Culture Forum to discuss profiling

Monday, 09 November 2009 13:25

The Nordic Council of Ministers' "Nordic Cultural Forum" dialogue tool will be put to good use again in November, when the focus will be on the profiling and presentation of Nordic art and culture.

The Forum will be held outside the Region in this time, in Berlin, the city that really sparked off the whole process of European integration and broke down all sorts of barriers - both geographical and psychological – two decades ago.

The Forum is part of the debate about the role of the Nordic Region in a globalised world and about how culture and the arts are important and identity-building elements in international partnerships and exchange programmes. The Nordic countries all have national agendas for branding their images and identities. However, in parallel with those national efforts, work is also done under Nordic auspices to profile culture and art from the Region and show off the Nordic countries as a region with a diverse, innovative and creative cultural scene.

A lot of people have an interest in culture and the arts - ranging from the individual artist to the politicians involved in cultural policy. Culture Forum in Berlin will bring together representatives of the whole "food chain". All of them play different roles: profiling, launching, presenting, branding, publicising, exporting, competing with and evaluating the impact of Nordic art and culture. You can only work together if you talk together, so the Forum will focus on dialogue and discussion, exchanges of experiences and opinions about what we can do together in the Nordic countries.

The forum will start with a conversation about identity between two experts in the history of ideas. The programme also includes talks by international experts who have worked on branding and presentations as well as interesting examples of national and Nordic initiatives.

The Culture Forum will be held 23-24 November in the Nordic embassy complex in Berlin.

Nordic Culture Point is organising the forum on behalf of the Nordic Council of Ministers and in collaboration with the Rösshka Museum in Gothenburg, Sweden and the Nordic embassies in Berlin.

The latest news about the forum in Berlin will be published on www.kulturkontaktnord.org.

You can also watch live streaming from the Culture Forum through the same page.