zmina: rebuilding

ZMINA: Rebuilding is a new project to support Ukrainian artists and cultural organisations to create and showcase works in Ukraine and Creative Europe countries. Under the leadership of IZOLYATSIA Foundation (Ukraine) in cooperation with Malý Berlín (Slovakia) and Trans Europe Halles (Sweden) it will bring four open grant calls.

The call aims to support cultural organisations working with peers from Creative Europe countries, including Ukraine, to present high-visibility cooperation projects. Projects must increase the showcasing of Ukrainian culture abroad and share perspectives internationally, particularly in reimagining, reinventing and reconstructing communities.

This international cooperation must increase the visibility of Ukrainian artists and cultural production in other Creative European countries and heighten the profile and knowledge of Ukrainian cultural and creative organisations in other countries while bringing new shared perspectives to the Ukrainian and European cultural and creative sectors.

All projects must include interaction and engagement with audiences on the topic of resilience, rebuilding or reconstruction, taken in their widest sense (discussions, presentations, theatre workshops, co-design of ideal living spaces or urban spaces, visual identities, prototyping, etc.). Projects are strongly encouraged to integrate the New European Bauhaus ‘keywords’: beautiful, inclusive, sustainable – especially if they address physical reconstruction.

International cooperation projects:

• should be implemented primarily outside of Ukraine, in one of the other Creative Europe countries,
• can be an extension of an existing Ukrainian project,
• must actively engage with well-defined communities,
• must include conversations taking place in cultural or other venues on the topic of ‘reconstruction",
• must include a high visibility opening event (vernissage, premiere, pre-opening gala etc.)
• can involve creation, but must involve showcasing, primarily outside of Ukraine,
• the showcasing must be significant, reaching large audiences, either directly or through media outreach, preferably also contributing to Ukrainian ‘cultural diplomacy’.