Main Panel PARTICIPATION & CULTURE

27. November 2020, 10 am -1:00 pm, live from the Nikolaisaal!

Making the cultural landscape accessible and relevant to a broad section of society is the most urgent tasks. How to expand civic participation in art and culture and make access more accessible? Ways and means already exist in cultural education work for involving a diverse audience and to ensure inclusion and integration. In cultural institutions, outreach managers and outreach curators are increasingly acting in community engagement programmes in order to reach culturally diverse audiences more effectively. What are the complex challenges of outreach and audience development for future cultural programmes? How can a sustainable balance between leadership and participation in culture be struck?

The digital main forum enlivens one of the three main topics Climate, Crisis & Culture, Democracy & Culture and Participation & Culture with interactive discussions, expert moderators and top speakers.

1st Panel 10:00 - 10:45 am

Culture for everyone. Or: culture from everyone?

Cultural education for everyone - the old paradigm of participation faces a test. By aiming to reach everyone, it is predominantly "only" possible to achieve target group-specific segmentation, which ultimately consolidates milieu-specific perspectives. Cultural participation should not be a privilege for selected population groups, but social empowerment of everyone. How can cultural education not only reach everyone, but encourage people with different lifestyles and backgrounds for active, lively exchange? How can the opportunity to help shape society be strengthened in a sustainable and long-term manner and thus lead to the removal of barriers of all kinds?

Esme Ward

Director Manchester Museum

Gabriele Landwehr

Former director of the Goethe-Institut Abu Dhabi

Jochen Sandig

Cultural Entrepreneur, Sophiensäle Berlin und Radialsystem Berlin

2nd Panel 11:00 - 11:45 am

Courageously sustainable! What is cultural funding doing for an environmentally friendly future?

European funding for culture has an impact far beyond culture.In this way, public and private cultural promotion not only makes an important contribution to cultural diversity and participation, but also strengthens social learning and engagement processes among citizens. Further topics such as ecology and sustainability of cultural projects will move more to the fore. To what extent is sustainability education part of cultural education? How can private and public cultural funding contribute to this connection?

	Prof. Dr. Markus Hilgert Secretary General of the Cultural Foundation of the States
	Dr. Christian Ehler MoEP
	Edilia Gänz Fedora, Director
	Clemens Pflanz European Cultural and Creative Industries Alliance (ECCIA), Vice-Chairman Meisterkreis, Founder & Board

3rd Panel 11:45 am - 12:00 pm

"We have an appointment with Bayer!"

Lisa Charlotte Friederich is an actress and director. Rike Huy is a trumpeter, composer, and producer. Together they shot the now award-winning film “Live”, which unintentionally shows parallels to the Corona crisis. They are the first filmmakers to be supported by Bayer Culture as part of the “stART” program, which up until now has mainly been aimed at young musicians. But how do the artists see funding from a group like Bayer, which is criticized for example because of the Monsanto takeover? And why does Bayer Culture promote the production of sophisticated and socially critical films? The positive interaction in 15 minutes ...

Thomas Helfrich

Bayer AG, Manager Corporate Positioning | Head of Corporate Positioning

Lisa Charlotte Friedrich

Actress and Director

Rike Huy

Musician and Producer

4th Panel 12:00 - 1:00 pm

Solidarity through living together - Urban space as a guarantee for tolerance and participation?

European cities are transit areas and cultural contact zones.As these dynamic places, full of art and culture, they have the task of generating tolerance and citizen participation. Urban culture connects and not only becomes a connecting element of a diverse society when it comes to migration and flight. How can culture in the city ensure cosmopolitanism and transnationality? How can we strengthen cities as places to live together? How must a city be organized in order to live participation and solidarity?