About this Event
Moving the Network - Riga, Latvia
Our 2024 annual conference will be dedicated to exploring the transformative roles socio-cultural centres can play in building more inclusive societies.
With Tracing the Trails, we aim to foster exchanges between our members and beyond, creating opportunities for cross-sectorial cooperation and strategic partnerships, with a view to pursuing inclusive systemic change.
Tracing the Trails will be an invitation to explore, get inspired, problematise, and conceive new approaches to access and inclusion, overcoming the silo mentality that often affects policy-making and organisations. And it will also be an invitation to celebrate 30 years of ENCC, looking back at where we started, and gazing forward at where we're collectively headed.
The event will be co-organised with our members theAssociation of Latvian Culture Centresand theCulture Association of Northern Riga, as well as the Latvian National Centre for Culture. As usual, there will be space for study visits, panel discussions, workshops, creativity and walks in nature.
PROGRAMME
TUESDAY 4 JUNE
Morning:
9.30 – 12.30 General Assembly ENCC (for members only)
Afternoon:
12:30 – 14:00 Registrations and welcome lunch for all participants and
14:00-14:30: Tracing the Trails official opening
14:30 – 16:00: Panel discussion: The transformative role of socio-cultural centres for a more inclusive society
16.00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16.30 – 18:00: Workshops by ENCC members (list available soon)
Evening:
18.00 – 18:45: The observation tower
18:45 - ...: Celebration of ENCC's anniversary party and dinner
WEDNESDAY 5 JUNE (all day @ VEF Palace + study visits)
Morning:
9:00 – 9:30: Slow start and registrations
9.30 – 10:00: Inspirational talk
10.00 – 11:00: Just sustainability transitions: interview with researcher Anna Maria Ranczakowska and ENCC members
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00 Workshops
- Doing gender! Cultural centres and initiatives as role models for gender equality, a workshop with Beate Kegler and Helena Walther, University of Hildesheim (IN SITU project partner)
- Workshop FULCRUM project (meeting for project partners only)
Afternoon:
13.00 – 14.30 Lunch break and free time
14:30 – 15:00: Presentation of the winners of Up Grants 2024
15:00 – 16:30: Workshops by the winners of Up Grants 2024
- E-inclusion and digital accessibility
- Building inclusive narratives
- Identification and removal of barriers for marginalised groups
- Equality and diversity criteria in boards and management
16.30 – 19:00: Study visits
Evening:
19.00 – 19.30: Concert at VEF Kultūras pils
19.30 Dinner and free time
THURSDAY 6 JUNE @ VEF Palace:
Morning:
9:00 – 9:30: Welcome and slow start
9.30 – 11:00: Looking ahead: closing panel
11:30 – 12:30 Looking ahead: workshop and closing remarks
Afternoon:
13:30 Three-hour guided tour of the old city and market (optional)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
VEF Culture Palace, 2 Ropažu iela, RIGA, Latvia
EUR 150.00
