Why a professional development workshop on cultural mobility?
As part of its multiannual programme co-funded by the European Union, each year On the Move proposes a workshop for cultural mobility developers. The aim 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.
Focus 2024: the Eastern European and South Caucasus region
For the third edition of this workshop for cultural mobility developers (12-14 June 2024), On the Move is collaborating with the Culture and Management Lab in Tbilisi and focusing on the Eastern European and South Caucasus countries, namely: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine.
Participating countries were selected having in mind the limited access to information about existing capacity building, mentoring or peer-to-peer exchange programmes in these contexts, including transnational artistic and cultural research initiatives, or opportunities to fund cross-border cultural mobility.
The workshop will be facilitated by Tamar Janashia (Culture and Management Lab, Georgia), Mykhailo Glubokyi (Izolyatsia, Ukraine) together with Yohann Floch (On the Move).
On the Move expects that this three-day workshop will contribute to a better circulation of knowledge and expertise, increase access to existing resources, and empower the participating professionals and related entities/communities to delve further into artistic mobility and international opportunities.
The organisers’ intention is also to highlight and benefit from the experience of the participants and create the conditions for a dynamic and inspiring exchange within the group, with each individual sharing their valuable expertise in relation to topics including intra-regional mobility.
11 selected participants, 11 dissemination grants
The confirmed 11 participants, selected after an open call, are: Tereza Davtyan, Independent Art Curator (Armenia), Hasmik Movsisian, Cultural Manager (Armenia), Zarif Bakirova, Independent Artist (Azerbaijan), Ilkin Huseynov, Independent Artist and Cultural Worker (Azerbaijan), Katsiaryna Ramanchyk, Cultural Manager, Media Activist, NGO Representative (Belarus), Katsiaryna Saladukha, Theatre Producer and Cultural Manager (Belarus), Maka Chkhaidze, Cultural Manager (Georgia), Rusanda Curcă, Cultural Manager and NGO Representative (Moldova), Olena Shulha, Cultural Manager (Ukraine), Sofiia Yukhymova, Cultural Manager (Ukraine) and Anastasiia Zamorska, Cultural Manager and Freelance Writer (Ukraine).
Alongside the three-day workshop taking place in Georgia and the participation in the Cultural Mobility Forum, On the Move is offering a 750 EUR grant for each participant to translate their key learnings and takeaways into action. The purpose of this financial support is to give participants the opportunity to disseminate the knowledge and tools they have gained to a wider community of artists and culture professionals in their own context.
Participants will be able to use their grant for local dissemination events (e.g. online and on-site panel discussions), publication costs (e.g. translation of existing documentation, commissioning of texts in languages other than English), or participation in public events to share results (e.g. travelling to conferences in the region).
Preliminary programme and facilitators
List and biographies of the 12 selected participants
Examples of dissemination grants in the 2022 edition of the workshop (in Slovenia)
Examples of disseminact’ions in the 2023 edition of the workshop (in Tunisia)
