Fwd: The Culture Forum focused on profiling

01.12.09 Nordic Culture Forum focused on profiling Photo: Eija Mäkivuoti Joint efforts are the way forward Joint efforts between different art and culture sectors, a dialogue between artists and politicians as well as the new ingredients brought by migration, can result in new economic opportunities and in making culture more visible. These were among the conclusions the moderator Chris Torch made from the Nordic Culture Forum in Berlin. The theme of the Culture Forum was profiling of Nordic culture in the international fields. Read more 340 watched the Culture Forum online Culture Forum was broadcasted as a video streaming via Nordic Culture Point's website. A total of 340 visitors used the opportunity to listen to the discussions on profiling online. Despite some technical problems on the first day, most presentations were sent out in live. See and listen to the presentations You can see and listen to the discussions in Berlin through our video archive. We have saved video bites of all discussions in the plenary sessions. We did not film the roundtable discussions, but you can listen to how the group moderators described the group discussions. Files 1-6 are presentations from 23 November and files 7-10 from 24 November. Read more Watch the slideshow We have prepared a slideshow with pictures from the Culture Forum. The slideshow includes photos from the plenary session, roundtable discussions, evening event and the concept "New Nordic food", presented by cooks from Iceland, Denmark and the embassies in Berlin. Read more See the presentation material Presentation material of the speakers in the Culture Forum is saved in our data bank. Read more Report will be published soon A report of the Nordic Culture forum will be published on Nordic Culture Point's website very soon. What is a Nordic Culture Forum? Nordic Culture Forum is Nordic Council of Ministers' dialogue tool and a meeting place for discussions with the culture field in the region. In 2009, four Culture Forums have been arranged. Nordic Culture Forum in Berlin was part of the discussion on globalisation and had international profiling of Nordic culture as a theme. Nordic Culture Point arranged the Culture Forum on behalf of the Nordic Council of Ministers and in cooperation with Röhsska museum in Gothenburg and the Nordic embassies in Berlin.   Nordic Culture Point Suomenlinna B 28 00190 Helsinki Finland www.kulturkontaktnord.org