Open call for “gathering spells”

Promoted by the international association BJCEM—Biennale des Jeunes Créateurs de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, and co-funded by the European Union, DE.a.RE is a three-year long program supported by the Creative Europe Program. It comprises three iterations of online classes, conferences, surveys, advocacy, and awareness raising campaigns. Through these activities, it responds to the institutional, ethical, operational and sustainability issues confronting cultural organisations and practitioners in the expanded Mediterranean as they deal with increasing precarisation and radical transitions.

“Gathering spells” is the title of the second online educational program and it will be built based on the survey completed by two hundred cultural and contemporary arts organisations, developed in collaboration with sociologist Bernardo Armanni. Multiple conversations, developed in the perspective of an agorà of voices, will be coordinated by facilitators Alessandro Castiglioni, Simone Frangi, Denise Araouzou, and Svetlana Racanovic with the aim of building translocal alliances and discussing new models of sustainable management of cultural institutions.

Cultural operators, art workers, institutional and independent professionals who are interested in the programs’ themes are encouraged to apply. The results of the course will feed into a day-long conference organised in collaboration with Fluks—Centre for Young Art in Kristiansand, Norway, the upcoming fall 2023.

Fill out the survey / Apply here.