How do you make museums interactive without adding clunky tech? 🤔 #ArtCast4D has spent two years developing a new way to merge cultural heritage with cutting-edge technology. From opera houses to Roman ruins, our project is bringing objects to life for the public. 🎭 An exciting collaboration with cultural institutions across Europe! Learn more about this fascinating journey. #CultureAndTech #DigitalInnovation

At its core, the intersection of 🎶 music, 🎨 art, and 🌍 cultural heritage is about storytelling. It’s about reclaiming agency over how histories and identities are represented. By celebrating cultural heritage through these creative expressions, communities can: • Challenge Stereotypes: Highlighting the diversity and complexity of cultures dismantles oversimplified or harmful narratives. ✊🌐 • Promote Inclusivity: Art and music rooted in heritage invite audiences from different backgrounds to engage with and respect cultures outside their own. 🤝🎭 • Foster Unity: Shared experiences of music and art help bridge divides, reminding us of our interconnectedness. 🌍❤️ Learn more about the power of music and art in cultural storytelling here: https://lnkd.in/gPJBqY6x

Announcing the 16th edition of the International Media Art Festival CYFEST: Archive of Feelings. A Journey. November 13—December 1, 2024 Yerevan, Armenia Venues:  HayArt Centre Yerevan Botanical Garden Institute for Contemporary Art Mirzoyan Library + Varpet The State Philharmonia of Armenia + Arno Babajanyan Concert Hall CYFEST: Archive of Feelings. A Journey is an expansive audit of relationships between the intimate realm of emotions and memories and technological advancement. How do new technologies shape, mediate, and «archive» emotions? In what ways does technology influence our emotional experience and the way it is expressed and remembered? Can we work with technologies within larger artistic, social, and cultural frameworks? And how can contemporary art and culture contribute to a more diverse future and environments that are neither technocratically mastered nor reductionistic? Through the contribution of internationally renowned artists, curators, and theorists, CYFEST 16 will address these questions from various angles while transforming them into installations, multimedia objects, performances, video, concerts, educational events, and a new, intriguing visitors’ experience. https://lnkd.in/eqmJR7ET

The European Festivals Association marked its 72 years by updating the 70-𝑌𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠-𝑂𝑛 𝐴𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑎, a living roadmap exploring the evolving role of festivals in society. From artistic freedom to environmental sustainability, polarisation to inclusivity and the bridges festivals build across borders and cultures, the Update 2024 captures the pressing questions and opportunities shaping arts festivals today. 👉 Read here: https://lnkd.in/dtyEeNZF

https://lnkd.in/e-swp5Kp This is it! 🎵 I am so thrilled to share with you my last work for orchestra, Shores (working title: "Longing For Belonging"), conducted by Erin Bodnar. I want to thank the Mostly Modern Festival for choosing my work and giving me this tremendous opportunity to make my music happen - it's more rare than you could imagine! The piece has a suffered story. If you want to know more about it, here's an extract of the program notes. "It all started with “The Island” - a long time ago, probably during the pandemic in 2020, as a musical theater piece [...] meant to be based on a dialogue by Cesare Pavese, part of the book “Dialoghi con Leucò”. I remember reading this book and that “The Island” dialogue in particular, and getting so emotionally involved. It was about the story between Odysseus and Calypso, in a sort of alternative ending of the Odyssey where the protagonist decides not to come back home, but stay on the island with Calypso, because - freely paraphrasing her words from the book: It's just an island, what difference does it make where you decide to lie down and rest your head? And even if you eventually manage to come back to Ithaca, will you even be able to recognize your own houses after 20 years? And the people? Some of them will certainly be understanding, but will you ever be able to share what you have seen and done? You will feel more alone than in the sea. At the time, I found it interesting for the implications of the piece: it was full of insights about what it means to be isolated, and what is the meaning of travel and returning home. It was, as I said, during the pandemic, so of course, the theme was also resonating with the current situation in my life where I was in Germany and couldn’t come back home to Italy. It was a tough time in my life, I was scared for my loved ones - I remember having nightmares every single night. Anyway, the project evolved, but I never actually managed to make it an opera: not only because of the lack of funding, but also - to be honest - because the dialogue was so full and rich of intellectual interest that I found it difficult to transpose it into a libretto to be sung and not really “understood”.

You can now view several moments of the #AlchemyofEmpathy created by presenters at the #DesigningForEmpathySummit2024 at the #ONEEmpathyNetwork website (link included below).

It's an exciting line-up for this year's Sacrededge Festival. 30 plus artists and presenters including glorious music from Amos Roach, Kutcha Edwards, Kardajala Kirridarra, Kavisha Mazzella, ROOT ensemble band, and Neon Ngargee cultural dance class; poets and storytellers. Also keynote speakers and workshops from folks like Tyson Yunkaporta and Glenn Loughrey. Program and artist profiles and tickets link here: https://lnkd.in/gZsnZ4uR Here's the blurb for The Recollective's offering in Saturday's program: STORIES AS MEDICINE Who directs the narrative of our story? Who writes the ending? Who decides what is meaningful to take away from it? Colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy are just a few systems that direct the cultural narrative. We are exploring ways our own actions, choices and voice can inform and determine for ourselves how our next chapter unfolds. How may we understand stories as medicine – others’ and our own? This practical session invites you to explore the use of silence, creativity, storytelling and curiosity to develop tools for creative resiliency that can support healing and recovery for ourselves and others in responding to personal and collective trauma experiences. 

Goddess Series' No. XII of XII by Christopher Lantz. Read about the House of Symphonies in The Unfinished Symphony. #ChristopherLantz, #LantzMuseum, #LantzArt, #thecitydifferent, #author, #artist, #education, #mentalhealth, #AbstractArt, #ContemporaryArt, #UnfinishedSymphony, #BillysNecklaces, #paintings, #SantaFeNewMexico, #SupportTheArts, #Journaling, 

Nightlife Articles #40: Why Aren’t Clubs Recognised as ‘National Portfolio Organisations’ like Galleries, Museums and Theatres The time has come to question the outdated cultural hierarchy that places classical arts above contemporary ones. The contribution of clubs to our society is clear—they are hubs of creativity, diversity, and economic activity. Clubs or venues like Fabric, SubClub, Ministry of Sound, and Printworks deserve to be celebrated, protected, and funded in the same way that opera houses and theatres are. Let’s not wait until it’s too late to recognise their value. It’s time to give clubs the support they need to continue shaping the culture of tomorrow. https://buff.ly/3Uahfke

Nightlife Articles #40: Why Aren’t Clubs Recognised as ‘National Portfolio Organisations’ like Galleries, Museums and Theatres The time has come to question the outdated cultural hierarchy that places classical arts above contemporary ones. The contribution of clubs to our society is clear—they are hubs of creativity, diversity, and economic activity. Clubs or venues like Fabric, SubClub, Ministry of Sound, and Printworks deserve to be celebrated, protected, and funded in the same way that opera houses and theatres are. Let’s not wait until it’s too late to recognise their value. It’s time to give clubs the support they need to continue shaping the culture of tomorrow. https://buff.ly/3Uahfke