Art Line present when culture became a priority area

Art Line participated at the Kick-off for culture as a priority area, PA, in Berlin. The Swedish Cultural Attaché in Berlin, Ms Marika Lagercrantz , showed great interest in the Art Line project, which was one of the longest running culture projects that were present.

There is now a Priority Area Culture in the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR). The official Kick-Off for this new area took place on April 18 in the Representation of Land Schleswig-Holstein in Berlin.

At a separate meeting for the Flagship project leaders in the presence of the appointed co-coordinators for PA Culture, Art Line’s project leader Ms Torun Ekstrand gave a short orientation about the recently appointed flagship project. Other leaders for the Flagship-to-be projects were also there, presenting ideas for future collaboration.

Listen to soundbites!

The Kick-off event gave numerous opportunities to meet representatives of projects, officials and politics from the countries around the Baltic. Art Line took the opportunity to collect live interviews with some of the participants, e.g Marika Lagercrantz:

https://soundcloud.com/art-line/marika-lagercrantz-2013-04-18

The moderator for one of the discussions, professor dr. Gernot Wolfram (Publicist, Member of European Commission’s Team Europe as cultural expert) also made a statement for the Art Line website. Listen to the interview with him here:

https://soundcloud.com/art-line/professor-dr-gernot-wolfram

Art Line also spoke with Ragnar Siil, undersecretary for fine arts at the Estonian ministry of culture. He has some interesting views of how the people from the culture sector in society can convince the economic people it is wise to support culture:

https://soundcloud.com/art-line/ragnar-siil-at-the-kick-off-in.

Comment from the project leader

- I am very pleased that we from Art Line got the opportunity to inform about our Flagship project. We also got a confirmation that the PA Culture co-coordinators has good knowledge about us and will be our “ambassadors” in the future, says Torun Ekstrand, project leader at Art Line as she is summing up the Berlin meeting.