vrijdag 4 april 2008 / Internationalisering
Kuhnya Spring Academy 2008 in Tomsk
In the framework of Russian and Soviet tradition, a kitchen has a specific resonance: kitchens used to be the place for long conversations on the most important issues, for sharing ideas, shaping real social values and developing a genuine civil society. There is a special Russian term for these kitchen conversations. According to the preliminary findings of a city-wide investigation, over 60% of working professionals in Novosibirsk still use their kitchen as the place to meet new people and exchange ideas. Kuhnya will move these kitchen conversations into the public arena so that the European idea of a public centre can adapt to the local environment of Novosibirsk and beyond.
Kuhnya offers public debates, innovative community projects, as well as an annual Spring Academy in collaboration with partner organisations in Siberia for an audience of creative professionals, socially active business leaders, as well as citizens in professional communities in the city of Novosibirsk and other Siberian regions.
From 4-6 April Kuhnya will present the Spring Academy, this time in Tomsk. Jeroen Busscher (creative entrepreneur, Amsterdam) will present a workshop on Entrepreneurship in the Arts, Informational Campaigns and Internet - Reaching out to your Audience will be presented by Jacques Monasch (Jacques Monasch Consultancy) and Marketing in Culture by Pieter van Empelen (Hermitage aan de Amstel, Amsterdam). Russian co-trainers will be invited to the programme.
Kuhnya is a project of The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University, Felix Meritis and the Open Siberia Agency and is supported by the MATRA programme of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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