Having determined as one of the primary objectives since its foundation, İzmir Culture Pla+form Initiative (IKPG) has been working on “İzmir Map of Culture and Arts Venues – 2017” for a while, a cultural mapping study for the identification and documentation of registered and unregistered cultural venues and spaces in İzmir. IKPG is a civil society initiative that aims to generate tools to increase communication among actors of arts and culture field in the city and to help their production to become more visible.

Professor Nikos Leandros from Panteion University gave a speech at İstanbul Bilgi University about new cultural projects and initiatives during the crisis period.

The European Creative Hubs Network Peer-to-peer (P2P) scheme is a mobility exchange programme co-funded by the European Commission and led by the British Council, to support the development and networking of creative hubs leaders across Europe. It is set-up to help creative hubs staff (leaders, founders, managers, projects or platform leads, community managers, etc.) benefit from a work experience in a different creative hub, with the aim of sharing knowledge or setting up collaborative projects.

Yearbook 2016 provides a thorough inventory of Izmir Culture Pla+form’s works and events in 2016, an initiative of İzmir Mediterranean Academy Culture and Arts Unit, which aims to build a network of arts and culture for Izmir and works together with more than thirty experts in these fields in the committee of advisors.

UNESCO 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, which was adopted by The General Conference of UNESCO on 20 October 2005 and entered into force on 18 March 2007, has been ratified by Turkish Grand National Assembly (TGNA) on 1 March 2017. The law corresponding the finding (the law no. 6892) was published in the Gazette on 25 March 2017.

After the Tech4Culture, 16th March 2017 at Zorlu PSM

The Artist In Residence Programme AIR Wro is a legacy programme of the European Capital of Culture Wrocław 2016 and invites artists, curators, researchers, journalists, activists and animators interested in urban scene to create a new project in Wrocław.

The Roberto Cimetta Fund is launching the General Fund for Artistic and Cultural Mobility in the Euro-MENA region. Artists and cultural operators living and working in the Euro-MENA region can apply. Priority is given to mobility from the South and East of this region.

Call for Papers: Izmir Mediterranean Academy Symposium, “The Mediterranean in Motion”

Mike van Graan was at BILGI for the South African Cultural Policies Discussion