It promises to be an exciting year. With the 2024 election in sight, lively discussions about the themes, for which we as a society bear collective responsibility, await us in the coming months: welcoming of migrants, high quality and inclusive education, health care, the much-needed redistribution of wealth, agreements around the future of our planet……
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IF YOU’RE COLD, LET’S STICK TOGETHER THIS WEEKEND
This weekend we finalize our SOTA residency in Monty in a chatty and celebrative mood. Come end the year with more ideas, tools and engagements for a fair (art) world! And if you can’t, do us a favour at the end of this newsletter. 1. Join us for Samenspraak! 16, 17 and 18 December in…
SOTA stops. Be present!
With Samenspraak the residency of SOTA at Monty stops. For one year, we had one long dialogue about art and society and fair practice next level. Now we share the fruits of it. Would you like to get a taste of it? SOTA doesn’t stop at all. We already share the most vibrant ideas from…
HOW TO SPEAK WITH ONE VOICE WHEN YOU ARE MANY?
The voice of polyphony: OPEN MEETING 25/10 between 18u & 21u Policymakers like the arts sector to speak with one voice to give advice. But how do you do that, be multi-voiced and still make clear proposals? State Of The Arts and Monty invite an open conversation about the need for new forms of shared…
SOTA brings us together again in June, be there
We know you’re exhausted after a long and weird season in overdrive. But the only thing that helps is to unite for extra energy. Here are three appointments in June for our future. All of ours. SAMENSPRAAK: How to dialogue with a polarizing society? In exactly two years, Flanders will have elections again. Are you…
Open Meeting 10 May: art landscape or Swiss cheese?
Hello, hello! SOTA is going fast. Sometimes we can’t follow ourselves. But we think it’s vital to bring cultural workers together around the topics that matter. So next Tuesday, you’re welcome in Monty at 4pm to join us after work and reflect together on the future of the arts landscape after this risky subsidy round,…
Landscape Care? A field interview
SOTA Open Meeting #05 in collaboration with Monty Tuesday 10 May, 16h-18h30 / door opening 15h30Montignystraat 3, 2018 Antwerp Where should it go with our arts field? The new Arts Decree promised care for the landscape. With fair and honest opportunities for those who want to put down roots here. In order to create a…
HOW TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN ART SCHOOL AND ART FIELD?
An energizing brainstorm session on solutions For many art students, graduating is jumping and falling at the same time. It feels like taking a step into an empty space – you can even call it ‘the gap’. How to build a network, make yourself visible, sustain your practice, create an income, find and afford a…
Second open editorial meeting for the FAIR ARTS ALMANAC 2022/23
SOTA is organizing a second collective editorial gathering for the upcoming printed version of the FAIR ARTS ALMANAC. Everyone is invited to come and contribute to the editing process. Where and when? Monty, Montignystraat 3, 2018 Antwerp Friday, the 1st of April, from 16h to 20h Saturday, the 2nd of April from 10h to 19h…
FAIR ARTS ALMANAC 2022/23!
SOTA’s FAIR ARTS ALMANAC features a chorus of different contributions by artists, art workers, organizations, activists, audience members or whoever is concerned about fair practices in the arts. In 2019 SOTA published a first almanac. In 2022 we seek to think together in the face of new challenges: austerity, climate change, pandemics, war, migrations, precarity, burnouts, etc……