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The Baltic Circus Union unites and empowers Baltic circus artists through an artist-led network. It advocates for fair wages, legal protections, and sustainable working conditions while ensuring artists shape industry decisions. Through information sharing, meetings, policy development, & community-building, the network fosters artistic, economic, and environmental sustainability. A key goal is creating a unified communication structure for collective representation locally and internationally.

We are seeking funding to initiate and develop the Nordic BIPOC Network designed to foster greater collaboration, mentorship and support for BIPOC (Black,Indigenous,and People of Color) artists within the Nordic region.The project responds to the pressing need to increase diversity,equity,and inclusion in the Nordic arts sector.It focuses specifically on artists from Afro-diasporic backgrounds and the Global South,who often face unique challenges navigating predominantly white cultural spaces.

The Nordic Network for Transnational Craft Perspectives is a new network with a special focus on Romani handicraft in the Nordic region. Through a series of joint meetings and/or workshops in Norway, Sweden and Finland, the main objective of the network is to exchange knowledge and ideas, build and strengthen networks and collaborations and to strengthen the position of Romani handicrafts.

The aim is to connect the Nordic and Baltic Architecture institutional platforms operating in Tallinn, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Vilnius and Helsinki to map out the latent financial, ecological, and conceptual possibilities in the inter-institutional space. The goal is to reinforce conditions that recognize art and architecture as inherently slow processes and acknowledge their role in fostering long-term innovation by resisting the high-speed demands of political and economic forces.

The network’s objective is to form a collective platform exploring Nordic colonial legacies and public engagement through augmented reality in smaller towns and rural areas. By convening artists, curators and researchers, we will explore the potential of augmented reality interventions led by local artists, that reimagine public spaces as a tapestry of dialogue across time and space, where physical sites and digital spaces reveal hidden histories, illuminating stories often overlooked or erased.

Performing Landscapes Nordic-Baltic is a network focusing on artistic and cultural practice in the context of an ecological crisis. The 24 partners are located in 24 different locations around the Baltic Sea, by a variety of ecologically critical places: landscapes - remote and urbanized. The network is interdisciplinary, and process-driven with local partners working on the interface between art and ecology, with residencies, artistic interventions, programs, festivals and research institutes.

The project aims to establish a visionary network of Baltic-Nordic artists advancing sustainable art practices through symbiosis-based methods and ‘climatic imagination.’ As a result of hybrid meetings and modular workshops, a blueprint for an immersive XR/AR platform will be developed, showcasing innovative ‘naturally-artificial’ artworks. This initiative will lay the groundwork for a long-term network, tracing greener routes for Baltic-Nordic exchange, with a transformative global impact.

The Baltic Cultural Centers Network "The Power of Culture" aims to unite the cultural center associations of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia to strengthen cultural workers' competencies, encourage knowledge exchange, and enhance resilience to crisis in the field of security. Activities will include remote and live sessions, artist shows, power principles of cultural psychology, critical thinking, operation of artificial intelligence development. It involves over 1000 organizations.

The network's primary objective is to localise Culture Action Europe’s (CAE) advocacy in the Nordic region by strengthening ties between Member States, EU institutions, and cultural organisations. It aims to build the Nordic cultural sector's capacity in policy and advocacy while raising awareness among Nordic Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) of working conditions and sustainability topics in the cultural and artistic sectors

Film for Change: Nordic-Baltic Network for Social Impact (Film4Change) aims to bring together documentary film festival organisers across the Nordic-Baltic region to share best practices, develop innovative tools, and collaborate on impactful strategies. By focusing on human rights and social advocacy, the network seeks to enhance the social influence of film festivals, foster meaningful partnerships, and engage audiences in driving social change through the power of documentary storytelling.

The purpose of the network is to meet and exchange practices and perspectives on art interventions unfolding in nursing home institutions including facilitation of co-creative relations with citizens living with dementia. We share experiences and visions of the transformative and innovative potential of artistic relations and connections within nursing home institutions and outline a joined strategy to expand institutional & societal understandings of dementia and practices of care through art.

WIFT-tech is a collective of talented women+ working behind the camera in the film and tv industry across the Nordic region. We aim to empower, support, inspire and celebrate female, trans, non-binary and gender fluid people working in camera & lighting, build a stronger and inclusive community across the nordic region, and lastly to create a unified platform to visualise and promote our work.

Back2work NORTH (B2w) is a long term collegial network that provides artistic exchange and knowledge development for artists in contemporary performance art across the Nordic region and Baltikum. Artists are invited to curate a program of workshops based on their most urgent needs in relation to their practice. The curated workshop program is open to all network participants and provides a collegial discourse and possibility to meet in curiosity.

To identify, exchange good practices, and develop qualitative contemporary performance concepts with artists and collectives for new linguistic and cultural contexts within the Nordic and Baltic region, and to establish a network for their future mobility.

The Network aims to establish a working dialogue between initiatives that address the precarity of material, social, and political conditions of artists and art workers in Baltic and Nordic countries. The Network aims to understand the complex reasons for precarity in the visual arts sector and to address this problem on shared practical grounds.

NAN is a network that brings together different stakeholders (Universities, artist-run spaces, residencies and private tech companies) aiming to increase the societal impact of creative technologies. We are focusing on research based technological innovation of instrument building, bringing to the limelight forgotten music and sound technologies, valuing its particularities, possibilities and new potentials and promoting sustainable use of technology by giving it a new life in new music.

The Nordic-Baltic Circus Alliances (Short-term Network 2025) is dedicated to fostering organizational development, with a focus on building and nurturing partnerships and collaborations among circus organizations across region. This initiative is designed to strengthen the overall Nordic-Baltic circus ecosystem, creating a more cohesive and supportive environment for its growth and sustainability.

The Hot Type Network aims to preserve Linotype machines and the intangible heritage of linecasting. Linotypes revolutionized printing, playing a crucial role in global literacy, news, and free speech. The network will pass the torch of preservation to younger generations through workshops and online meetups. Fostering collaboration to increase public awareness, we aim to engage a wider audience. It is a crucial opportunity to save this important piece of history.

In this Baltic-Nordic Network of Contemporary Puppetry we want to identify and strengthen our common resources; through research, discussion, experience exchange, arts events, training and other networking activities, promote the maximum realisation and development of today’s puppet theatre’s potential in the Baltics and the Nordic countries.

The smallest countries share similar needs in developing their art ecologies for which internationalisation is essential. GLEN joins existing resources to redefine cultural creation and circulation of their artists and culture workers abroad. Through in person gatherings, mentorship, and digital meetings – this network will continue to build knowledge and capacity of working internationally, utilising our diverse perspectives and resources to innovate and develop practice in the region.

The objective of the network is to strengthen the collaboration between school concert providers and prepare the application for the long-term network 2025-2027.

Long-term objectives will be defined with the help of short-term network funding.

The network maps out the societal challenges (e.g. promoting inclusion) in Nordic countries and defines development goals in order to support arts education in schools as well as enhances students’ wellbeing and the quality of school concerts.

The Heritage and Futures Network is a collaboration platform designed to foster discussions on the developmental trajectories of cultural heritage in both the near (+10 years) and distant future. At a time when geopolitical instability and crises intersect with the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence technologies, the network seeks to explore the potential that new technologies hold for cultural heritage management and how they can be leveraged to protect against potential threats.

In order to share their practices and knowledge network will unite organisations around Baltic Sea that work with community and civic society development using performing arts as a tool. This network will strengthen collaborations that have already started in Baltic Applied Theatre Network in 2022 and create new ones, bringing new partners together. Aim is to learn from each other in order to build strong, resilient and cohesive communities, which is important in the current political situation.

The project aims to achieve a dual goal: to assist Estonian, Finnish, and Swedish networks of creative residencies in developing sustainable organizational work models, and to establish a collaboration platform for organizers of artist-in-residence programs in these countries, promoting the sharing of best practices, facilitating exchanges, and stimulating collaborations within the Nordic-Baltic region.

Nordic Animation is a network consisting of leading animation studios in the Nordic region. We focus on connecting with and training of teams across the region. Exchange of knowledge among professionals is important when building up expertise. Professional networks ensure further efficiency and help develop our industry. And very importantly, help spread Nordic storytelling to kids all over the world. Main values for Nordic productions are diversity, tolerance, inclusion, and gender equality.

Nordic Ambitions is a mentorship program for theatre leaders in the Nordic region, initiated by Nordiskt Teaterledarråd in collaboration with The Nordic Culture Fund. The program develops the participants’ leadership skills and promotes networks between Nordic theatres.

Red Herring brings together artists and scientists across the Baltic Sea to address the intertwined ecological and societal changes affecting the shared marine environment. It aims to create a platform and methods for interdisciplinary collaborations that attend to the specificities of different island contexts, but also weave connections between local, regional and planetary scales. It focuses on research visits to each island hosted by the partners and the development of a long-term network.

The aim is to raise awareness of Baltic Dance artists and dance organizations, to develop networking and to communicate Baltic Dance as three Baltic countries’ joint platform. The network enables a stronger collective international presence of the Baltic Dance scene as we have created possibilities to ease artistic and organizational collaboration, a dissemination of information and to stimulate new joint creative initiatives between Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian dance communities.

The main intention of the project is to delve into the socio-cultural, historical, and geopolitical dimensions unfurled by Rail Baltica’s integration across the Baltic region. Gathering a network of artists and interdisciplinary researchers across Baltic and Nordic countries, the project embarks on an exploration of the inclusion of Baltic States in the European fabric, weaving the tapestry of the Eastern past with threads of present aspirations and Nordic European identity.

1.2 Global North is Nordic network for transmission of world-global-roots music in the Nordic region. The aim of the network is to support an connect musicians and organizers in the Nordic region.
We want to create a platform for Global music where both skill development, training, artists and organizers have the opportunity to gather lessons learned and take part in the facts.

Working within work is the beginning of a network dedicated to knowledge sharing and exchange between artist-run dance and performing arts organisations from the Nordic region. The first two meeting will take place at höjden studios in Stockholm and Dance Cooperative in Copenhagen. The exchange meetings will consist of lectures, workshops and will accumulate in final showcases inviting the public to a peek into the process.

Parasympathetic Beings is a network that brings together art institutions, scholars and artists that work within public housing areas and/or with a focus on urban planning. The objective of the network is to establish a deeper conversation within the fields of contemporary art and urban planning in the Nordic region. The long-term objective is to promote a more nuanced and evidence-based discourse in urban development, on both professional and popular levels.

The Baltic Contemporary Music Network is dedicated to aligning and directing joint efforts for the progressive growth of contemporary classical music events in partnership with European allies. Its core activities include hosting the annual Baltic Music Days festival, executing music export initiatives and establishing robust international partnerships to engage in various levels and contexts of events.

An artistic driven network for dance film makers and dance film supporters in the Nordic and Baltic regions. Development of a manifesto, hosting of workshops and screenings of dance films. The network is build upon conversations around the practise of dance film making and go into dialogue with the community and audience by hosting talks and network facilities.

In Arctic Dance Network we aim to bring together all of the professionals working in the northern dance field. We want to offer them support, connections and an encouraging community. Together we can establish a vibrant Northern dance sector with plenty of cross-border collaboration. This is an after pandemic urge to connect again physically in the world of distance meetings and emails, to know the colleague by movement too. Stay Cool -events are an answer to this urge.

A collaborative network about the ideas of the circadian rhythm and the cycle of the seasons. Connected to Tycho Brahe’s former observatory and garden on Ven, it will address the ‘macrocosm’ and ‘microcosm’, fundamental concepts in thinking about the world and its place in the cosmos at the time. As our climate changes and technological innovations begin to alter the economy and labour, the network will seek a deeper understanding of how the circadian rhythm and the seasons affect our bodies.

‘Lýsa’, from the old Norse word meaning ‘to illuminate’’. Lýsa network has the goal of creating a Nordic community of light art curators, producers and programmers responsible for light art events. Lýsa builds on the Nordic Lights project at Nordic Bridges, developing a network to foster and promote light art by Nordic artists in the Nordic region and internationally. Via site visits and a Spring General Meeting, Lýsa aims to build touring networks, collaborations and new sustainable strategies.

The Baltic Contemporary Opera Network is a joint initiative led by partners from Lithuania, Latvia & Estonia. Its overarching goal is to facilitate cultural exchange, the sharing of best practices, and the development of collaborative ventures within the realm of contemporary opera. This genre is an outstanding cultural phenomenon that represents the Baltics on the international stage. The network’s focus lies in fostering cooperation among independent creators and producers within the region.

The aim of the network is to facilitate opportunities for Nordic cultural magazines to converge, collaborate, and share ideas. Our inclusive platform also welcomes Baltic countries, fostering cross-cultural dialogue and enriching creative landscapes. The project encompasses diverse collaborations among Nordic cultural magazines to foster mutual learning and development. Partners share experiences, challenges, and successes while exploring prospects for collaboration.

The aim for NSN II is to further relations between Nordic-Baltic organisations and artists working with performing arts in public space. First round revealed huge interest and identified needs and relevant steps to further the network, strengthen knowledge and deepen understanding between the main agents in the end aim to strengthen opportunities for Nordic-Baltic artists working in public space on the one hand, and support the organisations in their aim to reach diverse audiences on the other.

Flamenco engages 100 or so people working professionally within the arts field in FIN, SWE, NO, DK, ISL & EST. The objective of this network is to
1. To establish sustainable, long-term collaboration in the realms of education, children & youth engagement, stage production and festivals.
2. To serve as a gateway to established dance and music institutions and public. The network members possess artistic backgrounds and are involved in producing both intimate, small and large-scale productions.

The goal of CindyKate is to provide the small music venues in the Baltics (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) with the opportunity to collaborate with one another, as well as to educate the venues on how to create more sustainable business models and implement sustainability and diversity practices in their daily work.

The core objective of CindyKate is to support the circulation of artists and to enable grass-roots organisations and micro-organisations, to be active at an international level.

Nordic Animation Pitching is a new program for short animations from Nordic countries. The aim of this program is to create a place for filmmakers and investors to meet and to develop their ideas, but also increase collaboration in the animation industry between Nordic countries. Filmmakers from Nordic countries can apply to the program with an idea or a script. Created by Finnish Animation Guild, the first Nordic Animation Pitching is going to take place in Helsinki during the May 2023.

The smallest countries share similar needs in terms of developing their art ecologies for which internationalisation is essential. This network will join existing forces and resources to redefine cultural creation and circulation of their artists and art workers abroad. Through in person meetings, online webinars and mentorship, this network will build knowledge and capacity of working internationally, expand horizons and generate new visibility opportunities towards larger creative neighbours.

”Connecting North Atlantic Islands through Dance Art” is a project to connect professional artists within the field of dance in the North Atlantic Islands. The aim is to create a network in order to share resources, and support innovative initiatives. This project is created by and for emerging freelance dance artists working in the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Iceland.

Dancing/Archives is a newly established network for Nordic artists, researchers and archivists engaged in archival work within dance history, through explorations of bodily and choreographic practices. By focusing on knowledge sharing and collegial exchange in practice, the main objective of the network is to connect and enrich work of artists and academic researchers, and thus contribute to a development of embodied research and archiving methods in dance and choreography in a Nordic context.

The project initiates the creation of a collaborative street art network between Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The aim is to establish professional connections between different street art organisations in Finland and the Baltics, as well as introduce local street artists to different countries’ professionals.

PUNC is a music creation network and a music event, bringing together fxmale (= women, non binary, and other gender minorities) writers and producers from Sweden, Denmark and Iceland for music business networking, meetings and talks, and finally – in connection to Iceland Airwaves in November 2023 – hold the first fxmale writing camp in Iceland. The vision is to start collaborations between fxmale writers and producers from the Nordic countries, strengthening networks and representation.

The way we give meaning to our environment often seems obvious. The garden, as an example, seems to be apparent to us, producing pleasure for us, humans. The main objective of this network is to activate a constructive dialogue between contemporary art institutions in Stockholm, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius that explores the possibilities of communicating climate change beyond the conventional exhibition apparatus via the conceptualizing of the garden as an eco-system beyond the human gaze.

Independent Community Radio Network (ICRN) connects like-minded radios in the Baltic-Nordic region (Palanga Street Radio, Tirkultura, IDA Radio, The Lake Radio) for joint professional development and knowledge building activity with the goal of establishing sustainable futures for our field. We share a community focus and common values of creative freedom, independence and forming cross-border relationships to foster a non-competitive environment for the sharing of culture, locally and online.

The objective of the network is to reveal cultural and artistic operators within Nordic Fab Lab Network, establish a new collaboration in a new setting of digital fabrication and improve the output and visibility of art related actions.

Objective is to strengthen knowledge exchange, synergy and visibility of Nordic-Baltic experimental music scenes. It will be done by creating a promotional space where Nordic-Baltic audiences intersect. Music sector was hibernating during covid-19. Experimental music is particularly vulnerable to market swings. Hence the need to tell audiences about the regional scenes and motivate cross-border ”cultural tourism”; to boost scenes by creating a joint Nordic-Baltic knowledge and promotional space.

The aim for NSN is to strengthen relations between Nordic-Baltic organisations working with performing arts in public space. The network will share practices and knowledge, map network and build relations as a first step towards strengthening the opportunities for Nordic-Baltic artists working in public space. The network engages in dialogue with organisations and artists to identify obstacles and resources in the region. Longer term perspective will be defined in final stages of the project.

The network connects contemporary art and culture magazine publishers from Baltic and Nordic countries. It aims to establish a close working relationship between the publishers to better disseminate artistic creation and critical writing in the region, share knowledge and experience about working practices in order to tackle challenges of cultural publishing together, and in turn strengthen the inter-regional voice and creative vision for contemporary arts and culture.

We will bring together three Nordic theatres whose joint focal point is creating performances for the young audience. Through in-depth exchange, we will build competence across the borders, collaboration between the theatres and strengthen the field in general. After the pandemic, it is important to strengthen Nordic collaboration and competence in the performing arts industry. In the long term, the goal is to end up with concrete collaboration promoting innovative theatre for young audiences.

The aim of the Nordic-Baltic Intangible Cultural Heritage Network is to share good practices and methodology on safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in Nordic and Baltic countries. The network was established 2019 and the year 2023 it will focus on researchers of ICH. Network works to enhance the collaboration of researchers and ICH experts and stakeholders from different areas; artists, NGOs, practitioners and communities.

The Network will organize a series of talks and presentations that responds to the question ”What is Nordic about Nordic Photography? New Identities and old Landscapes.
Four organizations committed to photography, takes turns in hosting events. Three artist/curators/cultural works (many have multiple roles) selected by each organizing institution is invited to respond to the questions – by presenting their own practice – or with more theoretical arguments.

The New Nordic Network is an initiative platform that integrates performing arts organisations, groups, collectives, freelance artists, and art producers working with the themes of cultural/lingual diversity and inclusion based in Nordic countries or with a strong connection to the Nordic countries. The network reaches out to more diverse audiences and creates a dialogue with the gatekeepers and decision-makers, and works towards a more diverse performing arts field.

The network aims at initiating dialogue between peers in the neighboring countries, to share experiences and knowledge concerning the conditions for curators in the Baltic-Nordic region. Our aim is to understand and strengthen the position of a precarious occupation and to develop more cultural and environmentally sustainable models. By learning from, and sharing with, our neighbors we hope to not only strengthen the national network but also get to know each other.

The Queer Agenda 2.0 will bring together multiply-margianlised LGBTQ+ artists from across the Nordic & Baltic regions to explore the curator/curated relationship as a means for disrupting white cispatriachal hegemony in the arts. The network will share knowledges partners have developed working within our specific Nordic & Baltic contexts and intersections within the LGBTQ+ community to strengthen our own practices, connect actors and build a sustainable cross-border LGBTQ+ artistic community.

Samovar Circles is a network of artists and presenters seeking to collectively prepare for new challenges and opportunities in a quickly evolving world (post Covid, war, climate). Performing arts and circus professionals are invited to intimate participative meetings on the future of Nordic-Baltic collaboration, diversity, intersectionality, and reimagining relations artists-presenters. In this think-tank, new models for the performing and circus arts of the Nordic Baltic region can be molded.

The project will form a network for professional collaboration between art educators at six art institutions in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Iceland. How do we advocate and influence development in art education that engage the whole human competence with thoughts, feelings and practical skills? We believe that art-based learning has a strong impact for both individuals and the society at large. In this first step we will arrange a seminar for the group and other interested in the field.

The main objective of the CRISS-CROSS network is to facilitate knowledge transfer and exchange of experience among researchers, professional artists, university teachers and students specialising in performance art. Through such a collaboration, Baltic and Nordic partnership will be strengthened at the level of culture, research and education, ensuring the visibility of Baltic and Nordic performance art and employing the democratic potential of action-based art.

The main objective of the Pupsicles network is to create new and deepen the existing connections between ambitious puppetry festivals and organisations in the Nordic-Baltic region in order to foster and create the means of more sustainable touring for puppet and visual theatre artists, productions and concepts, as well as explore more collaborative programming and sharing know-how.

NAVA’s main objective is to build a new Nordic network of artists and organisations operating in the audiovisual field that will support future collaboration between artists and events in the Nordic countries. This is our main concern as building on each other’s experiences is the best way to evolve as individuals and as a collective.

Main objective of the network is to explore possibilities for a sustainable way of running residency programs through regional cooperation, and connecting the residency activities to exhibition venues and festivals in our own ”backyard”. Our goal is not only to work on development of a new 3-year project, but also to inspire other residencies and art organizations in the Nordic and Baltic countries, and the Barents and Arctic region, to develop their own backyard residency programs.

With the establishment of a Nordic-Baltic animation festival network, we want to explore new possibilities and paths, especially with a focus on digital solutions for disseminating animation as a Nordic-Baltic cultural heritage. Through collaborations between the different festivals we wish to share knowledge and together see how the festivals joint goals of promoting animated films from Northern Europe to the audience can be strengthened.

NEATA is a network with national organizations working for amateur theatre in the Nordic/Baltic region. The objective of the network is to share knowledge and experience, as well as maintaining a foundation from which to collaborate on festivals, exchanges, and other initiatives in the field of amateur theatre. The organizations work, within their countries, with structures and opportunities for citizens of all ages and demographics who share the wish to express themselves through theatre.

”Baltic Current: a think tank for sustainable performing arts in Baltics” is a joint initiative of theatre Gertrudes ielas teatris (Riga), Kauno Miesto Kamerinis Teatras (Kaunas City Chamber Theatre, Kaunas), performing arts platform Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava (Tallinn) and Goethe Institute (DE) created to provide a platform for mutual learning, sharing of expertise and support to young performing artists from Baltics.

Flamenco engages 100 or so people working professionally within the arts field in FIN, SWE, NO and DK. The objective of this network is to 1. Create concrete forms for sustainable, long term future collaborations regarding touring of both Nordic and international acts and 2. Establish a visually strong and communicative platform for the artform. The collaborators have a background in producing smaller scale (tablao-form, similar to a jazz club) happenings as well as bigger productions for stage.

In Future Leaders in Performing Arts, four emerging curators are invited to a one-year mentoring process. They are offered support, space, and resources for articulating their points of views as future change makers in the field of performing arts. The objective is that each participant has active agency in this peer-network as well as in the individualised mentor-mentee-relationship.

The network aims at increasing social sustainability in the future power structures of performing arts.

Arctic Culture Lab together with Ferðafélag Íslands and Agila in Lithuania creates a cooperation platform that adds cultural information to the public opinion by developing, testing and evaluating an innovative and interdiciplinary concept that enables an inclusive group of people to read a defined strech of a cultural landscape under the guidance of selected Nordic experts through informed walking. Instead of consuming locations we repeat a cross-cultural investigation of the same hiking route.

The network aims to bring together arts & cultural organisations from Denmark, Latvia and Sweden to share challenges related to sustainability issues in the cultural sector; prototype green solutions for cultural spaces; work on sustainable working conditions for artists; and develop new projects. Contacts made through the Green Deal in Practice network will result in sustainable solutions and future projects with Baltic-Nordic cultural organisations struggling with sustainability issues.

Some of the original members from the successful project Rethink Aging Nordic decided that they would like to continue working together to further explore the field of dance and age in the Nordic countries, as there is an untapped potential for creative exploration and exchange. They have also invited new members to join them in exploring themes of dance and age in this new phase of setting up a network who will continue to work together to further share their creative practice and experiences.

The aim of Sounding Towers network is to share artistic practices with Nordic partners and local communities and to develop practices of resonance in sound art, visual art and performance that address environmental and societal challenges in creating a liveable future on earth. The Singing Places pilot project includes; development meetings in Sweden and Denmark, public presentations/performances in Aarhus and Gnesta, followed by reflection and future planning for continuation of the network.

Baltic Applied Theatre Network will unite Baltic culture organisations which work with applied theatre methods and with community development in order to share their practices and knowledge, to learn from each other and partners from other European countries. This network will strengthen Baltic collaboration, build strong, resilient and cohesive communities regardless of their cultural and language background, which we believe is highly important especially in the current political situation.

The main goal of the established network is to establish sustainable and long-term intersectoral partnerships in the Baltic region in the area of participatory architecture, with a main focus on children and youth. Furthermore the goal is also to learn about our field of work through each other and other relevant actors as well as research further organizational structures, methods and evaluation tools. Finally the network aims to consolidate and spread the network and our methods.

Parasympathetic Beings is a network that brings together art institutions, scholars and artists that work within public housing areas and/or with a focus on urban planning. The aim is to share knowledge and exchange methods on user-involvement and participatory practices within public art projects as well as share best practices on how we can develop the field. The long-term objective is to document new
knowledge on the field and create a framework for a joint art and research program.

The Baltic-Nordic Community Radio Network (Palanga Street Radio, IDA Helsinki, IDA Tallinn, Tirkultura) connects independent radios in the Baltic-Nordic region for joint professional development opportunities and knowledge sharing to establish more sustainable futures in the field. The founding radios share a community focus and the value of maintaining independence to foster non-competitive environments for the production and sharing of music and culture, locally and online.

The main objective of this network is to initiate a new sustainable platform for meeting, cooperation, discussion and exchange of knowledge among Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian independent art initiatives based on experience and expertise of existing Nordic networks of independent artists’ initiatives. Independent Initiatives of the Baltics network will benefit from collective contributions of its members towards developing a sustainable model for its further regular regional collaboration.

NEMA is an independent pan-Nordic group that works to encourage and boost sustainable development and climate action in the Nordic audiovisual industries. NEMA was established in 2020 by seven audiovisual sustainability experts from five different Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Despite our different backgrounds, we all are dedicated to one important thing: the storyline of film and TV productions has to change and turn into a more sustainable narrative.

The Young Fringe Producers Project started in 2021 as a collaboration between Gothenburg Fringe, Reykjavík Fringe and Bergen Fringe festivals, created with the aim to provide a platform for the exchange of expertise, staff, content and to ensure a sustainable working model for young
festival producers. In the second year of the project, we want to include two additional Nordic Fringe festivals.

Three Baltic dance organisations – Lithuanian Dance Information Centre (Lithuania), Latvian Information Dance Center (Latvia) and Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava / STL (Estonia), have agreed to co-operate on representation of Baltic dance artists during international gatherings for professionals in the field of contemporary dance to promote Baltic contemporary dance internationally, to create stronger collective international presence of the Baltic contemporary dance scene.

Map and connect actors that are working with artists with learning disabilities. The network is using knowledge from years of this work in Finland to implement a method in the other participating countries. The method is panels and workshops with the artists who have mental disabilities.

A series of online seminars and the Nordic Improvisation Summit with participants from the Nordic countries. The project will focus on sharing and developing the field of improvisational theater and will include workshops and seminars in order to create exchange between professional improvisers. An evening of improvised theater at a local theater in Helsinki will be organized to showcase the high level of improvisational arts from across the Nordic countries to the general public in Helsinki.

HER-story dancing in and beyond rurally. What if the dancers could stay in the place they lived in! This new network opens up possibilities for critical artistic thought to rethink choreography culture and open new channels of artistic expressivity and engagement. The HER-story making ideas come from dialogues in this field that ask for senior contemporary choreographers, to make choreography on different scales for Institutions and projects, as solo makers. We are seeking collectiveness!

The network consists of women composers, performers and researchers in new music based in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The aim of the network is to strengthen the bonds between stakeholders in the Nordic new music community and develop sustainable feminist working methods for musical collaboration. The project was initiated by composers’ network Konstmusiksystrar who together with ensemble Damkapellet and two prominent researchers will meet in a series of workshops during 2022.

To investigate how we can work together on creating a medieval platform where we use our different musical backgrounds to accomondate a new common history. Look at the old music traces of the past, work together with early music specialists, discuss the possibility to work with living and recorded recorded (1910-30) folkmusic from both Sameland, Greenland and the Baltic states and . Our different expertise is needed to answer those tricky questions. Meetings will be held both in Nuuk and Luleå.

We are applying for funding to establish a dynamic network of sound practitioners in the Nordic region. We plan to arrange a series of network meetings in connection with local events, where we share our practices and teaching methods with each other.

Forest School Network is a development network, bringing together relevant artists and institutions to work towards the realisation of a new cross-disciplinary, peer-led professional development space; Forest School. The network supports the initial collaborative research, collective imagining and development of the Forest School project, which will ultimately be a long-term project, creating learning opportunities for artists and publics within forests across the Nordic and Baltic region.

Baltic Women in Film Mentorship is a newly established network with the goal to encourage the professional development of women in all areas of the audiovisual sector in the Baltic countries. Through the mentorship activities, the network seeks both to pay attention to gender equality and to increase the exchange of best practise, knowledge, contacts and interest in Baltic film culture.

Nordic-Baltic Shorts Network is a short film festival network with the main focus to develop a calendar of training activities dedicated to emerging film talents. Through the series of industry and networking events, the network seeks to build a regional film talents development incubator with the goal to facilitate interaction, cooperation and co-production between short filmmakers from the Nordic-Baltic region and the rest of Europe.

The network aims to create an online forum for those engaged in critical game practices and artist-teachers invested in pedagogy, to experiment with new online platforms as sites for knowledge and exchange. The network centers around a series of meetings held by the fictional Krabstadt Education Center, a transmedia project that uses animation and live arts. Can a fictive framework broach new ways to examine institutions of learning that embody political diversity of our current societies?

BQN is a new collaboration initiated by Kaunas Artists’ House (LT) and Feministeerium (EE) with an aim to connect Baltic queer artists, performers, activists and scholars. We wish to explore together how to think about queerness in the Baltic context, and find dialogue partners from the region. The gatherings of the network will culminate with a new performance and visual art production and with articles where Baltic and Finnish artists and scholars discuss our common challenges and work.

Baltic Circus Grass-root network is a capacity-building project that will unite the professional Baltic circus community including leading circus arts institutions, umbrella organizations, and professional circus artists with the aim to provide opportunities for growth, boost collaboration and improve the professional capacity of operating artists.

KULDRUM is Livonian, Estonian and Swedish. Guld/Kuld Rum/Ruum. A golden room – the golden place, physical and spiritual, where people connect and create belonging and identity through stortytelling. KULDRUM wants to create a long term network where practitioners can share storytelling practices with each other on how to bring in regular people into creativity, and how to weave culture and identity into the fabric of society and everyday life, where the storytelling has been lost.

The main objective is to create a network that strengthens business relations in the Baltic-Nordic region within the audiovisual industry and meet the challenges that the industry is facing. The number one challenge is the climate crisis and the footprint the film industry has on the planet. There is a need for a new progressive vision on how films can be produced in a sustainable way. A Baltic-Nordic network can through collaboration create and in the long run implement that vision.

The Weave prepares for the new challenges and opportunities of post covid. Artists and presenters are invited to a series of intimate and highly participative meetings on the future of international collaboration, diversity and exclusion, and the preventing of a lost generation of artists. The Weave will collectively constitute a catalyst think-tank-like intellectual-emotional source from which new models for the contemporary circus arts of the future in the Nordic-Baltic region can be molded.

Network will connect artists and creators working with immersive audio technologies in Baltic states. Immersive sound is future format for music,cinema, virtual reality, video games, museums and other experiences. Network will collaborate and encourage cooperation between relevant organizations through a series of joint activities to share knowledge and provide wider public with access to free open source resources for learning and exploring these new exciting tools and technologies.

To develop cultural centers founded on principles of do-ocracy and participatory design. Such centers decentralize decision making and have different needs than centers with centrally curated programs. They also rely on unhindered convening in physical space which has been hard in the pandemic, calling for development of participatory processes online. We bring together three participatory cultural centers, one partner in online community building and one network of 80+ cultural spaces.

The main objective of the network is the establishment of a collaboration between the three nordic journals Ord&Bild (Sweden), Vagant (Norway) and ATLAS (Denmark) regarding literature and literary criticism in the nordic countries. This collaboration will culminate in a series of seminars and workshops with the goal of producing podcasts and printed texts in the journals mentioned.

Nordic community theatre network offers participants the chance to refresh their knowledge and skills related to community theatre and exchange their experience in the field. All participants are community theatre professionals, newly-emerging practitioners or theatre students with the strong interest in applied theatre.

The aim of the Nordic-Baltic Intangible Cultural Heritage Network is to share good practices and methodology on safeguarding intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in Nordic and Baltic countries. The network emphasizes community involvement and is open for all stakeholders working in the spirit of the UNESCO Convention for Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Network’s activities include organizing seminars, webinars, meetings, expert exchange and raising awarness on ICH in the region.

Yggdrasil Nordic Theatre network develops, co-produces and distributes the highest level of Nordic performing arts. The collaboration forum consists of some of the Nordic countries’ top theatre companies, institutions, festivals and independent artists. Yggdrasil expands each partners’ field of impact. As a network we strengthen our creativity through the creation of bold new work, build audiences and produce sustainable art.

Bixi is a network involving trans-disciplinary exchanges and dialogue on speculations and scenes that can guide our practices for still possible future. It explores how art can attune us towards the unresolved narratives that face us while evolving infrastructures for alternative-ontologies that do not subscribe to the unsustainable neoliberal establishment.

This networking project intends to accelerate and synergise cooperation between main actors (theatres, production groups etc.) in Nordic/Baltic opera and ballet fields, taking into account new current challenges and limitations. Forum aspires to become a consolidated force, which will strengthen regional cooperation and coordinate activities to promote Nordic/Baltic opera and ballet field in European and world markets, will build a basis for further cooperation and joint projects.

The project is a network of the main well established Nordic and Baltic festivals, focusing on queer topics and using film as the central medium. It is shaped as a response to the lack of ties and communication in the field and is the first and long-awaited initiative of the kind. The network is aimed at increasing contacts between the festivals, creating a platform to exchange experiences and local trends, learn from each other, involve each other in own initiatives and create common content.

The Young Fringe Producers Project is a collaboration between Gothenburg Fringe, Reykjavík Fringe and Bergen Fringe festivals, created with the aim to provide a platform for the exchange of expertise, staff and content as well as ensuring a sustainable working model for young festival producers.

Green House Network is a network that Acting for Climate will create
The purpose of this network is to bring together Nordic artists: New Circus artists, dancers, musicians and performers with an interest in combining performing arts and creative work with climate and environmental themes. The network should mainly be a gathering point for performing artists, where we can learn from each other as well as from outside actors. 8 workshops will be held around 2021 in different Nordic countries.

The objective of the network is to increase collaboration between museums and cultural workers in Sápmi. Participants will share skills and ideas for developing the cultural field in the region. This learning will form a base for future collaboration on exhibitions and the exchanged knowledge will spread further in our respective communities. Working across settler nation states is a part of the wider decolonial process of promoting togetherness across Sápmi.

The main aim of he network is to foster cultural cooperation in Jazz music (big band) by enhancing the number and strength of connections, professionalism of jazz musicians/organizations & visibility of Jazz music festivals. The network will increase share of skills and knowledge, collaboration capacity of jazz musicians and relevant organizations in the Nordic-Baltic region through a series of joint activities & creation of sustainable cooperation network.

There is extensive and growing knowledge in medicine and psychology about how the microbes in our gut affect our lives. They influence our development, well-being and how we behave. This research will shape our diet, medical care and how we understand ourselves in the future. But how does this influence the arts? A network of artists and academics will raise awareness about microbes, so that Nordic artists and art organisations can start to reflect on these important questions.

Reaching Out, To and In: Network for Distribution in the New Public Sphere is a new network initiated by Kritiklabbet (Stockholm) in collaboration with Tekstallmeningen (Bergen), Kritikbyrån and (Helsinki). The network aims to discuss, share and develop ideas and strategies of distribution in the shadow of digitalisation of our time. During one year, the network aims to meet on three occasions; in Bergen, Helsinki and Gothenburg, to discuss distribution from different angles.

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Skifte.Land examines land reform activities as a solution to past and future crises in agriculture in Scandinavia with inspiration from the historical period of ”Udskiftningen” or ”Skiftet”. Here, land communities and villages were dissolved for a more efficient system.
The network is a series of workshops between visual artists, researchers and farmers, in places that are thematically related to the topic, to create conversations that can help us in today’s new green shift.

The goal of the project is, via a network of strong partners, to develop explore and research the ways of working in the interdisciplinary fields of art, science and technology while sharing and developing different mentoring methods and systems for emerging artists.

The main objective is to develop an open cross-city data and cooperation platform, reflecting a comparative state of affairs and advancement in maintenance of three historic cities: Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius – UNESCO World Heritage sites. Series of joint workshops will be organised in the three cities exchanging of perceptions, experience and tendencies in the field of cultural heritage maintenance and contemporary urban cultural creativity in the cities.

We wish to establish an artist-run platform for participatory art, a long-term forum for discussions and production of art involving the audience.

GOALS:
Creating a platform for participatory art for artists in the Nordic countries
To work for improved working conditions for artists within the art form
Creating a production residency for artists working with participatory practices
To work with critical thinking and knowledge sharing around the art form through lectures and publications

This network brings together feminist artists, curators and scholars in order to discuss and develop locally relevant models of intersectional feminist art practice. Initiators of the network include partners from Estonia, Finland and Lithuania. The network will manifest in four meetings which will connect feminist art practitioners, facilitate exchange of knowledge and create new synergies.

The Baltic-Nordic Community Arts network will have the following goals:
1) to raise the awareness of the importance of community arts projects and to educate cultural producers and artists in Baltic-Nordic countries, improving their knowledge and skills working with participative arts methods in order to bring the best results for communities via creative work of professional artists;
2) to boost an interaction and learning among Baltic and Nordic artists undertaking community art projects.

In 2019, 12 incubators from the Nordic and Baltic countries met for discussions on common interests and aims, to initiate and form a strategic network for cultural business.
The purpose of this would be to bring us closer together through a network for knowledge exchange, and joint method development for incubation of cultural and creative creators and entrepreneurs.

The network aims to create opportunities and facilitate connectivity between organisations, creating transnational support for dance organisations and artists in rural areas and in areas lacking appropriate infrastructures. The network, inspired by the natural phenomenon of Mycelium and based on Rhizome Theory, operates across a consortium of partners in a non-hierarchical model of clustering and knowledge transfer and aims to develop international professionalism across the sector.

The main objective of the network is to promote and support alternative music cultures that are currently left out of official support mechanisms in Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania. The network will share knowledge, collaborate, and strengthen cooperation between relevant organizations in the Baltic region through a series of joint activities.

The Nordic-Baltic Network of Life Writing is a short term network between the cultural and research institutions that promotes, archives and studies practices of life writing in the Nordic and Baltic countries. The goal of this initiative is to create a sustainable forum for discussions and exchange of information and specific knowledge about varied life-writing practices, collecting of autobiographical writings and archiving in the Nordic-Baltic region and beyond.

A developmental learning, training and research initiative aiming to articulate how the Baltic-Nordic region can collaborate to develop circus education and its’ relationship with artistic thinking
Objectives
– Gather circus educators from the Baltic Nordic Countries
– Exchange knowledge and experience on circus education
– Collectively create tools and methods to advance artistic thinking in circus education
– Collect and disseminate information/practises to/from the wider relevant community

Nordic Storytelling Centre invites representatives from the Nordic/Baltic Storytelling movement to an initial meeting in Skellefteå, Sweden in the spring or early summer of 2020.
An executive committee is chosen for a second meeting in Odense/Svendborg during autumn. The objective for the project is to establish an operating network for Storytelling, through which a number of collaborative projects can enhance and develop the Nordic/Baltic Storytelling field further during 2021-2023.

This network will look at museums’ and artists’ role in the processes of constructing national and regional identities. It will discuss ways how artists and museums help to imagine possible alternative narratives that look beyond the nation-state and open up to different voices in contemporary Baltic-Nordic societies. We are interested in looking at the past specifically 1930’s Europe. With this focus the project will help us rethinking undemocratic tendencies in contemporary reality.

‘Nordic Children’s Literature & UN Development Goals’ is a short term network between the cultural institutions of the three sister cities Kópavogur (IS), Odense (DK) and Tampere (FI). The goal is to exchange knowledge between cultural managers, artists and educators on how to create cultural events for children that teach Nordic values and UN Development Goals through children’s literature. The idea is to use the networking period to develop a joint 3-year program of workshops and exhibitions.

We initiates the forming of a nordic network concerning folk flute making.
It´s about meeting instrument makers that build different kinds of both new and traditional folk flutes and transfering knowledge to each other.
It will contain:
Three educational visits at makers workshops in Olso, Copenhagen and Cambridge.
One networking meetup in Malmö, for folk flute makers and other folk-wind instruments.
A folk flute making part where three flutes are made and for that a test session meetup.

Four professional artists train each other in different fields of arts and offer their knowledge to empower women and girls in risk situations. Due to its’ empowering abilities, the artist quartet wants to promote the use of sensory art in women support groups.

The project ‘Hiking for Stories’ is a collaboration of five Nordic artists, bringing together the practice of Urban Hitchhiking and the art of oral storytelling. We explore how the practice of Urban Hitchhiking can be used as a method for collecting life stories from people who live in urban areas within the Nordic countries; and how the practice of Urban Hitchhiking can be developed into a storytelling concept and serve as a stage for sharing these urban stories forward.

The aim of this network is to create resilience and exchange knowledge regarding abstract and concrete threats against Nordic self-organized art initiatives. This is a proactive response to what is happening in other parts of Europe and the world where the conditions for contemporary art and cultural workers are constantly reduced. Throughout the coming year the network will continue to develop and manifest in three strategic meetings with workshops, discussions and a digital publication.

The objective of the network is to share ideas, case examples and methodologies to work with new publics and contemporary art in the Nordic countries to grow skills and to better understand the context specifics and overlaps of our respective locations. We want to establish dialogues around production and exhibitional formats including young people and new possible visitors. The network Future futures is a system to define ways to work with contemporary art from the Nordic countries.

There is extensive and yet non-connected knowledge about the use of biofeedback in music among organisations and artists in the Nordic countries. This short-term network has been created in order to: (1) Get a better picture of the knowledge in the region and (2) spread the knowledge among Nordic artists and institutions. (3) Vision Forum also wants to share our knowledge and connections from our related music and science network in Europe with Nordic artists and institutions.

The TEH Nordic hub initiative will increase cooperation and collaboration between the self-organised cultural centres in the Nordic and Baltic region located in spaces of industrial and cultural heritage in eight countries. Trans Europe Halles network will strengthen focus in the Nordic and Baltic region through this initiative. Four established centres, Kaapelitehdas, IES, Maltfabriken, Institute for X and the TEH Coordination Office will initiate the new network.

The main objective of the network is to bring together female filmmakers – directors, producers, cinematographers, sound recordists and editors, from Estonia, Latvia and Sweden to give them opportunity to share the challenges related to working in the film industry, listen to empowering stories and experiences and develop new projects. The contacts made through the Female Filmmakers network will result in common projects and Baltic-Nordic co-oproductions of films relevant for modern female.

NORDIC DANCE NET fosters the development of contemporary choreography by creating a sustainable Nordic network for mentoring, residencies, co-production and touring with the aim of advancing creation on a bigger scale.

The project aims to extend the life cycle of Nordic contemporary dance, from primary production to dissemination, expanding audiences and advancing international recognition, thus supporting choreographers to the next level on their professional careers.

To exchange experiences between Nordic and Baltic countries in the intangible cultural heritage, oral storytelling tradition, by exploring together each other’s similarities but also differences. Share challenges and positive experiences .

The UNION Group is a cross-national, decentralised platform created to explore and expand the intersection between art and live action roleplay by establishing a collaborative network of artists, arts workers, institutions and organisational partners, to identify and generate professional opportunities, learning development opportunities, best practice protocols and community-network building events and to assess the needs and explore the future potential of this form of art practice.

To jointly explore how performing arts institutions in the Nordics can improve their capacity to bring forth stories and voices that reflect the complex realities within marginalized communities in culturally deprived areas. The three partners will invite other colleagues in the Nordic sector as well as potential European partners contributing to the exploration.

The involved festivals share many common values and thus have strong reason to exchange knowledge and experiences. In specifics we want to explore the variety of methods and knowhow that we have developed and turned into long living and creative festival practices so far, separately. We share an interest in developing methods for working with Seniors & Kids. The network will explore ways to ignite a meeting between the elder and the youngest by engaging them in arts and creative practices.

The Ratatusk network aims to introduce writers within the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) to a wider literature scene and create opportunity for them to develop professionally. The project also wants to strengthen the skills and networks of those who work with the ICORN – writers, that is, the ICORN – cities coordinators and festival leaders engaged in the Ratatusk network.

Silent University North is a new Nordic network for knowledge exchange and project development within the intersection of art, academia and activism, run by the three Nordic artistic organizations Museum of Impossible Forms (Helsinki), The Workers’ Educational Association (Stockholm) and CKI – Danish Center for Art and Interculture (Copenhagen).

1. Establish a Nordic Light Expression Network consisting of Artists, Producers and Festivals (Cultural Arenas)
2. Run a series of network workshops to enable increased collaboration and knowledge amongst the partners and across borders
3. Create of a database for Nordic Light Artists, Producers and Festivals
4. Facilitate co-creation of new projects resulting in funding application and coproduction of new works.
5. Collectively represent and raise awareness of Nordic light art internationally

XR Baltic Network aims at connecting artists and creators working in virtual/augmented/mixed (XR) realities in Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania). XR is a new medium and it is getting popular among technology driven people. Our network aims at gathering/connecting/embracing creators working in the field of arts and culture and to encourage them actively collaborate and create quality, high artistic, cinematographic and strong storytelling value productions in/for the new media.

”Neighbours” is a playwrights project to investigate an experienced lack of knowledge between neighbours across the Baltic Sea. We want to deepen relations, explore and learn from each other. In a number of workshops for playwrights, ”Neighbours” will be a place for meetings between individual artists, countries and different practices. With ”Neighbours” we will give possibilities to share experiences, to develop networks and create new theatrical texts for young audiences.

Residency centres in the Nordic and Baltic regions wish to explore how a closer collaboration through networking can develop the programmes and centres and strengthen international career options for composers and sound artists in the Nordic and Baltic regions. Exchanging staff, equipment, knowledge and experience, exploring the need for residency programmes made for young, up-coming artists, and exploring the relevance of a joint Nordic-Baltic programme are among the activities of the network

The main goal of Carla Think Tank project is to create possibilities for European networks who works for gender equality in film industry to: 1. Meet and share knowledge between the networks 2. Meet with researchers who works with gender and film and share knowledge 3. To share and communicate knowledge about gender equality to the film industry – through seminars, event and workshops at film markets and film festivals 4. To prepare for a conference 2020 for film networks and researchers

Culture is connected with economy and politics; the way of thinking. Ideas of sustainable development have social, cultural and economical dimensions. ”Elements of ecological Community” are produced locally in this project. Each partner has its own interests based on going-on missions of each association. Art is a concept of social practices; it is involved in many different ways in the project. All the themes are creating the common views, arguments and activities for future.

Networking Platform for Emerging Baltic Filmmakers ”Pitch & Share” is a unique platform for the Baltic Sea region’s filmmakers to gain and deepen knowledge of current trends in Baltic and European cinema. Through different activities we aim to create a space for the share of the best practice, and at the same time bring the newest short film ideas from the Baltic sea region into the international spotlight and to facilitate interaction, cooperation and co-production between European filmmakers.

Nordic Network of Culture Journals gives the opportunity to exchange experiences between publicists and writers in the Nordic countries. The goal of the network is to encourage the vivid tradition of culture journals in the Nordic countries and to develop and strengthen their indispensable role in the cultural publicity.

The network’s objective is to enhance comprehension of the role which cultural institutions and initiatives play in integration processes in the Nordic and Baltic societies. Focusing on the Russian speaking communities in Finland, Estonia, and Latvia, the network aims to exchange experience, to analyse challenges and opportunities of cultural participation practices to be implemented with but not for communities, and to widen mutual understanding on the subject among all partners.

This collaborative research network will exchange ways of studying the 20th century in the Baltic and Nordic countries in order to understand how difficult pasts are with us nowadays. It brings together artists, curators and interdisciplinary scholars who have have analysed the contemporary legacies of the Second World War and the Cold War in their creative work. Its aim is to learn from each other, create synergies and seek for novel ways of dealing with difficult past by using creative means.

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“Rethink Aging – Nordic, art, health & research is an art project where dance and choreography merges into
interdisciplinary and intersectional project, where art, culture and healthcare meets, and were research on the project provides us with new data and knowledge.

This networking initiative aims to create collaborations between researchers, professional artists, artist-researchers and educators working within the Arts & Health (A&H) field in the Nordic area. The main objective of the network is to enable scholars, practitioners and educators to explore ideas, co-develop knowledge (experiential, practical, theoretical) and to build bridges between arts and health practice and research.

In the wake of #metoo, a feminist, separatist performing arts network is created around sisterhood, intimacy and sauna culture. The network aims at empowering women exploring and practicing sisterhood by sharing experiences and developing form and staging based on a common norm-critical starting point. In the ladies´ sauna, as a room, the sauna club is used to elevate women’s experiences and stories, and create strategies to challenge a patriarchally associated space and a patriarchal branch.

Gambia House Network of Musicians a Network of Gambian Musician bringing together musicians making high quality live music available and accessible to people, while supporting their career and capacity development. Gambia House Network of Musicians identifies 3 priority areas: Audience development which is central to the network. All musician development activity designed to support career and capacity development in music performance. Partnership development activity will focus on audience.

The aim of the Network is to improve the situation for foreign artists at the grassroots and policy level together with key stakeholders who originate from the Nordic countries. Our main objective is to bring together key actors from the Nordic region working towards the improved integration of artists of foreign origin into the arts and cultural scene to learn from one another, pool our resources, to map the current situation in the Nordic countries, to forge partnerships and to take action.

The aim of the project is to provide a series of events and joint meetings for artist’s run analog labs in Nordic and Baltic countries. These are collectively run labs that produces and teaches analog media works – analog films, photography and sound. Within the project participants of the labs will provide a space and join workshops and events with intention of education and further collaboration between each other.

The main objective of Secure Improve Expand is to exchange experiences and knowledge on 3 themes; security and safety, drug preventive work, and expanding tour routes and establishing new markets for grassroot venues. Network activities consists of 3 meetings in Helsingborg SE, Helsingør DK and Helsinki FI, carried out in collaboration between Svensk Live, Dansk Live, LiveFIN, Norske Konsertarrangører and Iceland Airwaves, and open to live music professionals in the Nordic and Baltic countries.

”LATVIAN PERFORMANCE ART CENTRE” is a freshly founded institution under non-profit and non-governmental organization ”LABORATORY OF STAGE ARTS”. We are the only one and the leading institution in Latvia focusing on Performance Art. Our aim is to develop performance and interdisciplinary art especially in Baltic-Nordic dimension. We have Performance Art Festival, largest in Latvia and even Baltic countries. We run unique educational course on Performance Art, and different artistic activities.

Nordic Art Press (NAP) applies network funding to explore and develop distribution and mediation of Nordic Art Books. Through two one day workshops, where practitioners from the Nordic Art Book scene will participate and contribute, we aim to build and strengthen a community and create a platform for sharing knowledge and perspectives. Through this, our goal is to develop a collaborative platform and sustainable structure for exchange and distribution of art books in the Nordic countries.

This new nordic/baltic theater collaboration aims to find a new way of story-telling based on our three theatre’s line of expertise. We also strive to seek a stronger cultural connection between Denmark, Norway and Lithuania. The three theaters are very different, but we all share the same goal, which is to find a new Nordic//Baltic way of storytelling within theater, which is easily translated both through images, text and a strong set of rules and tools that can be used to make a story matter.

The aim of the network is to strengthen cooperation between nordic countries in the field of youth culture (dance and music) and street art through a series of networking activities, as well as promote nordic youth culture scene outside of the region by organising an international street culture summer camp in Moscow, Russia in August 2019. Members of the network are professional dancers, educated producers and experienced youth workers, who have been working in the field for over 15 years.

This project seeks to formalize and boost cooperation between central institutions in the field of contemporary art music of the Baltic States and develop a background for Baltic Music Days festival. Baltic Contemporary Music Network is striving to consolidate and focus coordinated activities towards tuned development of contemporary art music events between partners in the Nordic/Baltic region.

Nordic Platform for Critical Craft Theory will be a think-tank of critics, curators and other professionals for critical thinking around contemporary craft. The network will meet to exchange ideas and strengthen the critical language for crafts. The aim is to build a new understanding for and to produce new knowledge in an increasingly diversified contemporary crafts field. In short, the network will map, update and rethink critical discourse for contemporary crafts in the Nordic region.

Speaking Bodies is a Nordic-wide network spanning Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway which links groups practicing capoeira through collaborative workshops and knowledge exchange. Speaking Bodies also supports local communities by inviting local practitioners to lead workshops and participate, thereby creating a Nordic capoeira community within the international context.

Kritiker Literary Network brings together professionals within the Nordic literary field in Oslo and Helsinki 2019. Through meetings and workshops the project exchanges knowledge, contacts and ideas within the Nordic literary sphere and make possible the initiative of a Norwegian and Finnish-Swedish editorial practice about Nordic contemporary literature, that challenge Nordic self-image and stress the multicultural heritage within the Nordic concept and literature.

The main objectives are:
1. to enable professional and cross-disciplinary discussions on norm critical leadership and practice within the field of art and culture and to share best practices on how to develop the field concerning inclusion, diversity, and equality.
2. to generate new knowledge and new norm critical practices for the cultural field. The concrete aim is to develop a toolkit on norm critical governance.

The network consists of organizations dealing with contemporary photography and lens based art, running programmes that have artistic but also societal aims. The gatherings and events of the network deepen the understanding and raise the questions of how the organizations mediate between artistic substances and their audiences. Especially focus will be in short term events, for example festivals and workshops, and how society is seen and researched through documentary photography and film.

The network Copyright Norden aims to standardize copyright practises in the Nordic countries.

We want to be able to better co-operate across national borders in regards to artists copyright issues. This requires us to create a common Nordic praxis. All participants of this network are experts in their respective countries and have long worked for the artists’ rights. We will use Create Denmark (http://createdenmark.dk/) as our benchmark and spearhead project.

The objective of the Baltic Film Forum is to promote the long-term distribution of films and projects of the Baltic States in the broadcast of all three countries, launch co-production projects, creative and commercial exchanges and enable individual film makers and producers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to hold regular meetings with potential license holders, purchasers of rights – broadcasters.

Story Sharing Universum has created contacts with other theatre groups and organization, artists working with integration, multiculturalism and social art through performing arts and storytelling in Scandinavia and Europe. We want to start a network / collaboration forum where these artists can meet and seek inspiration from each other’s work and share their experiences, knowledge and methods. The network starts with an exchange of open workshops, lectures and meetings between the groups.

The aim of this network is to develop strategies and upskill the Nordic Fringe Network (NFN) teams. Through a series of fringe specific meetings, workshops, seminars and debates we hope identify a model of collaboration that works in the Nordic region. The outcome of this project is a stronger, more sustainable and synchronised collaboration between Nordic and Baltic festivals that elevate the local through the global. A stronger NFN sector will deliver higher quality and sustainable events.

Five theatre companies plan to cooperate in a one year network with the aim of exploring interactivity in children’s theatre, using the method “theater of the participant”. In the period of August 2018 till March 2019 we will meet to discuss and explore the method together and on this ground establish the network. During this period we will have one meeting in Lithuania and one workshop in Hungary. The work will be documented on an open website.

Helsinki Comics Festival (later HCF) and its partners will organise a series of two workshops for the exchange of know-how on risograph publishing techniques for comics. The project will enable the transfer of practical know-how between comics artists about grassroots publication practises.

The network is based on question: Freedom – What is it? Free will was not allowed in everyday life for citizens in Soviet Union but in the creation and in mental level art worked as a liberator, as a secret messenger. How is this changed now during the independence times? Together with Nordic and Baltic artists the theme will be analyzed through seminars and meetings: Artists, what is our message towards society nowadays?

North Cultitude 6263 network aims to create new collaborations along latitudes 62 and 63 with art and culture projects. The aim is to bring together artists of various kinds with our activities in the Nordic countries. We want to focus on these latitudes and create a new Cultural-Geography with new collaborations and cross-border contacts. To achieve this goal, we want to arrange the activities as Art dinner and activity in Iceland in 2018 to establish the network and create new art projects.

The project is a first attempt to bring together the variety of art institutions in Baltic and Nordic countries and create a short-term network with the aim to examine the valuation of art. In each location we meet and have seminars, we start with open seminars and as it goes ahead, open up and stimulate a discussion with experts of the discourse and with the audience.

The main objective of the network is to facilitate discussions between Nordic artists and researchers, exploring art and fiction as well as theoretical entry points to the figure of the monster and the practices of storytelling. The long term goal is to establish knowledge transfer networks that will ensure mobility of knowledge between the Nordic countries, which share similar myths and stories about the monster that tie in with contemporary debates about belonging and Otherness.

Baltic – Nordic film industry colab is meant to celebrate films and filmmakers from Baltic and Nordic countries and pursue collaborations between these countries. The main objective is to introduce Nordic and Baltic filmmakers to each and encourage them to collaborate, to share difficulties they are facing and opportunities their countries and locations offer and how it may be helpful for others.

The network gathers Nordic/Baltic photo- and video artists, researchers, organisations and writers to discuss the role, responsibility and potential of art and culture in the Anthropocene – thematically and in terms of practical environmental sustainability. The network is initiated by The Independent AIR and tailored by the “development group” – a smaller group from different Nordic/Baltic countries, educational backgrounds, gender and age, to ensure the best outcome for the meetings.

Chill Survive will serve as a platform for mutual exchange and collaboration among researchers, curators, artists and institutions in the North engaged in human and nonhuman entanglements and development of new strategies, methodology and language that speak to our present ecological crisis. The objective is to explore, learn, mediate, cope with the future transformations in the Arctic. The network consists of several physical and online meetings including seminars and workshops.

The network aims to increase the digital competence and capacity building among the staff at the museums of Joensuu Muesums, Finland, Museum “Riga Art Nouveau Center” Latvia and Gamla Linköping Open-Air Museum, Sweden. The method of achieving this is to arrange 3 digital training camps and meetings, one meeting in each country. The network that will be established will organize regular meetings and create new cooperation with the Nordic and Baltic states.