Photograph courtesy: Laurence Hill: Campaign launch Brussels Oct 2011
we are more – act for culture in Europe
Fabrica is supporting the we are more campaign, which is run by Culture Action Europe in partnership with the European Cultural Foundation. It is a Europe-wide campaign that will run until 2013 when the EU decides its next multiannual budget.
‘we are more is an open source advocacy tool that encourages individuals as well as arts and cultural organisations across Europe to get involved and stand up for increased support to arts and culture in the policies and programmes of the European Union. The we are more campaign defends culture, heritage and the arts, together with education, social cohesion and environmental sustainability as key areas in which the EU has to make more bold investments if it wants to reach its growth objectives and Europe to remain a thriving democracy in the future. Taken from we are more campaign literature.
Fabrica has worked in collaboration with partners in Northern France and Western Belgium for some years now and we are currently expanding that network across France and into Holland, Poland and Portugal. The opportunities for development that this cross-border work has offered us are many and rich and we look forward to future collaborations. It is for that reason that we support the campaign.
They are aiming to get 100,000 signatures on their manifesto by may next year (2012), which seems pretty modest. Fabrica’s audience alone could deliver half that amount. So if you’d like to find out more or demonstrate your support of culture in Europe by signing the manifesto, check out the we are more site.
