The days in Manchester were incredibly enriching, inspiring, and full of joy. They laid a solid foundation for continued collaboration and heightened our anticipation for the next steps in The...
An audio documentary from the Tier 1 Cultural Bridge project 'Bridging Rural Communities - People, Process, Places', a partnership between Dyffryn Dyfodol CIC (Llanrwst, Wales) and Syndikat...
The “Posthuman Solidarities” screening envisions scenarios where humans may no longer be at the core, painting pictures of realms populated by microorganisms, living machines made of organic...
This year’s funding will support work exploring youth leadership, digital storytelling and emerging technologies, disability-led dance and movement, the intersection of LGBTQI+, neurodivergence and...
'Our aim has been to bring new ways of thinking about our natural surroundings through video art to communities from East to West London. Every area has its distinct features and local differences,...
Go behind the scenes of the Audio Haunt concept, created through a two-year partnership between Hamburg based Audio Walk creators and app developers Storydive, and Glasgow based interactive and...
During Syndikat Gefährliche Liebschaften’s visit to Cymru in January 2025 we visited a large blanket bog peatland, Y Migneint, near Llyn Conwy with artist and ecologist Emily Meilleur. She...
Collaborative blog writing about our cultural exchanges between North Wales and Emsland district of Lower Saxony, Germany.
Part of our Tier 1 Cultural Bridge project ‘Bridging Rural Communities - People, Process, Places’ is to explore each others’ practices, share and challenge each other, and so we thought we’d...
'For us, bringing together video art scenes from two different regions constitutes an important gesture. Thanks to the intangible quality of video art, which enables its dissemination beyond city...
'We don’t want to fly, so we embraced the idea of slow travel on the trains to get from Cymru to Germany to visit Syndikat Gefährliche Liebschaften in December 2024. As part of our journey we...
Listen to the brand new Cement Fields podcast in the inaugural episode exploring their partnership with Floating University Berlin.
'Wir konnten in der Zeit viel über die Gründe und die Methodik der Workshop-Arbeit und des Maskeneinsatzes bei Geese-Theatre lernen und die auch in kurzer Zeit erreichten Effekte bei den...
Watch the short film produced by MINCE e.V. and Miss Lulu Creates exploring meaningful conversations about the Black marginalized experience through dance and storytelling.
'The exchange will ensure we go forward with a renewed sense of the value and potential of our work - and of international collaboration - and has offered a valuable platform to connect and inspire...
'This work is the meeting of our two practices and our mutual passion for bringing formal experimentation to participatory contexts. Produced Moon have worked with young people at Platform for many...
Short film exploring the impact of the partnership between Miss Lulu Creates (UK) and MINCE e.V. (Germany) to be screened at a free event in Berlin.
'The partnership with Brink! Belfast, has been a wonderful collaboration that has allowed us to expand our outreach and share our creative process with a wider audience. Working alongside Brink! has...
'As we look ahead, we believe in the importance and the potential of cultural exchanges across borders. These exchanges are not just opportunities for collaboration—they are vital acts of...
'It was the first time we had all been in a room together. We were all, understandably, a bit nervous and shy, particularly with a language barrier and not knowing how we all liked to work. But as...
'The Shake creates an opportunity to reflect on what connects and unites us rather than what divides us. The exhibition offers a space to explore how we can peacefully co-exist together and with...
Poetry of changing perspectives in the first exchange between Tortoise in a Nutshell and TheatreGrueneSosse
'Today I’m walking from the centre of town to Sonnenberg, an area east of the centre that was originally built in the 1900s as a working-class district to alleviate housing shortages, and that...
'The rehearsal was like no other we have had at Geese. The cast sat on chairs arranged in a circle under trees, rolling cigarettes and sunbathing while reciting lines from The Threepenny Opera with...
By enabling new and existing connections, Cultural Bridge supports a growing network of organisations committed to sharing expertise and skills, exchanging ideas and collaborating on artistic...
Can we tell stories through the history of a meal or the history of land to illustrate that society is structured differently today than in the past? Yet even today we live in each other’s shadows...
"What unites both our organisations is our desire to preserve our world for future generations and leave a lasting impact. With a shared passion for using art and cultural events as catalysts for...
Gewonnen: Sicherheit im Austausch, im Vermitteln: Zu merken, es ist möglich. Berührungsängste gehen. Grenzen gehen. Das gibt Sicherheit. Jede:r hat Raum. Teilhaben am Alltag der anderen macht,...
'We focus on exploring communities – those from the immediate neighbourhood or those of an international art world – through the garden or greenspace.'
"From football to Bauhaus, the UK and Germany are inextricably linked through our culture, and these ties help form the foundation of our close alliance." Minister for Europe, Nusrat Ghani
'We’re reminded rapidly of the power of language and the baggage – if not freight – it carries. We find ourselves reaching for words and terms which come from the depths of our memories and...
The 2024 - 2025 partnerships will explore a wide range of themes and artforms, from prison theatre, youth led and disability led work, climate change, migrant activism, feminism, rural arts and more....
'It has demonstrated the importance of international connections such as these to reinforce best practices and challenge us to move outside of our comfort zone as well as ensuring young people from...
'If I were to describe what FAILSTONE is, what our collaboration has looked like so far, it was a continual learning and experimenting with how to make space for something unexpected.'
'The local communities have become more empowered through having additional young creative’s who they can invite to their activities and events. These emerging artists have collectively worked...
' Such an exchange greatly increases the motivation to continue and also enables a change of perspective and, above all, a break from one's own problems. '
'As part of this exchange, we have been inspired by SET and the use of empty buildings to transform areas and create communities. In our work in Dresden, we would like to replicate their approach....
'We discussed the challenges of connecting with communities, especially when you have a transient space on rolling lease contracts and your beginning is rooted in grassroots activism. We were...
'We spent time considering how to share our practice, explorations and process with our audiences, the groups of young makers and artists we often collaborate with, but also the wider creative...
'What was particularly impressive at both locations was the extraordinarily large output of open activities for the community, which is mainly possible because so many people volunteer and want to...
'Through this exchange we have extended our network, our knowledge, and our community reach. And more importantly, the grant gave us, two small organisations in a vast landscape of inspiring...
“In the face-to-face meetings, we learned about and experienced the similarities and differences between the two partner organisations. We have so much in common. We are members-led organisations...
'During the tour of the building, I became aware of the importance of the coal mining industry for the local community and the implications of the decline during the 80s. Throughout my various...
'During this exchange we learned that sustainability should not be limited to the internal practices of an organization, but that we can think of creative ways to make sustainability a participatory...
In this film we hear from two partners who received funding during Cultural Bridge's pilot year 2022-2023 and have continued to be funded as a 'Tier 2' partnership in 2023 - 2024. They share insight...
“Both sides of this ‘Cultural Bridge’ have gifted me an unforgettable experience. It’s provided an opportunity to explore themes around climate change with a wonderfully talented group,...
What was interesting for the partner organisations, who are typically in the creative driving seat, was learning to hand over control to the young artists. There were many sticking points in the...
'Femxle Spaces' is an interdisciplinary and intergenerational performance project by womxn from the twin cities of Dortmund and Leeds who talk about their urban lives, struggles and visions for the...
During the cultural exchanges, we were able to learn about many inspiring cases of women who are transforming their communities and changing the landscape of local production and artisanal...
Bespoke emerged from a shared interest in engaging and developing communities of purpose-driven creative producers, artists and communities in our respective countries. Through international...
'And this is what connects and emphatically embodies the cultural bridge between Folkestone Fringe and FAIL. A commitment to strengthen civic society, independent of historical, political motivations...
The Zooms have been incredibly informative, sparking new ideas and exciting possibilities for engagement - in place as well as virtually with the possibility of co-working to create some new art work...
Through Cultural Bridge, Head4Arts and the Motte are exploring ways that socially engaged arts practice is delivered within our respective countries, with a particular focus on how the arts can be...
In our second year of the Cultural Bridge partnership, our two organisations Creative Black Country (CBC) and Kulturvilla Nellie want to build on our achievements and reflect on climate change topics...
On Monday 12th June 2023, the MAC in Belfast hosted a unique event designed to highlight the conditions under which people in the asylum system are living in Northern Ireland. The event forms part of...
In April 2023, Ellie Dobbs, Curator at SET, along with Roland, Founding Director of SET, and Jemima Thomas, Director of Studios, successfully completed the first part of an exchange programme with...
In April 2023, Fonds Soziokultur were invited to host the federal congress, Doing Culture. Profiles and Transformation within Social Culture in Berlin, to share insight into the societal and cultural...
Our pilot project brings people and places with fewer opportunities together to engage in a cultural exchange project in post-industrial places addressing our ecological footprint. Addressing our...
Our process becomes increasingly valuable and creates the conditions to do things differently. Doing things differently for us often means making space to fail and then try again, and learn, and...
