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Today D6: Culture in Transit has written to UK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden to urge him to keep the UK in Creative Europe
Over 250 European cultural leaders and arts organisations have signed the letter below urging the UK’s Secretary of State, Rt Hon Oliver Dowden to reverse the decision to take the UK out of Creative Europe, the EU’s funding programme for the cultural and creative sectors.
We know so well that being part of the Creative Europe programme not only amplifies the UK arts and creative industries but provides financial support to hundreds of organisations like ours - £79 million to 376 UK-based organisations from 2014-2018.
Our European colleagues and cultural leaders believe that the UK makes a vital contribution to the cultural life of Europe. If you do too, then support our campaign on social media using #Together4CreativeEurope and write to your MP and ask them to make a case for Creative Europe: www.writetothem.com
Open Letter
8 September 2020
Dear Secretary of State, Rt Hon Oliver Dowden,
We the undersigned would like to express our disappointment at the UK decision to withdraw from the Creative Europe programme from 2021. We represent European arts and cultural organisations, networks, artists, musicians, performers, dancers, policy makers, across the whole European creative sector.
The Creative Europe programme supports a unique collaborative approach to cultural development, production and presentation, drawing on expertise in participating countries to produce the best and most innovative results. The UK has a clear role to play in providing and building that expertise, with UK organisations currently involved in 42% of Creative Europe Cooperation Projects, the second most partnered country in this scheme.
A Creative Europe grant brings the opportunity to build networks and form relationships for future work, but it is also a chance to develop empathy and understanding of people outside of our own ever decreasing echo chambers. It is a vehicle to build community and a vehicle to promote peace and prosperity.
The Creative Europe programme exposes our Creative and Cultural Sectors to the talent and expertise available in the UK and provides opportunities for your cultural sector to operate in the EU27 and beyond. From 2014-18 Creative Europe awarded €89.5 million (£79 million) to 376 UK-based cultural and creative organisations and audiovisual companies; reaching audiences of 61m, 7m of those in the UK.
Our UK friends and colleagues make a vital contribution to the cultural life of Europe, and for many of us the Creative Europe programme is the springboard for working with the UK. Without continued UK participation, successful collaborations will fade away, to the detriment of the UK and the rest of Europe.
The decision to close this route for collaboration is shortsighted and unnecessary. It brings no evident benefit to the cultural sector in the UK, or indeed to those of us wanting to bring UK organisations and artists into our national or pan European programmes. We respectfully ask that you reconsider this decision.
Read the full letter and signatories here.
Read our announcement here.
We know so well that being part of the Creative Europe programme not only amplifies the UK arts and creative industries but provides financial support to hundreds of organisations like ours - £79 million to 376 UK-based organisations from 2014-2018.
Our European colleagues and cultural leaders believe that the UK makes a vital contribution to the cultural life of Europe. If you do too, then support our campaign on social media using #Together4CreativeEurope and write to your MP and ask them to make a case for Creative Europe: www.writetothem.com
Open Letter
8 September 2020
Dear Secretary of State, Rt Hon Oliver Dowden,
We the undersigned would like to express our disappointment at the UK decision to withdraw from the Creative Europe programme from 2021. We represent European arts and cultural organisations, networks, artists, musicians, performers, dancers, policy makers, across the whole European creative sector.
The Creative Europe programme supports a unique collaborative approach to cultural development, production and presentation, drawing on expertise in participating countries to produce the best and most innovative results. The UK has a clear role to play in providing and building that expertise, with UK organisations currently involved in 42% of Creative Europe Cooperation Projects, the second most partnered country in this scheme.
A Creative Europe grant brings the opportunity to build networks and form relationships for future work, but it is also a chance to develop empathy and understanding of people outside of our own ever decreasing echo chambers. It is a vehicle to build community and a vehicle to promote peace and prosperity.
The Creative Europe programme exposes our Creative and Cultural Sectors to the talent and expertise available in the UK and provides opportunities for your cultural sector to operate in the EU27 and beyond. From 2014-18 Creative Europe awarded €89.5 million (£79 million) to 376 UK-based cultural and creative organisations and audiovisual companies; reaching audiences of 61m, 7m of those in the UK.
Our UK friends and colleagues make a vital contribution to the cultural life of Europe, and for many of us the Creative Europe programme is the springboard for working with the UK. Without continued UK participation, successful collaborations will fade away, to the detriment of the UK and the rest of Europe.
The decision to close this route for collaboration is shortsighted and unnecessary. It brings no evident benefit to the cultural sector in the UK, or indeed to those of us wanting to bring UK organisations and artists into our national or pan European programmes. We respectfully ask that you reconsider this decision.
Read the full letter and signatories here.
Read our announcement here.
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