Healing & Dealing
Healing & Dealing on kahdesta toisiaan peilaavasta tapahtumasta koostuva kansainvälinen ohjelmakokonaisuus. Dealing keskittyy valkoisten kulttuurialalla työskentelevien ammattilaisten rasisminvastaiseen koulutukseen ja Healing kutsuu ruskeita kulttuurin toimijoita ottamaan etäisyyttä heitä ympäröivistä rasistisista valtarakenteista hyvinvointiin ja itsestään huolehtimiseen keskittyen. Ohjelma edistää yhdenvertaisuutta ja tarjoaa ohjelmaan osallistuville valkoisille ammattilaisille konkreettisia työkaluja valkoisten valtarakenteiden purkamiseen ruskeiden ammattilaisten hyvinvointi huomioiden.
Healing & Dealing luo turvallisia tiloja kulttuurikentän toimijoille, sitouttaa ammattilaiset rasisminvastaisten toimintatapoihin ja siirtää rasisminvastaisen työn painolastia pois ruskeilta valkoisille. Ohjelma edistää ja vahvistaa ryhmien välistä yhteistyötä pitkäjänteisesti.
Ohjelma koostuu Dealing- ja Healing-moduuleista, jotka toteutetaan vuosina 2026–2028 Suomessa, Isossa-Britanniassa, Benelux-alueella ja Norjassa. Osioilla on paikalliset kumppaniorganisaatiot ja fasilitaattorit, jotka kokoavat ohjelman yhdessä suomalaisten tekijöiden kanssa.
Healing & Dealing on Suomen Benelux-instituutissa työskennelleen Laisa Conden ohjelmakokonaisuus, jota pilotoitiin vuonna 2022. Pilotista kerätty palaute osoitti, että jatkohankkeelle on akuutti tarve. Conde jatkaa ohjelman vastuuhenkilönä.
Participants for the Study Trip to the Netherlands have been selected
The participants for the Study Trip to the Netherlands organised by Frame Contemporary Art Finland and The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux have been selected. The participants for the trip were selected through an open call announced in February.
The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux Stands with Ukraine
The Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux stands with Ukraine and expresses our support and solidarity to all those suffering during this devastating time. We strongly condemn the Russian government’s invasion of Ukraine that affects the lives of millions of civilians.
SALWA Gatherings
All Good Things Must Begin: Roots and Routes In response to the pandemic, the heightened precarity of artists, and a series of catalytic scandals that recently shook the art world in the Netherlands the past year, we would like to direct our attention in 2022 to...
TelepART: Ilona Salonen
Dance artist Ilona Salonen is our latest artist to be supported by the TelepART Mobility Support Platform. Salonen will attend a three week laboratory and perform in an international group at the TicTac Art Center in Brussels. She will also perform two short versions...
TelepART: Miradonna Sirkka
The latest artist supported by the TelepART Mobility Support is a contemporary circus and performance artist Miradonna Sirkka who is staying in the Netherlands for a 6-week residency. The residency is part of SEA Foundation’s longer-term research on art and sustainability and their project focusing on the Happiness.
Ritual City by Benjamin Orlow at the Horst Exhibition for 2022
We are delighted to announce the Horst Exhibition for 2022: The Act of Breathing will infuse the unique terrain of Asiat, Vilvoorde. The institute takes part in the exhibition by supporting the production of the commissioned work Ritual City by Benjamin Orlow, a Finnish-Swedish visual artist based in London, UK.
ART & LAND – EU-SÁMI Week in Brussels
On the occasion of Sámi National Day, we bring you the news that the first-ever EU-Sámi Week will be held in Brussels, in June. The aim of the ESW2022 is to increase awareness of Sámi culture, create networks and heighten the knowledge of Sámi issues among the policymakers in various sectors that affect Sámi interests.
Compartment no. 6 on screens in Brussels, 20th January
The Finnish movie Compartment No. 6 directed by Juho Kuosmanen is screened by The Polarise Nordic Film Nights on 20th of January, 19h00 and 19h10, at Cinema Galeries.
New faces at the Institute
January is finally here and we welcome our new staff members! First up is an intern for the Finnish National Agency for Education, Sonja Koivisto, who started her traineeship at the beginning of the month. She will be working as a Communications and Project Assistant...
Director’s Greetings: January – a month of cultivating hope?
Last autumn was my first at the Finnish Cultural Institute for the Benelux. I was delighted to be greeted by a brilliant staff, the vibrant city of Brussels, and many exciting projects. Three months flew by in no time and by December we were again facing new...