Europe-Mediterranean

This blog provides a selection of articles posted under the various thematic blogs at BLOG2.013. Blog2.013 is an open and critical media space where you can find all sorts of audio productions, texts and images produced by Radio Grenouille, the radio station devoted to culture, as well as by various organisations and artists in Marseille and the surrounding region of Provence. Interviews, lectures, utopian projects, recordings of oral traditions, stories and music, walks, creative work and analysis, BLOG 2.013 documents Marseille and the Mediterranean and gives it a voice, together with the city’s artists, residents, challenges and paradoxes.

11 Sep 20080

From Liverpool 2008 to Marseille 2013

The impact of European Capitals of Culture

Impact 08 is a research programme set up as part of Liverpool 2008, European Capital of Culture. The idea is to assess the long-term effects of such an event…
Beatriz Garcia, the programme manager, recently came to Marseille. Invited by Marseille Provence 2013, she met a variety of operators (Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Marseille, ARCADE, town planning offices for the urban areas of Marseille and Toulon, etc.) with a view to keeping dialogue open into the crucial issues surrounding the assessment of cultural events.

Listen: an interview with Beatriz Garcia, conducted by Fred Kahn and Célia Pascaud, presenting the Impact 08 programme

Beatriz Garcia presents the Impact 08 research programme [in French - 3mn01]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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1 Sep 20081

« Cities on the edge »

Interview with Franco Bianchini

Franco Bianchini is Professor and Director of Research at Leicester and Leeds Universities. He specialises in cultural and urban policy. He is also deeply involved in the “Cities on the edge” programme, the cities network initiated by Liverpool, European Capital of Culture in 2008, together with Marseille, Bremen, Gdansk, Istanbul and Naples. Franco Bianchini is convinced that it is usually at the edges of a city that innovation and a feeling of centrality are generated.

“Cities on the Edge is the most Europe-oriented programme in Liverpool for 2008,” Franco Bianchini told us. “It was set up in 2004 and includes six port cities that all have a very strong sense of identity and experience very similar problems, especially in terms of image. They all have economic problems and have highly ambiguous, not to say conflict-ridden relationships with the capital of the country in which they are located.”

In Franco Bianchini’s eyes, being on the edge is often synonymous with trend-setting and innovation. “We have explored the concept of “cities on the edge” in political, geographical, social and artistic terms. We began with the idea of an opera. Then we held a series of lectures on crime, interculturality, setting up programmes on “rebel reading”, urban music and the theatre of immigration, among other subjects. We have also developed a project called “Street philosophy” involving people that live and work on the streets: prostitutes, taxi drivers, street hawkers, etc. The Marseille film director, Thierry Aguila, is currently shooting a film on football supporters and their passionate, practically religious relationship with the game. Other projects will be launched in 2009, to be led by Marseille. After that, it will be Istanbul’s turn in 2010, followed by Bremen and Gdansk in 2011 and Naples in 2012.”

Listen: A brief overview of the Cities on the Edge programme and some of the past and future events and projects, taken from an interview with Franco Bianchini

The Cities on the Edge programme, details by Franco Bianchini [in English-4 mins 57]: Play Now | Play in Popup

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6 Aug 20080

Assimix: Learning to speak every language by David Christoffel

Assimix is another cheeky and quirky look at linguistics from Arteradio, the invention of an exclusive audio method for understanding and learning to speak every European language. A simple and fun language lesson for all our English, German, Alsatian, Portuguese, Arab, Finnish, French and Belgian neighbours…

An audio programme on arteradio.com

Assimix, produced by David Christoffel and mixed by Christophe Rault: Play Now | Play in Popup

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23 Jul 20080

Mare Nostrum

This is the story of two cities, Arles and Alexandria, which share the history of the Mediterranean and a penchant for archaeology.

It is the story of the children on both sides of the same sea, who worked together to produce a Web Cartoon tracing the imaginary journey of a ship across the sea once known as Mare Nostrum.

For a year, the children, aged between 11 and 14, took part in workshops held in Arles and Alexandria, contributing to every stage of production for the web cartoon.

This project, sponsored by Zinc/ECM, an association that supports and challenges the cultural and artistic issues inherent in information technologies, also involved the Musée d’Arles et de la Provence Antiques (the Museum of Ancient Arles and Provence), the Centre d’Etudes Alexandrines (Alexandria Study Centre) and the Animanet network.

You can see the outcome of this fantastic adventure, in French or Arabic. http://www.lafriche.org/marenostrum/

Links :
www.zinclafriche.org
www.arles-antique.cg13.fr
www.cealex.org

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4 Jul 20081

Anna Lindh Meeting in Marseille

Good practice in intercultural dialogue in the EuroMediterranean zone

In December 2007, the French network of the Anna Lindh Foundation held a meeting in Marseille. The capital of the region was the ideal place for such a meeting, which brought together operators involved in cultural exchanges within the EuroMediterranean zone. In fact, half of the 120 French associations that are members of the Anna Lindh Foundation are based in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (Paca) region and, more specifically, in Marseille.
Far from being an occasion for resting on their laurels and patting themselves on the back, the debates and discussions held provided an opportunity for those attending to question the limits of artistic cooperation between the two shores of the Mediterranean and the conditions necessary to optimize it.

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