration – constructional works.

2. The restoration and repair works of the auxiliary buildings: restoration of the church (with the bell-tower), establishment of the view tower and the museum in the water tower, construction of the destroyed extension of the manor and its terraces.

3. Reconstruction and improvement works: park of the manor, conservatory, tea maisonette, pond systems, carriage-ways, parking lots

After the implementation of the first phase the art and cultural center could be launched and it would be opened for the public.

There are certain strategic considerations for the creation of such an art and cultural center, which includes the following: this building is the only place in the area appropriate for guest reception, presentations, meetings and culture

related activities, borderland – the manor is located a few kilometers from the border with Estonia and Russia, which provides the

possibility of successful co-operation, the old road of Pskov was passing right along Ziemeru manor about 200 years ago. Now it is intended to become

the “Northern Chord” and it will be a stretch of the road that’s construction has already started at Ainazi. The road is about to continue right along the manor and Aluksnes lake and furthermore lead to Russia. The construction of such a road will facilitate the development of tourism infrastructure.


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Partners could be historians, restorers and conservators, architects, artists, theatre activists and other interested parties.

Contact: Egija MissaE [email protected]

The Literary and Artistic Café (Romania)

The Association of Book Publishers and Distributors (ADEPC ) is seeking partners for an international festival of theatre, music and book, which aim is to celebrate equally theatre, music and book and to create the proper environment for communication and knowledge on the cultural level between the European countries.

Contact: Lucia Ovezea, ADEPCT / F +40 212 220 213 E [email protected]

The Eternal Cities of Europe – Sofia in Images (Bulgaria)

The goal of this project is to wake up an interest in working out a joint scientific and research project on the subject “Eternal Cities of Europe - Reference Points for European Civilization Sustainable Development”, where the City of Sofia would be only a part. The synchronisation with the all-European urban process by means of city of Sofia as a crossroad of European Civilisations also significant in presenting Bulgaria as worthy and notable participant in Europe's cultural history.

Aim of the project is the preparation of a bilingual (in Bulgarian and in English) network, a travelling exhibition and a CD-ROM to be used in activities promoting Sofia’s sustainable development in time, as well as activities promoting cultural tourism. The content of the network, the exhibition and the CD-ROM will include collected and collated artistic images of the city of Sofia by the historical periods, with the relevant descriptions. The images will comprise: miniature paintings, engravings, drawings, paintings, archaeological coins, ancient sculptures, and sketches (from

hard copy publications); canvases, water-colors, old post cards, etchings (reproductions from collections of art galleries and museums); maps, architectural briefs, urban plans (old and new) and drawings.

The artistic images will be studied diachronically (chronologically and historically) and presented synchronically (simultaneously and paradigmatically, in terms of genres which means that the study will seek to show the changeable image of the town, given the permanence of its genuis loci and cultural identity. The reader/viewer will be able to trace the cultural biography of Sofia as one of the European eternal cities in the most universal language available, the language of art.

The research project is interdisciplinary (it involves various disciplines, museum and archives studies, etc.) and uses cross-cultural analyses, screenings and other interdisciplinary methods. The study will also use computer methods of analysis and presentation of information: visualization, animation, etc.

For the Partner search, the organisers consider it most natural to address to organisations and institutions from countries directly related to the presented themes namely Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, France and others.

Contact: Valentina Varbanova, CoordinatorE [email protected] Zheleva – Martins, Project LeaderE [email protected]

The Siege (Italy)

The organisers intent to put on a play to be performed at a European tour, with professional actors coming from different countries. It should be the result of a common work, from playwrighting up to the staging, carried out through a formative and preparing route in which to make use of the collaboration of renowned personalities of theatrical pedagogics, and of young directors, authors and actors coming from different European countries.

The theme of the show is the siege. Characters are Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Making a start from the day-dreaming of the hero, inspiration will be drawn from the birth of the Spanish Romance, from the Chanson de Geste, from the women, the knights, the arms, the love, the fighting against the moors, to tell the story of the futility of war as a solution to human conflicts. The story is going to develop and up-date itself, so as to illustrate the modern migration waves of peoples, the modern battles that put us in conflict with the distorsions of modernity and the fear of the others and of ourselves.

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to be used within the performance, but as well so-to-speak beside the performance itself, and to testify the work during its preparation and putting on. The supporting material for the show, its documentation and records, the eventual enriching material, as well as the show itself, are going to be edited and distributed in different formats: traditional (such as videotape), innovative supports (such as streaming and webcams), so as to lead in the end to the production of a DVD, multi-textual and multilingual, providing a narrative path alike to modern videogames. Finally, the work is going to be constantly monitorised on-line in the web, using the web-site of one or more of the organizers, and issued in the web.

The project is set on the following goals To relate the problems of multi-ethnicity and multilingualism, as well as the trouble of living together for different

races, people, cultures, with particular attention to the constant “siege” of Europe on behalf of other people, to the human migrations that throughout the centuries have carved the history of the European continent, and to the fear of diversity and of the other.

To start up a practice of multi-cultural work. Dramatists, directors, actors of different countries are going to work together for the putting on of the final play.

To experiment the typology of crossed storytelling, through a modern interpretation of the classics that makes use of the means of the open narration typical of the modern interactive games.

To make an experimental use of light digital technologies of image and sound, so as to support a live performance not just as a framework for the story, but as an actual part and extension of it.

Practical targets are

During the preparation To put up a practice of work from the playwrighting up to the staging, through the meeting and confrontation of

different cultures, personalities, methods and habits. To confront different pedagogical traditions and outlooks on the world, by inviting to work with us renowned personalities of theatrical pedagogics.

During the accomplishment To put on a performance that should reach the large audience of the European public, starting from at least three

cities of different countries, and that is going to be the contact point with the materials running on-line in the web. The show must become the emerging peak of a storytelling made out of images and sounds existing before the show, during the making of it, and afterwards.

During the period after the staging of the show To create and distribute a DVD that includes a map of the whole narrative route, that can be read on different

levels, in different languages, and that might become a model for future collaboration projects.

The organisers look forward to accomplish a staging high in spectacularity, integrated by modern technologies of imaging and sound, clever and smooth in its storytelling.

Contact: Gianfranco Isernia, Centro Internazionale La CometaT +39 658 330 811F +39 658 332 568E [email protected] Trafo (Germany)

Trafo stands for transformation of artistic ideas into objects of art as well as into pleasure, usefulness and – money.

The project has two objectives: supplying further help to female artists by Artists Houses in Saxony building up and developing contacts with Artists Houses in Poland

To ensure that the objectives set out in this project are attained the following is planned:

2004 Visits of representatives of Saxon Artists Houses to Artist Houses in Poland and vice

versa Trafo I . Inauguration meeting and workshop in the Artists House “Künstlergut Prösitz” (8 week-days, October

2004)2005 Art projects of Polish female artists in Saxon Artists Houses Trafo II. Workshop in the Artists House “Künstlergut Prösitz”

(8 week-days, October 2005)2006 Art projects of German woman artists in Artists Houses in Poland Trafo III. Workshop in the Artists House “Künstlergut Prösitz”

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Programme of the Inauguration meeting and workshop in the Artists House (Trafo I, 2004) The participants of the Project Trafo become personally acquainted Presentation of artistic programmes of the participating Artists Houses Exchange of experiences in the field of promotion of female artists with children Discussion of the next steps of the project Excursions to other Artists Houses, visits to art exhibitions, museums and other cultural events will be organised.

Management Art Factory Kulturwerkstat Waldheim project management Artists House Künstlergut Prösitz in cooperation with the Network of Saxon Artists Houses Art Centers in Poland partners of the cooperation

Schedule of yearly activities Working period of the project: February – September Workshops Trafo I /II/III: 8 week-days in October Evaluation: November - December

Contact: Ute Hartwig-Schulz, Künstlergut PrösitzE [email protected] www.kuenstlergut-proesitz.de

Veveří State Castle – Creation of a permanent exhibition (Czech Republic)

Veveří State Castle is one of the most extensive but unfortunately also the most damaged castle premises in the Czech Republic.

The project should present international relations and links in the history of Veveří Castle and its estates. Because of historical coincidences, it is a complex where the influence of nations and cultures of almost all of Europe intermingled very distinctively in the past.

The project is supported by the National Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage of the Czech Republic, the Czech -British architectonical office, the professors from the Charles University in Prague and the City Council of the city of Brno.

The project aims to create a display in a pre-selected Baroque building of Veveří State Castle premises that would present the following five stages in the history of Veveří Castle:1) Veveří as one of the principal residences of the Moravian Luxembourgs in the 14th and 15th centuries.2) The Tieffenbach Brothers, Austria - one a rebel and the other an Emperor's marshal - the Thirty Years' War seen through the destiny of a noble family3) Prince Gustav Vasa, Sweden - the emigrant court of the deposed crown prince at Veveří4) The Ypsilanti Princes - a famous Greek family in the Moravian estates5) Winston Churchill, Great Britain, a personal friend of the last private owner of Veveří, and his two visits to the castle in the early 20th century

Currently, the organisers consider it most natural to address organisations and institutions from countries directly related to the presented themes, namely Luxembourg, Austria, Sweden, Greece and Great Britain. They have enough funds to co-finance the project.

Contact: Barbora Kysilková, EUROVISIONT +420 543 237 286E [email protected] www.eurovision-eu.com

Virtual Interiors (Italy)

The aim of the project consists in valorising the cultural heritage of the seats of power during the Middle Ages. In particular 3D techniques will be used to reconstruct the interiors of such buildings. Some buildings have been destroyed while other underwent major structural changes.

In order to better understand the real life-style during the Middle-Ages, it is important and innovative alike to reconstruct and to go back over the physical scenarios of the interiors of the seats of power, including furnishings and art-objects as well, The project will exploit in-depth studies on the contextualisation of the cultural heritage and everyday life in the seats of power, providing significant insights into important sociological aspects of medieval times. The use of advanced visualisation techniques, such as stereoscopic projection, will allow an immerse and pleasant fruition of such new contents by the general public as well, in particular by youth, who could appreciate contents and concepts which are usually benefited by scholars and specialists only.The results of the project, both from the historical and technical point of view, will be widely disseminated by means of ad-hoc conferences, a dedicated web-site providing integrated contents on the seats of power


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addressed by the project, scientific publications and seminars. The project will address very important seats of power during the Middle Ages.

Virtual ContextOne of the main problems of museums is that the objects that are on display are out of the context for which they were created. This leads to the loss of the original meaning of the objects and of their use. This problem cannot be avoided, indeed the need for preserving cultural and art-objects from deterioration and spoilage, apart from theft, is real and often forces artworks to be removed from their original place (e.g. a church) to be stored in museums. In some cases (e.g. ancient palaces, archaeological sites etc.), the context has been destroyed or deeply changed. The creation of a virtual context can be a solution. The context of an object can be reconstructed using multimedia techniques (e.g. virtual reality), giving the public the possibility of understanding the meaning, the use and the importance to preserve both cultural heritage and art objects.

Contact: Eva BaraldiT +39 10 209 5215F +39 10 209 9288E [email protected]

Visual Arts proposal (Romania)

The Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting Department at the National University of Arts [NUA], Bucharest is seeking partners to implement the following project: Art image analyzing and creation using 3D and holograms Possibility to develop new meanings and techniques of representation in art using IT Research of art image analyzing using IT Cultural heritage signified by grammar of image aesthetic criteria Semantic-based knowledge system, tonal relationship in art image with and without semantic function New ways of visual art techniques using IT Art archives and data analyzing of tonal relationship image Semantic function of quantitative relationship

Contact: Catalin Balescu, LecturerUniversitatea de Arte [National University of Arts], Pictura [Painting] DepartmentT +40 21 312 7253F +40 21 312 5429E [email protected] http://art.kappa.ro

Waves of Culture (Sweden)

This is a project on maritime heritage and contacts between coastal areas in Europe. The organisers already have 3 co-organisers (Norway, Belgium and the UK). As this would be a multi-annual co-operation agreement project, they are looking for some more co-organisers to join in.

The organisers want to highlight common features in music, song, oral traditions and storytelling, and follow the waves in time and space up to the present day, in an exciting touring exhibition on maritime culture in Europe. The exhibition will be accompanied by instructive and creative cultural programmes, performances and work-shops with dances and songs, folklore and storytelling, language and dialects. The rich variety and exchange of programmes and artists aims at raising awareness and interest in European maritime culture.

Contact: Kerstin Olson, Bohusläns MuseumT +46 522 656567 (dir)F +46 522 65 65 05E [email protected]

3. Culture 2000: PARTNER REQUESTS ON THE OFFICIAL DATABASE A good number of organisations have posted their partner search requests on the official Cultural Contact Point Partner Search database. You can access their details by logging onto http://agora.mcu.es/pcc/index.htm

4. OTHER PARTNER REQUESTS (linked to culture)

Ceramic, Pottery and Faience Museums in Europe: implementation of a museological network (Portugal) – INTERREG IIIC


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This project aims to join in a network several museological structures associated with industrial ceramic production. Aim is To create an European Network of ancient ceramic factories (XVIII-XX centuries) that were meanwhile converted

into museums or museological structures; To develop research in order to know the impact of these industrial structures on local people and communities’

lives; To recollect information on the industrial ceramic process (decoration techniques, types of ceramic; commercial

trade routes; models, motives, different process and production phases, organization and where to find of labour work, machinery and work instruments) in order to give a better image of the industrialization phenomena inside Europe;

To develop a website where al the information collected will be available; To develop and plan similar actions of animation and promotion; To create routes, guides, and interpretation centres, CD-Rom, exchange of experiences; To organise conferences, seminars and workshops

Contact: Contact: Joaquim Jorge, Loures Municipal Museums NetworkT +351 219 839 605F +351 219 839 606M +351965023362E [email protected]

CULTURNET (Portugal) – INTERREG IIIB

Objective of the project is to create a network of areas of patrimonial interest working as promoters of socio-economic and cultural activities in cities. Main objective is to propitiate the exchange of experiences and knowledge initially and to approach in the mid term more ambitious projects of collaboration.Actions to be taken are as follows: Constitution of the network Creation of a chase commission International Seminar about the areas of patrimonial interest that work as promoters of cultural and socio-

economic activities in the cities. Creating a web-site that includes information about the different areas integrated in the network and enable

debates between the members, documentation access, etc. Exchange members of the different integrated areas with the objective of exchanging examples and

demonstration projects and tools for the development of the above actions

Total budget of the project (Jan 2004 – Dec 2004) would be 620,000 euros.

Contact: José SánchezT +34 922 533 353F +34 922 532 305E [email protected] E [email protected]

European Mythology and Traditions (UK) – INTERREG IIIBProject for the characterization of the European cultural identity, through the ideological basis of its popular traditions

The Project concerns the presentation of an image of the actual European Community, which reflects a cohesive cultural identity as a reality (usually unperceived). By giving emphasis to the remains of nuclear Indo-European mythologies and cultural practices, as they are still expressed in rituals and other performances, on the extremes of the European Community: throughout the Azores (Portugal) in one side, and the Balkan countries (or others) in the other, it is foreseen that the process of differentiation among countries, once in vogue, for the matter of reinforcing their own nationalities, becomes reverted.

It is believed that the cultural matrix, common to all of them and a remarkable immaterial heritage, could be reinforced throughout this process, acting as a resistance factor against the phenomena of massification of today’s trend. The prosecution of these objectives will follow the method of video tapping register, for divulgation to the public target.

The realization/production of a number of video documentary informing about the permanency of important vestiges of the indo-European mythology throughout Europe, especially in its fringes, like the Azorean Archipelago and the Balkan countries, will fulfil the first part of the Project. It is directed to inform that ritual and other cultural practices have potentialities of establishing and maintaining links among social groups, which can preserve their cultural identity. It also pretends to clarify the fact that the hegemony found in most of these performances proves that the concept of a unified European cultural identity is not an artificial construct.


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Along the countries responding to this appeal to partnership, will be asked ethnographic videos or other production that documents rituals/cultural performances from the traditional culture, where these characteristics can still be found, namely those that still take place on the referred time frames. In voice-off or other means, the similarities among them will be stressed, tracing a cohesive picture among the manifestations that preserve the common cultural identity. The scenes of the videos will be divided in big thematic areas, concerning the agrarian year, as for example: the cult of the dead (preceding and around the time of the Winter Solstice), including celebrations of the birth of

the sun (Christmas?) the exorcism of the Winter, legends of demons, practices of exorcism, songs, says, etc. the preparations for the sowing, purification rituals of the Lent, stimulation of the energies of life, as in some

Carnival performances the celebration of the harvests and summer festivities of abundance.

Contact: Antonieta CostaE [email protected] European studies/governance/public sphere (e-learning) (UK)

The organiser is seeking non-UK partners to develop an e-learning bid under the theme European studies/governance/public sphere.

Contact: Juliet LodgeJean Monnet European Centre of ExcellenceE [email protected]

Exchange programme of visual artists (France)

This project will join 4 cities of Europe and video artists, fine artists and also musicians. In terms of art, the idea is to characterize a town by its acoustic environment as sound is now a medium, which plays a central role in the ongoing saga of art including abstract and figurative sculpture in all media.The visitor is acoustically immersed as soon as he walks into one of the exhibits and will only start getting to know the city in question by making unique audio contact. Video-imaging, photographs, abstract sculpture and possibly paintings will build on that knowledge.A group structure will bring together the different artistic areas and will be made up of two musicians, two video-technicians, two artists and one scriptwriter. This team will be based in Marseilles as this is where the project is being launched.

All the participating cities will be asked to take part in an exchange programme between artists which means that the same kind of artistic crew will be created in each town. Artists from the European Community will come together and combine forces. The exhibition will hopefully be a travelling one and the venues will preferably be museums and spacious Modern Art galleries where the potential of the exhibits may be exploited to the full.

Contact: Phonie AlliéeT +33 4 91 42 05 02E [email protected]

History of Hip Hop (UK)

Kompany Malakhi are seeking co-producers for their 2004 tour of Hip Hopstory. A journey through the elements of Hip Hop. Dance, Music, Spoken word and Graffiti art will be included in the project.

Contact: E [email protected]

London Food Film Fiesta (UK)

An international survey of food in relation to the arts, this virual directory has expanded to include art, and music and will soon involve literature. The organisation is also looking to a future association and partnership with European and other organisations to encourage arts connected to food for the purpose of a greater awareness of food economics, fair trading and political issues surrounding global food programmes. Currently they wish to expand the directory relating to food and film and seek European partners with access to film, TV and video archives - fiction and documentary - from earliest records to the present day, which made a significant impact on the subject. Contact: Timothy FosterE [email protected]


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Napoleon in Europe: creation of a network of military structures (Portugal) – INTERREG IIIC

This project aims to join several military structures used during the Napoleonic Wars (between 1802 ad 1815) in a network. Goals are To create a European Network of ancient military structures (XIX century) that were meanwhile converted into

museums or museological structures; To develop research in order to know the impact of these wars on local people and communities life> '> s; To recollect information on military uniforms, weapons, guns and military machinery used, military tactics and

strategy, defensive lines, fortifications used, battle fields, medical heath care given to the soldiers of the different armies in combat, in order to give a better historical image of the Napoleonic Wars inside Europe;

To develop a website where al the information collected will be available; To develop and plan similar actions of animation and promotion; To create routes, guides, and interpretation centres, cd-rom, exchange of experiences; To organise conferences, seminars and workshops.

Contact: Joaquim Jorge, Loures Municipal Museums NetworkT +351 219 839 605F +351 219 839 606M +351965023362E [email protected]

The Funerary Culture in the Atlantic Area (Portugal) - INTERREG IIIB

The organisers are trying to reach museums that deal with the archaeological megalithic period related to funerary rituals. Main core of this project is to implement a network for the conservation and divulgation of this particular kind of heritage in Europe.

Contact: Joaquim JorgeLoures Municipal Network of MuseumsT +351 21 9839605F +351 21 9839606E [email protected]

5. OTHER PARTNER SEARCH MECHANISMS (linked to culture)

Other partner search mechanisms can be found on the following web-sites which have been established by other CCPs and other interested organisations:

The EUCLID Culture-Match database: www.culturematch.info Germany: http://212.168.16.20:591/kulturrat/suchen.htm The Nordic Countries: www..raa.se/eustod/partnere.asp Network for European Museum Organisations: www.ne-mo.org/partner

Other such mechanisms for other EU programmes will be included in future issues of this bulletin.

Please note: whilst every effort has been made to ensure that all the information in this bulletin is correct, EUCLID cannot accept responsibility for any errors.

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