We are happy to share with you that the ECHO II digital collection of artworks is now also available on Europeana – the platform and infrastructure that provides art lovers, cultural heritage enthusiasts, professionals, educators, and researchers with digital access to European cultural heritage materials, to inspire and inform multivocal perspectives and critical discussions around art and culture, history and memory!
On Wednesday 25 May 2022, Balkans Beyond Borders and GLAM Hack welcomed a group of cultural managers, GLAM professionals and creatives to the 2-session workshop, organised in the context of the open access policy of ECHO II, and facilitated by Revekka Kefalea, our open access advocate and recent graduate of the CC Certificate for GLAM.
On the 21st and 22nd of May 2022, PostScriptum organised the local event “Cultivating Mindful Communities” in Kythnos island, presenting the ECHO II project to local artists and communities, and exhibiting the artworks created in the ECHO II art residencies in dialogue with the local tradition of Xerolithia (the art of drystone walling).
PostScriptum invites you to an event in Kythnos island, presenting the ECHO II project to local artists and communities, and exhibiting the artworks created in the ECHO II art residencies in dialogue with the local tradition of Xerolithia (the art of drystone walling). The event will take place on the 21st and 22nd of May 2022, at the primary school of Chora.
Balkans Beyond Borders and GLAM Hack, in the context of the open access policy of the ECHO II project, co-organize a 2-session workshop for artists, heritage professionals, cultural managers, activists and anyone interested in the Open GLAM movement. The workshop will take place on Wednesday 25 May 2022 (time: 17:30 – 21:00) at Goethe-Institut Athen.
During February 2022, PostScriptum offered a series of three (3) webinars as part of the digital strategy of ECHO II, providing insights and tools to empower artists, heritage professionals, cultural managers and nonprofit organisations in the digital era.
PostScriptum, in the context of the digital strategy and outreach of ECHO II, announces a series of three (3) webinars providing insights and tools to empower artists, heritage professionals, cultural managers and civil society organizations in the digital era.
On 29 and 30 October 2021, Balkans Beyond Borders hosted the Gala of Curiosities -a networking and audience development event of ECHO II- in the context of the 12th BBB Short Film Festival, which took place in Pristina, Kosovo. This event consisted of a series of activities that presented the ECHO II project and its artistic outcomes to wider audiences from the Balkan region, and connected the ECHO II artists-in-residence with professionals from the cultural and creative sectors in an effort to participate actively in a productive dialogue, network and establish future collaborations.
Click to learn more about the creative documentary “Dark Vein” that was created by Stratis Vogiatzis and Giorgos Samantas, and produced by Inter Alia and Caravan Project during the ECHO I project.
We are looking for 4 artists (1 from Greece, 1 from Bulgaria, 1 from North Macedonia, and 1 from Hungary), who are working in the fields of painting, sculpture, graphicdesign, fashion design, craftwork, and mural to participate in the fifth *extra* art residency of the project.
