Creative Collaboration is a British Council project in partnership with artists, cultural leaders and creative entrepreneurs across South East Europe and the UK (the British Council SEE region includes the following countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Austria, BiH, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Israel, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia).
The project uses innovative approaches to networking to encourage arts and cultural leaders from different countries and different art forms to talk together, learn from each other and develop new partnerships for effective cross-border working.
Launched in Istanbul last year, with support from the UK’s award-winning theatre group ‘Improbable’, the project is bringing together leading arts professionals to work on the issues that are most important to them such as public space, arts and professional development, social inclusion, cultural leadership and creative cities.
What do we want to achieve?
We want to help the region’s artists and cultural leaders to develop the networks and skills they need to build a better society, support economic growth and enrich the cultural life of Europe and its surrounding countries.
SO, WHAT’S HAPPENING IN MONTENEGRO?
During May and June 2008 we held four Open Space events throughout the region.Montenegrin artists and cultural leaders had the opportunity to participate in three of them:
Delegates of the Open Space events had the opportunity to:
What is Open Space?
‘The most useful part of the meeting was the discussion in the coffee break’. Have you ever felt like that after a meeting? Open Space Technology works like one long coffee break. It is an unusual but highly effective way of getting people to work together because:
COLLABORATIVE PROJECT FUND
This fund was opened in 2008 with the aim to support successful collaborative cross-border arts project in South East Europe and the UK.
Currently, there are 11 large scale and 17 small scale projects including performances, publications, exhibitions, installations, networks, websites and workshops.
CULTURE LOBBY
One of the 28 successful projects is the Culture Lobby, in which Montenegro is involved.
Canadian artists Cindy Blazevic and Pascal Paquette, in cooperation with the Belgrade based NGO Kiosk created this project in 2007. The project was launched as part of the Creative Collaboration platform in Bijela, Montenegro in August 2009.
Need more info?
For further information about this project, please contact Vanja Madzgalj in our Podgorica office.
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