Frequencies | Culture Action Europe Podcast Platform

This episode is a special edition of the Trust the Process podcast, recorded in Riga during the first BEYOND   satellite event , which launched the inaugural series of Culture Action Europe's satellite gatherings. To sustain and nurture the conversations that took place in Riga from 14 to 16 April, we conducted a series of interviews with speakers and participants whose contributions brought...

Trust the Process is a podcast about socially engaged arts that invites you to trust the unconventional nature of artistic processes and, more importantly, the impact they can have over time. This project is part of the Ask, Pay, Trust the Artist campaign and is supported by the Alliance for Socially Engaged Arts . The guest of this second episode is the Belgian theatre director Frédérique Lecomte...

Trust the Process is a podcast about socially engaged arts that invites you to trust the unconventional nature of artistic processes and, more importantly, the impact they can have over time. This project is part of the Ask, Pay, Trust the Artist campaign and is supported by the Alliance for Socially Engaged Arts . The guest of this first episode is the French artist Chloé Malcotti , director of M...

Culture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a special episode, "Elefsinian Mystery | Handle with Care", which  focuses on  the 2023 Beyond the Obvious conference, " Handle with Care | Culture for Social Well-being " , co-organized by  Culture Action Europe, 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture , and the CultureForHealth p...

Culture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a four-part collaboration exploring the current discourse and practice around cultural rights in our communities across Europe. The series focuses on the four focus areas of the 2022 conference Culturopolis , co-organized by the Culture Institute of Barcelona and Culture Action Europe, which brought to...

Culture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a four-part collaboration exploring the current discourse and practice around cultural rights in our communities across Europe. The series focuses on the four focus areas of the 2022 conference Culturopolis , co-organized by the Culture Institute of Barcelona and Culture Action Europe, which brought to...

Culture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a four-part collaboration exploring the current discourse and practice around cultural rights in our communities across Europe. The series focuses on the four focus areas of the 2022 conference Culturopolis , co-organized by the Culture Institute of Barcelona and Culture Action Europe, which brought to...

Culture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a four-part collaboration exploring the current discourse and practice around cultural rights in our communities across Europe. The series focuses on the four focus areas of the 2022 conference Culturopolis , co-organized by the Culture Institute of Barcelona and Culture Action Europe, which brought to...

Today we will be listening to a sound diary from three different cultural organisations based in Malmö and Lund in Sweden. The sound diary aims to “sonify” the daily operations of the people and organisations who make out the local culture sector there. It is an initiative from the European cultural network Trans Europe Halles in Lund, as a part of Culture Action Europe's project Amplify: mak...

In this episode, we spotlight Qisetna , a digital platform seeking to preserve the cultural heritage of communities affected by conflict and displacement. Qisetna was founded in London in 2013 in response to the conflict in Syria. The organisation originally sought to reframe the narrative of those being displaced through the practice of sharing stories. The organisation encouraged Syrians of all...

Today we talk with Anja Zag Golob , a fierce voice in a movement to protect cultural and democratic rights in Slovenia. Anja is often described as a rising star of European poetry, winning awards such as the Jenko Poetry Prize for best Slovene Poetry Collection and the 2020 Kritiško sito award for best Slovene book. Anja also participated in the Culture Action Europe project, “ Amplify: Make the F...

Today we explore the work of Ben Maier , an artist and a photography student at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague, Netherlands. In the autumn of 2021, under the coordination of the organisations Creative Court in the Hague, Het Geluid in Maastricht and H401 in Amsterdam, Ben was selected to take part in a pan-European project, “ Amplify: Make the Future of Europe Yours ,” as a participant repr...

This week we tap into the mind and heart of Rocío Nogales Muriel, the director of EMES International Research Network . As a sociologist specialising in culture, social innovation and social enterprise, she guides us through the vision and actions of a network in Spain that is creating social transformation in communities through artistic and cultural exploration, experimentation and collaboration...

In this episode, we head to the Flemish region of Belgium and focus on a community centre in the heart of Merksem, a multicultural district of the city of Antwerp. Merksemdok Community Centre serves as a meeting point for people in the neighbourhood to participate in programs such as community theatre, Dutch language practice groups and a number of cultural and artistic programs for children. In D...

In this first episode of the series, we visit Italy to explore the recent work of visual artist, Iginio De Luca . For many years De Luca has focused his work on the production of videos, photographic images, and sounds that activate public spaces with bold, satirical actions that aim to interrupt everyday life in order to hold a mirror to the absurdities of current politics. It is largely due to t...