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16 EASTERN PARTNERSHIP CULTURE CONGRESS EASTERN PARTNERSHIP CULTURE CONGRESS 17Panel session„CULTURE FACING ORGANIZATION / CULTURE FACING INDEPENDENCE”14:00-15:30 The Workshops of Culture, 5 Popiełuszki St.Moderated by: Witek HebanowskiKey-disputers: William Hollister, Sophia Lapiashvili,Igor Logvinov, Leszek Napiontek, Olena Pravylo,Sabina Shikhlinskaya, Siegfried WöberThe first Eastern Partnership Culture Congress is a trigger oforganizational structure and strategy in the future. The issues ofculture management, international cooperation and efficiency ofaction, both in local and European environment, will be significant.The acquisition of good practice and experience in this fieldwill be of vital meaning. Most of all, the debate will focus on anumber of questions about Eastern Partnership Culture Congressand its scope of activity in the future. What should be the organizationalstructure for the Congress in order to make it an efficientand long-term platform of cultural cooperation? What should bedone to make the Congress conclusions and recommendationswork? How should the work mode of workgroups and think-tanksbe organized in the period between the congresses? What financialmechanism should be established for the Congress? What can bedone to provide the cultural projects with financial support, bothat local and international level? What kind of partnership networkshould be established for the purpose of the Congress?There are some examples of „old” totalitarian constrain of culturethrough public censorship and constraints related to culturalleaders within Eastern Partnership countries. The phenomenonof cultural constraints is more likely to occur in quasi-democraticsystems, where one comes back to “old practice system” based onconstrain and control. Moreover, new forms of cultural constraintsrelated to capital markets, commercialisation, consumptionismand the “Great Number” cult approach. After reading“The Captive Mind” by Czesław Miłosz again, Tony Judt oncewrote: “our contemporary faith in ‘the market’ rigorously tracksits radical 19th century doppelgänger—the unquestioning belief innecessity, progress, and History”.In this respect, many questions concerning cultural independencein postmodern society arise, especially in contemporarydeterminants within Eastern Partnership countries, where oldand new threats overlap. How to build relations between cultureand authorities of different types? How to connect public engagementwith artistic freedom? How to manage culture in respect ofautonomy, essential to its development?Witek HebanowskiFounder and Chairman ofthe Other Space Foundation,co-founded and serves as a vicepresidentat The NGO CaribbeanDevelopment Foundation. Theactivist of Amnesty Inernational(1997-2004). Certified trainerand facilitator. Co-founder ofTranskaukazja festival. TheMember of the Program Board ofthe Congress.Sophia LapiashviliSophia in 2006 received ascholarship from Rave stiftungand worked in KuenstlerhausBethanien in Berlin, participatingat that time in InternationaleCuratorial Workshop by bb4 (vonMenschen und Maeusen) Berlin.Since 2010 she has been leading aGeoAIR residency project.Igor LogvinovDirector of publishing centersMensk and Propilei and headedthe publishing departament at theEuropean Humanities Universityin Minsk. In 2009, Igor foundedLogvinov, his own independentpublishing house, which isrecognized today as the mostprominent promotion center forBelarusian – language literature.Leszek NapiontekHead of the International RelationsOffice in the City of WarsawCulture Department. East-Westco-operation is his particulararea of professional interest.Co-organizer of the two Go Eastconferences in Warsaw.Olena PravyloUkrainian film producer, cultureevent organizer, business coach.Producer the Ukrainian-georgianmovie “Blood” based on NodarDumbadze novel “Sishli”. Organizerof 10th Anniversary ofUkrainian-Germany Forum andthe Days of Georgian Cinemain Ukraine, worked with UEFA,Liverpool Footbal Club, KuoniTravel.Sabina ShikhlinskayaPainter, an independent curator.Lives and works in Baku,Azerbaijan. Member of theUnion of Artists of Azerbaijan,Honored Painter of Azerbaijan.Member of the InternationalCommittee of Museumsand Collections of ModernArt – CIMAM.Siegfried WöberBorn in Vienna, engaged in civilsociety and art initiatives sincethe age of 16, active in music,photography and holographic art.Involved in the South Caucasussince 2000, academic works andpublications on Eastern Europe,currently works for an internationalorganization.