Landscape Sketch of the Arts: session from education to the professional field
Give your opinion and contribute to the Landscape Sketch of the Arts!
The Landscape Sketch of the Arts is a comprehensive analysis of Flanders' professional arts landscape that Flanders Arts Institute puts together at the start of each new political term. To make sure nothing is overlooked, we organise several sessions throughout 2024 to gather input from the sector, each time focusing on a different part of the arts field.
-> Read more about the Landscape Sketch of the Arts here.
Session from education to the professional field
The pressure and competitiveness in our industry is high, especially for emerging artists. Even before you graduate, you need to make sure that your career is on the right track. In recent years, there has been an increased focus on providing advice, tools and support to help new generations of artists find their career path. More and more organisations exist to guide and help budding creators professionalise from the start. However, it is still a difficult start and many are unable to find their niche.
How can education and the professional field work better together to ease the transition? Where do our shared responsibilities lie, and where should we, as professionals, work more closely with training courses to promote entry and professionalisation?
During this focus discussion we want to identify not only the bottlenecks, but also who we need to sit around the table with to improve these issues. What is the feedback from programmes and what do they expect from the sector? What is the feedback from the field and what do they expect from the programmes?
Where and when
21 November, from 09:30 to 13:30, Cas-co, Leuven
(Vegetarian) lunch will be provided.
Programme
09:30 Welcome
10:00 Welcome, introduction and presentation by Kunstenpunt
10:15 Testimonies (what are our experiences around the table? - short intro also by Laura Oriol and The Gap)
11:15 Break
11:30 Duos engage in discussion around 3 questions
12:30 Plenary feedback from the duos to the whole group
13:30 Closing lunch
20 participants
We will organise this focus group with 20 participants. If we receive more than 20 applications, we will make a selection with a representation of different profiles and disciplines. Therefore, in the application form we ask for a short motivation describing your experience, interest and relationship to the specific theme.
In doing so, you are free to inform us about: the discipline and position you work in, how many years of experience you have, whether you are still active in the arts sector and how you see your identity in relation to different aspects such as class, gender, ethnicity, health and age.
It may also be interesting to reflect on certain issues that have shaped/informed your personal knowledge, questions, criticism or experience to the relationship between education and the professional field.
We will contact participants by 12 November at the latest.
Register
Would you like to participate? You can register via the button at the top right.
To register, we ask you to create an account on our website and choose a password (at the ‘Sign up’ button). With your own account, you can always update your details and/or unsubscribe from the event. If you want to register for another event, you obviously do not need to create it again. Having problems creating an acccount? Then send an e-mail to sofia@kunsten.be.
Remuneration, barriers and confidentiality
Flanders Arts Institute wants creators' voices to be heard more. For freelance artists (who are not on the payroll of an arts organisation and for whom participation is therefore unpaid) Flanders Arts Institute provides a volunteer fee. You can indicate this in the practical confirmation email.
Furthermore, we want to help address any barriers for participants, e.g. through hybrid participation for people who have difficulty getting physically on site, food preferences or childcare. Please let us know how we can accommodate you via that same confirmation email.
To enable a safe conversation, Flanders Arts Institute commits to keeping identifiable statements within the conversation and to anonymously incorporate these insights into the final report.
