Oct7
“The new development paradigm, where the main factors of economic and social growth are knowledge, creativity, originality and skills, has not only changed the economic structure, but also the concepts of growth and development. The ‘knowledge-based economy’ finds its economic support in creativity and talent, and emphasises cultural industries as a conceptual framework within which growth generators exist.”[1]
In 2008 the cultural and creative sectors contributed an estimated 4.5 % to EU GDP, and employed some 3.8% of Europe’s workforce[1]. Beyond this direct contribution to jobs and growth, these sectors trigger spill-overs in other areas such as tourism, content for ICT and provide benefits for education, social inclusion and social innovation. They are therefore particularly important as Europe and other regions in the world seek to emerge from the current economic crisis. With this regard, social entrepreneurship represents an opportunity to attempt to further broad social, cultural and environmental goals by using innovative solutions and measuring performance in positive return to society.
At the same time, there is an important development of creative hubs and business in Europe and worldwide. They are physical or virtual ‘place’ based on collective or co-operative models and on creative, technological or cultural work aiming at supporting the development of companies and projects but also connecting people in networks and creative communities.
The Dialogue Café Association aims at supporting social entrepreneurship in creative sectors by offering its network to address the challenges faced by creative and social entrepreneurs, providing networking and partnerships opportunities, promoting research and reflection, sharing good practices and case studies as well as supporting the development of social entrepreneur’s competences.
With this purpose, the Dialogue Café Association organise a programme of sessions focused on:
1. Exchanging thoughts on Creative Hubs and Entrepreneurship, vehicle of social change and development (20 October);
2. Becoming Entrepreneur and hub Manager: creative smoothie of competences (27 October);
3. Partnership and Fundraising opportunities for social and creative entrepreneurs (10 November);
4. Good practices and initiatives of social entrepreneurship in creative sectors (11 November);
If you are interested in social entrepreneurship and creativity, sign up, join us and share your experience.
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More info: Dalia Sendra (daliasendra at casadoregalo.pt)
Ref:
[1] “Building a Digital Economy: The importance of saving jobs in the EU’s creative industries”, TERA Consultants, March 2010.
[2] Commission Recommendation on the digitalisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation, C(2011) 7579 final, 27.10.2011
[3] European Creative Hubs Forum, January 2015, Lisbon (Portugal) – www.creativehubs.org
[1] Measuring the Economic contribution of Cultural Industries, A review and assessment of current methodological approaches. 2009 UNESCO Framework for Cultural Statistics Handbook NO. 1, 2009. Link to survey
Aug3
Tales are typically interlaced with the inspired narrative of a society, embedding its historical origin, conveying its cultural representation, and often emitting its cultural beliefs. These are commonly constructed with identifiable universal common denominators, such as good vs. evil. As such, tales frequently become an archival reference of a culture, providing a looking-glass to the civilisation they were produced in. In Interpretation of Fairytales, Marie-Louise Von Franz states that fairytales “mirror the basic structure of the psyche” and provide the most elementary archetypal insight into the collective unconscious.
The Dialogue Cafe Association organises this workshop with the aim of promoting to intercultural exchange through the sharing of tales from the participants’ homelands, and re-enacting extracts or scenarios of these tales to create a new – and culturally-shared – tale.
This workshop will deal with the topic of fairytales and other tales as a vessel of the collective unconscious cultural memory of the participants, with the prospect of imparting awareness of both cultural distinction and resemblance, through the construction of a shared tale.
The workshop will take place on 21, 25, 27 August 2015 and will connect Dialogue Cafés based in Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro.
DC- Sharing and Creating tales – Programme.
For more information you can write us at daliasendra (at) casadoregalo.pt
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Jul19
Dialogue Café Association is organising a cycle of workshops aimed at promoting a culture of peace and dialogue by providing people – in particular youth and young adults – with new tools to understand and manage disputes, transform and solve conflicts.
This project aims at contributing to develop a culture of peace dialogue, peace building and cooperation among young adults. Following international best practices in this field, the peacebuilding workshops and trainings will comprise the following five basic modules:
- Module 1 – Introduction, trust building, expectations and ground rules etc.
- Module 2 – Challenges of reconciliation – what reconciliation means; dilemmas of reconciliation; sustaining reconciliation work.
- Module 3 – Conflict and context analysis.
- Module 4 – Concepts for peacebuilding, principles and framework.
- Module 5 – Communication and conflict handling.
These workshops will be run by the Dialogue Café Lisbon and Dialogue Café Rio de Janeiro in cooperation with a range of partners. This five sessions training will take place from 14h to 15h30 on 20, 21, 25, 26 and 27 August 2015.
Sign-up by sending us an email at daliasendra (at) casadoregalo.pt.
For more information about the sessions check-out the DC_ Peacebuilding Trainings or contact us at daliasendra (at) casadoregalo.pt.
Jun10
Session on Integration of Minorities and Social Cohesion
The Dialogue Café Novi Pazar was funded as result of the UN project “Improving Human Security for Vulnerable Communities in southwest Serbia”. A programme of sessions have been led by Dialogue Cafe Novi Pazar since its official opening on different issues of interest such as : interethnic and interreligious trust, minority rights, non-discrimination and gender equality, the integration of minorities and community cohesion, innovative textile production and green societies, with the aim of promoting exchange of good practices with other EU countries.
In this framework, DC Novi Pazar will also lead the organisation of a session on: “Youth participation in decision making processes – towards more accepting, open societies” (22 June from 14h00 to 15h30 London time).
Participation is a fundamental right. It is one of the guiding principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that has been reiterated in many other Conventions and Declarations. Through active participation, young people are empowered to play a vital role in their own development as well as in that of their communities. The significance of participation was emphasized in the World Programme of Action for Youth, adopted by the General Assembly in 1995.
The programme will take place as follows:
Moderator: Mr. Stefan Kondic, President of the UN Association of Serbia Youth Section, DC Novi Pazar Team
– DC Novi Pazar:
- Ms Aleksandra Knezevic – Ministry of Youth and Sport, Republic of Serbia
- Mr Jasmin Mujezinovic – Representative of the Office for Youth, Novi Pazar
- Mr Almir Rizvanovic – Representative of the youth organization MSO from Novi Pazar
– DC Lisbon:
Other participants will join us from Dialogue Café Rio de Janeiro.
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For more : info at dialoguecafe.org
Jun10
Nowadays because of globalisation and migrations youth are often confronted with the challenge of managing diversity and dealing with differences. Avoiding conflict and refraining from entering into the cycle of violent behaviour require skills that have to be taught within a broad-based, multidimensional approach to conflict transformation, youth and educational work.
Exchange session with the participation of Academia Ubuntu
This project aims at contributing to develop and to create opportunities for developing social skills, capacity of dialogue, negotiation and cooperation, in particular among teenagers and youth. Following international best practices in this field, the 4 sessions for “youth transforming conflict” that are proposed will be in line namely with the kit produced by the Council of Europe to address this topic.
The sessions will focus on the following topics/activities:
1-Youth work for conflict transformation – understanding a conflict and conflict mapping (23 June)
2- Co-operation solutions (30 June)
3 – Mediation/third party interventions and negotiation (07 June)
4- Conflict themes (14 July)
DC- Training Youth transforming conflict – Programme
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For more detailed information:
Dialogue Café Association
info at dialoguecafe.org
Jun3
The Dialogue Café Novi Pazar was funded as result of the UN project “Improving Human Security for Vulnerable Communities in southwest Serbia”.
In this framework, DC Novi Pazar will lead a session on the topic “Impact of digital technologies on low tech industries – the future of textiles production” (05 June 2015, 14h00 – 15h30 London time).
The textile industry in Serbia holds a special significance, and Novi Pazar is a city with a long tradition and great potential in manufacturing textiles. Novi Pazar has a particularly strong clothes industry, more specifically making high quality jeans. You can find more information on the website of the Association of Novi Pazar textile manufacturers.
Because of the various processes involved in making jeans, this industry is considered one of the “dirtiest” in textile manufacturing. That’s why the use of eco-friendly technologies is an important issue.
On the other hand, new digital technologies enable digital design and printing via computers and special printers, without having to worry about quantity. It opens the question of how can textile manufacturers preserve tradition and product quality in a time of new challenges. What’s the future of textile manufacturing?”
Participants representing governments, civil society and private companies will join us to discuss and exchange views on this issue.
Moderator: Vanja Popovic, United Nations Association of Serbia, DC Novi Pazar
– DC Lisbon:
- Helena Barroco, President a.i. Dialogue Café Association
- Participants from the fashion and textile field will join us during the discussion. Among them, MODATEX, IADE.
– DC Novi Pazar:
- Semih Durovic, Regional Project Manager, USAID Sustainable Local Development Project
- Representative of Association of Textile Producers ASSTEX, Novi Pazar
- Meho Camović, Director, School of Textile Design
Other participants from DC Florence will join us.
2015.06.05 DC – The future of textiles production – Programme
For more information contact us at: info (at) dialoguecafe.org
