EUROCITIES Culture Forum Meeting 4th-7th November

17:00 Two optional meetings in parallel:

• Meeting of the Education and Culture group (Chair: Rotterdam)
  Venue: Museo del Puerto Fluvial de Caesaraugusta, plaza de San Bruno, 8.

• Informal meeting on European Capitals of Culture (Chair: Jerónimo Blasco Jáuregui, Deputy Mayor for Culture, Zaragoza)
  Objective: prepare a paper asking for more European co-funding for European Capitals of Culture
  Venue: Museo del Teatro de Caesaraugusta, calle San Jorge,12

19:30 Welcome Session
Venue: Museo del Foro Romano
Welcome Speeches:

• Elena Allué, City Councillor for Promotion and Tourism
• Jerónimo Blasco, Deputy Mayor for Culture and Grand Projects

Drinks and Tapas

THURSDAY 5 NOVEMBER

Centro de Historia: Plaza San Agustín, 2

Zaragoza History Center presents the evolution of the city of Zaragoza thematically, using state of the art technologies, giving a total vision and insight into the city from a historical, patrimonial, town-planning, cultural and tourist perspective. It has been designed as a space offering historical information, whilst, at the same time, bearing very much in mind the city?s future perspectives.

• 08.30  Registration
• 09.00  Opening by the Mayor of Zaragoza
• 09.30 - 9.40 Words from the Chair of the Culture Forum, Jean-Louis Jossic, Nantes

Thematic Session I - Mobility of artists, projects and culture professionals

Cities fostering mobility

Moderator: Gorgia Boldrini, Bologna

9:40 -10:30  Keynote interventions:

• Mary Ann Devlieg, secretary general of the International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts (IETM)
• Antonio Nicolau Martí, director for cultural and scientific relations, Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AEICD)
• Anna Athanasopoulou, DG Education and Culture, European Commission

10:30 - 10:40  Questions/Answers

10:40 -11.15  Sofa-talk (panel discussion) with 3 examples from cities and artists from Zaragoza. If you have a suggestion for a contribution to his session, please contact Julie.herve@eurocities.eu

11.15-11.30  Intervention from the floor

11.30-12.00  Coffee break - Posters prepared by cities will be displayed in the museum

Cities are invited to prepare posters on the theme "mobility of artists, projects and cultural agents". Posters will be used for discussions, will be exhibited at the Centro de Historia and then used for a publication.
Posters should include information on mobility programmes or projects from your city, pictures and contact details of the persons in charge.

Technical specifications - posters should be:

• Size: DINA3
• Prepared for immediate printing, high quality

Sent before October 15th to jmerchan@zaragoza.es, mentioning the following in the matter box: "poster EUROCITIES + name of the city ".
Our colleagues from Zaragoza will take care of the printing of the vinyl posters.
Any question? Please contact Julie.herve@eurocities.eu

Focus on Euro-American Mobility

Moderators: Miguel Zarzuela and José Ramon Insa, Zaragoza

12.00-12.20 - Guillermo Corral, Spanish Ministry of Culture, including guidelines on the priorities of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union (January-June 2010) regarding culture.

12.20-13.00 - Sofa talk with representatives from various networks and projects:

• Redeseartepaz (International project of cultural agents)
• Zona de Obras
• Casa América
• Interlocal network

13.00-13.30 Interventions from the floor

13.30-15.00 In parallel

• Themed lunch on the mobility of artists, projects and cultural professionals
• Politicians lunch and political discussion on ?Public private partnerships for culture facing the recession?. Please note that a commented tour of Expo will take place for politicians after the lunch (TBC).

Moderator: Warsaw (TBC)

From 15.00 Meetings of the Working Groups in parallel:

• Access to culture
• Young people and culture
• Resources for culture

20.30 Official Dinner at restaurant El Molino

23.00 Cabaret El Plata

FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER

Teatro Arbolé, Parque del Agua Luis Buñuel, Pº Botánico, 4

Arbolé Theatre came into being in 1979 as a small puppet theatre, later becoming the first professional children´s theatre company in Aragon. In recent years, it has participated in co-productions with other companies in theatre for children and adults. Arbolé has transcended its roots in puppets and is now involved in production, programming, exhibition, distribution and training.
www.teatroarbole.es

Thematic Session II - Street Art and architecture ... how culture redesigns the city

9:15 - 9:50 - Keynote intervention: "EXPO Zaragoza: new cultural spaces for a new city", Jerónimo Blasco, Deputy Mayor for Culture and grand projects

9:50 - 11:00 - Sofa Talk (panel discussion) with representatives from European cities (cities TBC) and Patrizia di Monte, Architect from Zaragoza in charge of the project  "Vacíos Cotidianos" (new cultural uses for old town empty spaces).
Moderator: Victor Domeque, Zaragoza
If you have a suggestion for a contribution to this session please contact Julie.herve@eurocities.eu

11:00 - 11:30  - Coffee break

11:30 - 13:30 - Closing session moderated by Karine Daniel, Nantes

• Connecting to the EUROCITIES network (Paul Bevan, EUROCITIES Secretary General)
• Latest developments on culture at EU Level 
• Working Group reports
• Results of the EUROCITIES Culture Forum survey and discussion on the priorities of the Culture Forum for 2010
• "Your space"
• Next meeting of the Culture Forum
• Concluding words (politician from Zaragoza, name TBC)

13:30 - 15:00 - Lunch

15:30 - 18:00 - Technical guided tours:

• Urban Art (Graf´s route)
• Roman Route (Caesaraugusta´s route)
• Route of the Sieges (Napoleon´s route)
• Route of Temporary Exhibitions
• Architecture and Art - The New town

20:00 - Optional dinner (at own cost, 30 euros approx)
www.gastronomia-aragonesa.com/tapas/zaragoza/centro/index.php

SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER

9:30  Meeting of the Steering Group of the Culture Forum
Venue: Museo del Puerto Fluvial, Plaza San Bruno, 8

11:00-13:30 - Optional visits (in English): Aljafería and la Seo