Magic Carpets Platform

Magic Carpets Platform is rated 3 out of 5 in the category arts and crafts. Read and write reviews about Magic Carpets Platform. From August 2017, Kaunas Biennial is leading a 4 year-long Creative Europe platform titled “Magic Carpets” which involves 15 cultural organizations from EU and candidate countries. Together with EVA International (Ireland), Folkestone Fringe (United Kingdom), Ideias Emergentes - Imerge (Portugal), LAB 852 (Croatia), Latitudo S.r.l. (Italy), META Cultural Foundation (Romania), New Theatre Institute of Latvia (Latvia), Novo Kulturno Naselje (Serbia), Prague Biennale (Czech Republic), Tbilisi Photo festival (Georgia), KUNSTrePUBLIK e. V. / ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Germany), Openspace. Innsbruck (Austria), Trempolino (France) and Jam Factory Art Center (Ukraine) we will create the platform for emerging artists to start their magical journey, collect local stories and carry them across Europe. OBJECTIVES AND PRIORITIES – to enlarge a mutual understanding between local population and ‘strangers’ (‘others’) through innovative ways of story-telling and co-creation; – to boost the skills of emerging artists to work ‘outside the institution’ and research deeper into the sociocultural context of the host city or ‘unknown land’; – to increase the visibility of emerging talents through transnational mobility of artists and artworks and through the broad visibility of partners’ international profile; – to trigger intercultural and interfaith dialogue, and facilitate the integration of displaced people and refugees; – to develop new and deepen existing contacts with various audiences and target groups in many European cities and countries through inclusive cultural programme and extensive use of information, communication, digital technologies, and innovative approaches; – to ensure the visibility of European values and different cultures; – to guarantee the European quality of the project and the legacy of the partnership as well as the branding strategy beyond the project period. The platform is co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.