2024 – BSR Cultural Pearls

Agenda

Ewa — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 09:45:32 +0000

Explore the two-day programme of the Culture for Resilience Forum 2025, packed with engaging discussions, unique workshops, and important topics.

DAY 1 | 7 May 2024

09.00 – 09.30

Guided tour of Jakobstad/Pietarsaari (optional)

09.30 – 10.00

Registration

10.00 – 10.20

Opening of the Forum

10.20 – 10.50

Keynote by Stefanie Raab (coopolis)

10.50 – 11.20

Q&A with the project manager of the BSR Cultural Pearls project Felix Schartner Giertta

11.20 – 12.00

Showcase of the awarded Cultural Pearls 2024

12.00 – 13.15

Lunch

13.15 – 13.40

Introduction to workshop topics

13.40 – 14.40

Parallel workshops on the challenges of a multilingual city / knowledge transfer between generations / engaging youth in social communities / inclusive strategies for cultural work

14.40 – 15.10

Coffee break

15.10 – 16.10

Parallel workshops on the challenges of a multilingual city / knowledge transfer between generations / engaging youth in social communities / inclusive strategies for cultural work

16.15 – 16.45

16.45 – 17.15

17.15 – 17.35

19.15

Keynote by Ramon Marrades (Placemaking Europe)

Presentation of workshop results

Wrap-up of the day

Dinner at Pavis, Pavisvägen 2, 68600 Pietarsaari

DAY 2 | 8 May 2024

09.00 – 09.30

Warm-up activity and introduction to Day 2

09.30 – 10.00

Finding your strengths with others. Keynote by Jaakko Blomberg (Helsinki Urban Art)

10.00 – 10.40

Panel discussion: Ramon Marrades, Tiina Kasvi, Taiju Kiesilä, Bo-Anders Sandström

10.40 – 11.00

Wrap up of the Forum

11.00 – 11.45

Lunch

18.00

Awarding ceremony of Jakobstad – BSR Cultural Pearl 2024 followed by the Social event and workshop for the local community (in Finnish/Swedish)

Speakers

Ewa — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 10:17:39 +0000

The Culture for Resilience Forum 2024 will gather representatives from municipalities, regional, national, and local public authorities, cultural institutions, academics, professionals in the realms of culture and social resilience, and knowledge intermediaries from the Baltic Sea Region.

Get to know our speakers’ lineup.

Tiina-Katrina Kaber

EnterTrainer Tiina-Katrina Kaber works as a moderator at the Forum. She is fascinated with all things learning and growth related. Combining highly engaging teambuilding methods with concepts of change management and neuroscience in learning, she delivers events that engage, inspire and create a safe environment for learning. Running the show at EnterTraining and Catalyst Estonia, her main focus is on developing teams using the concept of entertraining: a combination of engagement, analysis and just the right amount of new info. Additionally, she often takes the stage at different events as a speaker, host and energizer, keeping boredom levels down and engagement levels up!

Jaakko Blomberg

Keynote on 8 May and workshop (Jakobstad) on 7 May

Jaakko Blomberg is an activist, producer, and executive director of the association Helsinki Urban Art. He specializes in co-creation, placemaking and urban art. For more than ten years he has been creating community-based events and art projects that use urban spaces in new ways, bring people together and simply make life more fun. These include, for example, a national flea market day, setting up a table for a thousand people to eat in the middle of a street, a day of open saunas and pop-up restaurants. He has also created the Pasila street art district in Helsinki and developed former industrial areas and other buildings for cultural use. He likes to think of the cities as playgrounds, full of resources that can be used to create something new and exciting.

www.jaakkoblomberg.fi

Stefanie Raab

Stefanie Raab is an architect, moderator, strollogist and the CEO of coopolis – a planning office for cooperative urban development. She has been supporting and advising the cultural and creative industries for over 20 years. She is the co-founder of the Kreativnetz Neukölln, Kreative Deutschland and the Berlin and nationwide funding network for cultural and creative industries. Stefanie is a supporting member of the Community Real Estate Network and the Future Places Network. Currently working as an advisor in ‘Creative support – compact help for solo self-employed people’ and as a project leader of the “Kiez academy” in Berlin Neukölln.

www.coopolis.de

Ramon Marrades

Ramon Marrades is an economist and urbanist with a passion for port cities, public spaces, culture, and innovation. He is currently Director at Placemaking Europe and strategy advisor to a number of cities and large-scale development projects. He holds a BA in Economics, an MSc in Economics and Geography, an Executive MSc in Cities and has been a researcher at different universities such as the Western Sydney University (Australia). He received the Spanish Social Entrepreneur Award in 2012 and co-authored four books and published more than a hundred columns on urban issues in some of the main Spanish newspapers. Ramon is co-editor of the book “Our City? Countering Exclusion in Public Space” (2019).

Monika Arczyńska

Monika Arczyńska is a co-founder of A2P2 – consulting and design company, providing services in participatory design of districts and public spaces in major Polish cities, masterplanning and consultancy in pre-planning stage of public buildings. She studied at Gdansk University of Technology and TU Delft. Her PhD thesis was focused on the relations between consumer society and sustainable housing. Adjunct professor at Gdansk University of Technology, she also lectures at postgraduate courses. In 2006-2017 she was employed with Heneghan Peng Architects and involved in designing public buildings (ie. Grand Egyptian Museum and Palestinian Museum awarded with Aga Khan Award). Contributor to a number of architectural magazines including Czech ‘INTRO’.

Łukasz Pancewicz

Łukasz Pancewicz is a co-founder of A2P2, member of TUP (Polish Urban Planners Association) and ISOCARP. Łukasz graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Gdansk University of Technology (MArch & PhD). He is an urban designer with experience in Poland, Ireland and USA and a consultant for a number of organizations including the World Bank and the National Intitute for Planning Policy and Housing. In 2013-2016 he was a Chief Planner at Municipal Planning Office of Lodz. He has been lecturing at University of Technology and Gdansk University since 2009. His professional and academic interests are public participation in planning and urban design. He collaborates with magazines such as ‘Architektura-Murator’, ‘Architektura i Biznes’ and ‘Autoportret’. In 2011-2012 he participated in mid-career development programme at MIT.

Agnieszka Wołodźko

Agnieszka Wołodźko is an artist, curator, and cultural researcher, President of the Foundation „Cultures Beyond Culture”. She writes text about contemporary art and culture such as “Encounters and Microutopias. Participatory art in Scandinavia in 1990-2010”. Furthermore she produces art in public space, engaged art, photography, installation, ceramics, sound works and actions, as well as implements workshops for various social groups.

Taiju Kiesilä

Taiju represents The City of Espoo Cultural Unit, Partnerships and Promoting Culture. City of Espoo works as the Chair of the UBC Cultural Cities Commission and City of Kaunas will continue working as the Vice Chair, for the years 2024-2025. The UBC Cultural Cities Commission (CCC) promotes and develops tools for the cultural field to enhance professionalism in the field. In addition, it creates strategic partnerships with central national and international bodies dealing with policy making in the cultural field and stimulates third parties to provide research on cultural issues that are important for the local level.

Tiina Kasvi

Tiina Kasvi is a Cultural Manager, representing the City of Espoo Cultural Unit, Partnerships and Promoting Culture.

Bo-Anders Sandström

Bo-Anders Sandström is the Deputy Rector of the Wava Institute, an art institute for children and young people, in Jakobstad/Pietarsaari which has now been merged with the city’s two liberal adult education institutions. In his role, he oversees various educational programs, including Basic Education in Art, primarily designed for children and young people, and Liberal adult education institutes such as adult education centres and folk high schools. He also has prior experience as a project manager for SKAPA in the Jakobstad region.

Practicalities

Ewa — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 15:33:17 +0000

Venue

Brankis (Old Fire Station)
Christinegatan 2,
68600 Jakobstad,
Finland

Travel to Jakobstad/Pietarsaari

From Helsinki by train:

Take a local train from Helsinki airport to Tikkurila and change to the train to Jakobstad-Pedersöre / Pietarsaari-Pedersöre. Intercity or Pendolino are the faster ones, it takes 3,5-4 hours. Tickets: www.vr.fi
A bus from the city center (ca 10 km).

Flight:

To Kokkola/Pietarsaari airport ( 30 km from the city). Transport from the airport will be arranged.
To Vaasa airport (100 km from Jakobstad/Pietarsaari). The transport from the airport will be arranged.

Hotels in Jakobstad

All the hotels are in the city center and near Brankis (Old Fire Station):

Jugend Boutique Hotel

89 € / night for a single room (9 rooms available)
120 € / night for a double room (9 rooms available)
More information: https://www.visitjugend.fi/boutique-hotel

Jugend Guest House

65 € / night for a single room, shared bathroom (3 rooms available)
85 € / night for a double room, shared bathroom (5 rooms available)
More information: https://www.visitjugend.fi/guest-house

Stadshotellet – Hotel

119 € / night for a single room (23 rooms available)
134 € / night for a double room (19 rooms available)
More information: https://www.stadshotellet.fi/en/hotel

Comfort Guesthouse

75 € / night for a single room (12 rooms available)
95 € / night for a double room (16 rooms available)
More information: https://www.stadshotellet.fi/comfort/home

About the Forum

Ewa — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:04:33 +0000

SAVE THE DATE! The Culture for Resilience Forum 2025 will take place from 25 to 27 November in Varde, Denmark.

BSR Cultural Pearls Forum 2024: The Transformative Power of Culture in Enhancing Social Resilience and Building Stronger Communities

Culture has the power to strengthen our communities and increase our social resilience. The Culture for Resilience Forum 2024, an event focusing on the role of culture in societal resilience and community strengthening, is set to take place in Jakobstad/Pietarsaari, Finland on 7-8 May 2024. The Forum is organised by the BSR Cultural Pearls project, co-funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region programme.

Registration is closed!

Why attend

The medium-sized cities and towns in the Baltic Sea Region face a range of shared challenges such as declining populations, an ageing society, community isolation, security threats, economic downturns, and climate change. Culture and creative industries (CCI) have the potential to address these problems by consolidating and empowering communities, thereby building their social resilience.

The forum offers an unparalleled platform for exploring the link between culture and social resilience in these times of change and uncertainty, underscoring the need to strengthen our communities. It notably provides insights into the role of culture in bolstering community strength and resilience to various challenges. Additionally, the forum examines the strategic roles of culture in place-making. It presents a unique opportunity to engage with key cultural, academic, and political figures, and to be part of a transformative dialogue on culture-driven social resilience.

Who should attend

In the Culture for Resilience Forum 2024 municipality representatives from the Baltic Sea Region will have the opportunity to connect internationally to other cities and towns facing the same problems and learn from their experiences overcoming the challenges of the day. Likewise, professionals from the culture and creative industries (CCI) will have the opportunity to network internationally and build contacts with municipalities.

In addition to the project partners, representatives of the cities awarded the title BSR Cultural Pearls 2024 as well as non selected candidate municipalities, regional, national, and local public authorities, cultural institutions, academics, and knowledge intermediaries from the Baltic Sea Region and beyond are invited to attend. The forum is especially relevant for professionals connected to culture and social resilience in a municipal setting.

Registration

Registration was closed on 15 April 2024.

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