Fundacja Open Culture (Open Culture Foundation)

National Network
Poland
Address

Krakowskie Przedmieście 59/3A
20-076 Lublin
Poland

Telephone
+48 883993446
E-Mail
office@fundacjaopenculture.orf
Mobile Phone
+48 517498692
Website
http://fundacjaopenculture.org/
Organisation Type
Public/Private Non-Profit Foundation
Year of Establishment
2012
Fields of Activity
  1. Arts
  2. Democracy and community development
  3. International/Cultural relations
  4. Media
  5. Others
  6. Research
  7. Youth and education
General Information
The Foundation team consists of experienced managers and experts maintaining established contacts with European partners and, for many years now, successfully completing international cultural and social projects. We work most closely with the post-Soviet countries, especially with the countries of the Eastern Partnership. Partners we regularly cooperate with include: Belarusian Association of Journalists (www.baj.by, Minsk, Belarus), „Y” Gallery (www.y-gallery.net Minsk, Belarus), „Partizan” magazine (Minsk, Belarus), „Budzma” Company (Minsk, Belarus), „Svobodnye Novosti Plus” (www.sn-plus.com, Minsk, Belarus), „Krytyka” (www.krytyka.com, Kiev, Ukraine), Dzyga Association (www.dzyga.com.ua, Lviv, Ukraine), Oberliht Association (www.oberliht.com, Kishinev, Moldova), ‘Solidarity with Belarus’ Information Office (www.solidarityby.eu, Warsaw, Poland), „Kultura Enter” (www.kulturaenter.pl, Lublin, Poland), Managerial Initiatives Foundation (www.fim.org.pl, Lublin, Poland), German Marshall Found (www.gmfus.org, Warsaw, Poland), Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland (www.msz.gov.pl, Warsaw, Poland). In 2013 we intend to prepare A Report on the Condition of Culture and NGOs in Moldova. It will consist in a trilingual (Polish, Romanian, English) special issue of the Internet monthly kulturaenter.pl and a Polish-English paper version. In 2013 we will be making a documentary Twenty years times three demonstrating the experiences of the twenty years of Polish, Belarusian, and Ukrainian independence. We are planning to hold a multimedia and multidisciplinary paratheatrical event with the participation of the Belarusian Kornyag theatre, the Polish Chorea Theatre, and the Art and Technology organization.
Mission and Objectives

Open Culture – opening to culture, opening through culture. Change through culture. For us, culture is a tool of quiet, peaceful social revolution. It is especially important with regard to the post-Soviet countries within our area of interest. The aim of the Foundation is cultural, media, scientific, and educational activity including: 1. activities for the development of civil society; 2. activities for social change, as well as the democratization of the former USSR countries through culture, art, science, the media, education, and tourism; 3. supporting activities for European integration as well as the development of relations and enhancing cooperation between societies; 4. activities for bringing closer nations; 5. supporting international cultural, media, artistic, scientific cooperation; 6. supporting international economic cooperation and the development of entrepreneurship; 7. aiding enterprises stimulating the increase in the participation in social life as well as activity in the fields of culture, art, the media, education, and tourism; 8. promoting the development of culture and science; 9. the popularization of fine arts; 10. scientific and research activity; 11. endorsing initiatives for cultural heritage preservation.

Main Projects / Activities

Outstanding projects completed recently by the Foundation team: - Publishing two (Belarus, Ukraine) out of the series of seven reports diagnosing the situation of culture and NGOs in the Eastern Partnership countries (Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia) and Russia within the project “A Report on the Condition of Culture and NGOs in the Eastern Partnership Countries and Russia.” Founded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland - Three joint issues of the magazines “Partizan” (Belarus, Minsk) and „Kultura Enter” (Poland, Lublin), in electronic and paper versions, discussing art in contemporary Poland and Belarus in 2011. Founded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland - Literary translation workshops for Poles and Ukrainians in Kiev. Founded by the Book Institute.

Contact (1) Full Name
Pawel Laufer
Head of the organisation
Paweł Laufer
Contact (2) Full Name
Tatsiana Netbayeva