WHAT IS THE MAIN IDEA OF THE PROJECT AND WHO IS THE TARGET GROUP?

The project CHIOŞC represents a place free of institutional control. It aims to provide a platform for a wide range of renowned but also marginalised initiatives from the local level and from the region. It strives to interact with the public and to offer visibility to artists, curators and cultural workers operating within the public domain.

CHIOŞC intends to present the diversity and richness of different art practices carried out in most parts of European continent by:

• Inviting art professionals to participate in CHIOŞC’s activities (exhibitions, workshops, screenings, talks etc.);
• Distributing cultural and artistic products;
• Collecting information and circulating it through local and international networks (cultural portals, mailing lists etc.);
• Documenting changes taking place in the city’s cultural fabric.

By establishing an “art bureau” (an interdisciplinary public platform for manifestation, meeting, sharing and exchange), the partners wish to promote contemporary art and youth culture in a public space, to state its importance in the process of transition by strengthening the local and developing the regional and international network of cultural operators and professionals.

HOW IS THE PROJECT FINANCED?

The project receives support from: the European Cultural Foundation; the Cultural Department of City of Chisinau; Center and Buiucani Districts of City of Chisinau; Latin Union (Office from Republic of Moldova); the Romanian Cultural Institute through CANTEMIR Programme (2008); CEC ArtsLink; Gulliver Connect; French Alliance Moldova; and Henkel Romania.