ASEF Culture Department Podcast

How can cultural interventions make public health policies more engaging, and therefore more impactful? In this podcast episode, Associate Professor Chanintorn Pensute of Chiang Mai University summarises the creative ways in which the ThaiHealth Promotion Board engaged culture as a tool for the promotion and adoption of public health policies. Recognising the key role of culture in shaping social...

What does the future hold for activists, cultural and mental health practitioners in conflict zones? Explore what must be changed, preserved as we look towards the future of culture, well-being, conflict and crisis in part 2 of this series. Produced jointly by culture360.ASEF.org and culture Solutions, this two-part podcast was commissioned through ASEF culture360's Redefining 'Well-being' through...

When conflict hits and healthcare systems collapse, culture and art practices remain essential for communities. How do music, art, and living heritage become primary responses to collective trauma, when formal mental health infrastructure are lacking?  Produced jointly by culture360.ASEF.org and culture Solutions, this two-part podcast was commissioned through ASEF culture360's Redefining 'Well-be...

In this episode of Opportunities for Mobility & More, ASEF culture360 speaks with Claire Wilson, the Editor of culture360.ASEF.org and the researcher of the 2025 edition of the Australia Mobility Funding Guide. Drawing insights from the updated Australia Mobility Funding Guide, the conversation unpacks what cultural mobility means in a geographically large country like Australia. Find out more abo...

In this episode of Opportunities for Mobility & More, ASEF culture360 speaks with Claire Wilson, the Editor of culture360.ASEF.org and the researcher of the 2025 edition of the Australia Mobility Funding Guide. Drawing insights from the updated Australia Mobility Funding Guide, we look into Australia's key funders and schemes, its gaps and rethinking what mobility means. Find out more about the Mo...

In this special podcast-interview, we speak with Beijing-born visual artist, Tianzhuo Chen, and Jakarta-based dancer and choreographer, Siko Setyanto - the dynamic forces behind Ocean Cage. This deeply immersive, multi-disciplinary performance draws inspiration from the rich cultures and mythos of the Lamalera community's whale-hunting traditions, and will be presented at the Asia-Europe Cultural...

In 'Opportunities for Mobility & More', ASEF culture360 shifts our focus to the future of cultural mobility in India and what lies ahead. Find out more about the Mobility Funding Guides here: culture360.asef.org/mobility-funding-guides/

In this episode of 'Opportunities for Mobility & More', ASEF culture360 touches on the growth of cultural mobility in India and how mobility funders are shaping the landscape of cross-cultural collaborations. Since 2012, ASEF through culture360 has collaborated with On the Move (OTM), the European network for cultural mobility to jointly present the Mobility Funding Guides for International Cultur...

Despite being one of the essential and ancient forms to develop culture, puppetry still remains at the periphery of both the art realm and academic discourse. Through the podcast, we explore how contemporary puppetry is perceived in India and how can we sustain this sometimes invisible, sometimes absent artistic practice? This podcast is commissioned as part of culture360.ASEF.org's Going beyond '...

In this episode of Opportunities for Mobility & More, ASEF culture360 discusses the intersection of environmental sustainability, cultural mobility and the challenges Indonesia faces in navigating these issues with Theodora Agni. The podcast complements Agni's findings from the 2024 edition of the Indonesia Mobility Funding Guide, which provides a deeper insight into the current landscape of cultu...

In this episode of 'Opportunities for Mobility & More', ASEF culture360 speaks with Theodora Agni, who has helped with the updating of the 2024 edition of the Indonesia Mobility Funding Guide, touching on the growth of Indonesia's arts and cultural scene and cultural mobility in its post-pandemic landscape. Find out more about the Mobility Funding Guides here: https://culture360.asef.org/mobility-...

ASEF culture360's podcast series 'Opportunities for Mobility & More' continues the conversation on environmental sustainability in cultural mobility, focusing on China with Liu Xiaoyi. Drawing insights from the 2024 edition of the Mobility Funding Guide for China, we explore sustainable travel, exchanges and long-term connections. Find out more about the Mobility Funding Guides here: https://cultu...

Tune in to this episode of our latest podcast series Opportunities for Mobility & More, where ASEFculture360 speaks with Liu Xiaoyi, a Singaporean director, actor and playwright who has helped updated the 2024 edition of the Mobility Funding Guide for China. In this podcast, Xiaoyi shares about the complexities and opportunities of working in China, based on his personal experiences and the resear...

As part of ASEF culture360's latest podcast series Opportunities for Mobility & More, we continue the conversations with Sharmilla Ganesan, drawing insights from the 2024 editions of the Mobility Funding Guides for ASEAN (excluding Indonesia). In this second episode, we explore the intersection of travel, cultural mobility and environmental sustainability. Do these concepts conflict or complement...

Tune in to this episode of our latest podcast series Opportunities for Mobility & More, where ASEFculture360 speaks with Sharmilla Ganesan about the evolving landscape of cultural mobility in ASEAN, the trends and shifts over the years and the challenges in updating the guides. Since 2012, ASEF through culture360 has collaborated with On the Move (OTM), the European network for cultural mobility t...

The 2nd edition of the Arts Journalism Matters Fellowship was jointly launched by ASEF Culture through its arts and culture website culture360.ASEF.org, with the European network on cultural management and policy (ENCATC). Supported as part of the Fellowship, listen to the podcast by the 2 resident journalists, who unpack the notion of cultural diplomacy and their main takeaways after being immers...

For the third episode, we speak with Cambodia-based French filmmaker, Xavier de Lauzanne, where his film 'The Perfect Motion' was screened at the 2022 Asia-Europe Cultural Festival in Brussels, Belgium. The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival is a public arts festival organised by ASEF since 2018 to celebrate the artistic diversity of Asia and Europe and to promote dialogue and exchange amongst artists...

The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival is a public arts festival organised by ASEF since 2018 to celebrate the artistic diversity of Asia and Europe and to promote the dialogue and exchange amongst artists from the 2 regions. In 2023, the Asia-Europe Cultural Festival will present along the events showcase, a series of podcasts and lectures with organisers, partners and participants of past editions. F...

The Asia-Europe Cultural Festival is a public arts festival organised by ASEF since 2018 to celebrate the artistic diversity of Asia and Europe and to promote dialogue and exchange amongst artists from the two regions. In 2023, the Asia-Europe Cultural Festival will present along the events showcase, a series of podcasts and lectures with organisers, partners and participants of past editions. In...

culture360, the arts and culture website of the Asia-Europe Foundation is delighted to talk to the founders of Curators Performance Initiatives or PCI, an independent network of curators, scholars and practitioners in performance curation, whose primary goal is to foster exchanges and discussion on the practice and study on the emerging field of performance curation, in the Philippines and elsewhe...

In this podcast, we speak to the participants and organisers of Crisol- Creative processes, a collaborative project between a network of 7 Italian and 8 Asian partners, supported by the Ministry of Culture of Italy. Crisol includes 8 arts organisations, festivals and venues from Hong Kong, Singapore, India, China and Macao. We will hear from them about what it means concretely to be part of this n...

Hello and welcome to the first podcast hosted by culture360.ASEF.org, the arts and culture website of the Asia-Europe Foundation. Today we will be speaking with the organisers of Cross Festival, a performing arts and contemporary dance festival is currently taking place in Verbania, Italy. We will be talking to Antonella Cirigliano Cross Festival director; Giulia Poli, curator of the festival’s As...