2024
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.
Activities & Events
Culture for Resilience Forum 2024: Fostering Community Strength Through Cultural Collaboration
Registration is now open for the Culture for Resilience Forum 2024 in Jakobstad, Finland on 7-8 May 2024, which will focus on the role of culture in enhancing societal resilience and community strength. Pre-registration is now open. The Culture for Resilience Forum 2024, an event which will focus on the role of culture in societal resilience and community strengthening, is set to take place in Jakobstad, Finland on 7-8 May 2024. Pre-registration is now open. This forum, organised by the BSR Cultural Pearls project and co-funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region programme, represents a significant initiative in exploring the transformative power of…
Culture for Resilience Forum 2024 will focus on participation and crowdsourcing of ideas
The programme of the Culture for Resilience Forum 2024 on 7-8 May in Jakobstad/Pietarsaari, Finland, is being finalized. The forum will offer a mix of keynote speakers, discussions, and mini hackathons with a strong emphasis on participation and crowdsourcing of ideas. Registration deadline for the forum is 15 April. The Culture for Resilience Forum 2024, an event dedicated to exploring the role of culture in societal resilience and community strengthening, will focus on finding creative solutions to challenges that small and medium size cities are facing nowadays. How to consolidate different ethnic and language communities? How to transfer knowledge between generations?…
Culture for Resilience Forum sparks new ideas and builds connections
More than 100 municipality and NGO representatives, as well as other actors from the Baltic Sea region, gathered in the hospitable town Jakobstad/Pietarsaari on 7-8 May for the first Culture for Resilience Forum to discuss how engaging in cultural activities can strengthen communities and make them more resilient to external shocks. “Resilience is not only about defense and crisis preparedness. It also means the social connections, trusting your institutions, it might be democratic participation, having an engaged local public that makes your society more resilient. Cities have a role to play in creating the conditions for communities to feel a…
BSR Cultural Pearls 2024 Awarding ceremony in Jakobstad/Pietarsaari
On 8 May, right after the first “Culture for Resilience Forum”, the BSR Cultural Pearls 2024 awarding ceremony took take place in Jakobstad/Pietarsaari, Finland to celebrate the moment together with the locals, project partners and forum guests. Felix Schartner Giertta, BSR Cultural Pearls project coordinator representing lead partner Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat in his speech stated the importance of strengthening the social resilience in the region, why culture can play crucial role in doing that and what role the BSR Cultural Pearls project plays in trying to tackle the challenge. When handing over the award to the…
