Preserving the cultural heritage of the old city and seaside in Batumi
Connecting Georgia (2019-2020) is an artistic project that aims at developing and discussing tools that can be helpful to tackle the challenges for sites with post-industrial cultural heritage. The project connects the city of Batumi with other european cities engaged in the Memory of Water Creative Europe EU project. From the last decade some major challenges can be highlighted faced by the city regarding cultural heritage preservation. Unfortunately, urban heritage management system of Batumi clearly falls short of international [...]
OPEN CALL: CONNECTING GEORIGA
23 - 29 March 2020 Batumi, Georgia Connecting Georgia is an artist-led project exploring post-industrial waterfront heritage in the context of urban planning and community development. The project is connected to the Creative Europe funded project Memory of Water that gathers six partners in Europe and funded by the Swedish Institute, Third Country Participation in the Baltic Sea region. Connecting Georgia (MCON) offers artistic research and creative residency of 2 Swedish artists, curated by artistic duo SIMKA in Batumi, Georgia. The project aims to explore [...]
See the film from Nordic Dialogues!
See the film to the right from the conference Nordic Dialogues, that was held in Oslo between 2-3 December! Nordic Forum for Interculture (NFI) is a cross boarder network of nordic resource centers that work to promote cultural diversity. Intercult is a part of NFI, that organized the conference in Oslo about tools and strategies usable for a more inclusive cultural sector. The conference marked the end of the projekt An inclusive cultural life in the Nordics. The film is [...]
Vienna – third partner meeting within I_Improve
I_Improve (2018-2021) is a cooperative European project. The partnership consists of 6 members from the River//Cities platform: Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Poland and Lithuania. The common framework is promoting audience engagement through culture, especially in waterfront areas. Its priorities are social inclusion, open and innovative practices in the digital area, and adult education. During 20-22 November the third transnational team meeting took place within the I_Improve project. This time the partners met in Vienna, Austria, where Wiener SPÖ Bildung were [...]
Summarising experiences and learning processes in Stockholm
We organised a meeting in Stockholm to summarise our learning, teaching and training activities within the framework of I_Improve. The meeting took place at our host Intercult's offices in Stockholm on August 18th to August August 22nd. The aim with our meeting was to gather input from each other, discuss our learning activities and plan for future activities within the project. All partners had previously attended bilateral meetings during 2019. One of our main aims of our project is to [...]
Artistic residency in Gdansk – what happened?
During 14-19 October the artistic residency in Gdansk took place - a part of the project Memory of Water, which is developed by members of the River Cities Network. The residency was hosted by the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, and at Intercult we are happy to be the lead partner of the Memory of Water-project. The events were all centred around the former Gdansk Shipyard, the subject and location of the artistic work and activities. Six artists from different countries [...]
Take part of the short documentary film “Nature of Shipyard”
Take part of the short documentary film about Gdansk Shipyard to the right. Description of the film: Gdansk Shipyard. The world-famous place of birth and victory of Solidarity. Place of construction of modern ships and a source of prosperity of Gdańsk for almost 150 years. For large machines and small people, always full, consciously planted trees, bushes and flowers. After the fall in 1996, the Cradle of Solidarity was bought by two American investment funds. The process of its [...]
Anna and Mohammeds month in Stockholm: S.O.S. Climate Waterfront
S.O.S. Climate Waterfront is an interdisciplinary project consisting of 10 parts, from Portugal, Turkey, the Netherlands, Greece, Poland and Sweden. The project aims at finding strategies and methods to create sustainable infrastructure and urban planning in urban waterfronts in Europe. Intercult is representing the cultural perspective of the project. During September, Intercult had a month’s visit from Anna Ragasová and Mohammed Boubezari, who have been working with the communication of the project, which included a webpage and a communication [...]
Juvenes Translatores 2019
Now it is time to register your school to the Juventus Translatores (young translators) 2019! Juvenes Translatores is a translation contest being held for high school students born in 2002 to designate the best young translators in the European Union. The aim of the contest is to promote language skills, and the profession of translation. The contest wants to show the importance of language-learning and translation within the EU. The contestants will translate text from one official EU-language into another. [...]