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Work in progress: the project foresees 6 different themed pilots which will deliver their prototype outcomes by January 2015.

Europeana Space in Amsterdam: project’s meeting

Europeana Space is a very large project characterized by experimentation and creativity: in facts its main aim is to trail new ways of re-use for the digital cultural heritage, in order to unlock its potential in terms of business and creation of new jobs. An important meeting will take place in Amsterdam on 15-16 May, hosted by partner Noterik and coordinated by the WP4 leaders iMINDS and Promoter. Continue reading →

after a first series of event to engage cultural communities, next appointments in 2022 will be focused on capacity building in managing and sharing online collections

WEAVE LabDays continue to support institutions safeguarding tangible and intangible heritage

text and image courtesy of Rosa Cisneros. Over the last few months, the WEAVE team (Rosa Cisneros, Marie-Louise Crawley and Sarah Whatley) have been busy co-ordinating a series of ten project LabDays held in conjunction with partners IN2, ARCTUR, UNL, … Continue reading →

Results of the panel organised by Promoter Srl involving EU projects RICHES, Civic Epistemologies, E-Space, PREFORMA and the international association Photoconsortium

From Digitization to Preservation, Creative Re-Use of Cultural Content, and Citizen Participation

E-Space, RICHES, Civic Epistemologies, PREFORMA and Photoconsortium met in a panel at DH 2015 to discuss how to establish the path towards a more advanced society, that makes use of the full potential of digital technologies to foster cultural and societal progress. Continue reading →

a unique cultural institution that is both a museum and also a center for research and production center.

ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe

The Center for Art and Media ZKM in Karlsruhe extends the original duties of a museum, which it was since 1989 with the mission to perpetuate classical arts in the digital age, becoming a cultural institution unique throughout the world. It is a house … Continue reading →

exploring creative practices and cultural values of the Roma community through the use of IN2's digital scrapbook tool

WEAVE Team member published chapter in Creative Activism Research, Pedagogy and Practice

text by Rosa Cisneros, C-DARE Coventry University. This collection explores the growing global recognition of creativity and the arts as vital to social movements and change. Bringing together diverse perspectives from leading academics and practitioners who investigate how creative activism … Continue reading →

the materials produced by the project will possibly aggregated and shared to Europeana via the WEAVE project

«De Volta aos Bailes mandados em Portugal» the new project of PédeXumbo

WEAVE partner PédeXumbo announces a new project about traditional heritage dances for which synergies with WEAVE will be explored. The project is focused on the “Bailes Mandados”, a varied dance practice where all the dances have in common the fact … Continue reading →

Black Box is an innovative arts and cognition research project, that is changing the way we understand dance and theatrical performance.

BlackBox – Arts & Cognition

BlackBox is an interdisciplinary ERC-funded project hosted by Universidad Nova de Lisboa (FCSH-UNL) since September 2014, under the direction of Prof. Carla Fernandes as its Principal Investigator. With a wide-breadth duration of 5 years, the BlackBox project aims at developing … Continue reading →

Cisneros and Canadian guitarist Caroline Plante discussed the complex Spanish artform and explored the role of women in Flamenco.

Rosa Cisneros from C-DaRE and WEAVE partner is part of “The Conversation” BBC podcast

text by Rosa Cisneros, Coventry University. The BBC Podcast “The Conversation” invites two women from different parts of the world, united by a common passion, experience or expertise to tell Kim Chakanetsa their stories. In early September Rosa Cisneros was … Continue reading →

Oxford, 17-18 September 2015

Hidden Spire 2015: Before The Tempest

Taking place in Oxford on 17-18 September 2015, live theatre performance “Before the Tempest” imagines what life was like on the island for Miranda and Prospero as a prequel to Shakespeare’s classic tale of love, magic and bad weather. The play is the result of this year’s Hidden Spire, which brings together a team of professional artists to make a show from scratch alongside people who are homeless. Part of the “Art In Crisis” festival, Hidden Spire is a partnership between Arts at the Old Fire Station and Crisis Skylight Oxford. Its activities were case study of EU project Civic Epistemologies. Continue reading →

Barcelona Theatre Institute, 10-11 November 2014

Workshop on co-creation, distributed performances and alternative content for the big screen

This workshop, co-organised by the Foundation i2CAT, the Government of Catalonia and the Theatre Institute of Barcelona,examined the gradual adoption of technological environments in the performing arts and how the expanding of bandwidth have given rise to new forms of creative expression, space for experimentation and new business models for performing arts, reaching other spaces such as movie screens and cultural institutions with the distribution of high-definition content. Sarah Whatley, dance professor and director of the Centre for Dance Research (C-Dare) at Coventry University intervened as speaker in representation of the European project RICHES. Continue reading →