Deadline: 19-Sep-21
Applications are now open for Sustainable Cultural Management Programme for Festival Practitioners to provide festival practitioners with tools for developing sustainable practices on the job, as well as to reflect on how to make an impact and have climate justice conversations across cultural projects.
The online programme will combine a workshop to support 25 participants in their practices with a sustainable approach, as well as complementing the programme with a monitoring framework. Additionally, the creation of a toolkit that can serve as a useful resource for these ends will be another asset to add value to the programme.
Objectives
- Obtain management competencies for developing a sustainable practice on the job (e.g., carbon emissions, climate impact, green providers, etc).
- Explore diverse ways in which festival practitioners can have climate justice conversations while exercising and influencing leadership to make an impact across culture.
- Explore and learn methodologies for generating the development of local and national festivals in Mexico sustainably, while resolving general or regional environmental challenges on festivals management.
- Propose a sustainable festival management model for Mexican festivals based on the need of the participants.
Scope
- The scope of the programme includes:
- Design the online programme as a collective learning experience combining knowledge, skills, and networks.
- Design a toolkit that can then be used by participants in their programmes as well as by other festival practitioners outside the programme.
- Coordinate and produce the online programme, including managing platforms (e.g., Zoom) and
- Recording all sessions to have a register of the programme.
- Creation of monitoring and evaluation tools that will later be implemented by the British Council team.
Focus Areas
- Cultural professionals connect – Support organisations and artists to build networks, collaborate and develop markets.
- Artists and audiences – Share the work of UK artists with global audiences face-to-face and virtually.
- Spotlights on culture – Work with major UK and international cultural platforms, including festivals, seasons of culture, biennales and major civic anniversaries.
- Enterprise, policy and leadership – Develop the capacity of creative entrepreneurs and policymakers to support sustainable creative economies in their countries.
- Cultural heritage – Protect heritage at risk and generate sustainable socio-economic prosperity
- Their shared futures – Transform lives through the power of art to change attitudes and create opportunities in the areas of inclusion and climate change.
Funding Information
- Funding available up to £18,500
Participants
- The general profile of the 25 participants is:
- Festival practitioners in Mexico benefited from the British Council’s Cultura Circular Fund.
- Festival practitioners who are actively looking for collaborations between Mexico and the UK related to residencies and training activities such as workshops, conferences, symposiums, and meetings, among others.
- Festival’s practitioners that are developing artistic collaborations in the following disciplines: music, dance, theatre, fashion, film, literature and/or visual arts.
- Festival practitioners who are exploring the following topics in their events:
- Climate change and biodiversity: Promotion, awareness through artistic work, implementation of actions in the fight against climate change and defence of biodiversity.
- Sustainable and inclusive culture: Promotion and awareness through artistic work, implementation of actions for sustainable development and social welfare and impact.
- British Council will be coordinating the selections of these participants and will provide the UK supplier with the profiles prior to the design of the programme.
For more information, visit https://www.britishcouncil.org.mx/open-call-sustainable-cultural-management-programme-uk