About Us
Our Aims
With the project "European Accents in Perm" we aim to develop a network of Russian and European artists, cultural institutions and administrations. A second aim is to support the capacity building of civil society organisations through best practice transfer, cooperations with sustainable outcomes and improvement of the management skills of the project leaders and management capacity of the institutions. The project supports the European identity on the basis of common values.
- to create lively and sustainable partnerships among at least 60 involved artists, cultural managers and cultural operators from the cities of Perm, Duisburg and Pécs
- to transfer best practice experience from both Capitals of Culture 2010 and support the development of the cultural sector in Perm in full conformity with the “Concept for development of the cultural aspect in the city of Perm”
- to improve the management skills of 20 operators and to support the capacity building of 15 cultural institutions in Perm
- to support the artists’ and cultural managers’ mobility
- to support the cultural identity and the access to culture of the Finno-Ugric minority of the population in the Perm Krai to realize a new international art festival, “European Accents” in August 2010 in Perm and present the results of the project to about 20.000 visitors
Main activities
Creation of an international network, increase of mobility of artists and operators, trainings and capacity building, best-practice transfer, innovative artistic cooperations, festival „European Accents“ in Perm, presentations of artistic cooperations in Pecs and Duisburg, financial and project management, dissemination and evaluation of the project
Results
- 2 network meetings for 60 participants
- 2 trainings for 20 cultural managers
- 8 new innovative artistic coproductions
- 4 best practice projects from Pécs & Duisburg in Perm
- International Art Festival “European Accents” in Perm in September 2010
- Presentations in Duisburg and Pécs in September 2010
The Team
MitOst e.V. (Berlin)
Darius Polok
is head of the division "Cultural Exchange" of the MitOst Association for Cultural Exchange (Berlin) and program director of the fellowship-program "Cultural managers from Central and Eastern Europe" of the Robert Bosch Stiftung. He studied Slavic Culture and Philosophy in Bochum, Wrocław and Potsdam. 2000-04 founder and program director of the Theodor-Heuss-Kolleg of the Robert Bosch Stiftung and MitOst. During the past twelve years he has worked also as consultant and evaluator for foundations and nongovernmental organisations in the fields of non-formal education and culture.
Stephanie Endter
studied photography and digital imaging in Reading/U.K. Since 2003 she worked as a free-lance photographer, picture editor and cultural project coordinator. Since 2008 board member of Rejs e.V./ Plotki www.plotki.net; since 2009 she is working for MitOst e.V. in the program "Cultural Managers from Central and Eastern Europe".
Institute of civic engagement (Perm)
Soja Lukjanova
since 2007 CEO "Civic Engagement Institute"
2006 - 2007 Representation of Perm region in Berlin, Germany, project manager
2004 - 2005 "Cultural manager from Central and Eastern Europe " Program of Robert Bosch Foundation and MitOst e.V.
2003 - 2004 "Year of Russia in Germany", project assistent
Svetlana Kolchurina
Executive Director "Civic Engagement Institute", Perm
2007 Program "Kudymkar - Cultural Center of Perm region"
2006 - 2008 Non-Profit Organization "Roza Vetrov", President
Perm City Council
Ljubov Fedorova
Department for Culture/ Perm
Theater Arbeit Duisburg
Stella Cristofolini, Berlin, Cultural Scientist, Theatrepractitioner
born 1970 in Essen; MA Cultural Sciences, Aesthetic Everyday Culture, Media Studies and Cultural Anthropology at Humboldt University, Berlin and Dublin City University, Dublin, Rep. of Ireland.
Stella Cristofolini combines artistic and social practices in various forms of theatre and performance.
Works in the fields of dramaturgy, direction, conception and performance in Berlin, Dessau (Bauhaus), Essen, Dortmund, Duisburg, Potsdam, Amsterdam, Dublin, Szeczin, Novi Sad, Belgrad, Bishkek, Moscow and Perm.
Stefan Schroer, Duisburg, Dramatic Adviser
born 1970 in Essen; MA Philosophy and German Literature
Works in the fields of theory and performing arts in several cities of the Ruhr area. 2003 Founding member of Theorie und Praxis e.V. – Tup (Theory and Praxis – www.tup.kulturserver.de)
2006 Founding member of Theater Arbeit Duisburg – TAD (Theatre Work Duisburg – www.theater-arbeit-duisburg)
Since 2006 dramatic adviser and project-manager in several research-projects and theatre-productions of Tup and TAD. At last: theoretical and artistic research-projects in Duisburg-Ruhrort (area of the biggest inland port in Europe) as part of festival Duisburger Akzente (www.duisburger-akzente.de); artificer and dramatic adviser of the research-project and theatre-trilogy "Und keiner will der Kapitalist sein …" ("And nobody wants to be the capitalist …"
Duisburg Marketing GmbH
Frank Jebavy
Coordinator of the festival office Duisburg
Cultural Innovation Competence Centre Association/ KIKK (Pécs)
László Éberling (project manager, South-Transdanubian Cultural Industrial Cluster)
Master of cultural management and adult education
2004-2008: Project manager at local television in Pécs (Pécs TV)
2006 - Project manager of the South-Transdanubian Cultural Industrial Cluster
Zita Zombai
Master of Economic, Regional and Environmental Economic Policy
since 2008 employed at CICC Association. As project assistant responsible for tender preparations of accounts and administration of projects
Members of the network
Andrey Vilisov's Studio and Cinema Courses "My cinema"
Video filming, video editing, teaching fundamentals of film directing and operator skills. Read more
AssA
"AssA – perhaps is the best thing that has happened with Perm music for the last fifteen years..." - Vadim Sergeev (Producer Centre of Igor Matvienko). Read more
I am working with the technique of graphic arts, painting, montage, printing art design, mixmedia, and photography. I would like to continue my sketch-book named "Cover". Below you can read the annotation to the first part of this sketch-book from the exhibition within the festival "Alive Perm". Read more
