13 culture news headlines from 6 countries in October
Armenia
Ministry reports about boost of investments in country’s cultural sphere. In the programmes of the Armenia’s culture ministry in 2017, during first nine months of the year, unprecedented investments of USD 990 thousand have been made or are expected very soon, ministry’s official website reports. Thus the total amount of investments almost twice exceeds the same period of the last year, ministry concludes.Armenia’s culture ministry
The 9th ReAnimania International Festival is being held in Yerevan. More than 2200 applications from 100 countries have been submitted for the 9th ReAnimania International Animation & Comics Art Festival of Yerevan. This year’s program features 5 nominations, including full-length films, short films, graduation, television, educational films and animated music videos. ReAnimania International Animation Film Festival of Yerevan was founded in 2008. The festival will last up to 3 November. Panorama.am
Azerbaijan
Culture and Creativity for Innovation and Growth Forum was held in Baku. The forum focused on developing cultural and creative industries in Azerbaijan. The event brought together good examples from the European Union as well as highlighted good practices and case studies from Azerbaijan. As it was organised by the EU-Eastern Partnership Culture and Creativity Programme, it also served as a platform to introduce key results of the entire Programme's period. Azertag
Programme’s website sums up Baku-hosted Culture and Creativity for Innovation and Growth Forum. EU-Eastern Partnership Culture and Creativity Programme summed up key messages on the ways of development of creative industries in Azerbaijan voiced by opinion leaders in creative sphere during the Culture and Creativity for Innovation and Growth Forum in Baku. The respective conclusions are available at Programme’s website. EU-
Baku hosted Euro Tolerance Festival. Euro Tolerance Festival, organized with the support of EU Delegation to Azerbaijan and embassies of other countries, was aimed at promoting the values of the intercultural dialogue and tolerance through different expressions of art, Azertag reports. The programme of the Festival tried to promote exchanges, debates, encounters between creative people from the EU and Azerbaijan.Azertag
Belarus
Belarus plans to return its abroad-based cultural heritage items. The respective action plan has been developed for 2017-2018 period, Belta reports. According to the plan, Belarus will ask external museums and other cultural institutions to submit cultural heritage items that directly relate to Belarus history with the view of displaying them on country’s territory on temporary basis. Belta
Belarus Culture Days will be held in Georgia on 15-18 November. As Belarus’ culture ministry reports, these Days will be held for the first time. The respective celebrations will feature screening of Belarus-made films, performance of country’s musicians and presentation of literature masterpieces, among others. Belarus’ culture ministry
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Moldova
Moldova-Ukraine culture co-operation programme 2017-2021 was signed. The respective programme was signed by Moldova’s and Ukraine’s culture ministers Monica Babuc and Yevhen Nyshchuk respectively. It presupposes exchanges in the sphere of creative industries development, co-operation to boost cinema production and development of audiovisual sectors of both countries. Point.md
Ukraine
Online source explores trends of funding cultural projects in Kyiv. In her article for Lb.ua online source, Anastasia Platonova digs into the specifics of financing of cultural activities in Kyiv outlining priority areas that receive the biggest amounts of funds. As EuroVision song contest took the lead in terms of financial injections, there are several projects that also got substantial financial assistance, such as Mystetskiy Arsenal, Ukrainian Book Institute, Kyiv Art Week, Face of Art festival, Gogolfest, Molodist, among others. As Kyiv City Council official in charge of cultural issues says, city’s annual budget on cultural activities varies from UAH 3 million to UAH 6 million; 2014, according to the official, was “unprecedented” in terms of levels of funding of cultural projects. In conclusion, Platonova names steps essential for cultural project or initiative to obtain public funds for its development. Lb.ua
