Frequencies
“Frequencies” is a podcast that explores arts and cultural initiatives that seek to impact and transform communities, near and far. Each episode features the work, voices, and experiences of artists and cultural workers across Europe and beyond. This podcast was created in association with, "Amplify: Make the Future of Europe Yours," a European Parliament-funded project that focuses on bringing underrepresented voices from the cultural and creative sectors into the fold of EU-level policymaking. “Frequencies” lives at the intersection of culture and politics by focusing on the power cultural practises and agents have in nurturing inclusive, open, diverse, fair and democratic societies. Hosted by Maya Weisinger
Frequencies
A Joyful Solidarity | Spain
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Culture Action Europe
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Episode 3
This week we tap into the mind and heart of Rocío Nogales Muriel, the director of EMES International Research Network. As a sociologist specialising in culture, social innovation and social enterprise, she guides us through the vision and actions of a network in Spain that is creating social transformation in communities through artistic and cultural exploration, experimentation and collaboration. REACC, Red de Espacios y Agentes de Cultura Comunitaria (Network of Spaces and Agents of Community Culture), is an open assembly for dialogue and support between artists, community organisers, and cultural organisations. The members who make up the REACC network unite to safeguard community projects and try to provide answers to the endemic problems of the cultural sector.
Much of their collective work as a network focuses on precarity in the cultural sector, addressing issues such as restrictions on mobility, job insecurity and lack of political commitment to arts and culture. From early on REACC understood that in order for the power of civil society to emerge, the work has to take place in local, community-shared places. So after two years of online meetings and work, members of REACC were finally able to assemble together in Toledo in February of 2022.
Find out more about REACC’s work, as well as the English translation of Rocío and Begoña’s poem on the Culture Action Europe website. There you can also read the contribution that REACC, alongside other cultural agents in Spain, submitted to the Conference on the Future of Europe through Culture Action Europe’s project, “Amplify: Make the Future of Europe Yours” under the coordination of Interarts.
“Frequencies” is a podcast that explores arts and cultural initiatives that seek to impact and transform communities, near and far. Each episode features the work, voices, and experiences of artists and cultural workers across Europe and beyond. “Frequencies”, a production of Culture Action Europe, lives at the intersection of culture and politics by focusing on the power cultural practises and agents have in nurturing inclusive, open, diverse, fair and democratic societies.
Hosted by Maya Weisinger
Music: "納骨堂 (johnny_ripper remix)" by Tide Jewel, "Birds Eye View" by Daniel Birch
Much of their collective work as a network focuses on precarity in the cultural sector, addressing issues such as restrictions on mobility, job insecurity and lack of political commitment to arts and culture. From early on REACC understood that in order for the power of civil society to emerge, the work has to take place in local, community-shared places. So after two years of online meetings and work, members of REACC were finally able to assemble together in Toledo in February of 2022.
Find out more about REACC’s work, as well as the English translation of Rocío and Begoña’s poem on the Culture Action Europe website. There you can also read the contribution that REACC, alongside other cultural agents in Spain, submitted to the Conference on the Future of Europe through Culture Action Europe’s project, “Amplify: Make the Future of Europe Yours” under the coordination of Interarts.
“Frequencies” is a podcast that explores arts and cultural initiatives that seek to impact and transform communities, near and far. Each episode features the work, voices, and experiences of artists and cultural workers across Europe and beyond. “Frequencies”, a production of Culture Action Europe, lives at the intersection of culture and politics by focusing on the power cultural practises and agents have in nurturing inclusive, open, diverse, fair and democratic societies.
Hosted by Maya Weisinger
Music: "納骨堂 (johnny_ripper remix)" by Tide Jewel, "Birds Eye View" by Daniel Birch
