EMCY is happy to collaborate with the European Music Council and other seven partners in SHIFT – Shared Initiatives for Training, a project co-funded by Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.
Climate change, gender equality and inclusion of minorities are key challenges for our rapidly changing world. Arts and culture have a recognised role in shaping societies and have the potential to significantly contribute to a better and more sustainable future for all as recognised in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The project SHIFT will provide training initiatives for cultural leaders, working together and creating paths to face such global challenges. Implementing changes where needed and passing on the gained knowledge to leaders and staff members of cultural networks and the broader cultural sector are key targets of the project. The partners will produce online manuals and guidelines during these two next years (December 2019-December 2021) on the following themes: Cultural leadership, Climate change, Inclusion, Gender & Power-relations.
Cultural leadership is one of today’s buzzwords. Yet there is no common understanding on the concept of Cultural Leadership. Today people agree on a community-oriented approach and therefore a shared leadership, which doesn’t have to be neutral and universal, but is aware of its subjectivity and dependence on group identities and values. This new paradigm gives space for a humanistic managerial approach which will benefit to the whole cultural sector.
CULTURAL LEADERSHIP ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
The main goal of the collection of resources is to explore the concept of Cultural Leadership by adopting a community-oriented understanding. Going beyond the idea of the leader as the sole enactor of change, the project understands change as a transformational process that can be kickstarted by innovation entrepreneurs in touch with the organisational community.
The collection of resources focuses on different dimensions of this understanding of cultural leadership. Leaders have to root their efforts of change not only in normative ideas and ideal states, but also on the analysis of the current state of their organisation. The collection presents ideas of what cultural leaders are and could be, but also it introduces a series of methodological and analytical tools useful to understand their organisations.
The annotated bibliography is by no means exhaustive and is rather meant as a guide, read it and download it here.
This publication has been created by Trans Europe Halles and the SHIFT partner networks as output for the cultural leadership strand of the SHIFT project (Shared Initiatives for Training).
To see all the sources, publications, newsletters on best practices visit the SHIFT website
Climate change is now affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies and affecting lives on local, national and global level. This project will provide capacity building for leaders and staff of cultural networks on how to claim a role in the action required to achieve the climate change goals of the UN SDGs. Claiming that role means embedding environmental sustainability into the way we work and collaborate.
The European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA) will lead on how to achieve environmental sustainability in your work.
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
The SHIFT Environmental Sustainability and the Arts Annotated Bibliography serves cultural networks and their members by providing key resources, literature, and inspiring examples for the development of environmentally sustainable practices. The bibliography is meant as a supporting tool for cultural organisations and professionals from all arts disciplines and cultural fields.
This annotated bibliography is by no means exhaustive and is rather meant as a guide which as a whole provides an overview of discourses in sustainability and the arts as well as pathways on how to develop environmentally sustainable arts and culture practices. It can also be used to identify relevant sources on specific topics of interest. All sources in this annotated bibliography have been specifically selected on the basis of their relevance to the arts and culture field. Read it and download it here.
This publication has been created by ELIA and the SHIFT partner networks as output for the environmental sustainability strand of the SHIFT project (Shared Initiatives for Training).
To see all the sources, publications, newsletters on best practices visit the SHIFT website
While the topic of inclusion in itself is not new, there are no general guidelines for cultural networks about how an organisation can adapt its work, its communication and its activities to reach more people in danger of being excluded. These guidelines will be the first document aimed at networks, organisations and institutions active in the field of culture. It will also have a special focus on leaders of these networks and organisations, with the aim of training them and reinforcing their capacity to increase inclusion and accessibility and to reduce inequality in their organisation and its activities.
The European Choral Association – Europa Cantat (ECA-EC) will be leading the journey with guidelines and research on how to reduce inequalities in cultural organisation and activities.
INCLUSION ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
The SHIFT Inclusion Annotated Bibliography is designed to support cultural networks and organisations of all kinds in navigating and engaging with the topic of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. It comprises a selection of 101 resources, including toolkits, checklists, tests, articles, reports and guides. These assist the reader in understanding the different elements that combine to make an organisation more inclusive, as well as providing concrete advice on how to put advice into action.
The bibliography strives to be a useful starting point for cultural networks and organisations in any field, in any country and in terms of any marginalised group. Depending on the chapter, this means that the resources selected are general (dealing with no specific marginalised group) or are made up of a selection of different specific resources (dealing with one or more named marginalised groups). We therefore encourage the reader to approach the topic with a flexible mind, identifying where knowledge is transferable to their own situation, even if the marginalised group they wish to consider is not explicitly mentioned. The annotated bibliography can be read and download it here.
This publication has been created by the European Choral Association – Europa Cantat and the SHIFT partner networks as output for the inclusion strand of the SHIFT project (Shared Initiatives for Training).
To see all the sources, publications, newsletters on best practices visit the SHIFT website
The #METOO movement, and other movements and campaigns, have increased the awareness and empowered employees around the globe to report sexual harassment and other inequalities in the workplace. They have also brought to the surface the vulnerability and a lack of effective protection mechanisms of anyone facing power abuse, regardless of age, class and gender. The aim of this foreseen code of conduct and toolkit is to contribute to a lasting impact of this wave of empowerment on professional and societal culture.
IETM was leading the development of the code of conduct and toolkit on gender and power relations.
GENDER & POWER RELATIONS ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
This publication is part of the gender and power-relations package which encompasses a lot of complex issues, both in society and more specifically in the cultural sector, hence the common decision to focus on sexual harassment in the culture and creative sectors. The global movement of #METOO, which started in 2017, increased awareness and empowered employees and professionals across the globe to report sexual harassment and other inequalities in the workplace. #METOO brought to the surface the vulnerability and a lack of effective protection mechanisms of anyone facing power abuse, regardless of age, class and gender.
A large number of resources exist on the issue even if they can be unequal in terms of contents, accessibility and number depending on the covered countries, sub-sectors and languages in focus.
This annotated bibliography does not claim to be fully comprehensive on the subject but tries to introduce on specific entries (policies, campaigns, codes of conduct etc.) accessible online resources that can help end-users to find documents, tools, inspiration, etc. and to design further their own ways to act on the subject depending on their needs and the context they are evolving. The focus is mostly on Europe with a few international references.The annotated bibliography can be read and download it here.
This annotated bibliography has been created by FACE, IETM and On the Move and the SHIFT partner networks.
To see all the sources, publications, newsletters on best practices visit the SHIFT website
