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FrequenciesElefsinian Mystery | Handle with CareCulture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a special episode, "Elefsinian Mystery | Handle with Care", which focuses on the 2023 Beyond the Obvious conference, "Handle with Care | Culture for Social Well-being", co-organized by Culture Action Europe, 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture, and the CultureForHealth project. This international get-together invited practitioners, organisations and institutions, policy-makers, thinkers, researchers, activists and artivists from the cultural, social and health sectors working on topics related to care, well-being, health and culture.This ep...
2023-09-0840 min
The 7am NovelistMaya Shanbhag Lang on What We CarryMaya Shanbhag Lang discusses the first pages of her bestselling memoir, What We Carry, how her prologue hooks the reader by ensuring that what we’re reading matters, how she navigated narrative intrusion, and how she discovered where to begin (again) with some prompting from her editor and her own insight into what her book was really about.Lang’s first pages can be found here.Help local bookstores and our authors by buying this book on Bookshop.Click here for the audio/video version of this interview.The above link will...
2023-07-1431 minFrequenciesTales from Culturopolis | Ep.4 – Digital EnvironmentsCulture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a four-part collaboration exploring the current discourse and practice around cultural rights in our communities across Europe. The series focuses on the four focus areas of the 2022 conference Culturopolis, co-organized by the Culture Institute of Barcelona and Culture Action Europe, which brought together researchers, cultural workers, artists and policymakers to exchange ideas and work around cultural rights.This episode focuses on digital environments. What is the relationship between cultural rights and digital rights? How can digitalising culture on the...
2023-03-2031 minFrequenciesTales from Culturopolis | Ep.3 – Cultural WorkCulture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a four-part collaboration exploring the current discourse and practice around cultural rights in our communities across Europe. The series focuses on the four focus areas of the 2022 conference Culturopolis, co-organized by the Culture Institute of Barcelona and Culture Action Europe, which brought together researchers, cultural workers, artists and policymakers to exchange ideas and work around cultural rights.Today’s episode focuses on cultural work, with an important focus on the right to work in the cultural sector under decent conditions. How is the work of art...
2023-02-2738 minFrequenciesTales from Culturopolis | Ep.2 – Participation and CommunitiesCulture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a four-part collaboration exploring the current discourse and practice around cultural rights in our communities across Europe. The series focuses on the four focus areas of the 2022 conference Culturopolis, co-organized by the Culture Institute of Barcelona and Culture Action Europe, which brought together researchers, cultural workers, artists and policymakers to exchange ideas and work around cultural rights.This episode focuses on Participation and Communities. Who is being left out of the experience of culture? What is the cultural sector doing to improve the situation? We a...
2023-02-1337 minFrequenciesTales from Culturopolis | Ep.1 - DiversityCulture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a four-part collaboration exploring the current discourse and practice around cultural rights in our communities across Europe. The series focuses on the four focus areas of the 2022 conference Culturopolis, co-organized by the Culture Institute of Barcelona and Culture Action Europe, which brought together researchers, cultural workers, artists and policymakers to exchange ideas and work around cultural rights.This episode focuses on Diversity, on the difficulties around invisibility or lack of diversity and on the importance of participation and the decision-making capacity inherent in the desi...
2023-01-2636 minFrequenciesSonifying the Sector | SwedenToday we will be listening to a sound diary from three different cultural organisations based in Malmö and Lund in Sweden. The sound diary aims to “sonify” the daily operations of the people and organisations who make out the local culture sector there. It is an initiative from the European cultural network Trans Europe Halles in Lund, as a part of Culture Action Europe's project Amplify: make the future of Europe yours.In the podcast, you will hear three sound pieces in a row - three diary entries - from Stpln , a culture incubator and coworking space in Ma...
2022-05-0621 minFrequenciesRhythms of Memory | London // SyriaIn this episode, we spotlight Qisetna, a digital platform seeking to preserve the cultural heritage of communities affected by conflict and displacement. Qisetna was founded in London in 2013 in response to the conflict in Syria. The organisation originally sought to reframe the narrative of those being displaced through the practice of sharing stories. The organisation encouraged Syrians of all backgrounds and denominations to capture their memories, producing a rich archive of different stories. Today we get a glimpse into how Qisetna uses storytelling in its many forms in order to protect cultural heritage. I spoke with Sarah Barker, who v...
2022-04-2918 minFrequenciesVersed in Democracy | Ljubljana, SloveniaToday we talk with Anja Zag Golob, a fierce voice in a movement to protect cultural and democratic rights in Slovenia. Anja is often described as a rising star of European poetry, winning awards such as the Jenko Poetry Prize for best Slovene Poetry Collection and the 2020 Kritiško sito award for best Slovene book. Anja also participated in the Culture Action Europe project, “Amplify: Make the Future of Europe Yours,” collaborating with fellow artists and cultural workers to demand more for the cultural sector in Slovenia and across Europe. Ahead of the upcoming national elections in Slovenia this Sunda...
2022-04-2223 minFrequenciesVisualising the Economy | The NetherlandsToday we explore the work of Ben Maier, an artist and a photography student at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague, Netherlands.In the autumn of 2021, under the coordination of the organisations Creative Court in the Hague, Het Geluid in Maastricht and H401 in Amsterdam, Ben was selected to take part in a pan-European project, “Amplify: Make the Future of Europe Yours,” as a participant representing the Netherlands. Amplify, a project led by Culture Action Europe and co-funded by the European Parliament, aims at gathering the ideas and concerns of underrepresented voices within the cultural sect...
2022-04-0821 minFrequenciesA Joyful Solidarity | SpainThis week we tap into the mind and heart of Rocío Nogales Muriel, the director of EMES International Research Network. As a sociologist specialising in culture, social innovation and social enterprise, she guides us through the vision and actions of a network in Spain that is creating social transformation in communities through artistic and cultural exploration, experimentation and collaboration. REACC, Red de Espacios y Agentes de Cultura Comunitaria (Network of Spaces and Agents of Community Culture), is an open assembly for dialogue and support between artists, community organisers, and cultural organisations. The members who make up the REACC network u...
2022-03-2521 minFrequenciesThreading Identity | Antwerp, BelgiumIn this episode, we head to the Flemish region of Belgium and focus on a community centre in the heart of Merksem, a multicultural district of the city of Antwerp. Merksemdok Community Centre serves as a meeting point for people in the neighbourhood to participate in programs such as community theatre, Dutch language practice groups and a number of cultural and artistic programs for children.In December 2020, the centre held the “Stay Yourself” Fashion show and exhibition, an event culminating 2 months of work during which 10 young people created their own collection focusing on fashion & identity. The...
2022-03-1818 minFrequenciesThe Poetry of Politics | Rome, ItalyIn this first episode of the series, we visit Italy to explore the recent work of visual artist, Iginio De Luca. For many years De Luca has focused his work on the production of videos, photographic images, and sounds that activate public spaces with bold, satirical actions that aim to interrupt everyday life in order to hold a mirror to the absurdities of current politics. It is largely due to this interplay between political awareness and poetic sensibility that ECCOM decided to reach out to him for his involvement in the project, “Amplify: Make the Future of Europe Yours.”...
2022-03-1116 min
The ZooFirst ContactTalking to strangers is tough. It's even tougher when you have a stutter. Listen to Chase's story in the final episode of the miniseries.
Produced by Sophie Nikitas. Edited by Rob McGinley Myers and Britta Greene.
Music by SRVTR, Monplaisir, johnny_ripper, and Maya Weisinger.
Photo courtesy of Jeremy Jennene.
2017-04-2700 min
The ZooDifferent ConventionsIt's never too late to try online dating. This episode, we hear from Mary, who made her first profile at age 71.
Produced by Sophie Nikitas. Editing help from Britta Greene, Natalie Jablonski and Nancy Rosenbaum.
Music from Fragile Tom, Scott Holmes, johnny_ripper, Doge Lounge, Alan Singley, Tri-Tachyon, and Maya Weisinger. Special thanks for the Free Music Archive.
2017-01-3100 min
The ZooThe Hard FadeA young woman deals with a breakup the only way she knows how—like a journalist.
This story was reported by Ellen Mayer, and produced by Sophie Nikitas, with editing help from Nancy Rosenbaum.
Music from Maya Weisinger, Randy Dever, and Doge Lounge. Additional music—Bengale, Alan Singley, and johnny_ripper—from the Free Music Archive.
2017-01-1100 min
The ZooMessage Me If You're Not A PredatorA musician makes OK Cupid an integral part of her post-grad life. But her drive to find "nameless, faceless men" leads her to a surprising end.
Music composed by Maya Weisinger.
You can listen to Maya and Matty's music at facebook.com/avalonmoonmusic/
2016-12-0200 min