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Top Relocation Spots For Creatives In 2024 Ranking as Europe’s best city for budding creatives, according to the findings, London boasts a final creativity score of 8.80 out of 10. Not only is London home to the Royal College of Art, the number one art school in the world, but the UK capital also boasts eight top ranking universities and schools specialising in Arts. With an abundance of art galleries (277) and theatres (256), the UK capital is a great educational inspiration for budding creatives to thrive in. Berlin, Germany, ranks in second position with a final score of 8.40 out of 10. Known as a hub for techno music and avant-garde art amongst free spirits across the globe, the German capital is also rich in culture, boasting 278 art galleries and 245 museums to explore.  Renowned as one of the cultural centres of Europe, Milan, Italy, ranks in third place with a final score of 8.12 out of 10.  With a variety of museums (233) and art galleries (107), Milan is also home to five top ranking universities and schools specialising in Arts.  Comparatively, ranking as the least optionable city for budding creatives in Europe is Dundee. Despite being Scotland’s fourth-largest city, it scores a total score of 1.07 out of 10 - home to just five art galleries and seven theatres.  Adobe Express share their top tips for budding creatives to find the right city for them: “It’s no surprise that Europe is a dream destination for many creatives, whether you’re keen to explore the rich history, vibrant art movements or magical music scenes. “When deciding which European city would be the most appropriate choice for you and the lifestyle you want to pursue, it’s important to bear in mind factors such as the cost of living, tuition fees, the language and the creative scene the city is capable of providing.  “Despite cities such as London ranking as the best cities for budding creatives, it’s also important to note that London is one of the most expensive cities in Europe but is also home to a world class art scene and prestigious education prospects. The perfect city to launch your career if you can afford to do so.  “Berlin on the other hand, is a relatively affordable city boasting a thriving nightlife scene and a continuous magnet for artists, musicians and creatives.”  Visit London; visitBerlin ; Visit Milano 

We love this article from It's Nice That where the new OPN Festival is presented. <<... the festival aims to mix young people in with the contemporary motion design scene, with the aim to “bridge the gap between emerging and established talent”. >> Especially this goal resonates with us and the work we do for VJBooking and the VJ / Visual Art scene. This approach is something we really encourage and celebrate. However we wonder, how do you feel about the multitude of emerging festivals focusing on sharing creative practices and know-how? These festivals celebrate the creative industry, but can they stand out from the crowd? Is it worth to visit multiple events a year or do you not share this feeling of oversupply? Learning about the OPN festival raised some questions about the saturation of the festival scene. At the same time, this particular festival speaks to us in their approach, sprouting from a collaboration of weareseventeen and Ravensbourne University London. They really make an effort regarding #accessibility - providing free tickets for students - and #education - ticket profits go to educational objectives. Reasons enough to check it out & let us know your thoughts! The festival takes place 20-21th June in London. #motiondesign #festivalsforcreatives #londoncreatives #emergingtalent Maxon https://lnkd.in/e_NZ_-Vg

🗓 Application deadline June 10! 🤙 Open Call RASL - Rotterdam Arts & Sciences Lab Summer Studio June 20-23 at the RASL Spaces, Hillevliet 90, Rotterdam ⚡ Still led by Codarts Rotterdam | University of the Arts' own Arlon Luijten, but with all new facilitators, including Klaas Kuitenbrouwer from Nieuwe Instituut, and Louise Autar, Annette-Carina van der Zaag and Christoph Brunner from Erasmus University Rotterdam. 🏙 This year the Summer Studio is a four-day workshop in which participants will explore techniques for speculating and reflecting on ideas and needs concerning a 'Livable City’ by creating and building multi-sensory maquettes.   ❔ How can transdisciplinary approaches help to (re)think life and liveability in urban environments through an expressive and embodied way of sharing and reflecting ❔

It has taken several months for all my thoughts to come together about the Spotlight North Open Studios. The weekend was a great success, with 90 visitors over the two days. Influenced by my environmental activism, the idea for a post turned into a short essay about the event, and the larger context of how we create sustainable ecosystems for the arts, with an excerpt here. Creating a Sustainable Arts Ecosystem The word “sustainability” is everpresent today in discussions of climate change and global warming. Less often do we hear it applied to the visual arts, which are themselves part of an ecosystem. Community support for the visual arts tends to be scattershot and fitful, reliant on the generosity of funding organizations and a handful of collectors (like Seattle’s departed Paul Allen) who, though much appreciated, can change their affections without warning or predictability. With state and local governments facing recurring deficits, arts funding is usually the last to be added and the first to be cut. Large ongoing grants from foundations most often go to established organizations like museums, theaters, schools and community associations; even if an artist competes successfully for the rare individual grant, these only fund a fraction of expenses and rarely provide ongoing support. The path to success in art is rarely direct. Developing a meaningful body of work as an artist can require years of experimentation, skill building and detours into work that may not succeed financially but which is necessary to creative growth. For this process artists need time, a work space and opportunities to test their work in the marketplace. Artists need regular sales of their work and a growing collector base to thrive. Today the web is increasingly accepted as the replacement for traditional art sales venues, with claims that social media and online shops make galleries obsolete. Granted, success has come to select superstars, but increasingly social media favors “influencers,” brand ambassadors and advertisers, and not actual artists, (AKA “content creators”). The algorithms of Instagram and Facebook surface primarily the minority who are already famous and successful, while offering less and less visibility to artists who need a reliable showcase where their work can connect to buyers. [READ MORE…] https://lnkd.in/g7Vyzieh #sustainabilityinthearts #artsecosystem #openstudios #seattleartscene

Call for Artists! Indulge in creativity and camaraderie at the Visual Artists Association's Art Café, a free online gathering designed for artists of all levels seeking to uncover the boundless potential of Open Studios. Join us on Wednesday the 20th of March 2024, at 14:00 GMT for an enriching hour of insightful discussions and valuable exchanges that will illuminate the transformative power of Open Studios. Suitable for artists of all levels, this session will cover: 1. What is an Open Studio Exhibition and What Type is Right for Me? Embark on a captivating exploration of Open Studio exhibitions, unravelling the myriad possibilities and identifying the type that resonates with your artistic aspirations. Gain a nuanced understanding of how Open Studios can align with your unique creative journey. 2. How to Find or Create Open Studio Events Uncover the secrets to discovering existing Open Studio events and master the essential steps to curate and launch your own remarkable Open Studio showcase. Empower yourself with the tools to bring your creative vision to life through Open Studios. 3. Common Dos and Don’ts for Success & How to Gain PR for Your Event Delve into the essential dos and don'ts pivotal to the success of Open Studios, while discovering effective strategies for generating PR and publicity to elevate the impact of your Open Studio event. Book your place now: https://lnkd.in/eMfhhXf7 #VisualArtistsAssociation #VAAEvents #VAAWorkshop #ArtistWorkshop #ArtistEvents #ArtistOpportunities

Call for participation !!! The deadline for submissions is June 24th, 2024 The ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Committee is organizing a moving-image art event to coincide with the 2024 ACM SIGGRAPH conference, happening in Denver, CO later this summer. The exhibition makes use of public LED video displays in the Denver Theater District between July 24th — August 4th, with a one-night projection event on Daniels & Fisher Tower (July 28th). The exhibition and projection event are happening in partnership with the Denver Theater District and Night Lights Denver. To submit work, please use this form - https://lnkd.in/gp7PU4sx Important: The form links to a document that outlines the various display venues, design guidelines, and other details. Exhibition Concept: The contemporary media landscape is shaped by streams of instantaneous communication. While the affordances of global interconnectedness on one hand reflect the hopeful promises of yesterday’s tomorrow, embodied by projects such as Buckminster Fuller’s Spaceship Earth or Stan VanDerBeek’s Video Drome, on the other hand they reflect a darkened mirror. Opaque systems of capitalization and algorithmic communication demonstrate their vast and insidious potentials to shape perception without awareness, and turn the individual gaze inward. Mediated communication and display pervades the contemporary landscape with phantasmagoric affect, blurring the boundaries between real and unreal, disorienting civic engagement. Moving beyond computational mathematics, the arts and sciences have collective roles in shaping the discovery of new worlds with renewed sense of wonder. We navigate the media affordances of our time by orienting our imaginations outward, toward humane futures that cultivate constructive social relations. Empowering such world views requires creative visions of hope and the nourishment of poetics that serve nuance, complexity, and freedom to dream beyond the crush of information systems, the insidious persuasion of capitalized entertainment, and media structures that bind thought. The artists in this exhibition will address the affordances and complexities of pervasive media display in the urban landscape. Presented on architectural scale video displays located throughout the Denver Theater District, participating artists will find themselves in the mixed company of paid advertisements and programmed marketing, their works randomly activated within a public display system, amidst an assortment of unrelated, countervailing content. Their brief aesthetic interruptions will offer moments of reflection, humor, and repose amidst an onslaught of marketed programming, as well as opportunities to consider place-making and the social relations of pervasive media topologies in the contemporary urban space.

In a recent creative lab exploring climate dramaturgy, Zoe Svendsen, a pioneering voice in theatre-making, academia, and climate dramaturgy, introduced a profound notion: "Hope is a Verb." This powerful concept, originally articulated by David W. Orr and championed by Emily Ehlers, challenges us to reimagine hope not as a passive possession that can be lost when unrealised, but as an active force requiring action, perpetual engagement, adaptation, and introspection. In essence, hope is not merely a wishful aspiration for a better tomorrow; it is a continuous call to action, a commitment to relentless pursuit despite the challenges we face. It demands that we actively engage in meaningful dialogue, and foster tangible change through our creative endeavours. Our Micro Galleries initiative, Project/Forward embodies this ethos, serving as a catalyst for hope in action. Our mission is not confined to wishful thinking; rather, it is a conscious effort to inspire, empower, and mobilise artists and communities towards a shared vision of a brighter future. Project/Forward: 2049 is a free, micro, global projection art festival featured in unique public spaces, where artists have been challenged to imagine and create moving image of a future that provides hope; creating a solutions-based blueprint for a better world. You can see all participating artists and their work on our just-dropped Catalogue: https://lnkd.in/gnaWvfrC When something is imagined, visualised, made some-what tangible, then we have action towards making it possible. We hope you enjoy our small contribution to the action. Micro Galleries have also just announced the Project/Forward: 2049 global festival dates (25-27 October!) If you would like to be involved or be a host during the festival, reach out. https://lnkd.in/ganbJW5r

Exciting video update from the Harmony Studios Inc. team! We’re thrilled to share a sneak peek of a small #studio project we designed and are currently building out. This video highlights the effectiveness of our #acousticdesign, specifically focused on achieving exceptional isolation between rooms—even in a compact space. Our approach allows the control room to be completely isolated from the rest of the studio, ensuring precise sound quality and control. But that’s not all! This studio serves a dual purpose: it’s now optimized for multiple simultaneous #musiclessons. What was once a single large room has been transformed into three separate spaces where multiple lessons can occur without the worry of sound bleeding from one room to the next. Keep in mind, this was done WITHOUT floating the rooms. That was not an option within the budget for this project. The results, even without floating, are still superb. This transformation is a game-changer for the client for maximizing space utilization and improving the functionality of thei #musiceducation environments. We can’t wait to share the final result! #AcousticDesign #StudioBuild #MusicLessons #SoundIsolation #AVtweeps #HarmonyStudiosInc #AVDesign #SpaceOptimization #AcousticConsulting #AcousticTreatment #Soundproofing

On this week's list of curated creative opportunities: Open Call: Mentorship Program for East African Curators: ICI, in partnership with Njabala Foundation and AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions, is offering a 6-month mentorship program for emerging female-identifying curators based in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, themed “Curating as multiplying mediation and access to culture.” The mentorship aims to support emerging arts workers by creating a platform to develop their practice, gain resources, enhance research and discourse, and engage with established curators from East Africa and beyond. Click the link below to find out more and apply. Deadline:15/8/24 https://lnkd.in/e6QhCrPb Call for Submissions: Creative Producer Indaba: The Creative Producer Indaba (CPI) is a professional development programme offered by the Realness Institute, in partnership with EAVE, International Film Festival Rotterdam’s IFFR Pro and the Marrakech International Film Festival’s Atlas Workshops. The programme is designed for 15 film producers, looking to hone their leadership and entrepreneurial ability and build their creative skills. Click the link below to find out more and apply. Deadline: 15/7/24 https://lnkd.in/dPPckCmR ARD South Residency: ARD South is a process based, one-to-three month artist residency that includes talks, workshops, master classes and exhibitions by resident practitioners. The purpose of this residency, and its urgency, came to fruition upon noticing that the majority of institutions in Cairo are distanced from the South ARD South seeks to bridge the gap, by dedicating its residency to artists from the Global South, with a higher concentration of artists from the continent of Africa, including those in the diaspora. Click the link below to find out more and apply. Deadline: 30/6/24 https://lnkd.in/gX9ny-y5 IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund and Pare Lorentz Fund: This year, IDA is streamlining the grant application process into one Open Call, providing over $500,000! You can apply for IDA’s Enterprise Documentary Fund and Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund in the same place. The theme for the 2024 Pare Lorentz Fund will be Gender Justice. This year, the Fund is open to artists worldwide and will also select one immersive nonfiction project for the 3-project cohort. IDA Enterprise Documentary Fund supports in-depth explorations of original, contemporary stories that integrate journalistic practice into the filmmaking process. The Fund seeks to support crucial facts-based storytelling while helping filmmakers retain their independent voices and artistic visions. Click the link to find out more and apply. Deadline: 25/6/24 https://lnkd.in/edyAJfhw #chapter54 #creativeopportunities #opportunitywednesdays

Art and technology are emerging like never before, reshaping our cultural landscape. Imagine walking through the streets of Ibiza where vibrant murals transform the city into an outdoor gallery, or stepping into the future at the Natural History Museum in London with immersive mixed reality experiences. 🌍🎨 These stories remind us that art is not just a visual treat but a powerful medium for social change. From climate activism at museums to innovative projects combining tradition and tech, the collaboration between these worlds is inspiring. What if we embraced our creativity, not just as a reaction to the world but as a catalyst for transformation? There’s so much potential for innovations that can challenge the norms and encourage us to think differently! What stories inspire you to blend creativity with purposeful action? Share your thoughts below! 💬✨ #ArtMeetsTech #CreativeInnovation #CulturalTransformation #Inspiration https://lnkd.in/dgp9fuT6