Since 2022, and as part of its multi-annual programme co-funded by the Europe Union, On the Move proposes a workshop for cultural mobility developers. The main objective of this workshop is to build the capacity of artists and culture professionals to support the internationalisation of artistic and cultural practices and adopt more value-driven approaches in their own contexts.
In 2024, and for our third and last edition, we collaborated with our member Culture and Management Lab to organise the workshop in Tbilisi with a focus on the Eastern European and South Caucasus countries, namely: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. The 11 selected participants took part in a two-day workshop whose aim was to empower the participants and their related entities/communities to delve further into different artistic mobility and international opportunities.
The workshop was facilitated by Tamar Janashia (Culture and Management Lab, Georgia), Mykhailo Glubokyi (Izolyatsia, Ukraine) together with Yohann Floch (On the Move).
Thanks to the dissemination grants provided by the programme, the 11 participants were able to organise several ‘dissemin’actions’ related to the key learnings and insights from this enriching experience that reached hundreds of professionals in the Eastern European and South Caucasus countries or in relation to them. Take a look at some of these activities:
Hasmik Movsisian (Armenia) organised a panel discussion on mobility and international opportunities, during the Yerevan Music Week with the panellists Simon Glinn (UK), Volker May (Germany) and Stefan Kazaryan (Serbia/Russia).
Katsiaryna Ramanchyk and Katsiaryna Saladukha (Belarusia) produced a toolkit entitled ‘Global Mobility Opportunities for artists and creatives. Guide on the opportunities available for Belarusians’, that was presented in a public event. The partners were sekktor.online mediaplatform and the Belarusian Council for Culture.
Maka Chkhaidze (Georgia) translated the report ‘Cultural Mobility Flows: The International Mobility of Disabled Artists and Culture Professionals’ into Georgian and organised a meeting about this report with art and disability organisations in Georgia.
Olena Shulha (Ukraine) organised three lectures in three different cities around mobility opportunities which gathered a total of 67 people, in Rivne, Lutsk and Ternopil.
Rusanda Curcă (Moldova) organised a workshop on developing cultural mobility programmes for rural communities in Moldova. This was done in collaboration with the Center for Cultural Projects Arta Azi.
Sofiia Yukhymova (Ukraine) organised public events on mobility for Ukrainian artists and culture professionals in Berlin and online. She also translated into Ukrainian the guidelines of the Culture Moves Europe’s call. Partners were Art Space in Exile for the Berlin event and Izolyatsia for the online session.
Tereza Davtyan (Armenia) produced a ‘No Airplane Mode’ Online Zine that has brought together artists from various countries to share photographs and interviews documenting their eco-friendly mobility practices. This was developed in collaboration with :DDD Kunst House.
Zarif Bakirova and Ilkin Huseynov (Azerbaijan) set up a two-day ‘MobilSən’ workshop on mobility opportunities and writing necessary application’s competencies for Azerbaijanis.
Congratulations to all the cultural professionals for their fantastic work and creative initiatives!
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