Deadline: 17-Jul-22
The Mekong Cultural Hub (MCH) is pleased to announce Professional Exchange Program 2022, a Peer-to-Peer Professional Exchange space for art and culture practitioners who work at the intersection of art and society in Mekong Region and Taiwan.
The program has been devised by MCH team after two very different earlier chapters of the program. MCH program Manager Jennifer Lee has been invested and worked with different versions.
Topics of the Program
- Project development and management of art / cultural projects
- Workshop design and facilitation of engaging communities into art projects & art making process
- Ethics in socially-engaged and community-based art projects
Who is the program for?
- Art and culture practitioners who work at the intersection of art and society and based in the Mekong Region and Taiwan
- Hands-on experienced art and culture practitioners in artistic/cultural projects that are aiming to transform ideas, attitudes, behaviors, stereotypes or current conditions of communities/societies
- Practitioners who are interested in exploring and expanding perspectives through a group discussion format with peers, in order to gain advanced learnings and to contribute other peers’ learnings
- Practitioners willing to embrace the diversity of contexts and practices of others in the program
- Practitioners who are willing to have the learnings, including both practices and challenges, which are generated through the exchange to be shared with a wider audience
Eligibility Criteria
- The program is open to art and culture practitioners from MCH’s priority focus countries: Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
- The Peer Facilitators that MCH invited to facilitate the exchanges are Fellows who they have worked with closely and know have extensive professional experience in the area of the topic, and are skilled and curious to create dialogue with their peers for mutual learning.
For more information, visit https://www.mekongculturalhub.org/news/2022/06/professional-exchange-program-2022-open-call-for-participation/