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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…

Rūjiena – BSR Cultural Pearl 2024, has started the implementation of its Culture and Resilience action plan. The first event engaging local community – a clean-up day, took place

On Saturday, 27 April 2024, the first event from the Rūjiena’s Culture and Resilience action plan took place – a clean-up day to start working on the revitalization on the courtyard based in 8 Rīga Street, with the plan to develop it into a new meeting place for the community. There is a plan together…

Cultural Pearls mentor’s training in Copenhagen

Mentors – trained partners of the BSR Cultural Pearls project – play a crucial role in encouraging, supporting and inspiring our Pearls, both during the application stage and throughout their title year. Mentors guide applicant cities through the development of their Culture and Resilience Action Plans and support awarded Pearl cities during the realization of…

Webinar “Role of artists-activists in building social resilience through participatory methods”

On 9 April, 9.00 – 11.00cet representatives of municipalities, professionals from the culture and creative sector, NGO’s, researchers, and others are welcome to join the first public webinar of the BSR Cultural Pearls project. Later in the year two more public webinars will take place – on 21 August on the topic of Resilience and…

The application for BSR Cultural Pearls 2025 title is open

The Baltic Sea Region Cultural Pearls is opening its second call for applications, starting the search for the cities to be awarded the Cultural Pearls 2025 title. BSR Cultural Pearls is co-financed by Interreg Baltic Sea Region. BSR Cultural Pearls is a title for smaller towns, cities and municipalities that provides awarded candidates a programme…

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…

First Cultural Pearls 2024 award ceremony taking place in Kiel

On Friday, 1 March, the BSR Cultural Pearls 2024 local award ceremony will take place in Kiel to create momentum in the community and highlight culture-driven activities that the city will carry out in the title year to engage citizens, foster a sense of belonging and trust, and thereby fortifying community strength and social resilience. …

Three Reasons Why Creatives Should Tune into BSR Cultural Pearls

On February 21st, the project partner Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture (the NDPC) presented the network of the BSR Cultural Pearls with the freshly created innovation seed money initiative collaboration toolkit.Additionally, as one of the ambassadors for the creative and cultural sectors (CCS) within the project, the NDPC has compiled three core reasons why you…

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…