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Culturopolis: International Days on Cultural Rights |
Beyond the Obvious 2022
Barcelona, 16-19 November 2022

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 together researchers, cultural workers, artists and policymakers to exchange ideas and work around cultural rights.

The first episode focuses on Diversity, on the difficulties around invisibility or lack of diversity and on the importance of participation and the decision-making capacity inherent in the design of cultural policies. This area tackles the diversity of identities included in cultural rights (gender, sex, ethnicity, language, origin, background, etc.) and the difficulties that may be encountered with regard to freely experiencing this diversity.

There is a need to tackle the insufficient presence and visibility of diversities in cultural expressions and practices, as well as in participation and the decision-making capacity inherent in the design of cultural policies.

 

Special guests:
Creative Homeless – An initiative for combating the stigma of being homeless through artistic practice
Jaslyn Reader – ​​Alumni Deakin University, Society of Gender Professionals
Sara Brighenti – Deputy commissioner of the National Plan for the Arts – promoter and co-author of the Porto Santo Charter
Joana Dark (Ariadna Rulló)

Music Credits:
 

Musical excerpts from Joana Dark
Intro: Funk Saviour – Ketsa
Intermediary: Typing – Johnny Ripper, Daniel Birch – Birds Eye View,
Outro: Can’t Stop We – Ketsa

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Episode produced and hosted by:
Marco Fiore, Michael Culture Association
Maya Weisinger, Culture Action Europe

The second episode focuses on Participation and Communities. Who is being left out of the experience of culture? What is the cultural sector doing to improve the situation? We asked these and other crucial questions to the people from across the sector who are looking critically at the various conditions that affect the right to participate in the city’s cultural life, as well as the various forms of cultural participation. 

Special guests:

Alexandra Xanthaki, UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
Gaia Raisoni from IED Istituto Europeo di Design S.p.A. – Società Benefit
Luca Bergamo, Cultural professional, former Vice-Mayor and deputy Mayor for Cultural Development of Rome
Maud Ntonga (MCA) and Ines Martorell (Dedale) MEMEX project

 

Music Credits:

Intro: Funk Saviour – Ketsa
Intermediary: HoliznaCC0 – Ramen, Johnny Ripper – Typing, Daniel Birch – Birds Eye View, Daniel Birch – Memories in Color, Daniel Birch – Vast Possibilities 
Outro: Can’t Stop We – Ketsa

 

Episode produced and hosted by:

Marco Fiore, Michael Culture Association
Maya Weisinger, Culture Action Europe

This episode focuses on cultural work, with an important focus on the right to work in the cultural sector under decent conditions. How is the work of artists and cultural workers valued and recognised? What inequalities continue to occur in cultural work? How can we ensure cultural work and workers’ economic, social and environmental sustainability? In this episode, we have an up-close look at the realities of artists and cultural workers across Europe and how they and their allies are fighting for their rights.

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Special guests:
Catherine Magnant – Head of the cultural policies department in the European Commission Directorate General for Education and Culture
Noel Kelly – Director of Visual Artists Ireland
Katharina Weinert – Policy Adviser, European Music Council – SHIFT Project
Julia Pagel – Secretary General of the Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO)

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Music Credits:
Intro: Funk Saviour – Ketsa
Intermediary: HoliznaCC0 – Plants, Johnny Ripper -tide jewel  納骨堂,  Johnny Ripper – Typing, Daniel Birch – Vast Possibilities, Ketsa – All Forgiven, Sara Alfonso – First Lights
Outro: Can’t Stop We – Ketsa

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Episode produced and hosted by:
Marco Fiore, Michael Culture Association
Maya Weisinger, Culture Action Europe

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 together researchers, cultural workers, artists and policymakers to exchange ideas and work around cultural rights.

This episode focuses on digital environments. What is the relationship between cultural rights and digital rights? How can digitalising culture on the one hand create new possibilities for access and participation,  but on the other create new inequalities?

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Special guests:
Fieke Jansen, Researcher at the Data Justice Lab
Núria Guiu, Dancer and choreographer – Cyberexorcismo
La Fera, Fàbrica Digital

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Music Credits:
Intro: Funk Saviour – Ketsa
Intermediary: Memories in Color – Daniel Birch, Solace Sighting – Ketsa, Ramen – HoliznaCC0, Vast Possibilities – Daniel Birch, Path to a New World – Lobe Loco
Outro: Can’t Stop We – Ketsa

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Episode produced and hosted by:
Marco Fiore, Michael Culture Association
Maya Weisinger, Culture Action Europe

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