May 2019 - Globe Art Point

Diversity Agent Course, Open Call Results

22/05/2019 Info G.A.P. Comments 0 Comment

In 2019, Culture for All Service, Globe Art Point and the Center for Cultural Policy Research Cupore organize a Diversity Agent Course for cultural workers and artists of non-Finnish origin or background. The course is part of the project Avaus and supported by the National Agency for Education. The aim of the course is to offer tools for developing diversity in the arts and culture sector. The course introduces participants to topics related to diversity, familiarizes with the arts and culture sector…

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UNVEIL CREATIVE CHAOS! A CALL TO STORM THE BASTILLE. By Ceyda Berk-Söderblom

12/05/2019 Info G.A.P. Comments 0 Comment

“We live longer but less precisely and in shorter sentences …” These lines are picked from “Tutaj” (Here), a painfully beautiful dialogue between two great souls who are not with us anymore: the Nobel Prize-winning poet Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) and the extraordinary trumpeter Tomasz Stańko (1942–2018). The stunning trumpet improvisations in response to the poet’s reading makes this live-recorded poetry and jazz combination a treasure and reminds us that at the end of the day what stays in our hearts…

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#STOPHATREDNOW, Ethical guidelines of the platform

09/05/2019 Info G.A.P. Comments 2 Comments

What? #StopHatredNow is an anti-racist and intersectionally feminist platform whose purpose is to create a new multivoiced feminist discourse about anti-racism, inclusivity and diversity within art and culture. Multivoiced feminist discourse means that we do not aim at a consensus. There must be space for new viewpoints and experiences, but the atmosphere must also remain respectful, safe and inclusive. The platform initiated by UrbanApa and Sonya Lindfors is the creation of several organisations. Other organisers include: Cultural Centre Caisa, Zodiak…

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23.5.19 – Art & Culture Union’s Day

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Welcome to Globe Art Point’s Great Art & Culture Union’s Day Event on 23.5.2019 at 15:00-18:20 at the Helsinki Central Library Oodi! Artists’ Unions Fair will present the Finnish four major artists’ unions: 1. Theatre and Media workers TeMe (communication officer Anne Saveljeff); 2. Art and Culture Professionals’ Trade Union TAKU (organization coordinator Sini Myllyniemi); 3. Actor´s Union (managing director Elina Kuusikko); 4. Finnish Musicians’ Union (freelance-agent Jaakko Kämäräinen). Artists and cultural workers from the fields of performing arts, visual…

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Call: Jyväskylä’ artists

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INVITATION TO DISCUSS OF A COOPERATIONAL ART PROJECTJyväskylä City Theater and Globe Art Point (Helsinki) are launching an artistic co-operation project, which aims to promote, in addition to high-quality art, cooperation between professional artists with diverse backgrounds and local art institutions of the Jyväskylä region. We are now inviting foreign-based and Finnish artists and cultural workers from Jyväskylä and the surrounding area to a meeting where we will discuss the shape, participants and partnerships of a project planned to be implemented…

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