[Nettime-ro] CLUJ CARAVAN | Focus on Social Creativity | 13-15 November 2013

[Rarita Zbranca/AltArt <rarita@altart.org>]

CLUJ CARAVAN | Focus on Social Creativity | 13-15 November 2013
*Culture and Sustainability*
*CLUJ CARAVAN*
*Focus on Social Creativity*
13-15 November 2013

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*Culture and Sustainability
CLUJ CARAVAN
Focus on Social Creativity
13-15 November 2013*


       *Wednesday, 13.11.2013, 11.00-13.00*
       *Social Creativity. Introduction to local experiences in Cluj*


PAC â Cluj Autonomous Market, The Butterfly Garden, Save RoÈia MontanÄ 
Campaign, Kitchen Stories/Mobile Kitchen, Cluj Hub, Pata RÃt IT Cluster

*PAC â Cluj Autonomous Market | Camelia Badea & Alex BoguÈ*

*The Autonomous Market of Cluj* functions on the "gift economy" 
principle, which states that goods and services are offered without an 
explicit agreement or expectations of a reward. Ideally, these exchanges 
already take place voluntarily in a community and they help on building 
up social relationships. Not everything is resumed to obtaining a social 
advantage or profit, the majority of exchanges in a society work outside 
the market economy, and are based on goodwill and cooperation. Thus, our 
goal is to meet up every month under the name of the Autonomous Market 
of Cluj in order to create a money free and social division free SPACE. 
Here, we will have free workshops, free goods and services and we will 
be enjoying a warm meal together under the aegis âFood not Bombsâ.

https://www.facebook.com/piata.autonoma.cluj?ref=br_tf

*Community & Urban Gardening | Efectul Fluture*

*The Butterfly Garden* is part of the The Urban Community Garden project 
that is taken place at the moment on the rooftop of a former industrial 
factory in Cluj Napoca â Fabrica de Pensule.
The Romanian context for the development of urban gardening as a form of 
civic engagement is very different from the ones of other European 
countries. The general practice of urban community gardening as a 
catalyst for civic action is little acknowledged or encouraged at local 
or national level. The few initiatives are rather present on social 
media groups. Hence there are few initiatives that explore the role of 
urban gardening and its importance within community development 
activities and the many ways in which urban agriculture can contribute 
to the creation of an active community.
The Urban Community Garden project aims at promoting urban gardens as a 
framework for public involvement in community life. The objectives 
identified in order to sustain the project's goal are the set up of a 
community urban garden in Cluj Napoca, the organization events dedicated 
to civic engagement in urban gardening, the empowerment of people 
willing to work on urban gardens and the involvement of local 
authorities in Cluj ÂNapoca in creating a local policy on urban gardening.

http://efectulfluture.ro/

*Pata Rat IT Cluster | IstvÃn SzakÃts*

Pata Rat is situated at the periphery of Cluj, both geographically and 
socially. Over 2000 people live there, deep under the poverty line. They 
work mostly recycling the waste on the city dump. This community is so 
segregated they are most of the time invisible to citizens and 
policymakers both. For the past 10 years there have been several 
processes started, with the intention to connect the Pata Rat community 
to the city. *Pata Rat IT Cluster* is one of the initiatives in the 
community.

*Cluj Hub | Cristian DascÄlu*

Cluj Hub is a meeting place, work, play and creativeness garden, with 
friendly hammocks in the garden and a friendly office, which hosts 
initiatives that inspire ideas that move people.

http://clujhub.ro/

*Kitchen Stories/Mobile Kitchen | Mixer Group (Ana Botezatu & Corina Bucea)*

Mixer is an artistic group interested in combining the documentation of 
social phenomena with elements of investigation and adaptation of the 
imaginary around them. Kitchen Stories is a series of events that Mixer 
organized recently, bringing together the simple act of cooking and 
eating together between strangers, and combining it with presentations, 
talks, film screenings, etc. The Mobile Kitchen is a self-made minimal 
construction that has the main utilities of a kitchen and that acts as 
an open space cooking space. The kitchen is a modular space that can be 
installed anywhere in the city, encouraging participants to share the 
experience and interact with others, while also learning about cooking 
and its diverse instances.

https://www.facebook.com/GrupulMixer

*Save Rosia Montana Campaign | Alburnus Maior *

Save Rosia Montana Campaign is the connection between the local 
opposition in Rosia Montana, Romania, manifested in the Association 
Alburnus Maior, and activist all over Romania fighting against Europeâs 
biggest, to be, open-cast gold mine planned in Rosia Montana. Rosia 
Montana is a village in the Apuseni Mountains, Transylvania region, 
Romania, and itâs the oldest documented mining settlement in Romania 
(1881 years). Alburnus Maior is a grassroots NGO based in Rosia Montana 
village founded in September 2000 by the local people and the land 
owners in Rosia Montana. It regroups 300 families of peasants in Rosia 
Montana and neighboring villages to oppose the largest gold mine 
proposal in Europe which entails the destruction of Rosia Montana and 
its surroundings. Alburnus Maior opposes the mining project proposed by 
Rosia Montana Gold Corporation on environmental, social, cultural and 
economical grounds. In 2000, Alburnus Maior and approximately 40 Romania 
NGOs gathered in Rosia Montana where they took a joint statement 
regarding the Rosia Montana project. This gave birth to the Save RoÅia 
MontanÄ Campaign â the biggest environmental movement in Romania. 
Resistance to the project has since spread across Romania. During over 
10 years of resistance, Alburnus Maior, through the Save Rosia Montana 
Campaign has successfully mobilized thousands of people and has so far 
kept the mine from being realized.

www.rosiamontana.org <http://www.rosiamontana.org/>


       *Thursday, 14 November, 14.11.2013, 15.00-17.00*


       *Public talk: Art and Sustainability*


Moderator: Corina Bucea â cultural manager
Kelly Diapouli â cultural manager, Mihai LukÃcs â artist, Alexandros 
Mistriotis - artist, Eugen PÄnescu â architect/urbanist, Norbert 
Petrovici â sociologist, Anca Simionca - sociologist, IstvÃn SzakÃts â 
curator, RariÈa Zbranca â cultural manager

The meeting proposes a joint reflection on the different aspects of 
culture and sustainability: the resilience of the arts sector and other 
value-based sectors in a climate of austerity and value-shifts; the 
contribution of culture to a more responsible use of natural resources; 
the connection between access to culture and individual well-being; the 
need for sustainable alternative models for different social and 
cultural practices etc. The discussions take place in a series of public 
talks and other events on the topic of /Culture &Sustainability/ that 
Balkan Express has stirred throughout the past year.

The meeting in Cluj focuses on culture and social innovation. How can 
culture contribute to imagining new models of social interaction and 
organising? How can we as culture professionals contribute to a more 
fair, cohesive and responsible society? What is the legacy of our work? 
And, nonetheless, how can the cultural sector become more sustainable 
itself? Can we imagine within our sector and in connection with other 
sectors alternative ways of operation and organisation? We look to 
answer these questions through discussions and presentations of best 
practices.


*The Cluj Caravan is organized by:*
Balkan Express Network
AltArt Foundation/A Soul for Europe
Fabrica de Pensule/Flow Festival
ColectivA/Temps dâImages Festival

*With the financial support of:*
European Cultural Foundation
European Commission - Europe for Citizens
Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs Austria
Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe


/*Balkan Express* <http://balkanexpresss.wordpress.com/> is a network of 
professionals from culture and connected socially engaged practices that 
aims to mobilise the cultural sector throughout the Balkans, Central 
Eastern Europe and internationally, to //build new relations, to 
encourage sharing and cooperation with the view to establish a 
supportive relation between arts/culture and society. /

/*A Soul for Europe * <http://www.asoulforeurope.eu/>is a European 
initiative promoting culture as a strategic factor for development â at 
local, regional, national and European level. /

/*Flow Festival* <http://www.flow-festival.info/>of Conversation for 
Culture and Science is an initiative of the Austrian Federal Ministry 
for European and International Affairs and of the Institute for Danube 
Region. /

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