Fully funded professional seminar in Berlin

Call for applications: Fully funded professional seminar in Berlin. Art, Public & Intercultural Dialogue

Deadline for Applications: 16 March, 2014.

EU based, curators and other art professionals working in audience education and development are invited to apply to take part Art, Public & Intercultural Dialogue (Building new audiences and new platforms for art engagement and engagement through art), which will take place in Berlin 29 September to 3 October, 2013, in cooperation with SAVVY Contemporary.

The seminar is fully funded by the EU LifeLong Learning Erasmus+ Key Action 1 Grant, which funds full costs of participation (including travel, accommodation and subsistence).

Professionals working in all countries of the Europe (except Germany because it is a mobility grant) are able to apply.

This course will assist participants to:

• develop new models and approaches for dealing with challenges of bringing contemporary audiences to art and bringing art to general audiences in their own countries and beyond;
• build resources, skills and opportunities to develop new approaches and paradigms in addressing and engaging new audiences from multiplicity of cultural backgrounds including ethnic, religious, age or disability related;
• work with art as a forum for inter-cultural dialogue and to build partnerships which promote the importance of art in advancing social cohesion and civil society in a culturally heterogeneous Europe and beyond.

Course outline: http://www.valeriekabov.com/art–dialogue.html

The course is a great opportunity to share experiences with fellow art and education professionals in one of world’s richest and culturally diverse and contested cities.

Deadline for applications is 16 March, 2013. Applications via National Grant Agencies (http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/national-agencies_en.htm) under Mobility for Adult Education Staff, please contact Valerie Kabov for assistance with the application process (vkabov@gmail.com)