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Deadline : December 2020
Extended dead line for the REACH Call for Posters & Videos: your are still in time to participate!

In light of the interest received by the initiative,the REACH Consortium have decided to keep the call open until the end of the year.
The call is addressed to researchers, practitioners, professionals, citizens and in general to the representatives from the cultural heritage sector who are interested in promoting the value of cultural heritage and in supporting its public recognition.
We welcome posters and videos which share expertise across all disciplines related to the promotion of participation and social cohesion within Cultural Heritage. Send your abstract to dissemination-reach@promoter.it, we accept contributes till the end of the year! 

Posters and Videos session topics:
• Societal Cohesion – Minorities, Majorities, Groups: everyday lives, especially the excluded, marginalized, and right-wing minorities, the politics of nationalism and majorities
• Societal Cohesion – legacies of imperialism/colonialism
• Sustainability and Environmental/Ecological Responsibility: ‘cultural landscapes’ bringing together holistically natural and cultural heritage in the Anthropocene Age
• Rapid Societal Change – Creativity, Authenticity, Audiences, Users and Emerging and Disruptive Technologies
• Narratives, Place/place-making and Identity

Submit abstracts using this Form
Click here for more information and guidelines for poster preparation and display Click here for the REACH Pisa Conference webpage
#participateinculture

Harry up and submit your artwork!
“Coventry Creates” project: deadline for applications is getting close!

The 30th April expires the deadline for participating in the call jointly launched by the Universities of Coventry and Warwick entitled “Coventry Creates”.
The goal is to fund local artists hit financially by the COVID-19 by offering a fee of £ 2,000 for each project that will set up a collaboration between local artists or creative organizations and researchers in order to create novel artworks in response to research projects.

The call for applications is open to all types of research, relating to the two universities’ City of Culture Research Themes and it is addressed across all artistic disciplines: arts, dance, film, libraries, literature, music, museums, and theatre and visual arts.
Projects can deal with COVID-19 pandemic issues or not in order to apply.
Applications that showcase interdisciplinarity and innovation are especially welcome.
A fundamental condition of each commission is the understanding that the artist will work with/respond to a matched research project through a series of digital conversations and collaboration.
The selected works will be showcased this summer in a special digital exhibition in conjunction with the Coventry City of Culture Trust and then kept in the Coventry City of Culture Digital Archive.
Read more about Coventry Creates joint project here
Prague,5th and 6th March 2020
Outstanding workshop on Resilient Cultural Heritage for the REACH Project
The Resilience for Cultural Heritage workshop, organised and hosted by Charles University, took place in Prague on 5 and 6 March 2020. One of the objectives of the REACH project has been to test the concept of resilient cultural heritage through its four pilot and programme of themed workshops. In addition to continuing the project’s participatory theme, this workshop considered the different interpretations of resilience within the fields of cultural and heritage, involving a series of varied and fascinating presentations and vibrant debate.
Following an introduction from Project Coordinator Neil Forbes, Hana Cervinkova opened proceedings with her presentation ‘Unpacking Resilience in the Context of Jewish Urban Material Heritage in Contemporary Poland’ which described the importance of preservation of Jewish graveyards in Polish cities, where their heritage would otherwise have been forgotten. She was followed by Alexandra Bitušíková’s ‘Strengthening Community Resilience to Extremism: heritage as a resilience tool’ in which she described the reaction of local communities to the shock election of a Neo-Nazi as regional governor in Banska Bystrica and how the community came together to stand-up for its values and reclaim their cultural heritage from the populists.
The next session began with a joint presentation ‘Rural landscape as heritage: a tool for building resilience in the context of disturbances affecting small towns’ from Paola Branduini and Fabio Carnelli. This outlined and contrasted two Italian cases, the first of was of protest against the building of an airport road that would destroy valuable rural heritage and the second was of how a town recovered from the devastation of an earthquake. Jan Krajíček’s ‘Resilience of de-militarized borderland: Iron Curtain heritage in Aš region’ detailed the unwanted heritage and remnants of the Iron Curtain’s infrastructure that had divided and changed communities and how it is now being re-evaluated. Finally, Zdeněk Uherek shared his ‘Resilience in the urban environment from the socio-anthropological perspective’ that returned to earlier themes such as groups no longer living in areas, and their history not being remembered by the current communities. Resilience here is the question of saving the heritage of one group from another, which could be as a result of living through regime change, maintaining heritage, but also assimilating direct or indirect influences on beliefs and infrastructure.
After lunch, Mirela Tase and Natalia Linitskaya made presentations that described ‘Difficult Heritage’. The former presented ‘The public perception of Communist heritage in post-communist Albania’ which considered the built heritage that remains in Tirana and the ongoing debate of what should be done with it; should society move on from its past or should the buildings stand, so that people do not forget? The latter discussed ‘Protecting the Tractor makers’ Neighbourhood in Minsk: Civil Activism with Lack of Civil Rights’ in which Natalie presented plans and images of the communist districts that were built for workers when the factories were opened, considering current perceptions and legacy.
The final session of the day examined resilience within the scope of institutions and heritage. Richard Biegel stepped in to describe the progression of the Charles University’s ‘Art History Department – University´s Cultural Heritage’, illustrating that institutions would have had to have been resilient to operate, in spite of multiple socio-political regime changes, during the 20th Century. Eva Špačková provide insight into the ‘University Museum as a source for creative interactions in arts, science and technology (case of Iowa University Museum)’ and asked whether European universities could also display more works of art. Finally, keynote speaker Thorsten Ludwig, managing director of Interpret Europe, concluded the day with  a presentation on ‘Engaging citizens with Europe’s cultural heritage‘ with special emphasis on UNESCO’s values and learning principles’ that led to an interesting discussion about the values and messages that heritage sites can share and the best ways that narratives can be framed.
The second day of the workshop concentrated on the four pilots of the REACH project, as they shared their results and considered resilience related findings.
For the Rural heritage pilot, José-Maria Civantos discussed that, in the face of global change (political, social and economic), resilience has been the understanding and adaptation of traditional community methods of preservation and management to maintain systems and crops, achieved by giving farmers a stronger platform and way to be heard. 
Gábor Oláh and Eszter György followed, with a description of the Minority Heritage pilot and particularly Roma heritage in Hungary. Through three local encounters, in rural, urban and school settings, they were able to bring stakeholders together that would normally not meet and to encourage future partnership developments that could empower Roma communities.
The Small Towns’ heritage pilot’s presentation involved Alexandra Bitušíková, Jira Janáč and Jaroslav Ira and also touched on the impact of global and urban change, which includes young people leaving for cities and towns stagnating. Towns need to reinvent themselves and their identities, which has led to (award winning) regeneration, bringing increased tourism, but was this done with the agreement of residents and are they happy with the results?
Finally, Frederike Berlekamp discussed the Institutional heritage pilot, which had involved work with three diverse museums. At a time when museums are literally redefining themselves, considering who their audiences are and their expectations, museums are developing new partnership, methods, layouts and more interactive personalised services.
After a day and a half of interesting and informative presentations that considered resilience within cultural heritage in a number of ways, there was consensus from all present that this had been a really valuable event.
“The importance of community,” presented by Alima Lee in cooperation with the the Women’s Center for Creative Work (WCCW)
Films for isolation, a series available on line from April 8 to May 5

The Filmmaker Alima Lee offers a series of short films to rediscover the meaning of belonging and home in this moment of profound isolation.
“Films for isolation includes time-based works of four Black queer artists and their exploration of the self as it is perceived internally. Investigation themes of visibility and home, every piece aims to bring us all closer to the source; remembering what truly matters.”
The series is available for period of four weeks between April and May, each short film will be present online for one week:
1st week: “A Song About Love” (2019), Rikkí Wright‘s
2nd week: “Growing Each Day” (2019) by Clifford Prince King
3rd week: Flesh To Spirit’”(2019), by Alima Lee 
4th week: 5 Things I Know For Sure” (2020) by Sydney Canty
The videos face themes like the complex relationship between sexuality and religion or the way to preserve intimacy in sickness, and they all offers the opportunity to get in confidence with an alternative audio visual production.
More info here

The annual milestone event highlighting best practices in museums, heritage and conservation is to take place in a digital edition
The Best in Heritage goes digital!

Estimating realistically the consequences of a long pandemic, the gathering event in Dubrovnik comprising the conference and the awards will not take place this year, but the 2020 edition of The Best in Heritage is planned, delivering the annual overview of best practices in museums, heritage and conservation. The goal is to offer insights into these award-winning achievements and share these further with the professional and civil society heritage community.

The Best in Heritage will do the following:

  • produce a series of forty-two video-link interviews with representatives of award-winning achievements from the past year, and releasing them periodically on a YouTube channel over the next months
  • release the keynote talks by the representatives of our two “Projects of Influence” for 2019: Mr. Ivor Crotty (#1917LIVE, #Romanovs100) & Ms. Monisha Ahmed (LAMO Centre)
  • publish the yearly conference publication in digital format avaliable online
  • produce the conference poster exhibition and offer it freely to all interested parties as a printable, high-resolution file
  • ensure that there are “Project of Influence” recognitions given this year too, for IMAGINES and the core programme

Website for more information: https://www.thebestinheritage.com/

Get in youch: YouTube channel, Twitter and Facebook,

Discover the online archive and be ready for fresh additions.

Send your contribute within the 17th April
Get involved! Help RURITAGE project to promote social resilience in rural areas

The RURITAGE project invites you to share innovative actions in the midst of the global pandemic crisis to increase and strengthen resilience in rural communities.
COVID-19 pandemic has created an unprecedented health crisis that is disrupting the lives of thousands of individuals, as well as their communities, societies, politics, and economies. The pandemic is a true test for human solidarity and social resilience. In this context, the RURITAGE project is taking an initiative to gather and share rural expertise and experience to support each other within the project and beyond.
Particularly welcome are initiatives and actions from all rural context that encompass sustainability, cultural and natural heritage and that are related to the main innovation areas of local food, migration, art and festival, landscape management and pilgrimage.
All contributes will help to build a database of resilience-related good practices in managing the Covid-19 crisis in rural areas.
Practices will be available at RURITAGE project website:
https://www.ruritage.eu/news-events/news/ruralresilienceactions-covid-19/
Follow the initiative on  Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin
Read more about the call and download the form at: https://www.ruritage.eu/news-events/news/ruralresilienceactions-covid-19/

“We challenge you to recreate a work of art with objects (and people) in your home”
@Gettymuseum calls to participate!
People are not custom to live isolated and confined at home. The forced reclusion due to the Covid-19 pandemic leads to disorientation and discouragement.  In this scenario it is thus even more important  than ever to spread the value of culture and bring people together through art.
The Getty Museum of Los Angeles  is the promoter of an extraordinary initiative for engaging people in art and share creativity.
The  main objective of this challenge is to bring art directly into people’s homes by involving them in an game of simulation and visual reproduction.
The rules of the game are few and simple:
– Choose the favorite artwork
– Find three things lying around house ⠀
– Recreate the artwork with those items.
The challenge was lunched theThe 25thMarch and people reaction was amazing: a great amount of  pictures was sent in a very short time and the online collection continue to receive lots of contributions everyday!
This initiative demonstrates how powerful are human imagination and creativity, able to cross borders and to travel among epochs, history and technology.
If you want to get involved, follow the Getty twitter page and contribute with your creation to populate this digital and home-made art gallery.
Read more about the Getty Museum on: https://www.getty.edu/museum/
compelling screening programs that will be available for all audiences during April 2020
Video Art Miden: video art online!

Video Art Miden collaborates with the 1st Painting Studio of Athens School of Fine Arts, participating in this year’s academic project under the theme “ARTificial Intelligence“. In this frame, Video Art Miden prepared a special video art program to be viewed by the students of the 1st Painting Studio of ASFA, which will be also available online for all friends and the audience of the festival, in an attempt to continue the screening of powerful works and to encourage the artistic activity, the artists’ dialogue and the cultural exchange in the unprecedented days of isolation we experience due to coronavirus.

The program will remain open on youtube till end of April 2020, on the following Youtube:

The selection, curated by Gioula Papadopoulou, presents 8 works that deal with various concepts concerning the “homo digitalis” era and artificial intelligence, exploring the physical detachment and the gradual digitalization and virtualization of our world, our societies and our minds. Either exposing the ironies of our “smart world”, or reaching for an algorithmic emotional intelligence or analyzing the “artificial curiosity” and “self-development” of bots, all works have one thing in common: they are tracing and decoding human behavior in the digital era and explore our relationship with our self and “the other”. What do we have to sacrifice in order to approach a supposedly perfect future world?

Participant artists/works:

  • Juergen Trautwein & Silvia Nonnenmacher, Meta_Face, USA 2017, 2.09
  • Di Hu, Les Objets Du Système, China 2019, 4.00
  • Landia Art and Economy Foundation, Chatbot Dialogs, Germany 2019, 4.58
  • Landia Art and Economy Foundation, Human Applications, Germany 2019, 13.18
  • Elliott Nicole J. Waller & Fabian Forban, AEI (artificial emotional intelligence), Sweden/Germany, 2019, 4.10
  • Yvana Samandova & Borjan Zarevski, Artificial Intelligence VS Aristotle// beta 0.98, France, 2019, 4.21
  • Katerina Athanasopoulou & Eleni Ikoniadou, Her Voice, UK 2019, 5.32
  • Sven Windszus, PURE WHITE, Germany 2017, 3.00

More info, with synopsis of the works, can be found here.

Meanwhile, 2 more screening programs by Video Art Miden are also available online this month:

  • until end of April, the Greek video art program “Down to Earth” will be screened online, as part of NewMediaFest2020 here (to find it you may choose “WOW.08 – Program units 14-15”). Participant artists: Anna Vasof, Alexandros Kaklamanos, Panos Mazarakis, Yiannis Kranidiotis, Alex Karantanas, Katerina Athanasopoulou, Vasilis Karvounis. Curated by Gioula Papadopoulou.
  • the online transmission of the Greek video art program “Inscapes” continues until April 22 on VisualcontainerTV, here. Participant artists: Eleni Moustaka, Thomas Vallianatos, Sophia Liarou, Fenia Kotsopoulou, White Dog Films [Dimitris Papadopoulos], Christina Mertzani / free fall company; Aliki Chiotaki & Dimitris Barnias. Curated by Gioula Papadopoulou.

More info: www.festivalmiden.gr

Video Art Miden is an independent organization for the exploration and promotion of video art. Founded by an independent group of Greek artists in 2005, it has been one of the earliest specialized video-art festivals in Greece, setting as basic aims to stimulate the creation of original video art, to help spread it and develop relevant research.

Through collaborations and exchanges with major international festivals and organizations, it has been recognized as one of the most successful and interesting video art platforms internationally and as an important cultural exchange point for Greek and international video art. Miden screening programs have traveled in many cities of Greece and all over the world, and they are hosted by significant festivals, museums and institutions globally.

(*Miden means “zero” in Greek)

Art direction: Gioula Papadopoulou – Margarita Stavraki

Info: www.festivalmiden.gr || www.facebook.com/videoartmiden || https://www.instagram.com/videoart_miden/

 

 

But the call for posters and videos is still alive!
REACH Final conference Cancelled!

Due to the movement restriction measures adopted by all European Countries to avoid the spread of Covid 19 pandemic, the REACH Project decided to cancel its final conference planned for the 4-5 June 2020 in Pisa.
However, the Consortium is deeply determined to maintain alive the possibility to share experiences and expertise related to participation in culture and resilience. It is with this specific purpose that was decided to keep the call for posters and videos alive: all contributions will be posted on a digital gallery hosted by the REACH project’s website, available on the same date when the Pisa conference was planned, on 4-5 June.
In the mean time, it is also planned to publish online the contributions expected to be delivered by the speakers.
The REACH Project wishes to be able to organise a one-day event to conclude the project as soon as possible, meanwhile it warmly encourages the entire community of cultural heritage to keep acting and answer to the call by sending posters and videos.
In order to stay up to date with the progress of the publications, visit periodically the call for posters & videos webpage

Technologies and tools for better access to cultural heritage
New booklet of ROCK: how can cultural heritage be accessible to everyone?

The accessibility allows to fully live in the city and to fully understand and experiment with it, but, how can Cultural Heritage be accessible to everyone?
The third booklet of ROCK project, published last February, addresses this question.

The urban accessibility must be considered not only in relation to places but also in relation with people: it is not only the possibility to easily access places, making life in the city more fluid, but it is also the access to experiences able to connect different cultures.

 

The urban accessibility will be really universal if be discussed within communities and not only inside the traditional institutions.
The book debates how to improve accessibility and experience of cultural heritage using various tools and technologies.

 

 

 

ROCK considers all the aspects that determine and influence the full participation in urban life:

  • physical and economic barriers,
  • equal access to institutions,
  • cultural productions,
  • participation (including cultural events, meetings with other people, etc.) and empowerment of citizens,
  • information and opportunities
  • digital services and digitally shared content

 

The ROCK project aims to understand and test actions that make the perception and experience of cities open to everybody; in this publication it presents 5 examples of cities, where ROCK has studied approaches to improve accessibility in urban districts:

  • Bologna (Italy): U-Area for All – Cultural heritage for all five senses
  • Lisbon (Portugal): Marvila and Beato Interpretive – Centre Citizen engagement for cultural heritage in distant neighbourhood
  • Lyon (France): Let there be light! – Cultural heritage and light management
  • Turin (Italy): Abbonamento Musei – Heritage in everyone’s hands
  • Vilnius (Lithuania): The colour of data – Using open data and neuroanalytics to strengthen cultural Heritage

 

Further information:

ROCK Project.

Booklet “Technologies and tools for better access to cultural heritage”.

ROCK reports.

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