The Final Stage of a 20 years Continuum: UNESCO Chair

The Association for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (KMKD) is searching to appoint an Istanbul-based Project Coordinator to manage the delivery of “Protecting and Disseminating Architectural and Intangible Heritage of Syriac Community in Turabdin”

The Budapest Observatory, a non-profit organization operated as a "regional observatory on culture in east-central Europe"  sent its last memo and announced the end of its activities. 

Performistanbul, founded in 2016, is an Istanbul-based international platform that works with artists and institutions, aiming to promote performance art and introduce more audiences to challenging and creative performance work internationally.

One of the most adventurous, intense, entertaining and challenging discoveries in life is getting to know our bodies and ourselves. For different reasons we impose restrictions on and build barriers around ourselves. It takes time for us to stand and feel the earth under our soles. This is where exactly the story of the Limpid Works starts.

Cultural Policy and Management Conferences-9: Cultural Heritage and Post-War Recovery

Professor. Sultan Barakat (Founding Director of the Doha Institute, Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies) will be our guest for the ninth annual Cultural Policy and Management Conferences organised Cultural Policy and Management Research Center (KPY). Professor Barakat will share with us his ideas and work on the new dynamics in the process of protection and improvement of the cultural heritage, which has been destroyed in different geographies of the world with the reason of armed conflicts in recent years.

International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) has launched its 9th call for applications. Since Turkey officially became a party to the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions 2005 on February 2, 2018, the fund now accepts applications from Turkey as well. Applications should be in English or in French. The implementation process of the projects is going to take 12 to 24 months and will start earliest on March 2019.

In accordance with the agreement signed between Istanbul Bilgi University and the UNESCO Director General, a UNESCO Chair in Cultural Policy and Cultural Diplomacy was established within the University.

There are many examples of courageous citizens drawing on culture and creativity as a way of contributing to better ways of living together. These individuals or collectives work with their communities, peers, policy-makers or institutions, and include unheard or dissenting voices.

The Camargo Foundation, based in Cassis, France, recently announced their new Residency Program. This new program is initiated as a collaboration with LabexMed. The Camargo Foundation and the LabexMed Program are keen to stimulate relations and cultural exchanges between researchers and artists of the Mediterranean Basin, in order to support the development of projects at the interface of HSS and the arts with the aim of a common production. Deadline to apply is April 25th, 2018.