Year 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
The Cross-Border Mediterranean Pyrenees Encounter was held on 17 and 18 November
It was organised in collaboration with the Conseil Général des Pyrénées Orientales, the Fédération des Oeuvres Laïques des Pyrénées-Orientales and the town of Alenya. The Encounter brought together some 150 people from the cultural sector from the four cross-border regions: Aragon, Catalonia, Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées. The various workshops in the Palace of the Kings of Mallorca in Perpignan offered a framework for reflection where the participants could exchange experiences in matters of cultural co-operation and exchange. In the afternoon, there were 5 shows and 1 concert which were open to the public-at-large. The artistic programme gave people the opportunity to discover works from companies from the four cross-border regions and the Balearic Islands and featured a wide range of styles and approaches: street art, children's theatre, dance and music.
This Encounter provided the backdrop for an analysis of the three years of cultural co-operation that have been run within the framework of the Mediterranean Pyrenees Community and to remember the impact of this programme on the areas concerned and their agents: [10 professional encounters (over 600 participants), 4 training seminars (100 participants), 73 companies given support in terms of coverage and 48 structures benefitting from the mobility support system, creation of Lo Festenal, professional market devoted to emerging cross-border arts]. It has also led to the presentation of a code of good practices in the area of co-operation - a report undertaken by Joël Raimondi of Fides Conseils in association with Xavier Milliner.
The success of the Mediterranean Pyrenees Community, the dynamic drive over these three years and the creation of a solid professional network have led to the presentation of a new project for the structuring of the professional sector waiting to be programmed: Movidarts, a cross-Pyrenees platform for cultural co-operation. Movidarts brings together 6 partners: the Chèvrefeuille (Midi- Pyrénées), the Institut Français in Bilbao (Basque Country and Navarre), the Oara (Aquitaine), Multilateral (Aragon), Interarts (Catalonia) and Réseau en scène Languedoc-Roussillon (project co-ordinator for the Movidarts project).
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Participation and culture project conclusions presented
The presentation was held on 11th November 2011 in Zaragoza, as part of the "Culture and Participation" meeting organised by PROCURA (Culture Professionals in Aragon). The event closed the "Innovative methodologies and tools for civil participation in local cultural and public life project. Reflection and operational proposals laboratory for the cultural sector in two European cities signatories of the Agenda 21 for Culture: Huesca and Toulouse. This initiative was financed by the Government of Aragon and the Council of Huesca and was promoted by the Multilateral Association of Huesca and by the Couac, COllectif Urgence d'Acteurs Culturels of Toulouse. The document containing these conclusions will be available soon for use by the cultural agents in Aragon.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
The second Civic Participation and Culture Reflection Seminar held
Last 9th and 10th November saw the second reflection sessions of the project: "Innovative methodologies and tools for civic participation in local cultural and public life. Reflection and operational proposals laboratory for the cultural sector in two European cities signatories of the Agenda 21 for Culture: Huesca and Toulouse" held at the Matadero cultural centre and financed by the Government of Aragon through aid for cross-border cooperation projects between the autonomous region of Aragon and the French regions of Aquitaine and Midi-Pyrenees, and by the Council of Huesca. This initiative has been promoted by the Multilateral Association of Huesca, and by the Couac, COllectif Urgence d'Acteurs Culturels, of Toulouse.
These second reflection sessions were attended again by 13 local agents of both cities and covered themes related to the mass media and the use of innovative digital tools as channels to involve the local citizenship. The conclusions of both sessions will be presented publicly on 11th November in Zaragoza at the 4th Training Day organised by PROCURA (Culture Professionals in Aragon) under the banner of "Culture and Participation".
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
FOMECC Niamey
In October, Multilateral participated in a training course for private cultural agents and technicians from the Niger Ministry of Culture. The course was organised by the Interarts Foundation within the FOMECC (Promotion of Cultural and Creative Companies) Niamey project, funded by Barcelona Solidaria. Angelina Chambon (cultural manager for Multilateral) gave the session on "Starting up cultural projects" over several days both to the group of cultural agents from the Ministry of Culture and to the group of private cultural agents. The course was held from 10 to 26 October 2011.
More information: www.fomecc.org
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Master’s in Cultural Policies and Projects Management
The inaugural session of the 5th Edition of the Master's in Cultural Policies and Projects Management of the University of Zaragoza was held last 20th October, with the management collaboration of Multilateral and the PROCURA association.
During another year, the Master's will promote the qualification of cultural management professionals by providing the know-how and the specific tools for the design, planning and management of cultural projects, both in the private and public sectors. The training period will be extended in this new edition to May 2012.
More information: www.mastercultura.es
Friday, October 21, 2011
The Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo project held a meeting in Andorra
The cross-border Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo cultural project held a professional meeting in the Andorran town of Escaldes-Engordany to promote economic inter-connection among the cultural agents of Aragon, Catalonia and the south of France with those of the principality.
The philosophy of this work forum was based on the need to improve communication among the regions closest to Andorra, with a view to seeking cooperation among short- and medium-term projects which may create new employment and economic opportunities in the cultural sector.
The meeting was attended by about 70 professionals, mainly Andorran managers, who were able to attend the presentation of 21 professional projects, six of them originating in Aragon and which demonstrated services, festivals, shows or municipal programming. The work performed during the weeks following the meeting is related to the consolidation of the contacts made in Andorra, which may lead to new economic projects for the cultural industries in the Pyrenean region.
The next meeting promoted by the Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo will be held on 16th and 17th November in Alénya and Perpignan. This project is promoted in Aragon by Multilateral, which forms a network with partners in Catalonia, Midi-Pyrenees and Languedoc-Roussillon. The project is supported by the Government of Aragon and the Spain-France-Andorra Territorial Cooperation Operating Program (POCTEFA, Spanish acronym) of the European Union.
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
The first Civic Participation and Culture Reflection Seminar held
Last 3rd and 4th October, the first Reflection Seminar of the project: "Innovative methodologies and tools for civic participation in local cultural and public life. Reflection and operational proposals laboratory for the cultural sector in two European cities signatories of the Agenda 21 for Culture: Huesca and Toulouse" was held at the Matadero cultural centre and financed by the Government of Aragon through aid for cross-border cooperation projects between the autonomous region of Aragon and the French regions of Aquitaine and Midi-Pyrenees, and by the Council of Huesca. This initiative has been promoted by the Multilateral Association of Huesca, and by the Couac, COllectif Urgence d'Acteurs Culturels, of Toulouse.
This first Reflection Seminar was attended for the two days by 15 local agents of both cities who shared ideas and experiences on participation, and on possible innovative methodologies and tools to encourage civic participation in local cultural and public life. Further sessions to be held also in Huesca in November will cover themes related to the mass media and the use of innovative digital tools as channels to involve the local citizenship. Several conclusions resulted from the Seminar and will be presented publicly in November.
Saturday, October 01, 2011
"The performing arts in the digital age" cross-border professional meeting
On 28 and 29 September 2011, the Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo project, in collaboration with the Huesca International Theater and Dance Fair, are organising the "The performing arts in the digital age" cross-border professional meeting. These two sessions will be held in the framework of a professional dynamic consisting of the territory of the four regions (Aragon, Catalonia, Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées). The purpose of the sessions is to reflect on the adaptation of the performing arts sector to the new scenarios generated by the development of new technologies, as well as to present work plans to attract audiences and publicise events and performances from the points of view of the companies and programmers.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Closing ceremonies of the project Improving the theatrical artistic and professional skills of Cuba
The closing ceremonies of the "Improving the theatrical artistic and professional skills for Cuban children and youngsters" project were held on 1 - 5 July 2011 in Havana and Matanzas (Cuba). The project had been running in Cuba since 1st January 2010.
The program included the presentation in Havana and Matanzas of the theatre productions for the children and yougnsters supported by the project: Blue Clouds (Nubes azules), by René Fernández (Teatro Papalote); Pinnochio, wooden heart (Pinocho, corazón madera), by Norge Espinosa (El Retablo-Teatro de las Estaciones); and Another Story about the girl Cecilia (Otra historia sobre la niña Cecilia), by Ulysses Rodriguez Febles (Teatro Mirón Cubano and Children's Spiral Dance Workshops). There was also a photographic exhibition of puppet theatre and stage director Enrique Lanz (Spain) on the staging of "Pinnochio, wooden heart" at the El Retablo-Teatro de las Estaciones at the Teatro de la Orden Tercera de La Habana.
The activities culminated with a work session of the project coordination group to perform a first evaluation of results of the project.
The "Improving the theatrical artistic and professional skills for Cuban children and youngsters" project was coordinated by Multilateral and financed by the European Union through the "Non-State Actors and Local Authorities in Development. Actions in Cuba", the Spanish Agency of International Development Cooperation, and has received contributions from ASSITEJ (International association of theaters for children and young people) in Spain and the TE-VEO Association.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Multilateral participates in working conference on information about cultural movement in Spain
In Barcelona on May 10, Interarts - via the Practics project (www.practics.org) - brought together various groups involved in the treatment and spreading of cultural information on an international basis in the context of stimulating artistic movement.
The conference took place in the Centre de Estudis i Recursos Culturals (CERC) at Barcelona Council and was attended by Multilateral - acting as promoter for Infoculture, the Cultural and Employment Document Centre (www.infoculture.info) - who have the backing of the Government of Aragon and the Council of Huesca.
The discussions between the different agents brought to light the need for information, coordination of said information and new tools to help spread it on an international level. Two of the points raised in the exchange of ideas referred to how to acquire information with the greatest efficiency and to evaluate it afterwards, as well as the need to maintain networks and projects that have an impact on the cultural sector - whose social and economic benefits are contrasting when restricted by cross-border dynamics.
Treatment and spreading of cultural information (PDF - 221.65 Kb)
Friday, May 13, 2011
Courses begin in Equatorial Guinea for cultural actors in the books sector
On 24 May, training for cultural agents in the book sector in Equatorial Guinea will begin within the framework of the cooperative project entitled "Reinforcement of the professional capabilities of the cultural actors in Equatorial Guinea for the development of business and social initiatives in the book sector", promoted by Multilateral and funded by the Spanish International Development Cooperation Agency. The objective of this training is to improve the abilities of these agents in order to be able to establish a bookshop service in the city of Malabo.
The training will consist of 2 courses over a total of 3 weeks in May and July 2011. The first course will cover "Analytical strategies in the book world" - from 24 to 28 May - with the intention of examining the situation of the publishing sector in Europe and analysing possible applications to the situation in Guinea. The second course will deal with "Commercial management of books; and the establishment, running and maintenance of a bookshop", and will take place between 12 and 24 July 2011.
The courses will be taught by professors from the Language Department at the University of Zaragoza (Mª Ángeles Naval, tenured lecturer in the Spanish Language Department) as well as members of the sector, members of the Aragon Association of Editors (Francisco Goyanes, owner and manager of Librería Cálamo), and they will be held in the Spanish Cultural Centre (Centro Cultural de España) in Malabo.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Tour of Spain by the El Retablo-Teatro de las Estaciones Company from Cuba
As the culmination of support given to a Cuban production within the framework of the project entitled "Improving the professional and artistic abilities in the theatre sector for children and young people of Cuba" - coordinated by Multilateral and funded by the European Union via the "Non State Actors and Local Authorities in Development Thematic Programme: Actions in Cuba" and the Spanish International Development Cooperation Agency with the collaboration of ASSITEJ España and the TE-VEO Association - during the month of May 2011 there will be a short tour of the production in Spain performed by the El Retablo - Teatro de las Estaciones Company.
The piece is entitled "Pinocho, corazón de madera" (Pinocchio: heart of wood), and will be premièred in the Feria Internacional del Títere (International Puppet Fair) in Seville on 18 and 19 May. They will conclude their stay in Spain with performances in the Casa de los Títeres (Puppet House) in Abizanda (Huesca) on 26 May and in the Centro Internacional del Títere (International Puppet Centre) in Tolosa on 28 May.
El Retablo-Teatro de las Estaciones Company from Cuba (PDF - 393.21 Kb)
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
High participation at “Culture and technologies” training seminar
Multilateral has designed the programme and coordinated the contents of the "Culture and New Technologies" seminar as part of the Ciudades 3.0 cross-border cooperation project.
This training event was held at the Palacio de Congresos in Huesca and the Parque Tecnológico Walqa from 5th and 6th April 2011. More than 120 professionals from the cultural sector in Spain and France attended the conferences, round tables and workshops, given by some of the most renowned specialists in both countries for their work in both culture and technology.
Multilateral, together with the Ciudades 3.0 project staff, designed the events programme as a tool to encourage reflection, discussion and practices in the innovation and technological development in the field of culture and its possibilities.
The Ciudades 3.0 project is supported by the cultural departments of Huesca, Olot and Tournefeuille City Councils. The project is also co-financed by the European Union through the POCTEFA fund.
Programme Culture and technologies (PDF - 190.67 Kb)
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Civil involvement in local public and cultural life in Huesca and Toulouse
Last March saw the beginning of the cross-border cooperation project "Innovative methodologies and tools for civil involvement in local public and cultural life: refection and operational proposals laboratory for the cultural sector in two European cities signatories to the Culture Agenda 21: Huesca and Toulouse", co-organised by the Multilateral entities (Asociación Aragonesa para la Cooperación Cultural) and the Couac Association (Collectif Urgence D'acteurs Culturels), and will be held throughout 2011. The project intends to promote the exchange of the best practices existing in Midi-Pyrénées and Aragón regarding civil participation in designing cultural policies and encouraging reflection on new methodologies and tools for civil involvement in these processes.
The project will include several inter-regional seminars, public presentations and the exchange of documentation and resources, revolving around four central issues: information encounters, civil publications, new, technologies and the civil mobilisation and the training of participants.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo organized training seminar in Narbona
On 29th and 30th March, during the Scènes d'Enfance event, as part of the Scène Nationale de Narbona, the Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo project organised the training seminar entitled "Children's and Youth Shows: cross-border productions dynamics". 25 children's and youth show professionals from Aragón, Cataluña, Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées took part in the seminar.
The objective of this seminar was to ensure continuity to the professional meeting held of 19th and 20th November 2009 in Alenya (Pyrénées-Orientales). The programme was conceived specifically to gain better knowledge of the reality of the sector on both sides of the border, analyse the possibilities of working in cooperation in this sector and propose potential development routes to improve artistic exchange in the cross-border area in the sphere of live children's and youth shows.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Lo festenal, the first professional Euro regional live show market.
On the 19th, 20th and 21st May 2011, the Chèvrefeuille association, the leader of the Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo project , will stage Lo festenal, the first professional Euro regional live show market.
Lo festenal intends to meet a need detected by the cross-border cultural cooperation project "Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo" through its "dynamic cross-border market" activity. New strategies for the development of the live show industry are emerging from the Pirineos Mediterráneo cross-border project. Artists' relationships with their home countries are changing and they are seeking to broaden their spheres of activity and enter overseas markets. To do so, they need a structuring event, which will serve as a real shop window for artistic development and a meeting point for cultural professionals.
Lo festenal will be an opportunity for companies, groups, artistic agents, record labels, editors, programmers and public and private cultural agents can discover artists, develop their activities and exchange ideas with their contemporaries within a professional market framework.
Within the framework of Lo festenal, the cross-border Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo cultural cooperation project will organise:
- a meeting point for professionals (workshops, round tables and conferences)
- a training seminar on current music.
More information: www.convivencia.pro
Monday, February 21, 2011
Training seminar: Young and teenage shows: cross-border productions
On 29th and 30th March 2011, Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo will be holding a training seminar "Young and teenage show: cross-border productions" at the Scène Nationale de Narbona as part of the Scènes d'Enfances event.
The objective of this seminar is ensuring continuity to the professional meeting held of 19th and 20th November 2009 in Alenya (Pyrénées-Orientales). The training is intended for live show professionals (artists, company directors, technicians, production managers, programmers, development agents,...) from Aragón, Cataluña, Midi-Pyrénées and Languedoc-Roussillon. Attendance to the seminar is free and the organisation will cover all the participants' meals and accommodation costs. The course is limited to 25 students.
More information: www.convivencia.pro
Monday, January 10, 2011
Publication of the book "Cultural Cooperation between Europe and Africa"
Cultural cooperation between Europe and Africa. Minutes of the First Euro-African Campus on Cultural Cooperation
Number 12 of the collection of Cultural and Development monographs of the Spanish International Development Cooperation Agency and brings together the results of the First Euro-African Campus on Cultural Cooperation, organised by the Interarts Foundation and the Cultural Policies Observatory in Africa (OCPA), with the support of the AECID, which was held in Maputo (Mozambique) in June 2009. Multilateral took a relevant part in the event by sitting on its Scientific Committee and presenting the seminar "Training Experiences: the Multilateral association", by Joaquín Benito Tejero, a member of Multilateral and brings together the formative work produced in Senegal through the projects implemented by the organisation in that country from 2006 to 2009.
The Euro-African Campus on Cultural Cooperation is a meeting, training and exchange point for cultural agents of the public and private sectors for whom the African continent is the sphere of cultural and development interest and activity.
Cultural Cooperation between Europe and Africa (PDF - 1,836.22 Kb)
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