The European Network for Active Participation in Cultural Activities Amateo, of which kubia is a member, has announced the Amateo Award 2024. Whether dance, music, theatre, street art or another cultural field: all participatory art projects by amateur groups from all over Europe are invited to take part.
The Amateo Award 2024 offers projects and groups the opportunity to present themselves to an international audience and to make connections with participants, policy makers and funders from across Europe. The winners will win a trip to the Amateo Conference in Prague in November 2024.
The Amateo Award celebrates people’s creativity and showcases the diverse expressions of participatory arts across Europe. The aim is to highlight the potential and impact of participatory arts and cultural engagement for a democratic, diverse and inclusive Europe.
Awards are given to organisations, projects or initiatives in all forms of art and culture that have a strong, positive and lasting impact on their community and inspire others to try something new. This year, we are particularly looking for projects that focus on the following topics
The activities may be either new and innovative or longer lasting approaches which have stood the test of time and are sustainable. The application deadline is 1 July 2024.
After more than eight years at kubia, Annette Ziegert left our team at the end of September this year. Christoph Brammertz, who has been working at kubia as Public Relations Officer since the beginning of 2022, will take over her duties from 1 October 2024.
From 2021 till 2023, kubia was a transnational partner of the German-Polish EU project. As part of the project, Annalena Knors (Corporate Inclusion) and Lisette Reuter (Un-Label), led by kubia staff member Annette Ziegert, developed a procedural model for accessibility at publicly funded cultural institutions in Poland, the publication was published in 2024. In September 2023, the team travelled to Warsaw for final talks.
The new website focuses on kubia's core tasks with a modernised design as well as page and menu structure. The accessibility of the website was a central concern during the relaunch.
In the Argentinian online magazine "Meridional", kubia staff member Dr. Miriam Haller writes about her literary-geragogical exchange with the Argentinian professor of Latin American literature at the University of Neuquén Dr. Laura Pollastri about the project "Narrating Grandparents".