Taking place at Tobacco Factory, Miera Street 58, Riga, on 22nd May, the forum „CREATIVITY? Culture after creative industries” aims to understand how the emergence of creative industry concept has changed the field of culture in Latvia. What are the new rules of the game? How can we take part in molding these rules? The forum is organized by Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in cooperation with CultureLab, Riga2014 foundation and the British Council.

Program:

10.00-10.30 Arrival
10.30-11.00 Introductions to the forum
11.00-11.30 John Holden (United Kingdom). Virtues and Vices of the “Creative Industries”
11.30-12.00 Peter Inkei (Hungary). What have cultural ministers to do with the creative industries?
12.30-12.50 Rasa Šmite. Culture – an industry of creativity or strategic driving force?
12.50-13.10 Ieva Zemīte. What isn’t a creative industry?
13.10-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-14.30 Berk Vaher (Estonia). Publicly funded culture and creative industries. An Estonian perspective
14.30-14.40 Introduction to solution workshops
14.40-16.10 Solution workshops (3 groups of discussions)
16.10-16.20 Coffee break
16.20-17.00 Resume of solution workshops
17.00-18.00 Panel-discussion – resume of the forum

Apply for the forum: www.pecradosuma.lv.