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Month: February 2018

Ongoing Call!

Ongoing Call!

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Arts, aesthetics, techniques, processes, canons, history, etc. We are surrounded by different pieces of knowledge and understandings, ways of seen and do that may differ from ours or even being complete unknown by us. We think that if we talk about (cultural) diversity on arts we should expand the dialogue beyond topics related with ethnicity, language or place of origin to expand our view, to learn beyond the norm and grow together. For that reason, we launch an open call for artists and…

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Gender Equality in Finnish Film Production. The Division of Public Financing. By Tarja Savolainen

Gender Equality in Finnish Film Production. The Division of Public Financing. By Tarja Savolainen

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Only about one-fifth of Finnish feature-length fiction films are directed by women. The situation has not changed since the mid 1990’s. One reason presented for this consistent imbalance lays in women filmmakers´ difficulties receiving funding for their films. The purpose of the report was to find out whether gender equality was realised in the public financing of Finnish film. In addition, factors that may cause gender inequalities in film production more broadly were evaluated. The statistics created in the study…

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Baltic Sea Region (BSR) Cultural Mobility Funding Guide

Baltic Sea Region (BSR) Cultural Mobility Funding Guide

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The Baltic Sea Region (BSR) consists of eleven countries: Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Russian Federation and Poland. All countries have their unique structures that support cultural mobility. The BSR Cultural Mobility Funding Guide is a joint On The Move and ARS BALTICA initiative. The guide is your handy tool to navigate through this great pool of opportunities, as information from all eleven countries is provided on: State, local, regional, and/or private funded Cultural Mobility programmes A selection of residency…

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Learning from the Middle East: Uninterrupted Skype session and the letter that never arrived.

Learning from the Middle East: Uninterrupted Skype session and the letter that never arrived.

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Last year after a rejected attempt in establishing an academic exchange agreement between Aalto University and an Art University in Beirut on the basis of lack of safety in my chosen destination, I started looking more closely in the nature of the established relationships between the art institutions and the Academia in Finland and those in The Middle East. In their eyes, what does the Middle East has to offer anyway? A perpetual warfare? Flood of refugees? I wondered. In…

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Cultural policy and cultural diversity in four Nordic countries, Speech by Passi Saukkonen

Cultural policy and cultural diversity in four Nordic countries, Speech by Passi Saukkonen

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“A recent (29 January 2018) conference was held in Stockholm on equality, equality, inclusiveness and integration in the field of arts and culture. The theme of the event was the recent reports by Myndigheten för cultural analyst and Kulturanalys Norden on these topics. Publications can be downloaded from the website of those mentioned. My own speech was based on the article on culture policy and multiculturalism in four Nordic countries, published in Swedish in the co-authored edition of Kulturanalys Norden…

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