Short and long-term solutions

The organisation is therefore trying to find a solution through a variety of means:

• contacting international literary and cultural advocacy organisations,
• approaching private sponsors to build a stable and growing sponsorship
• negotiating the expansion and continuation of ongoing national and international projects.

In addition to this, a fundraising campaign through community funding is necessary to ensure a stable operation.

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The Society was established in 1997 to promote contemporary literature and democratic cultural policies. Its almost 400 members include some of the internationally most acclaimed Hungarian writers as well as cultural journalists and cultural managers from across Hungary, and also writers and critics of the Hungarian minorities and diasporas, along with international translators and scholars of Hungarian literature.

eyal hareuveni, 8 december 2022, salt peanuts

true to the spirit of free improvisation, as well as the meeting of the alliance of the european academies, music aoa impro group builds bridges between seemingly distant musical heritages and legacies, beyond national and geographical borders, and seeks solidarity and collective creativity. 

manthos giourtzoglou, 21 january 2023, keepjazzin.gr

προκειται για ενα φουλ free impro liveτο οποίο αναμφίβολα έχει πολλή ενέργεια και απευθύνεται κατευθείαν “στην καρδιά” των φίλων του είδους. το σοπράνο σαξόφωνο και το μπασο κλαρινέτο του φλώρου φλωρίδη συνδιαλέγονται ρμονικά και “παιχνιδιάρικα” με το κόρνο της ελενας κακαλιάγκου, στο “ελληνικό” ντουο πνευστών αυτής της πενταεθνούς μπάντας, με τα σχεδόν απόκοσμα φωνητικά της almut kuhne να ταράζουν τα “νερά” της ακρόασης και το δίδυμο του ιταλού κοντραμπασίστα και του νορβηγού ντράμερ να γεμίζουν με το μεστό τους παίξιμο το άκουσμα.

this is a full free impro live which undoubtedly has a lot of energy and is addressed directly „to the heart“ of the fans of the genre. the soprano saxophone and bass clarinet of Floros Floridis interact harmoniously and playfully with the horn of Elena Kakaliagou, in the „Greek“ wind duo of this five-year-old band, with the almost eerie vocals of Almut Kühne stirring up the „waters“ of the listening and the duo of the Italian double bassist and the Norwegian drummer filling the listening with their hearty playing.

jean-michel van schouwburg, march 2023, orynx

une musique aérienne et jouée / exécutée lentement et toute en finesse. un groupe à l’instrumentation rare : la voix humaine d’almut kühne, le french horn d’elena kakaliagou, la contrebasse d’antonio borghini, la batterie de dag magnus narvesen et le sax soprano et la clarinette basse de floros floridis. pivotant autour ou par-dessus la contrebasse puissante et discrète d’antonio borghini, la voix pure et magnifique d’almut kühne étire patiemment des vocalises d’une exquise finesse avec autant de précision que de pureté. la voix idéale pour une expression contemporaine épurée, retenue et exprimant l’essentiel. filet de voix aigu vif argent, ses capacités de chanteuse lui permettent d’incarner bien des émotions et de revêtir une multiplicité de rôles avec une technique sans faille et une sûreté impressionnante. le moindre son de sa voix suggère la vocalité, un substrat mélodique, une inflexion musicale magique. et lorsque le besoin se fait sentir elle peut « déraper » outre mesure par des excès expressifs.

rigobert dittmann, nov / dec 2022, bad alchemy 117

was für ein bunter haufen. so unsäglich kann berlin gar nicht sein, wenn man sieht, wer sich alles dort sucht und findet: eine deutsche vokalistin, der man an der seite von gebhard ullmann oder joke lanz begegnen konnte, eine griechische hornistin mit anschluss an zeitkratzer, ein kontrabassist aus mailand im hoch mit tristan honsinger und die hochstapler, ein norwegischer drummer mit knowhow durch aki takase japanic oder das bauer/bauer/narvesen trio, und mit dem sopranosaxer & bassklarinettisten aus thessaloniki ein pionier des nowjazz in hellas. er gibt gleich tirilierend das türöffnende a, das waldhorn schließt sich als tutender schatten an und übernimmt mit sonorem o die nächsten schritte in katakomben, in denen kühne magische formeln anstimmt zu dunklen bogenstrichen, dunkler bassklarinette und flackerndem getrommel. der helldunkle sing- sang in zunehmend glossolalem delirium umfasst durch zickige spitzen mehrere oktaven, die griechischen orakler kauen und schmauchen am tiefen ende mit. in den hades, ad fontes, das horn und kühne als gurrende seelenführerin besänftigen kerberos? so wie sie ihn zudem mit puckischen lauten verwirrt, so versenkt sie alles und alle in oberons gefilde. ploppende, windig blasende, plonkende und bassklarinettendunkle töne weben traumstoff, der bass rumort und schnarrt, kühne keckert und keucht kehllaute zu per- kussivem geflicker, die bassklarinette heult. zum tutenden horn, sprudeliger klarinette und strammem pizzikato beginnt kühne nochmal überkandidelt zu scatten, halb schon jenseits vom hohen c, doch halb auch noch als rauhkehlchen. viel vogeliger geht es kaum.

The European Alliance of Academies condemns the Russian war of aggression since its outbreak one year ago, and declares its ongoing solidarity with the people of Ukraine. 

The National Academy of Arts of Ukraine is the newest member of the European Alliance of Academies. You can find the profile of the Academy here.

The transnational alliance wants to provide support for artists, journalists, cultural institutions and people working in the cultural sector. From within our 70 partner institutions across Europe, we collect and share information that can be helpful within the current situation.

If you can provide further information or offers please contact us:

allianceofacademies@adk.de
T +49(0)30 200 57-15 46

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The University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria offers support and help here

The Czech Literary Centre offers residencies for translators of Czech, foreign Czech studies specialists, and Ukrainian writers/translators.

The Arts and Theatre Institute in Prague organizes Czech language courses for Ukrainian students of art colleges. turned the entire residency program into residencies for Ukrainian artists and set up a special website where jobs and other offers are available and Ukrainian artists and other cultural workers can post their needs. https://www.culturenet.cz/

The Akademie der Künste offers a collection of support inititiatives for artists and cultural actors in Ukraine 

Furthermore, the Akademie der Künste actively supported the Network for Protection of Cultural Assets in Ukraine https://www.dug-ww.com/Kulturgutschutz_Ukraine

The University of Arts in Berlin has created an overview of several programmes and initatives to provide support, help and solidary for Ukraine.

The Technische Universität in Berlin offers help and support via their Academic Advising Service.

The Freie Akademie der Künste in Hamburg organized the installation Die Tafel 2 of Ukrainian artist Maria Kulikovska in order to support her and her family. The artist will be present on March 7.

The Akademie van Kunsten runs a series of artists meetings to discuss „Art in Times of War“

The Committee of Architecture and Town Planning of the Polish Academy of Sciences informs that each student of architecture from any Ukrainian school of architecture could apply for enrolment in one of the Architecture Departments at Universities of Technology in 9 locations: Warsaw, Gdańsk, Wrocław, Cracow, Gliwice, Szczecin, Łódź, Białystok, Poznań. www.kaiu.pan.pl/en/

Art Newspaper has published a list of 10 organisations and initiatives in Europe, that provides supports. It gives information concerning funding, shelter and emergency resources for artists affected by war in Ukraine.

Filmmakers for Ukraine is a contact point for filmmakers and their families from the Ukraine. The website collects and publishes information throughout Europe: www.filmmakers-for-ukraine.com

The UKRAINE Funding Line by the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung will offer support by covering staff costs in public museums and collections that employ either refugee scholars from Ukraine or Russian scholars who were forced to leave Russia due to their opposition to war in Ukraine.

ELIA is a globally connected European network that provides a dynamic platform for professional exchange and development in higher arts education. They offer a list of initiatives throughout Europe.

The European Cultural Foundation offers the Culture of Solidarity Fund- Ukraine special edition. The fund is now open to individuals, collectives and organisations from all sectors and civil society at large that propose short-term or mid-term European cultural initiatives.

The Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk hosted around 23 students from several Ukrainian Academies (art schools from Lviv, Kiev and Kharkiv) and provided them the opportunity to work in their studios with housing, clothes, food and pocket money.

The weissensee school of art and design berlin is offering refugees from Ukraine: its Foundation Class 2022/23, a programme designed to help people who are fleeing from conflict prepare for their studies, guest studentships for refugees that are free of charge and the oportunity to embark on a regular programme of study via the admission exams, or to start in Berlin in a higher semester having started to study at a university at home, or – for students with a bachelor’s degree – the opportunity to progress to an MA course via the master’s admission procedures. Contact: Susann Lipp at studienberatung@kh-berlin.de

Support for cultural institutions

In order to protect cultural heritage from Ukrainian libraries, museums and archives and to digitally save it Sebastian Majstorovic calls via Twitter to collect digital collections from the Ukraine in order to secure these digitally. These institution have been reported so far. Further institutions and their online collections can be reported here.

Writer Czinki Ferenc, president of Szépírók Társasága, one of the founding members of the European Alliance of Academies describes in his article for Kulturaustausch Magazine the difficulties of independent teaching and art in Hungary (in German language).

GOVERN YOURSELF ACCORDINGLY
by María José Crespo

María José Crespo’s video work Govern Yourself Accordingly is one of the ten selected positions that are published on the platform LOOM Interweaving the Arts in Europe. She reveals the interplay of the administrative, geographical, and psychological effects of the border wall between the USA and Mexico.

Read the full article here.

HOW DOES POLITICAL RADICALISATION THREATEN ARTISTIC FREEDOM IN EUROPE?
by Aleš Šteger

In his text “How Does Political Radicalization Threaten Artistic Freedom in Europe?”, writer Aleš Šteger explains the complex political, economic, and social conditions that are needed to safeguard freedom of the arts.

Read the full article here.

The European Alliance of Academies launches LOOM – Interweaving the Arts in Europe, a digital platform for transnational projects and artistic cooperation among the institutions and artists of the network, providing possible answers to current social and cultural questions.

LOOM is a digital space for the cause of freedom in the arts – a space in which artistic positions are juxtaposed with current political challenges. It aims at creating a digital territory that transcends the local reach of artists and institutions and “weaves” artistic practices in Europe, across borders, into a colourful tapestry. 

In 2021 – in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic – the European Alliance of Academies developed its first call for projects based on the topic of biopolitics: Ignorance is Strength? Artistic Expression and Biopower in the (Post)Pandemic Age. Digital residencies provided artists who are associated by the institutions of the European Alliance of Academies with the space to reflect on their own practices in the aftermath of the pandemic and in the context of current social and political changes.

The first twelve virtual residents were announced in January 2022 and today with the launch of LOOM – Interweaving the Arts in Europe we proudly present:

Iulian Bisericaru, I prefer the old Green
Larisa Crunțeanu, 12 Years
Cássio Diniz Santiago, Synthax of Care
María José Crespo, Govern yourself accordingly
Luïza Luz, Privilege of Dreaming
Rebecca Merlic, Željko Beljan, Truth Is a Forgotten Memory
Karina Pino Gallardo, Ricardo Sarmiento Ramírez, Mund auf
Dimitrina Popova, The five Houses
Jovana Popić, Controlling Future: Technologies of Resistance
Anahita Razmi, Generics

The international jury was composed of Liesbeth Bik (artist, chair of the Akademie van Kunsten KNAW), Arnold Dreyblatt (artist, composer, musician, member of Akademie der Künste), Kristoffer Gansing (director of the International Center for Knowledge in the Arts – The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts), Anca Poterasu (director of the Romanian Association for Contemporary Art), Cristina Stonescu (curator of the Romanian Association for Contemporary Art), Josip Zanki (artist, vice president of the Croation Association of Fine Artists) and Siegfried Zielinski (media theorist, member of the Akademie der Künste). We would like to express our deep gratitude for this new opportunity for cooperation.

The artists will have the possibility to present their projects at the next conference of the European Alliance of Academies, entitled „Freedom of Art in Times of War“, taking place 15-16 December 2022 at Akademie der Künste, Berlin.

The summer is over and the European Alliance of Academies is starting into autumn 2022 with many projects. In the coming weeks, we would like to introduce you to the people and institutions that are driving our Alliance forward with their ideas and visions. At the last meeting at Akademie van Kunsten in Amsterdam, we asked what the Alliance means to its members – here are the answers. Please subscribe to our Social Media Channels on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to get more updates!