Partners
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CeRCCa - Center for Research and Creativity Casamarles is a cultural association created in 2009 in Llorenç del Penedès, Catalonia. CeRCCa works with a double strategy. On one hand CeRCCa provides living and working space for artists and researchers through its A.I.R Program. CeRCCa A.I.R is rooted to the local community implementing interdisciplinary and collaborative projects as the base of its activities. On the other hand CeRCCa links the local with the global developing international research and curatorial projects that have as a common denominator the critical reflection on the phenomenon of cultural mobility.
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El Madina for Performing and Digital Arts was founded in 2000 in Alexandria, Egypt. El Madina develops cultural projects through training, production, with the aim of supporting artistic youth initiatives. EL Madina works closely with local communities to create a cohesive social environment characterized by diversity and pluralism. It’s activities range from public workshops and theatre training to new media productions and interventions in the urban fabric of Alexandria and beyond.
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LE 18 is an independent multidisciplinary cultural space based in the medina of Marrakech, Morocco. LE 18 encompasses A.I.R programs, exhibitions and monthly encounters on a variety of artistic disciplines. The space has become a cultural point of reference in the city as its activities develop engrained in the socio-cultural territory of the city. One of LE 18 main initiatives is Kawkaw. KawKaw responds to the need of creating new spaces of dialogue and exchange between artistic initiatives of the Maghreb region through a production and research A.I.R program, an annual exhibition and a series of public talks.
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JISER Reflexions Mediterrànies is an association created in 2004 in Tunis, Tunisia. The organization was registered as a cultural association in 2005 in Barcelona, Catalonia. JISER promotes artistic projects with the objective to foster artistic mobility while encouraging cultural exchange in the Euro‐Mediterranean region. One of JISER main initiatives is the Résidences de Création BCN>TNS an A.I.R exchange between Barcelona and Tunis. As part of the Euro-Mediterranean platform Trans-Cultural Dialogues in 2014 JISER initiated D’JART. Initially a festival, D’JART has evolved nowadays as a cultural association based in Algeria that develops projects combining art, public space and critical reflections on Algiers urban transformations.
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L’Atelier de l’Observatoire is a non-profit association founded in 2012 in Casablanca, Morocco. L’Atelier de l’Observatoire designs, produces and disseminates projects conceived as tools to support Moroccan contemporary creation nationally, and internationally. It seeks to create the necessary conditions for projects unsuited to the current systems of artistic, academic and cultural production in the region to flourish, and to present these projects to a Moroccan and international audience, bringing together artists, researchers and the general public. To this end, the Atelier de l’Observatoire experiments with alternative approaches through educational programs, production space and guidance for emerging artists, research programs and participative art projects in the public space, in rural locations and city outskirts.
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Ramallah Municipality is a leading local government in Palestine that ranks culture as a high priority in its strategic plans and aims to provide an innovative environment for the arts as well as for cultural, intellectual, and political life, grounded in the values of pluralism and respect for human rights.
Ramallah Municipality goals are
- Provide the city's organizations and individual artists and community groups with a network of cultural and social infrastructure
- Assisting legislators in formulating the laws that aim at the preservation of tangible cultural here
- Presenting public spaces as a main venue of cultural and social interventions and The promotion of cultural diversity and social cohesion
- Emphasizing the necessity of securing semi-public funding for art and culture and the concept of wide and horizontal and grassroots partnerships
- Reutilization of educational tax (from solely schools construction to also the support creativity projects)
- Linking art and culture to income generating vocations
www.ramallah.ps
