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…
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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……
SOTA OPEN MEETING #2
Tuesday 15/2: online Open SOTA-Meeting about your career, be welcome! Dear artist, cultural worker, other soul, Is it still possible to develop a sustainable practice as an artist? Inspired by your input in our previous Open Meeting of 17 Jan (report here), next Tuesday we will dig deeper in this burning question, with a decision…
FOUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
A big bang, a new beginning… We were catapulted into the new year with a hefty lurch. And State of the Arts is determined to spin this year more in a direction of our own making. After two years of having our agenda dominated by others – be they mutating viruses or stubborn politicians –…
INVITATION: SOTA OPEN MEETING #01 “Setting The Agenda”
SOTA OPEN MEETING #01: Setting The Agenda What common (political) agenda could/should we as a community of artists and cultural workers defend together this year? Zoom in with us on Monday 17 Januari (19u-21u)! ZOOMLINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84104167386?pwd=R1V0cWtXSmUzQkJIRFo3eW1hRzJVdz09 Meeting ID: 841 0416 7386 Passcode: 084696 Many of us were present on that last Sunday of…
CALL TO ACTION: #Greenlightforculture: see you tomorrow at Kunstberg, 14h!
Dear souls for culture and events, Not amused with the government’s Christmas present: culture canceled for weeks again? While we can offer people their last bit of imagination and pleasure in perfect safety? And so many other necessary jobs and sectors suffer from this random covid-policy as well? Let’s raise our voice: #Greenlightforculture, Sunday 26/12,…