Coming Back Stronger! - Ways forward for culture
Wednesday, 26 May 2021 - 10:00 to 12:00
Live streaming here: Coming Back Stronger : Livecasts
This event aims at exploring possibilities for an EU-wide approach to support the Cultural and Creative Sectors and Industries (CCSIs), with focus on ways to reactivate Europe’s cultural events and venues, following the official EU Commission communication, which states that the Commission will develop guidelines for festivals and other cultural venues and activities. Focusing on building solutions based on scientific evidence and concrete proposals, we aim at discussing a smooth and safe return to event (including international travel to and from events) and a coordinated approach based on common indicators, which will help lift restrictions while building confidence amongst audiences and visitors that opening is taking place in a responsible way. This will be essential for the survival of cultural and creative economies that have been particularly badly affected by the restrictions imposed to contain the pandemic. These sectors lost around 31% of its revenues in 2020, with performing arts (a drop of 90%) and live music (a drop of 76%) being the most impacted.
Online conference of 6 political groups from the European Parliament on Cultural Recovery in Europe
10:00
- Opening speech by Sabine Verheyen, Chair of the Culture and Education Committee
- Introductory remarks by Snezhina Petrova, Member of Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel
- Keynote speech by Paola Leoncini·Bartoli, Director for Cultural Policies and Development at UNESCO
- Statements by MEPs Alexis Georgoulis and Andrey Slabakov
10:30
- Panel 1: How to unlock the sector? Best practices and examples in Europe moderated by MEP Laurence Farreng
- Deeyah Khan, artist (TBC)
- Jordi Herreruela Salas, Director of Festival Cruilla Barcelona
- Coralie Berael, Venue Manager at Forest National
- Sebastien Justine, Director of Les Forces Musicales and President of FEPS (Federation Nationale des Employeurs du Spectacle Vivant Public et Prive)
11 :00
- Panel 2: What's next? The future of culture and arts in Europe moderated by MEP Salima Yenbou
- Jean-Noel Trone, Chair of the board of the Federation of European Authors' Societies (GESAC)
- Julia Pagel, Secretary-General of the Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO)
- Prof Sergei lgnatov, Rector of European Humanities University, Vilnius
- Laura Houlgatte-Abbott, CEO, International Union of Cine,'.Yas {UNIC)
- Concluding remarks by Frankowski and Fred Matic
11 :45
- Live Performance by Laura Crowe and Him
Interpretation: EN, FR, ES, BG
To register, please email cultural.recovery@europarl.europa.eu
Read the "Joint Declaration by EPP, S&D, Renew, the Greens/EFA, ECR and the Left in support of a strong culture comeback" here
