Podcast

EUCropolis

The podcast, produced by MCA every two weeks, which delves into policies and projects affecting the cultural heritage sector in the EU.

  • 2023

    Podcast EUcropolis x Frequencies – Elefsinian Mystery | Handle with Care

    Culture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a special episode, “Elefsinian Mystery | Handle with Care”, which  focuses on  the 2023 Beyond the Obvious conference, “Handle with Care | Culture for Social Well-being“, co-organized by  Culture Action Europe, 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture, and the CultureForHealth project. This international get-together invited practitioners, organisations and institutions, policy-makers, thinkers, researchers, activists and artivists from the cultural, social and health sectors working on topics related to care, well-being, health and culture.
    This episode focuses on the significance of care as an ethical and political obligation for our societies and the role culture and cultural professionals can play in this. How can culture and participation in the cultural life of communities nourish the sense of social and individual well-being?
    Special guests and contributions from:

    Episode produced and hosted by:
    Marco Fiore, Michael Culture Association
    Maya Weisinger, Culture Action Europe

    *Correction: In the intro of the podcast, it is stated that the 2023 Beyond the Obvious conference took place in May 2023.  The conference took place from 6 – 10 June, 2023.

    Music Credits:
    Funk Saviour - Ketsa, Can’t Stop We - Ketsa

  • 2022

    Podcast EUcropolis EP. 4: Data space for cultural heritage – A new frontier

    Data and our online presence are increasingly at the center of the public debate: how to organize and protect them? The cultural heritage sector must also ask itself these questions. The European Union’s answer is simple and complex at the same time: the common European data space for cultural heritage.

    So, the Europeana Initiative rose up to the task.

    This episode explores what the common European Data Space for Cultural Heritage is, what its objectives are and how the sector can benefit from it. Michael Culture is one of the partners in this European initiative. Come on this journey, where three people will accompany us: Harry Verwayen from the Europeana Foundation, Rob Davies from the Europeana Network Association and Marie-Véronique Leroi, chair of the Europeana Aggregators Forum.

    This is “A new frontier – Data Space for Cultural Heritage”

    CREDITS: This podcast is produced by Michael Culture Association. Michael Culture Association is a European trans-domain network devoted to European digital cultural heritage, from aggregation, protection, preservation, valorisation and reuse, aiming to support the DCH communities. This episode is designed and edited by Marco Fiore (Policy and Project Offier at MCA) and Corinne Szteinsznaider (Coordinator at MCA), with the help of Lorena Aldana (Head of Advocacy at EF).

    Thank you for our interviewees and the help in building this whole episode.

    To explore further the thematics of these episodes, 00:00 – Intro 01:34 – What is Data? 03:22 – Data spaces: a metaphor 05:00 – Harry Verwayen, Director, EF 12:15 – Rob Davis, ENA 18:28 – Marie-Véronique Leroi, EAF 24:26 – What can you do?

    The song tracks present on the episode are copyright-free and available on http://www.pixabay.com.

  • 2023

    Podcast EuCropolis x Frequencies – Tales from Culturopolis: Participation and Communities

    Culture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a four-part collaboration exploring the current discourse and practice around cultural rights in our communities across Europe. The series focuses on the four focus areas of the 2022 conference Culturopolis, co-organized by the Culture Institute of Barcelona and Culture Action Europe, which brought together researchers, cultural workers, artists and policymakers to exchange ideas and work around cultural rights.

    This episode focuses on Participation and Communities. Who is being left out of the experience of culture? What is the cultural sector doing to improve the situation? We asked these and other crucial questions to the people from across the sector who are looking critically at the various conditions that affect the right to participate in the city’s cultural life, as well as the various forms of cultural participation.

    Special guests:
    Alexandra Xanthaki, UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights
    Gaia Raisoni from IED Istituto Europeo di Design S.p.A. – Società Benefit
    Luca Bergamo, Cultural professional, former Vice-Mayor and deputy Mayor for Cultural Development of Rome
    Maud Ntonga (MCA) and Ines Martorell (Dedale) from MEMEX project

    Episode produced and hosted by: Marco Fiore, Michael Culture Association Maya Weisinger, Culture Action Europe

    Music Credits: Intro: Funk Saviour - Ketsa Intermediary: HoliznaCC0 - Ramen, Johnny Ripper - Typing, Daniel Birch - Birds Eye View, Daniel Birch - Memories in Color, Daniel Birch - Vast Possibilities Outro: Can’t Stop We - Ketsa

  • 2024

    Podcast EUCropolis x Frequencies – Tales from Culturopolis: Diversity

    Culture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a four-part collaboration exploring the current discourse and practice around cultural rights in our communities across Europe. The series focuses on the four focus areas of the 2022 conference Culturopolis, co-organized by the Culture Institute of Barcelona and Culture Action Europe, which brought together researchers, cultural workers, artists and policymakers to exchange ideas and work around cultural rights.

    This episode focuses on Diversity, on the difficulties around invisibility or lack of diversity and on the importance of participation and the decision-making capacity inherent in the design of cultural policies. This area tackles the diversity of identities included in cultural rights (gender, sex, ethnicity, language, origin, background, etc.) and the difficulties that may be encountered with regard to freely experiencing this diversity.

    There is a need to tackle the insufficient presence and visibility of diversities in cultural expressions and practices, as well as in participation and the decision-making capacity inherent in the design of cultural policies.

    Special guests:
    Creative Homeless – An initiative for combating the stigma of being homeless through artistic practice
    Jaslyn Reader – ​​Alumni Deakin University, Society of Gender Professionals
    Sara Brighenti – Deputy commissioner of the National Plan for the Arts – promoter and co-author of the Porto Santo Charter
    Joana Dark (Ariadna Rulló)

    Episode produced and hosted by: Marco Fiore, Michael Culture Association Maya Weisinger, Culture Action Europe

    Music Credits: Musical excerpts from Joana Dark Intro: Funk Saviour - Ketsa Intermediary: Typing - Johnny Ripper, Daniel Birch - Birds Eye View, Outro: Can’t Stop We - Ketsa

  • 2023

    Podcast EUCropolis x Frequencies – Tales from Culturopolis: Cultural Work and Sustainability

    Culture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a four-part collaboration exploring the current discourse and practice around cultural rights in our communities across Europe. The series focuses on the four focus areas of the 2022 conference Culturopolis, co-organized by the Culture Institute of Barcelona and Culture Action Europe, which brought together researchers, cultural workers, artists and policymakers to exchange ideas and work around cultural rights.

    Today’s episode focuses on cultural work, with an important focus on the right to work in the cultural sector under decent conditions. How is the work of artists and cultural workers valued and recognised? What inequalities continue to occur in cultural work? How can we ensure the economic, social and environmental sustainability of cultural work and workers? In this episode we have an up close look at the realities of artists and cultural workers across Europe and how they and their allies are fighting for their rights.

    Special guests:
    Catherine Magnant – Head of the cultural policies department in the European Commission Directorate General for Education and Culture
    Noel Kelly – Director of Visual Artists Ireland
    Katharina Weinert – Policy Adviser, European Music Council – SHIFT Project
    Julia Pagel – Secretary General of the Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO)

    Episode produced and hosted by: Marco Fiore, Michael Culture Association Maya Weisinger, Culture Action Europe

    Music Credits: Intro: Funk Saviour - Ketsa
    Intermediary: HoliznaCC0 - Ramen, Johnny Ripper - Typing, Daniel Birch - Birds Eye View, Daniel Birch - Memories in Color, Daniel Birch - Vast Possibilities
    Outro: Can’t Stop We - Ketsa

  • 2023

    Podcast EUCropolis EP. 3 – European Year of Youth: a retrospective

    The year 2022 was the European Year of Youth: after a difficult period such as the pandemic, European institutions acknowledged the importance of a greater focus on young people, their ideas, and their future. But what has this year dedicated to youth concretely served? And what has been the role of cultural heritage in all this? Welcome to EUCropolis, the podcast by Michael Culture Association. In each episode, we delve into policies and projects that affect the cultural heritage and digital sector in the EU. Today, with the help of Katerina Zourou from Web2Learn and Emilia Sanchez Gonzalez from European Students Association for Cultural Heritage (ESACH), we talk about “European Year of Youth – a retrospective”.

    INFO: For any comment or question about the podcast, send an email to marco.fiore@michael-culture.eu

    Thanks to Katerina and Emilia for participating in the episode.

    SOURCES: ESACH’s site: https://www.esach.org/ Web2Learn site: https://web2learn.eu/who_we_are/kater… European Year of Youth portal: https://youth.europa.eu/home_en President von der Leyen on the European Year of Youth:    • President von der Leyen on the occasi…  

    All the sounds come from the free-licence library of pixabay.com . Go check their work, it is very useful for initiatives like ours.

  • 2022

    Podcast EUCropolis EP.2 – A chat with Marie-Véronique Leroi, from French Ministry of Culture

    With the Digital Decade, the EU institutions finally recognized the need to steer this sector toward a more sustainable future. But what are the future stakes for digital facing the cultural heritage sector?

    In this episode, we met Marie-Véronique Leroi, project manager at the Secretariat General, in the Coordination Service of Cultural Policies and Innovation (SCPCI) of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, France.

    She explained to us what is the interest in having a network like MCA and what are the challenges for the next few years in the field of digitization of cultural heritage.

    Welcome to EUcropolis, the podcast produced Michael Culture Association: our objective is to delve into the policies and projects that affect the cultural heritage in the European Union.

    INFO: For any comment or question about the podcast, please send an email to marco.fiore@michael-culture.eu

    Thanks to Marie-Véronique Leroi for participating in the episode.

  • 2022

    Podcast EUCropolis EP.1 – New European Bauhaus: a new way?

    The New European Bauhaus draws from Europe’s culture and innovation to turn the promise of the European Green Deal into improvements for our daily lives. But what exactly is this European Commission’s project about? And what are the actual positive implications for the cultural sector? This is EUcropolis, the podcast produced Michael Culture Association: our objective is to delve into the policies and projects that affect the cultural heritage in the European Union.

    Today, with the help of Gabriele Rosana from Culture Action Europe, we try to see how the NEB initiative started, what are the results and how the cultural sector welcomed this EU Commission project. INFO:For any comment or question about the podcast, send an email to marco.fiore@michael-culture.euThanks to Gabriele Rosana for participating in the episode.

    SOURCES: Sneska’s Keynote at Europeana 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08l8f...

    Gabriele at NEB FESTIVAL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaotj...

    Von Der Leyen talking about NEB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFoj...

    State of the EU Speech 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8eTh...

    New European Bauhaus website (main source for the script): https://new-european-bauhaus.europa.e…

    All the sounds come from the free-licence library of http://www.pixabay.com . Go check their work, it is very useful for initiatives like ours.

  • 2023

    Podcast EUCropolis x Frequencies – Tales from Culturopolis: Digital Environments

    Culture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a four-part collaboration exploring the current discourse and practice around cultural rights in our communities across Europe. The series focuses on the four focus areas of the 2022 conference Culturopolis, co-organized by the Culture Institute of Barcelona and Culture Action Europe, which brought together researchers, cultural workers, artists and policymakers to exchange ideas and work around cultural rights.

    This episode focuses on digital environments. What is the relationship between cultural rights and digital rights? How can digitalising culture on the one hand create new possibilities for access and participation, but on the other create new inequalities?

    Special guests:

    • Fieke Jansen, Researcher at the Data Justice Lab
    • Núria Guiu, Dancer and choreographer – Cyberexorcismo
    • La Fera, Fàbrica Digital

    Music Credits:
    Intro: Funk Saviour – Ketsa
    Intermediary: Memories in Color – Daniel Birch, Solace Sighting – Ketsa, Ramen – HoliznaCC0, Vast Possibilities – Daniel Birch, Path to a New World – Lobe Loco
    Outro: Can’t Stop We – Ketsa

    Episode produced and hosted by:
    Marco Fiore, Michael Culture Association
    Maya Weisinger, Culture Action Europe