Take To The National Stage: Call For Creative Practitioners At Arts Council Malta Symposium
Every two years Arts Council Malta hosts an autumn symposium and you are invited to make a contribution.
If you’re an artist, a cultural practitioner a curator or a multidisciplinary artist or in a creative or management role in music, theatre, dance or drama, then get in touch right away, to share your wisdom and insights on the national stage later this year.
It’s an opportunity to have your say on the arts and culture sector in Malta today, to help reshape and reinvigorate Malta’s cultural landscape and to influence the Art Council Malta’s future strategy, structure and funding provision for the future. You are being asked to contribute thoughts and opinions, both individually and collectively and to look beyond art itself to consider Malta’s values, art spaces and socioeconomic elements too.
The 3rd edition of Arts Council Malta’s State of the Arts National Symposium is taking place on 24th and 25th October and they are building the programme right now!
The theme of this year’s symposium is Renewing Common Pathways. This turns the spotlight on the making and organising of creative and cultural processes and the way they impact upon and inspire our creativity.
Discussions will centre around the questions of how we can change ourselves as individuals to upgrade the wider system? And how, then, would this reimagined system in turn transform our individual realities?
Recognising that the role of our interdependence on one another and the world around us is key to the creative process, Arts Council Malta is asking you to contribute your thoughts on these ‘commons’ – or the tangible and intangible assets and natural, cultural and social resources that belong to and affect the whole of our nation and communities.
Art and culture can provide tools to help everyone understand and engage with these commons, from security and justice to community gardens, the sea and the planet, from our local language, shared knowledge and open-source software to popular culture, artistic movements and public art. A creative focus on the commons quietly shaping our lives in our Maltese neighbourhoods, in Mediterranean cities and in the wider European and international context will encourage people to connect and share ideas and dreams, in times of peace and conflict, and to work towards a better world.
Be a contributor, offer your expertise, engage with and inspire like-minded creatives and help Arts Council Malta look to a fresh future:
How, for example, do you think art and culture keep the commons alive and how can the commons sustain a diverse range of art and cultural practices and educational opportunities and encourage engagement from wider audiences?
Do you have a particular suggestion how ‘commoning’ processes can challenge current art funding structures, sustain the working conditions of creatives with different needs and experiences or encourage the development of better infrastructure for creative organisations?
And one thing’s for certain: this solutions-orientated symposium promises an exciting transformational conversation on cultural exchange and community growth on both micro- and macro- levels.
Visit artscouncil.mt to apply for the call for contributions! Call closes on the 22nd July.
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