After more than eight years at kubia, Annette Ziegert left our team at the end of September this year. She was instrumental in establishing and conceptualising the area of inclusion and accessibility in cultural work at kubia and developed and implemented a large number of well thought-out and highly successful advisory and training formats for cultural professionals in NRW. She also launched the series “Von Kunst aus” and “Basiswissen Barrierefreiheit” and organised the major international ALL IN conference several times together with Un-Label. We will miss her clever mind and critical eye, her good ideas and her great care and precision. As co-director of the Bonn VIDEONNALE 20 and freelance consultant, she will remain part of the cultural scene in NRW.
Her duties will be taken over from 1 October 2024 by Christoph Brammertz, who has been working at kubia as a communications and public relations officer since the beginning of 2022. He was responsible for setting up the new accessible kubia website. With his knowledge of inclusive communication and mediation, he will be working in tandem with Isabell Rosenberg to further develop our offering on the topic of disability.
The European network for cultural participation Amateo 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 application deadline is 1 July 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".