Cultural exploration and exchange with(in) Middle East & North Africa (MENA) | Flanders Arts Institute

A focus on diversity in the arts in Flanders leads us to the countries where migrants come from. Artists in Flanders are establishing relationships with artists from Morocco and Tunisia – and vice versa -. Western European artists and programmers (with a migration background) are investing in infrastructure and networks in the MENA region today.

The dream collaboration

The dream collaboration

Joachim Ben Yakoub is researcher for MENARG, the Middle East And North Africa Research Group at the university of Ghent. This article is a reworked version of his keynote during the roundtable on collaboration with the MENA region, organised by Flanders Arts Institute June 14th at VK in Brussels.

The dream collaboration. Possible pitfalls in the creation of collaborative projects with the MENA.

Impressions of Libanon

Between 6 and 9 October, Flanders Arts Institute, together with a substantial delegation of artists and arts organisations from Flanders and Brussels, took part in the IETM Satellite Meeting in Beirut. A Satellite Meeting is a smaller gathering of the IETM network, each time with a focus on a specific theme and/or region. The purpose of this edition was especially to build bridges between organisations from Europe and those from the MENA region (Middle East and North Africa).

Five visitors from Flanders wrote their travel logs.

Beirut Intersections: networks as an engine for change

On the MENA region's policy framework and arts infrastructure

Beirut Intersections #1. Report on the Lebanese capital’s arts scene

Impressions by the critic-curator Tom Viane

Beirut Intersections #2. Impressions of the 2016 IETM meeting

Impressions by the choreographer-dancer Bára Sigfúsdóttir

Beirut Intersections #3. Report on the Lebanese capital’s arts scene

mpressions by the curator Mieke Mels

Beirut Intersections #4. Impressions of the 2016 IETM meeting

Impressions by the writer Michael Bijnens

Beirut Intersections #5. Impressions of the 2016 IETM meeting

Impressions by the Brussels-based choreographer Andros Zins-Browne

Meer over internationale samenwerking met de MENA-regio

Towards a common cultural sphere between the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and the European Union (EU)

Iran & Armenia: exploring the visual arts scene

Tunis: Impressions of Journées Théâtrales de Carthage

Hop until you drop? The (difficult) alliance between urban and contemporary dance

Culture in Europe’s external relations. Interview with Walter Zampieri, Andrew Murray & Koen Verlaeckt.

Cultural exploration and exchange with(in) South-East Europe

Working together with Eastern Europe, balkans and countries bordering the EU

Internationaal werken

Working internationally for musicians, visual artists and performing artists was for years a matter of course. But times are changing.