I_Improve (2018-2021) is a cooperative European project. The partnership consists of 6 members from the River//Cities platform: Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Poland and Lithuania. The common framework is promoting audience engagement through culture, especially in waterfront areas. Its priorities are social inclusion, open and innovative practices in the digital area, and adult education. During 20-22 [...]
We organised a meeting in Stockholm to summarise our learning, teaching and training activities within the framework of I_Improve. The meeting took place at our host Intercult's offices in Stockholm on August 18th to August August 22nd. The aim with our meeting was to gather input from each other, discuss our learning activities and plan [...]
During 14-19 October the artistic residency in Gdansk took place - a part of the project Memory of Water, which is developed by members of the River Cities Network. The residency was hosted by the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, and at Intercult we are happy to be the lead partner of the Memory of Water-project. [...]
Take part of the short documentary film about Gdansk Shipyard to the right. Description of the film: Gdansk Shipyard. The world-famous place of birth and victory of Solidarity. Place of construction of modern ships and a source of prosperity of Gda?sk for almost 150 years. For large machines and small people, always full, consciously [...]
Take part of the film from Levadia! The residency in Levadia in Greece is a part of the project Memory of Water. It is 13 minutes long and shows artists and participants of the project, and shows the importance of the Erkyna river, for the city and for the people there. Watch the film [...]
Take part of our first, investigatory month in Lisbon in March 2019 via the video to the right. The visit in Lisbon was a part of the project S.O.S. Climate Waterfront, an interdisciplinary research project that investigates areas close to water in Europe that are threatened by climate changes. The project collects different disciplines [...]
UrbCultural Planning (UCP) is funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region-program which runs from Januari 2019- June 2021, and it’s a project that aims to strengthen the innovation capacity of public sector authorities, knowledge intermediaries and communities in the Baltic Sea Region to deal with pressing urban societal problems and challenges. The project’s main goal [...]
Shirley Basfield Dunlap PH.D Associate Professor & Theatre Arts Coordinator Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD Director Shirley Basfield Dunlap and actors of New Nordic voices and their production “For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf” had a workshop about different theatre- and storytelling techniques st Folkets hus in [...]
Welcome to a Q&A with the cast of New Nordic Voices about the play “For colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the Rainbow is enuf.” National Black Theatre of Sweden is joining the talk to discuss their work with NBTS - a consistent platform to African and Afro-Swedish plays, stories and African descent artists. We will reflect [...]
WORKSHOP WITH ARTISTS - TURN YOUR OWN STORY INTO A PERFORMANCE PIECE Join us for a workshop together with the cast of New Nordic Voices. We will work with various theatre- and storytelling techniques to explore Ntozake Shange's 'For Colored Girls' - as well as sharing our stories. Together we will transform our experiences [...]
