Preparation started - IV. Annual CreART Forum 2011

IDENTIFY YOURSELF!
After the success of our III Annual CreART Forum, we have decided to expand our capacities and to offer the possibility to participate in our event to more people.

Before we start to put together the programme and before we start to approach the speakers, the sponsors and the participants we have the biggest task - to set the topic of the next CreART Forum, which would appeal to as many people as this year’s topic of the extreme future. Yelena and I have spent long discussions on the topic carefully evaluating every possibility.

At the end we have decided for the topic of IDENTITY. We live in a world where our identity is often questioned - identity of an individual citizen, identity of nations, identity of brands, identity of artistic expression, religious identity... We often talk about the crisis of identity. The question of who I am and what I represent is relevant to all of us and can be - again as all our topics - looked at from many different angles.

We hope you will find it interesting.

MUSIC RELEVANT - a new music initiative

This year we had the pleasure and honour to introduce a special guest at the opening reception of our CreART Forum - Ms. Stevie Wishart, who performed to the participants of the gala reception togehter with her colleagues.

Stevie Wishart represents Music Relevant - a new music initiative, which aims:

• to increase the relevance of contemporary ‘classical’ music in the 21st century
• to create new works inspired either by current political & environmental concerns
• to seek to mainstream contemporary classical music by introducing it into other areas of interest
• to explore & optimise Brussels’ unique position within political Europe

See more on the Music Relevant website

Biography of Stevie Wishart :

Educated at Cambridge, Oxford & The Guildhall School of Music, STEVIE WISHART is active as a composer, performer and improviser explores medieval & contemporary extremes, using ancient technologies such as the hurdygurdy, as well as electronic and computer music technologies of our own time. She has composed for early music ensembles including her own group Sinfonye, and also for orchestral and vocal groups. Sometimes working purely acoustically with music notation, sometimes combined with improvisation, and sometimes using computer music systems.

She has recently composed a new work for the Britten Sinfonia with Random Dance, and a return to work with Compagnie Michèle Noiret for a new work premiered at the Theatre National in Brussels. She is completing The Sound of Gesture, a two-year project developing an interface with specially commissioned sensors and software for solo violin and computer with a recording at the Institute for Music and Acoustics in the ZKM, Germany. Stevie is currently developing The Myth of Europa – an oratorio - “The bisected rim of the horned moon” – this will be developed into a major concert and staged work and was first presented at the Styriarte Festival in Graz and again at La Bellone in Brussels.

This year sees Stevie take a major role in Take the Risk a special weekend at London’s Southbank, where she will present cutting edge medieval and contemporary improvisations.

Stevie, with Sinfonye, is also reaching the culmination of her long-term project to record the complete work of Hildegard von Bingen in a 5-6 cd cycle including a multi-media performance and contemporary realisation of selected songs. The medieval music group Sinfonye has released some 12 CDs with the record companies Glossa Music (Spain), Celestial Harmonies (USA), and Hyperion Records (UK) with instrumental and vocal music from medieval repertories as well original compositions and arrangements informed by historical research.

Stevie Wishart’s performances include those in London’s Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the ICA and the Sydney Opera House. She has performed extensively throughout Europe, in New York, and in Australia and her concerts have been recorded live by BBC Radio 3, Radio France, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, ORF, German Radio Networks, and by Klara Radio Belgium VRT.

New music concerts combine electronic and acoustic instruments, using sensors and virtual instruments, as well as hurdy-gurdy, voice, and violin. She was artist in residence at Mills College, California where she recorded her most recent CD with her trio group with Fred Frith and Carla Kihlstedt. She has also a founder member, along with John Tilbury, of the Violet Quartet that specialises in free improvised music. Violet have appeared recently in Austria and recorded a new CD for release during 2009. Wishart created the film music for Margie Medlin’s DVD installation “Miss World” based upon a computer generated and real dancer for the 2003 Future Cinema exhibition at Zentrum für Media Künst in Karlsruhe (to March 2003) and has won a Sciart Production and Research Award by the Wellcome Trust in collaboration with Cambridge University’s department of Physiology and the ICA, London, to research and create a new live piece “Quartet”, for 2006/7. She presented aspects of her research and performance for Quartet at the 2006 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference on new musical interface design and technology, hosted by IRCAM - Centre Pompidou, in Paris in collaboration with the MINT/OMF of the Sorbonne University and for a solo concert for the Cambridge Festival, UK, and the Homo Futuris presented by the Vooruit Cultural Centre with UNESCO in Belgium.

Extra-musical actives include working as a composer for the British Council with the National Choir of Morocco in Rabat, music consultant to the Royal Shakespeare Company, and most recently as the featured composer for Music Review (BBC Radio World Service), has been on the panel of judges for the music competitions of both the Bruges Early Music Festival and the EMN young artist'son the panel for the 2007 EMN young artists competition at the National Centre for Early Music in York.

Radio & television work has including writing and presenting music programs for the ABC and BBC networks and has most recently been invited as music commentator for BBC television’s live PROM concerts at the Royal Albert Hall, London (2008 & 2009).

CreART Forum and charity: possibility to help

This years CreART Forum was organised as an event supporting two charities taking care of less fortunate children and supporting their health and future development.

We had the honour to welcome and present Mrs. Larisa Tsjernina - founder of  the Larisa Tsjernina Foundation and Gallery for Chernobyl Children, who introduced her activities at the opening reception. Larisa Tsjernina´s foundation has supported education of children from the Chernobyl area for almost 20 years. We all can help - with only 100 euros a child can study a whole year.

We also had the honour to welcome and present Maria and Alexander Poushkin from the International A.S. Poushkin Foundation, who help in hospitals and orphanages.

Thanks to our sponsors and partners and thanks to understanding of our speakers, who kindly waived their fees, we were able to make donations to both charities.

We hope that we will be able to continue in this effort also for next years of the CreART Forum.

CreART Forum: also a great opportunity for socialising and networking

We believe that business contacts made during our official programme can be developed and deepened also during informal meetings in a more informal set up and therefore we offer our participants also an opportunity to meet elsewhere. This year we gathered in the Havana Club in Brussels to socialise with young professionals after the conference day. We also offered the participants a special experience - participation in the traditional Russian Ball in Brussels, one of the gala event highlights of the year.

Please, here are some pictures from these two events:

THE "EXTREME FUTURE" CONCLUSIONS

The III Annual CreART Forum is over. Yelena and I are very happy with the outcomes. All speakers and participants despite being from different sectors created a very homogenous group and shared their visions of what the future will bring. It was also a great networking opportunity for all of us.

What is quite certain is that the future will bring new challanges in the form of new technologies, new media of communication and new approaches to problem solving . We cannot predict the future, we can only bulid on our experience of today and adjust to the omnipresent change. The pace of change is also key in understanding of what is ahead of us. The word change was repeated many times and we will have to count with it.

We also wanted to deal with the question of what the word EXTREME means to individual people. What is extreme for one is normal for others. Individual perception certainly plays an important role. Individual experience is transfered to the experience of the whole society.

Thank you all for your excellent presentations and participation in a lively discussion.

Keep in touch.

PHOTOS FROM THE CONFERENCE DAY AND VISIT TO THE EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS

Special thanks to our speakers

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our speakers, who truly presented excellent presentations. Unfortunately two of the speakers, who were on the programme could not participate for health and personal resasons. We were sorry that missed their presentations and hope that there will be other opportunity.

The III Annual CreART Forum "EXTREME FUTURE" : Programme

3 FEBRUARY 2010

Arrival of participants to Brussels during the afternoon

19.00 – 21.00
Czech Center
60, Rue du Trône
B-1050 Brussels, Belgium

Welcome drink and opening reception under the auspices of the Representation of the Pilsen Region to the EU

We have the honour to welcome Maria & Alexander Pushkin and Larisa Tsjernina

Introduction of the International A.S. Pushkin Foundation and Tsjernina Foundation and Gallery for Chernobyl Children

Classical music performance - Music Relevant

4. FEBRUARY 2010

European Training Institute (ETI)
57, Rue Froissart
B-1040 Brussels, Belgium

8.30 – 09.00
Registration of participants and speakers

9.00 – 10.00
9.00 – 9.05
Opening remarks, welcome, moderator (Petra Ringrose, Director, SN Consultancies)
9.05 – 9.30
KEYNOTE SPEECH: The future will be interactive (Jan Söderqvist, Soderqvist Media AB, Founder)
9.30 – 9.45
KICK OFF SPEECH: The role of the CREATIVE ARTS in the transition to the connected low carbon economy (Colum Joyce, IMRWORLD)
9.45 – 10.00
Discussion

10.00 – 10.30 Coffee break

10.30 – 12.00
Panel 1:
FUTURE TRENDS OF CULTURAL SOCIETY, CULTURAL DIPLOMACY AND CHALLENGES OF CULTURAL IDENTITY
Moderator: Yelena van Immerzeel-Kharitonova (Caravan Cultura)

10.30 – 10.50
Artistic Vision of the Future, inspired by the Concept of Social Sculpture (Inga Cholmogorova, Founder of ICH Atelier and Cholmogorova.com, Artist and Designer, Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
10.50 – 11.10
ART as a stimulating environment for charity and good will (Faina Zakharova, President of Line-life Charity Fund, Moscow, Russia) – with translation
11.10 – 11.30
Traditions and presence as one of the perspective creative forms for successful art project management (Irina Eroshkina, President of “Heritage” Foundation, part of Imperial Porcelain Factory, representative of “Manege” Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia) – with translation
11.30 – 12.00 Q&A session

12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break

13.00 – 14.30
Panel 2:
CHALLENGES OF FUTURE CITY LIFE AND URBAN DEVELOPMENTModerator: Petra Ringrose (SN Consultancies)

13.00 – 13.15
Introduction of the topic and panel discussion by: Corinne Hermant (European Commission, Directorate-General for Regional Policy, Urban Audit - Interservice Group on Urban Development)
13.15 – 13.30
Future City Development (Aleksandar Jovanovic, President of the City Parliament of Novi Sad - Region of Vojvodina, sociologist and politician, Serbia,)
13.30 – 13.45
Culture and Development, Create Culture Policy for the City, Importance of Agenda21Culture in the City of Novi Sad (Biljana Mickov, Culture Manager, Novi Sad, Serbia)
13.45 – 14.00
From directory to search function, or a bottom-up strategy (Cees Donkers, Chief Urban Designer, City Hall of Eindhoven, the Netherlands)
14.00 – 14.15 Q&A session

14.15 – 14.45 Coffee break

14.45 – 16.30
Panel 3:
FUTURE TRENDS IN POLITICAL, ECONOMICAL AND INDUSTRIAL CONTEXTModerator: Astrid Severin (Greenovate! Europe EEIG)

Special focus: energy
14.45 – 15.00
Energy for the Future: An Enduring Priority (David Schreib, European Commission, Directorate General for Energy and Transport: Security of Supply and Energy Markets)
15.15 – 15.30
Roadmaps for a Sustainable Future: The Ecoeconomics of Energy (Christof van Agt, Senior Researcher, Clingendael International Energy Programme, the Hague, the Netherlands)
15.30 – 15.45
How smart will be our energy future? (Zuzana Krejčiříková, EU Affairs Manager, CEZ, a.s.)

Special focus: new technologies
15.45 – 16.00
New forms of organization and governance enabled by technology (Leo Exter, Founder of Westartup, Brussels, Belgium)
16.00 – 16.15
Call for New Minds: How to Prepare for the Turbulent Futures Ahead? (Slava Kozlov, Founder and Director of Summ()n, formerly Philips Design, Eindhoven, the Netherlands)
16.15 – 16.45 Q&A session

16.45 – 17.15
Closing remarks by individual moderators

5 FEBRUARY 2010

10.00 – 11.15
Visit to the European Commission - presentation
12.00 – 13.30
Visit to the European Parliament – presentation
13.30
End of the official programme

Special thanks to our partners:

ČEZ Group a.s.
Ebaque
Marsman
Pilsener Region

III Annual CreART Forum "THE EXTREME FUTUREE"

SN CONSULTANCIES and CARAVAN CULTURA AGENCY are pleased to present

The III Annual CreART Forum

EXTREME FUTURE

3 – 5 February 2010, Brussels, Belgium

Today’s post-industrial world has been dictated by the changes in global culture and most recently by the global financial and economic crisis. The thinking of world leaders is changing. More and more decision makers begin to realise that priority has to be given to innovators and representatives of creative industries. These are the people who envision the future, aspire to make our life more comfortable and strive to make businesses and traditional industries more profitable.

The III CreART Forum shall be held in Brussels between 3rd and 5th February 2010. The event is organised as an initiative of Caravan Cultura Art Agency and SN Consultancies with the aim to enable the participants a discussion on the possibility of extreme future developments in various sectors, whether it is policy making and future of Europe, economy, climate change as well as city developments and cultural identity.

Senior representatives from the European Commission and European Parliament are invited to the opening of the CreART Forum.

The III CreART Forum, EXTREME FUTURE, aims to present the developments and trends of the creative sector with regard to policy making, business, culture and the day-to-day life of Europeans. The forum shall gather representatives of the creative and innovative industries from various European countries, including Russia, and also from Eurasia together with representatives of the political and policy making sector. This forum is a place for managers, inventors, leaders of innovative projects and founders of unique companies and projects as well as representatives of cities, regions and countries to meet and share their achievements. The CreART Forum is a platform for creating continuous international dialogue and developing partnerships within the creative sector.

The following issues will be addressed in the interactive discussions: Who should provide the stimulus for developing and promoting sustainable future? How do we raise the status of sustainability? Are extremes in the future inevitable? What approaches are to be implemented to safeguard the future of cities and countries and where do they originate? Would the creation of international communities for innovators increase the intellectual property risk or, rather, the opportunity for successful development on the global market? Please, join us for this ART Forum!

Invitation to the opening reception

I N V I T A T I O N

At the occasion of the opening of our III CreART Forum

THE EXTREME FUTURE

Caravan Cultura Agency and SN Consultancies have the pleasure to invite you to an opening reception on

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 from 19:00 till 21:00 at

The Czech Centre, 60 Rue du Trône, B-1050 Brussels

We have the honour to welcome Maria and Alexander Pushkin from the International A.S. Pushkin Foundation and Larisa Tsjernina from Tsjernina Foundation and Gallery for Chernobyl Children

The reception takes place under the auspices of the Representation of the Pilsen Region to the EU.

We thank our main partner ČEZ Group.