ReFresh Plus – Young art(ist)s refreshing heritage sites and legends

ReFresh+ builds on positive experience from the recently completed project (Creative Europe, 2018 EYCH) and with the ambition to explore further how cultural heritage and young artists can jointly address two challenges: bringing cultural heritage closer to the audience and young artists closer to art markets. To advance the initial project approach into a more sustainable model, the partners Association of Historic Towns of Slovenia, Moldova National Museums of Iasi, Romania and UCAM university, Spain, invited the Finnish Arts Academy from Turku and Culture Hub Croatia to make ReFresh+ objectives feasible: 1) promoting cultural heritage and exploiting its creativity potentials; 2) taking advantage of transnational cooperation for strengthening capacities of the young artist for an independent international career and 3) strengthening international cooperation between culture and educational actors in providing quality support to grow young artists careers.

Objectives are translated into a set of steps and attractive events (ReFresh+ Boot-Camp, Production Week, Art Marketing Training) implemented in real transnational context. 14 young artists from 5 countries will come together to learn, share and reflect on intangible heritage of Slovenia and Romania and get inspired by them. Through a facilitated process, two teams will elaborate co-creation strategies and produce new artworks/ performances linking cultural heritage and different forms of art expressions: theatre, music, dance, film, … The market potential of artworks will be assessed, and the artists equipped with the digital materials, skills and market networks.

While the artworks will improve the attractiveness of the heritage sites, the young artists will strengthen their visibility and position themselves in the international art community. Artists remain connected after the project completion and the ReFresh+ business model documented and freely accessible in the form of e-booklet or video tutorial.

Združenje zgodovinskih mest Slovenije

(Leader) Škofja Loka

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Complexul Muzeal National Moldova IASI (partner)

Romunija (EU)
"Culture Hub Croatia" platforma za edukaciju, kreativnost i poticanje razvoja kroz kulturu (partner)

Hrvaška (EU)
Fundacion Universitaria San Antonio (partner)

Španija (EU)
Turun Ammattikorkeakoulu OY (partner)

Finska (EU)

Funded projects

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova - OPE.N

Kino X Games

Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage (FASIH)

Cultural BEES - Kulturne čebele

Smo to mi?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Mladi programerji za mlado občinstvo! (Young4Film)

Mladinska umetnost za zemljo (YAFE)

Moving Balkans – the Regional Contemporary Dance Platform

Senčna pandemija: skriti glasovi

SMOTIES – Humana mesta. Ustvarjalnost v majhnih in odmaknjenih krajih

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Tretji oder – novo virtualno gledališko prizorišče

Vračanje svobode (RE-FREE)

Versopolis - kjer živi poezija

EODOPEN – eBooks-On-Demand

December: Zverine, Azra, Bivši najboljši namišljeni prijatelj

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Better Live

ReCITYing: Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts

Art Nouveau kot nova EUtopija

Razvojni center ustvarjalne industrije (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedijske zgodbe o izoliranosti (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet upanja (Sodobna evropska književnost)

Več kot zgodba (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Povezani s knjigami

expub - Raziskovanje razširjenega založništva

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studio Virc: Mini Slate 2023

10. in 11. edicija Festivala kratkega filma FeKK

20. in 21. Mednarodni filmski festival Kino Otok – Isola Cinema 2024-2025

20. in 21. Mednarodni festival animiranega filma ANIMATEKA

Film v bolnici 2.0

Mladinski kino EU: Zeleni dogovor 2024-2026 (EUYC:GD)

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22

Vertigo Slate 2022: Kostanji, Spomin na jesenske meglice, OHO, Potapljanje Lune Tjuln

Staragara Slate 22

Naša mala knjižnica: Literarne izmenjave (OLL LE)

TESTNI POLIGON: Reparativne prakse za nov kulturni ekosistem (TestG)

Variola - Črna pomlad, TV serija

SEMA

Paradiso

Pusti vrata odprta

The Big Green

Dolga pot navzdol (TLWD)

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Gibanje, digitalna inteligenca in interaktivno občinstvo (MODINA)

Fortissimo

Spomladansko čiščenje (SPCN)

Mreža festivalov animiranega filma je mreža (AFN)

CulturalDeTour

EUDigitalDeal

Remix Comix – Comics for Heritage

L'Internationale - Muzej skupnega: Za bolj zdrav ekosistem umetnosti (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition / Umetnost, podnebje, tranzicija

RE: Terme, gotske cerkve in rudarske hiše

Sustainability is in the AiR (SAiR)

CEE Animation Workshop 2022

European Network of Film Discourse (END)

Network of the Festivals in the Adriatic Region (NFAR)

Empowering the Youth: Strengthening Local News Media Services (YoCoJoin)

GELATOn the ROAD - evropska sladoledna pot