Webinars and Consultation Program for Ukrainian Artists in NRW
(September until December 2022)

Вебінари для українських художників у Північному Рейні-Вестфалії
Our „Kultur hilft Kultur“ webinar series and consultation program has ended.
It was geared towards artists who have come to North Rhine-Westphalia from Ukraine. Our consultants are experienced artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers and cultural managers who shared their insights into the cultural landscape of North Rhine-Westphalia and offered support. Webinars made time for individual questions and were an excellent opportunity to get to know like-minded artists in North Rhine-Westphalia. Our webinar hosts also offered individual phone consultations providing advice on networking and funding opportunities. All webinars and consultations were free of charge. Webinars were held in English (with Ukrainian language mediators present) or Ukrainian. 
Expertise and personal background of our consultants is listed below.

 

If you have any questions, please reach out to: kultur-hilft-kultur@kulturrat-nrw.de 

Historian and art educator Jérôme J. Lenzen will speak about „Cultural Founding and Funding in Germany“. Since 2020, he is managing director of the Institut für Kulturarbeit & Weiterbildung. He also works for the Museumsdienst Köln and the universities of Hildesheim and Cologne as a lecturer in the fields of cultural funding and outreach. He is chairman and founder of ArtAsyl e.V., owner of Szene Kultur Management Verlag and member in the City of Cologne’s Arts and Culture Committee.

Yana Novotorova is a choreographer, dancer/performer and educator. Her webinar will offer an „Introduction to Public Funding System and Application Procedures for Freelance Dancer“. Coming originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, where she studied linguistics and psychology, in 2013 Yana moved to Germany to study dance and has been based in Cologne since. Yana attained her BA degree in contemporary dance with the focus on dance dissemination at the Center for Contemporary Dance in Cologne (HfMT). Currently, Yana is finishing her MA degree in stage research (Szenische Forschung) at Ruhr-University Bochum and working as a freelance choreographer and dancer. 

Thomas Gläßer lives and works in Cologne and Berlin. In 2006 the musician, curator and cultural activist founded the platform ZAM Platform for adventurous music with other musicians. He curates international concert series (Reconstructing Song, Reverse Exotism, Outskirts, In Between Spaces) in the field of modern and contemporary music, creates festival concepts (Night of Surprise , Invocation, Digging the Global South), conferences, educational projects and political initiatives. He advises and collaborates with ensembles, institutions and associations (including Zinc & Copper, Jazzfest Berlin, Deutsche Jazz Union). Since 2008 he has been a board member of ON – Neue Musik Köln and since 2019 speaker and board member of Initiative Freie Musik IFM e.V,. the cultural and political platform of the professional freelance music scene in Cologne.

Мене звати Тамара Лукашева.Я митець в області джазу/сучасної музики, з 2010 року проживаю у місті Кельн. Моя діяльність включає в себе найрізноманітніші проекти,як в якості бенд-лідера,так і в якості сайд-мена. В рамках програми „Культура допомагає культурі“,я буду розповідати про свій особистий досвід людини,митця з України; про перші важливі кроки,про те,як не розгубитись у новій ситуації та які можливості відкриваються для митців,які потрапили до NRW.

Benjamin Leers will offer his expertise as a filmmaker and cultural manager during three open phone consultation sessions. He is a freelance director, cinematographer, distributor, and producer of documentaries. He worked on several award-winning documentaries and participated in professional trainings. 2016 formation of Benda Film GbR with Daniel Huhn and scholarship holder of the „Mediengründerzentrum NRW“. Since 2020 member of the Dokomotive film collective in Cologne.