We are planning future Practice Exchanges in Granada in April and in Rome in May. If you are interested in hosting a future meeting contact us. Find out about our Practice Exchanges in June 2009 in Malmö and November 2009 in Vienna
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Intercultural Capacity-building in Organisations: Second Regional Practice Exchange, Vienna, 20-21 November
Our second Regional Practice Exchange was a meeting of minds from the cultural sector and from minority and migrants’ rights organisations - mostly from Austria, but also from Hungary and Romania. It was hosted by IG Kultur Österreich and took place at WUK Werkstätten und Kulturhaus in Vienna. In two days of lively debate, we explored:
- The case for “political anti-racism” in cultural work (based on input from IG Kultur Österreich):
- equal access to everybody resident in Austria to grants, scholarships and prizes;
- proportionate representation in cultural advisory bodies;
- temporary preferential treatment of migrants and minorities through cultural subsidy programmes;
- Intercultural Dialogue in the sense of the creation of positive inter-personal and intergroup ties as a form of “affirmative action” – proactive inclusion to redress discrimination (based on input by Radostin Kaloianov, Institut für Konfliktforschung)
- Criticism of the concept of interculturalism for “drawing attention away from power relations and their discriminating structures and diverting it to cultural determinants.” (based on input by Rubia Salgado, MAIZ - Autonomes MigrantInnen Zentrum, Linz)
[last updated on 18/12/2009]