The new website focuses on the four core tasks of kubia – advice, funding, continuing education and knowledge transfer – with a modernised design and page and menu structure. Making the website as barrier-free as possible was a central concern in the relaunch.
For all events offered by kubia, it is now clear at a glance whether sign language interpretation, wheelchair access or other support measures are available. These can be requested when registering for the event. The new website also contains in the section “Knowledge” a variety of expert articles and interviews that can be read online.
After the launch of the website, work on it will continue: for example, further specialist content will be added on an ongoing basis and, in future, all funded projects will also be presented and documented online.
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.
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.
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".