Videocity & riesa efau x SET
Tier 2 (2024)
Let the Grassroots Grow
Let the Grassroots Grow’ is a multi-part programme focussed on exploring communities and the wider international art scene, by exploring the garden, nature and ecological activities as a meeting space for communities, ideas, and culture. Our goal is to bring new perspectives with shared values and will benefit SET, riesa efau and Videocity’s communities and audiences by supporting an ongoing exchange of knowledge, experience and practice beyond borders. We aim to let the (grass)roots of each of the participants and the collaboration to grow into a sustained partnership over the years to come.
Tier 1 (2023)
Going Places: Forming New Connections and Fostering Collaboration
Thanks to Cultural Bridge, the curatorial group Videocity based at riesa efau Dresden and SET in London exchanged their experiences of supporting artists and building communities. riesa efau. Kultur Forum Dresden fosters and supports interactions between art and society. riesa efau hosts Videocity, an international artist-curator group and network founded in 2013 that promotes video art in public spaces and daily life. SET Centre CIO provides affordable artists’ studios to a community of over 1,000 artists and delivers a diverse programme of free exhibitions, workshops and events across eight centres.
Event: PechaKucha x SET
September 2023
This project is funded by Cultural Bridge, which celebrates bilateral artistic partnerships between the UK and Germany through the collaboration between Arts Council England, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, British Council, Creative Scotland, Fonds Soziokultur, Goethe-Institut London and Wales Arts International / Arts Council of Wales.
