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On 5 and 6 October 2022, the Where to land Forum brought together 130+ European performing arts professionals at the Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène européenne, with the aim to engage into a new series of measures for the performing arts sector that would tackle the climate emergency. The participants were asked to work… Continue reading WHERE TO LAND? /PUBLICATION/

The Forum marking Kooperativa’s tenth anniversary, held on 15th and 16th December 2022 in Zagreb, gathered artists, cultural workers, as well as policy and decision-makers from various fields gathered to reflect on the past, present and future of cultural cooperation in Southeast Europe (SEE) (and beyond). Based on the debates that took place within all… Continue reading FORUM — 10 YEARS OF KOOPERATIVA
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FROM BAD TO WORSE:RESEARCH ON THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON THE CULTURAL SECTOR The severe crisis that has engulfed the cultural sector during the pandemic has underlined the need to intensify – and in some cases begin for the first time – the systematic research into the condition of culture and arts as… Continue reading FROM BAD TO WORSE I AND II NOW ON YOUTUBE

The online event “From Bad to Worse II: Independent Culture Three Years into the Pandemic” focuses on the qualitative research that was conducted by Kooperativa and Center for the Empirical Cultural Studies of South-East Europe (CESK) during 2022 that aimed to explore and analyse the ramifications that COVID-19 pandemic caused for independent cultural sector in… Continue reading FROM BAD TO WORSE II: Independent Culture Three Years into the Pandemic

FROM RESILIENCE TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY: BUILDING CULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS THROUGH REGIONAL COOPERATION FORUM — 10 YEARS OF KOOPERATIVA14 – 16/12/2022 ZAGREB When we claim to view culture as a common good – we need to consider it twofold within the context of the region habitually divided: as a common good belonging to everyone, but also as a… Continue reading FROM RESILIENCE TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY:
BUILDING CULTURAL ECOSYSTEMS THROUGH REGIONAL COOPERATION

Life on Mars 2022 is a 5 months long process organized by four partners — Liv.in.g., Kultura Nova Foundation, Creative Scotland, On the Move who have been working together since the start of the pandemic to create a model to bring professionals together to imagine our future. Life on Mars program gathers independent artists, cultural… Continue reading KOOPERATIVA ON MARS

Representatives of Kooperativa — Polona Torkar (Asociacija, Slovenia), Tihana Pupovac (coordinator of Kooperativa, Croatia) and Peter Cerovšek (Member of Kooperativa’s Board, Slovenia), were in Slovenia to meet with Tjaša Pureber (Acting Director-General, Cultural Policy Development Directorate, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia), Mihael Kelemina (adviser to the Minister of Culture, Ministry of Culture… Continue reading KOOPERATIVA VISITS SLOVENIA

Following the conclusions of the Ministerial Meeting of the Western Balkans Platforms on Culture, Research and Innovation, Education and Training that took place in Tirana on 27 and 28 June, Kooperativa calls upon the national governments in the Balkans and the EU to rethink the framework of action for cultural cooperation in the region, urging… Continue reading PUBLIC STATEMENT ON CULTURAL COOPERATION IN THE BALKANS

Last month we published a publication entitled HOW TO BUILD NETWORKS AND WHY?: From resilience towards sustainability, the first in the series of three source books that we aim to produce as part of the REG.LAB project.  HOW TO BUILD NETWORKS AND WHY? is an evidence-based publication gathering and articulating knowledge on innovative bottom-up models… Continue reading HOW TO BUILD NETWORKS AND WHY?: From resilience towards sustainability – The first source book is OUT! 

NO CUTS ALLOWED IN THE CULTURE BUDGET! JADRO – Association of the Independent Cultural Scene reacts to the latest announcements about the newly announced cuts of the budget of the already approved projects from the Annual Competition for financing projects of national interest in culture, in a precise amount of 31%. We are dissatisfied with… Continue reading Reaction of JADRO Association to the newly announced cuts in the culture budget by the Ministry of Culture of North Macedonia