Please fill in the application till April 19 to register for Community Arts Nordic Baltic Network Forum that will take place on  20-21 April, 2022 at ISSP Gallery, Marijas Street 13 k.3, Berga Bazārs, Riga, Latvia.

The keynote speaker of the forum will be François Matarasso, a freelance community artist, writer and consultant, an author of the book “A Restless Art”. His online speech and following discussion will deal with the notion of 'participatory art' and 'community art' as well as with the explored and unexplored opportunities which these activities bring to our society.

During the forum of the Community Arts Nordic Baltic network, both international and national participants will present the best community art practices from Sweden, Estonia and Latvia.
A notable attention and discussion will be drawn to the various aspects of community art work, including daily challenges of community arts projects as well as future of community arts projects in time of crisis.
Along with presentations and discussions, two workshops will be organized to learn the steps, examples and exercises to engage in artistic processes. Workshops will be moderated by Ieva Niedra, INITIUM and film and theater director Krista Burāne .

The forum is organized by #CANBnetwork (developed by Culturelab (Latvia), Tartu Centre for Creative Industries (Estonia) and Virserums Konsthall (Sweden), in cooperation with INITIUM Foundation and ISSP Gallery.

You can follow the activities of the #CANBnetwork here https://culturelab.com/projekti/baltic-nordic-community-arts-network/ and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CANBnetwork .

The #CANBnetwork is inviting you to become part of a growing network of both - experienced and beginning community art activists, artists, producers and curators in Baltics and Scandinavia. Please fill in the application to be listed in a database  and receive information on further networking  activities https://bit.ly/3qL0ddv .

The Nordic Baltic Community Arts network has been established  by two Baltic organizations with the experience of providing training for cultural managers and supporting new creative partnerships – Culturelab in Latvia and Tartu Centre of Creative Industries in Estonia along with Nordic partner – Virserums Konsthall in Sweden, an active regional NGO working with local and regional artists and communities for more than 20 years. The network is looking forward to expand with members from other Baltic and Nordic countries, promoting the idea of community arts and raising the capacity of organizers and artists willing to work with local communities.

The development of the network and this forum is supported by the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture.