Here’s Why You Should Attend Malta’s State Of The Arts Symposium
If you appreciate Maltese culture and creativity and are keen to see it flourish, Arts Council Malta are offering you an easy and enjoyable way for you – whether you’re a script-writer or a ceramicist, a cultural anthropologist, a choreographer or in any other creative role – to take an active part in shaping our valuable cultural and creative sectors strategically.
Are you interested in reimagining ways of doing and being, for example using the arts innovatively or developing a new venue or education programme to enhance people’s quality of life or empower communities locally and further afield?
Artists, creative practitioners educators and even the dreamers amongst you, are all invited to come along to Arts Council Malta’s third edition of the State of the Arts National Symposium on 24th and 25th October.
This year’s programme is underpinned by a theme of ‘Renewing Common Pathways’ to explore the making and organising of creative and cultural processes, and the way they impact upon and inspire our creativity. Discussions will, for example, consider how our actions and thinking can engender structural changes and how, in turn, structural changes could then impact our individual realities? It’s certainly a captivating proposition.
At the symposium, Arts Council Malta are delighted to be presenting an exciting mix of local and international speakers, artists and other creatives, all well-engaged and connected within their respective fields. They will offer suggestions on diverse arts practices and interventions, provoke new thinking and invite us to, together, update the current sector for a brighter future.
The event is embracing the mantra ‘less is more’ in response to the preferences of attendees: because time is precious, the solution-oriented sessions will take place over one morning and one afternoon, with a particular emphasis on quality. There will be presentations and panel discussions, themed forums, hands-on workshops and networking opportunities and where sessions run in parallel, simply choose your preferred option from a selection of four different options each day.
Putting equity over hierarchy at the heart of the symposium’s ethos, the focus on the individual and the small details that affect the practice and delivery of arts today (with a horizontal and bottom-up methodology), enables everyone to contribute equally to an engaging discussion of Arts Council Malta’s future choices and decisions. The outcomes of the Symposium will then inform Arts Council Malta’s future strategy – Strategy 2030.
Excitingly, the symposium will also include the launch of the National Charter of the Status of the Artist, a dynamic frame of reference for legislation, policies, and initiatives which will impact upon the cultural and creative sector, whether directly and indirectly, to promote and elevate the status of artists in Malta and highlight the value of the arts for all.
Looking beyond the arts, the event will also balance the human and societal elements of the arts and culture sector with those of the wider world, promoting an ethics of care for the wellbeing of participants, the Maltese population, the local environment and the world well beyond our shores.
To share your ideas and dreams from the micro to the macro to make a difference to life here in Malta and further afield, book your place now.
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