Let’s open “The Universe of Culture”

05.05.2010 07:54

Municipal Culture Institution Toruń 2016 invites everybody to present their ideas of projects that could be a part of the “Toruń as the European Capital of Culture” programme.

Being one of the candidates for the ECoC title Toruń has to present its first application till August 30th 2010. ECoC is a programme created for citizens, therefore we want the people of Toruń to take part in creating our application by sharing their ideas. In the first part of the competition we want to gather sketches of ideas and projects – their basics and goals – that correspond with at least one of those issues:

- SCIENCE / COPERNICAN HUMANISM,
- EUROPEAN CULTURAL EXCHANGE,
- REGIONALITY,
- CULTURAL HERITAGE,
- SOCIAL ACTIVITY/MODERN ART/ALTERNATIVE ART.

Three of the most important criteria of our application are:

- PARTNERSHIP,
- INNOVATION,
- DIVERSITY.

Each Project should meet at least one of those criteria.

With those criteria in mind all projects will be rated by Toruń 2016 Programme Coordinator, the application team and an outside expert. The most interesting ones will be included in city’s pre-selection application. After Toruń gets through the pre-selection part of the ECoC competition (at the end of 2010) we will start to prepare the final programme for the 2016. After that we will ask project authors to supply us with more specific data, such as costs and technical riders.

After we become the European Capiatal of Culture those project, as a part of our application, will be financed by Toruń 2016.

Feel free to send us your idea! DOWNLOAD THE PROJECT PROPOSAL FORM and send it back to us using info@torun2016.eu e-mail address. The deadline for sending your project proposal is May 25th. Please use the sentence “Toruń 2016 – Project proposal” in the subject line.

By sending your project proposal you agree on the fact that it will be included in Toruń 2016 application form. Toruń 2016 ensures that projects copyrights won’t be violated. As this is a competition, we won’t be publishing the list of winning projects until the end of the contest. Also, by sending us your project, you agree on not sending it to any other candidate city.

In case of any formal questions please call Magdalena Myszka at +48 56 621 03 33.

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Application in final form

04.05.2010 15:09

On May 5th, at the Café of the Artus Court, an open meeting will be held about the final stage of creating Toruń’s ECoC application.

Krystian Kubjaczyk, the head of Toruń 2016, and Zbigniew Lisowski, programme coordinator, are inviting artists, culture managers and animators, as well as all citizens of Toruń to come to the meeting and discuss the shape of our application.

The meeting starts at 7 P.M.

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Competition for young German speakers

03.05.2010 11:32

Coming next is the fifth edition of the National Competition of knowledge about Germany and German language “Germany – no secrets”.

Its organizers – Greater Association for Rural Development and the Junge Union Sachsen-Anhalt – invite to attend secondary schools and pupils aged 16-18 years, German speakers, and interested in culture, history and socio-economic situation of our western neighbors.

School stage of the competition scheduled for Friday, June 4. Volunteers will have 90 minutes to answer 45 questions. The best will be invited to participate in the nationwide eliminations (3-5 September), in the written and oral form.

Applications of interested institutions will be accepted until 21 May. Nationwide winners will receive attractive prizes – the winner of the first three places will receive 2.5 thousand zlotych, respectively. 2 thousand. zlotych, and 1.5 thousand zlotych.

Competition is co-financed by the Foundation for Polish-German Co-operation. For more information call 602 573 781.

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