PROGRAMME 23TH Oracle Cultural Network Annual Meeting
CHA(lle)NGING TIMES >> 26 & 27 OCTOBER 2022
Struga, The Republic of North Macedonia
We are struggling but we don´t give up. We are suppressed but we fight. We are exhausted but we go on. This might be an accurate definition of cultural operator anywhere in the world. Crisis are coming one after each other and yet, we are still here, fulfilling the aims of our organisations and visions we have drafted long time ago. To make world a better place.
The pandemic has impacted everybody´s life but also gave us the opportunity to stop, take a breath and reflect. Now, it is time to meet and answer the questions which came up during the covid void. How to deal with permanent state of crisis in our sector? How to reach a personal stability in unstable and underpaid sector? How to resist the never-ending antidemocratic regimes and repeatedly returning efforts to shut us up? How not to discourage the new coming enthusiastic generation with our frustration? What is our future?
Should we ask the oracle? No, we should talk. It is the right time to discuss and find out what future we want for ourselves and the world.
PROGRAMME
Tuesday 25th October
20:00 Reconnecting again
dinner at the hotel and informal meeting of participants
NOTE: Possibility of ordering lunch for early birds
Wednesday 26th October
9:30 CRISIS AS OPPORTUNITY
Jean Pierre Deru, founder of European Diploma in Cultural Management
Robert Alagjozovski, National coordinator for cultureof the Republic of North Macedonia
10:00 How I overdosed an Artyzol
(UN)said UN(changed) UN(needed)
Is new future possible?
Katarzyna Renes, Theater Academy Warsaw, Change now! Programme co-founder
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 LIVE IT OR LEAVE IT? Part 1. Challenges.
Workshops on various forms of challenges that cultural operators are facing nowadays:
CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY – led by Suncica Milosavljevic
KEY WORDS: global view, war conflicts, illiberal democracies, hybrid regimes, independency, censorship
ON THE EDGE OF BURNOUT – led by Katarzyna Renes
KEY WORDS: personal crisis, frustration, resignation, lack of support, mental health, failure
ECONOMY & ECOLOGY OF CULTURE – led by Jonathan Goodacre
KEYWORDS: undervalued work, overtime, sustainability, ethics, future, environmentalism, climate change
13:00 Lunch break
15:00 LIVE IT OR LEAVE IT? Part 2. Solutions.
Sum-up of workshops and discussion leading to find out possible ways out of crisis.
16:30 Coffee break
17:00 WHY DOES THE WORLD NEED OUR NETWORK?
Opening up a debate on the purpose and achievements of the OCN.
Moderated by:
20:00 Dinner
Thursday 27th October
9:30 Welcome coffee
10:00 GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF OCN
Annual report 2021 and 2022
Presented by Lucie Orbók and Torbjörn Lindstrom
Election of the board
New projects and new partnerships
13:30 lunch break
15:00 GETTING TO KNOW STRUGA INTERCULTURAL AND GLOCAL CULTURAL LIFE
conversation and interaction with local cultural scene
20:00 farewell dinner
Friday 28th October
departure
