Year 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo Launches its New Cultural Consultancy Service
The service provides free information, advice and support to cultural actors in Aragón, Catalonia, Languedoc-Rousillon and Midi-Pyrénées and promotes cooperation among these four regions.
Through this service, the Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo project aims to foster and promote successful experiences with the aim of these leading to artistic exchange, mobility and cooperation projects that will enhance the professional development of the cultural sector and therefore the feasibility of its projects.
The Cultural Consultancy Service seeks to create and strengthen synergies among culture professionals through cooperation and shared knowledge on good practices and markets in each region, thus increasing the territorial permeability of projects.
The service is completely free and is provided jointly by the project's four offices, which work together as a network. To access this service, cultural actors need only enter the Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo website (www.convivencia.pro) and ask their questions through the online form. One this has been received by the project team, they will analyse the question and resolve it by means of providing documents and sharing knowledge on the sector in the four regions.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Summer course Information Management and Cultural Policies
Multilateral, through the Infoculture Culture and Employment Documentation Centre, in conjunction with the Department of Documentation Sciences and History of Science of the University of Zaragoza, organised a summer course entitled 'Information Management and Cultural Policies'.
The course was held in Jaca (Huesca) from 21 to 23 July 2010 as a part of the University of Zaragoza's programme of summer courses
During the course, 26 students were able to analyse the management of cultural contents in a time of particular significance. They were able to reflect upon the impact of the emergence of Web 2.0 tools on the sector: information saturation, a lack of human and economic resources to manage the social web with quality parameters and the democratisation of the posting of cultural information are some issues affecting the way this type of content is managed.
The course took a cross-sectional view at best practices and various methods and successful experiences that assist effective management and help to unify the work of information and cultural managers. Roberto Ramos and Angelina Chambon, from Multilateral, emphasised the "added value of a cooperation project insofar as knowledge on new cultural realities and their dissemination to a community of users that is extended and enriched".
The CDAN Centre of Art and Nature, run by the Beulas Foundation, collaborated in the course.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Training programme aimed at professionals in the segment of theatre for children and youths in Cuba
In September 2010 a training programme aimed at professionals in the segment of theatre for children and youths in Cuba will be run within the framework of the project 'Improving professional and artistic skills in the children's and youth theatre sector in Cuba'. This initiative is coordinated by Multilateral and Teatro de Las Estaciones, Cuba. It is funded by the European Union through the Thematic Programme on Non-State Actors and Local Authorities in Development. Actions in Cuba, the Spanish Agency of International Development Cooperation and with the support of the Provincial Council of Performing Arts of Matanzas, Cuba, and the cooperation of ASSITEJ Spain and the TE-VEO Association.
The programme will consist of 2 courses and 1 workshop and will be held between 6 and 24 September in the city of Matanzas. The activities aim to provide tools to allow people working in this branch of theatre in Cuba to improve the quality of their productions and increase the possibilities of touring abroad.
The courses are entitled 'Methodologies for the Production and Distribution of Shows' and 'Creating Shows and the Stage Management of Puppets and Actors'. They will be delivered by prestigious professionals with a long track record in the sector.
The third activity in the programme will be an International Workshop on Taboo Topics in Theatre for Children and Youngsters. This will be run by ASSITEJ Spain and ASSITEJ International and led by 10 professionals from different European and Ibero-American countries together with Cuban professionals. They will explore the language of theatre in pursuit of artistic ways of addressing 'taboo' topics suggested at a meeting with schoolchildren from Matanzas.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Seminar Cooperation as an alternative to the economic crisis in the performing arts sector
Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo is organising a training seminar for 27-29 September entitled 'Cooperation as an alternative to the economic crisis in the performing arts sector' as part of the Huesca International Theatre and Dance Fair.
This seminar will run for 2 and a half days and is aimed at private cultural actors in the performing arts industry (artists, directors, companies, representatives, management companies, etc.) in Aragón, Catalonia, Midi-Pyrénées and Languedoc-Roussillon.
The seminar aims to:
- Give private cultural actors in the performing arts industry a deeper knowledge of the sector on both sides of the border, allowing more joint activities among these regions.
- Analyse the possibilities of cooperative work in this sector and help define tools that may be useful in achieving this.
- Improve the connections of artistic actors in the sector in these regions with neighbouring markets and provide tools that allow products to adapt more effectively to demand in these markets.
- Reflect on the performing art sector's adaptation to new scenarios created by the economic crisis.
- Facilitate contact among actors in the territories encompassed by the project and improve mutual familiarity between these.
The enrolment period will open in August and the seminar will have a limited capacity of 25 people.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Multilateral co-operates in the summer course: Information Management and Cultural Policies
Through "Infoculture" Culture and Employment Documentation Centre, Multilateral, along with the Department of Documentation Sciences and the History of Science of the University of Zaragoza, organises the summer course entitled "Information Management and cultural policies".
This course will be held in Jaca (Huesca) from 21st to 23rd July 2010 within the framework of the University of Zaragoza's programme of summer courses. The objectives of the course are as follows:
· To learn about the development of policies for the management of information and cultural and heritage documentation.
· To be familiar with the aims and procedures in an emerging area of work in public institutions and companies.
· To know more about the users and the products of information and cultural documentation units and centres.
· Presentation of techniques for obtaining and processing documents, their retrieval, analysis and the transfer of the information required for cultural and heritage management.
The course is aimed at:
· Information and documentation specialists.
· Graduates and students of social, humanistic and management studies.
· Heads of cultural management and administration units in companies and institutions.
· Professionals from the culture sector in companies and public administrations.
Officially recognised credits are awarded for the course (2 free-elective credits by the University of Zaragoza). Application has been made for the course to award permanent non-university teacher training credits through the General Directorate of Professional Training and Permanent Education of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports of the Government of Aragón.
Places on the course are limited to 35.
Course organised by: the "Infoculture" Culture and Employment Documentation Centre and the Department of Documentation Sciences and the History of Science of the University of Zaragoza.
With the collaboration of the CDAN, Centre of Art and Nature of the Beulas Foundation.
For more information: Consult website
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Presentation of the Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo project at the Fira de la Música al Carrer
Presentation of the Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo (The Pyrenees-Mediterranean Gathering) project within the framework of the Fira de la Música al Carrer in Vila-Seca.
On 7th May Vila-Seca (Tarragona) hosted a training seminar, the aim of which was to increase the economic potential and work prospects of emerging musical projects. The Fira de la Música al Carrer is organized by FUSIC, a partner that in association with Le Chèvrefeuille, Réseau en Scéne and Multilateral, is carrying out the Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo project, which will last until the end of 2011 and is financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the Operating Programme for Territorial Cooperation between Spain-France-Andorra) (POCTEFA).
Participating in this technical conference were the representatives of the four organizations involved in the Project, who presented the objectives of Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo, its activities and advantages for the promotion of mobility, training and the improvement of job possibilities for professionals in the music sector. Likewise, Multilateral participated in a round table discussion on the mobility of performers in the European Mediterranean zone.
Aragón was also represented at the technical conference. Juncal Aparisi, the manager of the mobility programme of the Drama Centre of Aragón, gave a lecture on the subject of the "On the move" network and the "Labforculture" portal, applied to theatre and musical projects.
More information:
Monday, May 10, 2010
Presentation in Toulouse of the Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo project
The Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo project of transfrontier co-operation and cultural economics was approved on 10th February 2010 in Jaca by the Organising Committee of the Operating Programme for Territorial Co-operation between Spain -France-Andorra. The partners in the project are the Aragonese association Multilateral, the Fundació Societat i Cultura (FUSIC) of Catalonia, the Le Chèvrefeuille association of the Midi-Pyrénées and the Réseau en Scène association of Languedoc Roussillon.
The official presentation in France of Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo took place on May 7th at 2:30 p.m. at the Cervantes Institute of Toulouse. Representatives of the entities involved in the project were present (except for FUSIC, which was involved in the Fira de la Música al Carrer in Vila-Seca) as well as persons designated by the collaborating financial entities.
This act took place within the framework of Europe Week, organized by the Directorate of International Relations and European Affairs of Toulouse City Council, and it continued on Saturday May 8th with a programme of circus and musical performances.
Convivencia Pirineos Mediterráneo is a transfrontier platform of cultural co-operation that seeks to promote networking amongst the cultural agents of Aragón, Catalonia, Midi-Pyrénées and Languedoc-Roussillon; to encourage the mobility of professionals and performers in the transfrontier area, and promote the dynamics of cultural economics in the transfrontier area.
More information: http://www.convivencia.pro/
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Cuba -Spain encounter of professionals of theatre for boys, girls and young people
The encounter of Spanish and Cuban theatre professionals devoted to theatre for boys, girls and young people was held from the 6th to the 11th of April in the city of Matanzas.
This encounter comes within the framework of the "Improvement of professional and performing skills in the sector of theatre for boys, girls and young people of Cuba" project, which is coordinated by Multilateral and the Teatro de las Estaciones of Cuba; it is financed by the European Union, through the thematic programme of "Non-State Actors and Local Authorities in Development. Actions in Cuba", and the Spanish International Cooperation for Development Agency; and with the support of the Provincial Council of Performing Arts of Matanzas, Cuba, and the collaboration of the organizations ASSITEJ España and the TE-VEO Association.
The aim of the encounter was to promote a closer relationship between professionals and other agents and performers in the sector in the two countries (Cuba and Spain); for this purpose, more than 50 professionals came together, including experts in the sector and public and private companies and managers, who debated the situation and the opportunities open to this type of theatre in the two countries.
Download programme of the Meeting:
(PDF - 135.96 Kb)Thursday, March 25, 2010
Training session on professional resources at the Jugglers’ Association of Zaragoza
On 20th March Multilateral gave a training session at the headquarters of the Jugglers' Association of Zaragoza (AMZ), the aim of which was to search for information on resources for the financing of cultural projects and the possibilities of the new technologies for production, but above all, for the dissemination of theatre projects.
The conference discussed different concepts related to the mobility of performers, with wide-ranging possibilities for the circus sector, such as performer residencies, tours to carry out training that are of a transfrontier nature or applying for EU grants and subsidies.
The second part took a closer look at different web 2.0 technological tools such as blogs, social networks, elements for positioning on search engines, etc. that can be highly useful to find out all about individual or group projects within the circus sector.
Currently the AMZ is fully involved in the development of the project carried out by the transfrontier cooperation programme between Spain-France-Andorra known as Circ-que-o, in which it participates with different partners from Catalonia, Midi-Pyrénées and Languedoc-Rousillon.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
3rd Conference of technicians and cultural agents of the "comarcas" of Aragón
On March 19th Multilateral took part in the 3rd Conference for technicians and cultural agents of the comarcas or areas of Aragón, organising the training workshop "Culture on the web 2.0" given by Roberto Ramos. The aim of the workshop was to demonstrate the use of the different technological tools of the web 2.0 (Blog, social networks, elements for positioning on search engines, etc....) in the cultural departments of the different areas.
This conference was organized by the PROCURA Association (Culture Professionals of Aragon) and the Bajo Aragón area, and it took place at the Buñuel Centre in Calanda.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Presentation of the Encounter of professionals of theatre for childeren and young people Cuba-Spain
On February 10th the presentation of the " Encounter of Spanish and Cuban professionals of theatre for boys, girls and young people " took place within the framework of the Teatralia Encounter that was held in Alcalá de Henares from 9th to 12th of that month.
This activity is one of the actions carried out within the " Improvement of professional and performing skills in the sector of theatre for boys, girls and young people of Cuba" project, which is coordinated by Multilateral and the Teatro de las Estaciones of Cuba, and is financed by the European Union, through the " Thematic programme of Non-State Actors and Local Authorities in Development. Actions in Cuba ", and by the Spanish International Cooperation for Development Agency, and with the support of the Provincial Council of the Performing Arts of Matanzas in Cuba, and the collaboration of the organizations ASSITEJ España and the TE-VEO Association.
The aim of the encounter was to facilitate a closer relationship between professionals and other agents and performers in this sector in both countries (Cuba and Spain) leading to the exchange of experiences and instruments for training in the field of production and promotion of Cuban agents and performers, and is to be held in the city of Matanzas, Cuba, from April 6th to 11th 2010. The Encounter will bring together more than 50 professionals from both countries, including experts in the sector, public and private companies and managers, who will debate the situation and possibilities for this type of theatre in both countries. Next to the meeting areas, there will be a theatre exhibition with the participation of both countries and a series of workshops for Cuban professionals.
Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Training seminar for cultural agents from the “comarcas” of the Aragon Autonomic Community
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Since mid-autumn, Multilateral has been carrying out a formation seminar directed to the professionals of the cultural sector coming from the "comarcas" that participate in the programme. Until today the seminars have been completed in the "comarcas" Sierra de Albarracín, Ribera Baja del Ebro and Jiloca. Within the next months the seminars will be fulfilled in the rest of the "comarcas".
The seminar lasts a day and it is divided into two work-sessions. Each session is four hours long and deals with two strategic aspects concerning the professionals of the cultural sector:
- The international cultural cooperation. European funds for the international cooperation.
- Tools and informative resources for the professionals of the local cultural sector.
This action is part of the activities of the Infoculture service, Culture and Employment Documentation Centre, situated in Huesca, which has got among its sponsors the Department of Education, Culture and Sports of the Aragon Autonomous Community.
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