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The network connects diverse actors working with queer archives, cultural heritage, and art across the Baltic-Nordic region. Its main objective is to foster inclusive queer historiography by promoting knowledge exchange, mutual learning, and joint initiatives. Through events and meetings, it highlights marginalized identities, challenges heteronormative narratives, and enhances access to queer archival materials, contributing to a more sustainable and inclusive society.

INTERLINGUAL NETWORK OF DEAF AND HEARING PERFORMERS unites Nordic–Baltic Deaf artists and hearing collaborators to build a sustainable, Deaf-led platform for interlingual theatre. Led by key experts, the network will draft a strategy to unite similar initiatives under one umbrella while holding six meetings to create tools, test rehearsal models, and envision long-term formats based on allyship and equal creative power.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.