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Culture Action Europe’s podcast platform hosts a growing range of series that explore culture as a force for connection, transformation, and political imagination.  Currently, the platform hosts Frequencies and Trust the Process. Each podcast finds its own way to reflect on the plurality of voices and approaches that make up our shared cultural and creative ecosystem. Frequencies lives at the intersection of culture and politics by focusing on the power of cultural practises and agents in nurturing inclusive, open, diverse, fair, and democratic societies.

  1. Jul 16

    Trust the Process | Ep.3 – Luís Correia, Samra Said & Damien McGlynn

    Trust the Process is a podcast about socially engaged arts that invites you to trust the unconventional nature of artistic processes and, more importantly, the impact they can have over time. This project is part of the Ask, Pay, Trust the Artist campaign and is supported by the Alliance for Socially Engaged Arts. This episode is a bit different from the others, as it marks the beginning of a special series that unfolds throughout Culture Action Europe's Satellite BEYOND gatherings. This interview was recorded during the first of these gatherings, which took place in Riga in mid-April 2026 under the title "Different Times, New Solutions". Nurturing these conversations was a shared intuition: that moments of disruption also carry possibilities for re-imagination, and that culture does not simply react to change, but actively generates it. In a context where democracy can feel increasingly fragile, threatened by the long shadow of conflict, grassroots artistic practices often emerge as acts of care, resistance, and collective agency. This is why socially engaged arts became a recurring thread throughout the conference discussions, with fellows from the Alliance for Socially Engaged Arts directly involved in the programme. Throughout the episode, you'll hear the voices of Luís Correia, representative of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and collaborator of the Alliance for Socially Engaged Arts, who gives us some more detailed insight into the rationale and intentions behind the creation of the Alliance for Socially Engaged Arts and its flagship programme: the fellowship. Together with Luís, socially engaged arts practitioners and fellows Samra Said, co-director of Arts and Homelessness International, and Damien McGlynn, Director of Create Ireland, take you through a conversation on what it really means to move at 'the speed of trust’ in the process of co-creating with a community, digging into the limits of short-term project-based funding, and on what it takes to create the conditions in which socially engaged arts can truly thrive. Enjoy listening. Special guests: Luís Correia, Samra Said & Damien McGlynn Music credits: Original music by Kerem Çelikoğlu Episode produced and hosted by: Sara Bandinu, Culture Action Europe This podcast aims to spark an ongoing conversation around socially engaged arts — one we hope to nurture by collecting grounded stories of change-making. If you are a socially engaged practitioner and would like to share your experience, feel free to get in touch at sara@cultureactioneurope.org — I would love to hear from you!

    Trust the Process | Ep.3 – Luís Correia, Samra Said & Damien McGlynn

  2. Jun 22

    Trust the Process | Echoes from Riga - Ep. 1

    This episode is a special edition of the Trust the Process podcast, recorded in Riga during the first BEYOND satellite event, which launched the inaugural series of Culture Action Europe's satellite gatherings. To sustain and nurture the conversations that took place in Riga from 14 to 16 April, we conducted a series of interviews with speakers and participants whose contributions brought the event to life. This episode departs from the terrain of socially engaged arts. On this occasion, you will hear an interview with Niels Righolt (Director of CKI – Center for Kunst og Interkultur), Rosa Meriläinen (Secretary General of KULTA ry), and Iwona Preis (Director of Intercult), all members of Culture Action Europe’s Nordic Hub, a regional cultural strategy network bringing together CAE members from Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. Moderated by Burak Sayin, Founder of Space-Time Works and former member of the Culture Action Europe Board, the conversation explores the origins of the Nordic Hub and looks at the network’s future strategies and activities aimed at strengthening cultural advocacy across the Nordic-Baltic region and supporting artists and cultural organisations in influencing the policies that shape their lives. If you would like to learn more about this initiative, reach out to Burak Sayin at burak@stw.nu. Enjoy the episode, and stay tuned for more conversations from the Riga series!

    Trust the Process | Echoes from Riga - Ep. 1

  3. Jun 4

    Trust the Process | Ep.2 – Frédérique Lecomte

    Trust the Process is a podcast about socially engaged arts that invites you to trust the unconventional nature of artistic processes and, more importantly, the impact they can have over time. This project is part of the Ask, Pay, Trust the Artist campaign and is supported by the Alliance for Socially Engaged Arts. The guest of this second episode is the Belgian theatre director Frédérique Lecomte, founder of Théâtre & Réconciliation, a professional theatre company that brings people together through participatory theatre, nurturing connection and reconciliation. At the heart of the conversation is Les Liaisons Joyeuses, an extraordinary project that each year brings together more than sixty people from across Brussels: ordinary citizens with different backgrounds, languages, and life experiences, many of whom might never otherwise cross paths. No previous theatre experience is required: the guiding principle is that everyone has something to share and is welcome to do so. Developed over more than twenty-five years of work with communities affected by conflict, displacement, and exclusion, Frédérique’s methodology is grounded in a simple but radical idea: theatre does not ask people to relive their suffering, but offers a space where they can meet, play, create, and be recognised by others. The process itself becomes a form of community-building, contributing to what, in the language of public policy, we might call social cohesion. If you would like to explore her methodology further, we recommend reading Théâtre & Réconciliation: A Method for Theatre Practice in Conflict Zones, a collection of field notes, correspondence and testimonies documenting the evolution of her practice. Special guest: Frédérique Lecomte Music credits: Original music by Kerem Çelikoğlu Episode produced and hosted by: Sara Bandinu, Culture Action Europe This podcast aims to spark an ongoing conversation around socially engaged arts — one we hope to nurture by collecting grounded stories of change-making. If you are a socially engaged practitioner and would like to share your experience, feel free to get in touch at sara@cultureactioneurope.org — I would love to hear from you!

    Trust the Process | Ep.2 – Frédérique Lecomte

  4. Mar 25

    Trust the Process | Ep.1 - Chloé Malcotti

    Trust the Process is a podcast about socially engaged arts that invites you to trust the unconventional nature of artistic processes and, more importantly, the impact they can have over time. This project is part of the Ask, Pay, Trust the Artist campaign and is supported by the Alliance for Socially Engaged Arts. The guest of this first episode is the French artist Chloé Malcotti, director of Medusa, a film that explores the case of Rosignano Solvay, a small Italian coastal town where industrial capitalism has deeply affected both the natural ecosystem and the collective identity of its residents. What happens when residents’ mindsets are challenged and sparked into imagining alternative scenarios that question the unfairness of a given situation? And where does change begin? Chloé’s words will help you understand what makes Medusa an exemplary case of how socially engaged artistic practices can challenge social issues by emphasising process, dialogue, and collective action — fostering local ownership, social cohesion, and active citizenship through art. Special guest: Chloé Malcotti Music credits: Original music by Kerem Çelikoğlu Episode produced and hosted by: Sara Bandinu, Culture Action Europe This podcast aims to spark an ongoing conversation around socially engaged arts — one we hope to nurture by collecting grounded stories of change-making. If you are a socially engaged practitioner and would like to share your experience, feel free to get in touch at sara@cultureactioneurope.org — I would love to hear from you!

    Trust the Process | Ep.1 - Chloé Malcotti

  5. 09/08/2023

    Elefsinian Mystery | Handle with Care

    Culture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a special episode, "Elefsinian Mystery | Handle with Care", which  focuses on  the 2023 Beyond the Obvious conference, "Handle with Care | Culture for Social Well-being", co-organized by  Culture Action Europe, 2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture, and the CultureForHealth project. This international get-together invited practitioners, organisations and institutions, policy-makers, thinkers, researchers, activists and artivists from the cultural, social and health sectors working on topics related to care, well-being, health and culture. This episode focuses on the significance of care as an ethical and political obligation for our societies and the role culture and cultural professionals can play in this. How can culture and participation in the cultural life of communities nourish the sense of social and individual well-being? Special guests and contributions from: Maja Kuzmanović, co-founder of FoAM, a transdisciplinary network working across art, science, nature and everyday lifePhilsan Omar Osman, co-author of Dare to Care: Ecofeminism as a Source of InspirationAngeliki Lampiri, Director of Cultural Training, 2023 Eleusis | European Capital of CultureLars Ebert, Secretary General, Culture Action EuropeValeryia Urbanovich,  Club SilencioCarmen Valero, Red Noses InternationalGeorgia Georgiou, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, MuseIT project Music Credits: Funk Saviour - Ketsa, Can’t Stop We - Ketsa Episode produced and hosted by: Marco Fiore, Michael Culture Association Maya Weisinger, Culture Action Europe *Correction: In the intro of the podcast, it is stated that the 2023 Beyond the Obvious conference took place in May 2023.  The conference took place from 6 - 10 June, 2023.

  6. 03/20/2023

    Tales from Culturopolis | Ep.4 – Digital Environments

    Culture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a four-part collaboration exploring the current discourse and practice around cultural rights in our communities across Europe. The series focuses on the four focus areas of the 2022 conference Culturopolis, co-organized by the Culture Institute of Barcelona and Culture Action Europe, which brought together researchers, cultural workers, artists and policymakers to exchange ideas and work around cultural rights. This episode focuses on digital environments. What is the relationship between cultural rights and digital rights? How can digitalising culture on the one hand create new possibilities for access and participation,  but on the other create new inequalities? Special guests: Fieke Jansen, Researcher at the Data Justice Lab Núria Guiu, Dancer and choreographer - Cyberexorcismo La Fera, Fàbrica Digital Music Credits: Intro: Funk Saviour - Ketsa Intermediary: Memories in Color - Daniel Birch, Solace Sighting - Ketsa, Ramen - HoliznaCC0, Vast Possibilities - Daniel Birch, Path to a New World - Lobe Loco Outro: Can’t Stop We - Ketsa Episode produced and hosted by: Marco Fiore, Michael Culture Association Maya Weisinger, Culture Action Europe

  7. 02/27/2023

    Tales from Culturopolis | Ep.3 – Cultural Work

    Culture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a four-part collaboration exploring the current discourse and practice around cultural rights in our communities across Europe. The series focuses on the four focus areas of the 2022 conference Culturopolis, co-organized by the Culture Institute of Barcelona and Culture Action Europe, which brought together researchers, cultural workers, artists and policymakers to exchange ideas and work around cultural rights. Today’s episode focuses on cultural work, with an important focus on the right to work in the cultural sector under decent conditions. How is the work of artists and cultural workers valued and recognised? What inequalities continue to occur in cultural work? How can we ensure cultural work and workers' economic, social and environmental sustainability? In this episode we have an up-close look at the realities of artists and cultural workers across Europe and how they and their allies are fighting for their rights. Special guests: Catherine Magnant - Head of the cultural policies department in the European Commission Directorate General for Education and Culture Noel Kelly - Director of Visual Artists Ireland Katharina Weinert - Policy Adviser, European Music Council - SHIFT Project Julia Pagel - Secretary General of the Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO) Music Credits: Intro: Funk Saviour - Ketsa Intermediary: HoliznaCC0 - Ramen, Johnny Ripper - Typing, Daniel Birch - Birds Eye View, Daniel Birch - Memories in Color, Daniel Birch - Vast Possibilities  Outro: Can’t Stop We - Ketsa Episode produced and hosted by: Marco Fiore, Michael Culture Association Maya Weisinger, Culture Action Europe

  8. 02/13/2023

    Tales from Culturopolis | Ep.2 – Participation and Communities

    Culture Action Europe’s podcast Frequencies and Michael Culture Association’s Eucropolis present a four-part collaboration exploring the current discourse and practice around cultural rights in our communities across Europe. The series focuses on the four focus areas of the 2022 conference Culturopolis, co-organized by the Culture Institute of Barcelona and Culture Action Europe, which brought together researchers, cultural workers, artists and policymakers to exchange ideas and work around cultural rights. This episode focuses on Participation and Communities. Who is being left out of the experience of culture? What is the cultural sector doing to improve the situation? We asked these and other crucial questions to the people from across the sector who are looking critically at the various conditions that affect the right to participate in the city’s cultural life, as well as the various forms of cultural participation.  Special guests: Alexandra Xanthaki, UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights Gaia Raisoni from IED Istituto Europeo di Design S.p.A. – Società Benefit Luca Bergamo, Cultural professional, former Vice-Mayor and deputy Mayor for Cultural Development of Rome Maud Ntonga (MCA) and Ines Martorell (Dedale) from the MEMEX project Music Credits: Intro: Funk Saviour - Ketsa Intermediary: HoliznaCC0 - Ramen, Johnny Ripper - Typing, Daniel Birch - Birds Eye View, Daniel Birch - Memories in Color, Daniel Birch - Vast Possibilities Outro: Can’t Stop We - Ketsa Episode produced and hosted by: Marco Fiore, Michael Culture Association Maya Weisinger, Culture Action Europe

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Culture Action Europe’s podcast platform hosts a growing range of series that explore culture as a force for connection, transformation, and political imagination.  Currently, the platform hosts Frequencies and Trust the Process. Each podcast finds its own way to reflect on the plurality of voices and approaches that make up our shared cultural and creative ecosystem. Frequencies lives at the intersection of culture and politics by focusing on the power of cultural practises and agents in nurturing inclusive, open, diverse, fair, and democratic societies.

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