25 May, 2024 Last weekend, May 25, a bright, loud and generations unifying event took place in Rūjiena – the Ice Cream Festival and Rūjiena’s name day celebrations. During the celebration, in the presence of residents of Rūjiena and guests from far and near, the city was awarded the title “BSR Cultural Pearl 2024”. The…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
On 1 March, the city of Kiel in Germany was the first of the four “BSR Cultural Pearl 2024” (Jakobstad/Pietarsaari – FIN; Svendborg – DEN, Rujiena – LAT) to be officially awarded its title. The local ceremony coincided with and thereby posed the opening to Kiel’s first event as Cultural Pearl, a barcamp titled ‘Kieler…
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. …
PROJECT LEAD PARTNER:
Council of the Baltic Sea States Secretariat Felix Schartner Giertta, Project Coordinator+ 46 73 026 73 12
felix.schartner.giertta@cbss.org
