Central Asia Arts and Culture Programme 2.0. (CAACP 2.0.)

Independent arts and culture organizations and individual artists

Audience of arts and culture organizations and general public

Regional Outcome 1: Regional art and culture networks, exchanges and/or initiatives provide open spaces where artists are free to create, can meet their audience, and can express their views on issues affecting the life of people, esp. marginalized and vulnerable groups, all of which promotes dialogue and social cohesion.

National Outcome 2: Artists, cultural institutions and their audiences exercise their freedom of expression in organizing and/or participating in art events that represent a diversity of voices, opinions and cultural expressions.

Principaux résultats attendus:  

• Inclusive regional art events are organised by regional art platforms;
• Regional exchanges and co-productions broaden the perspectives of a wide audiance on issues important to them and their societies adding a regional perspective to their national ones;
• Artists, especially in periphery, have accessible spaces and capacities to realize their diverse and innovative creativity;
• People from different social and geographical backgrounds, especially women, youth and minorities, benefit from a wide variety of cultural activities and creative expressions, which address their problems and concerns;
• People have access to artistic productions that reflect socioeconomic realities in each of the three countries;
• Art and Culture institutions supported to provide open spaces, where artists can create artworks that reflect societal issues as well as diversity of cultural expression, opinions and voices;
• Art and Culture institutions provide open spaces for the wider public where artistic creativity, social cohesion and a diversity of expression is encouraged;
• Representatives of the independent art and culture sector and of related state institutions establish a dialog and interact frequently.

Principaux résultats antérieurs:  

The Programme builds on a precursor culture program that lasted 15 years. It provides baseline data for the first phase of CAACP, with regard to a number of cultural organizations, events or networks supported and size of audiences reached at both national and regional levels.

It provides important lessons learnt that helped shaping the new Programme, for example with regard to:

• Need to focus more on the kind of audience to be reached (targeting, client-orientation)
  
• Opportunities to strengthen the regional component and to open up its scope (e.g. make open calls)
  
• The rather limited visibility of cultural expression outside of Central Asia calls for an inreased international exposure of CA culture.