On the last day of the festival, Heidi Backström will facilitate a thinking laboratory focused on cultural collaboration and ways of relying on each other in a time of arts funding cuts across Europe. The laboratory aims to initiate active discussions among cultural professionals, creating a rich space for sharing experiences, life hacks, and envisioning multiple ways to navigate the cultural ecosystem.

The event will be guided by questions such as:

• “How is knowledge about funding distributed?”
• “In what ways can we sustain long-term creative dialogues with each other despite limited financial means?”
• “What kinds of institutional collaborations can we imagine?”
• “How do the working methods of institutions and freelancers intertwine?”
• “What possibilities do curators have in negotiating between rigid funding structures and the practices of freelance artists?”
• And many more…

Heidi Backström is a writer, editor, and producer working in the fields of performing arts. Heidi believes in radical sharing – sharing of thoughts, dreams, needs, boundaries, frustrations, skills, and experiences. Heidi used to work as a curator at Tehdas Teatteri’s Jokistudio, and it might be that she was  the first person to dream of getting Baltic Take Over to Turku.