Open discussions: artists, arts professionals, and humanitarian crisis

Latest update: 17 Jun 2024

Humanitarian crises usually impact citizens worst of all. Artists and arts professionals, too, are impacted.

What can we do?

Do you want to offer help or discuss plans of relief? Are you a newcomer to Flanders looking for a space to work, discuss, or find connections in the arts field? Are institutions obliged to show solidarity during these crises? What exactly does solidarity mean? How can we have an impact on the causes of these crises? And how can we deal with differences of opinion about the causes of conflict?

Weekly online meeting

→ Join our weekly online open discussions via Zoom (every Friday 9-10 AM CET) about offering help in times of crisis. You can simply click and enter. The meetings are held in English.

Meeting ID: 861 2100 2982 / Passcode: 55651

Together, we explore the role of art in times of crisis, such as war or discrimination. During each session, we will give the floor to voices from regions in crisis as a point of departure.

Click here to directly join the online Zoom meeting

Follow our discussions:

Friday 21.06.: Tamara Janashia – Culture and Management Lab (CuMaLab) is a Tbilisi, Georgia-based NGO that is active in the field of arts and project management, education, and consulting to support the promotion of international intercultural exchange, professional and higher education, as well as popularising of Georgian culture, carrying out local, regional and international projects and programmes, research on the cultural heritage, development of training modules for arts managers, and fostering curatorial practice.
Friday 28.06.: Haris Pašović – Committed artist, writer and theater director from Bosnia, and a strong opinion maker. He is one of the founders of the Sarajevo film festival and was director of the MESS festival during the siege of Sarajevo. He directs performances throughout the region and has collaborated with Susan Sontag and Peter Brook. He is artistic director of the East West Theater Company in Sarajevo and professor of directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo.
Friday 05.07.: KROKODIL from Belgrade – KROKODIL association is an independent, impartial civil society organization in Serbia that deals with culture and literature. They also actively advocate the principles of responsible behavior by the state institutions, NGO sector and media in Serbia.

Questions or suggestions?

If you have any questions or suggestions: please send an e-mail to our colleague dirk@kunsten.be.

More information about the previous discussions here.