The Association des Centres culturels de rencontre (ACCR) and the Dominicains de Haute-Alsace invite you to the meeting ‘From Soil to Connection: heritages as spaces for emancipation and engagement’ from Wednesday the 19th to Friday the 21st of November at the Dominicains of Haute-Alsace (France). This meeting will provide an opportunity to broadly examine what cultural organisations can learn from nature.
The annual encounters of the members of the ACCR are convivial events highlighting the values of the network while examining contemporary social issues from the arts and heritages angles. Designed as a framework for cooperation and dialogue within the network and with the wider community of actors working towards a global approach of territorial development, the Encounters contribute to a living vision of heritages and cultures in order to design solutions to current issues.
At a time when the interconnection between ecological, social and cultural issues is recognised, we want to bring forward exemples of the ways in which cultural practices and organisations interact with nature. Our approach to nature affirms the desire to discuss the existing links between the reuse of heritages, the associated processes of creation and mediation, and the natural environment. We will focus also on the challenges of the ecological and societal transformations, especially with respect to the resilience of rural actors, the intercultural dialogue and the living-together. We will tackle these issues through several approaches and seek to identify new paths towards a responsible and inclusive development of our territories.
We invite you to save the dates of the 19th, 20th and 21st of November in your diary.
A detailed programme, practical information and a registration form are accessible by following this link.
These Encounters are open to anyone interested in these issues.