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Jul 04, 2016
by Patrick Wilson
Young, Innovative, and Widespread

The Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Innovators (YCI Forum) is a ten-year project launched by Salzburg Global Seminar to engage 50 of the world's most dynamic young cultural innovators every year - in Salzburg and across the world

Fellows of the 2015 session of the YCI ForumThe Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Innovators (YCI Forum) brings together talented individuals from the culture and arts sectors in several key cities. The Forum helps them develop the dynamic vision, entrepreneurial skills, and global networks needed to allow them, their organizations, their causes, and their communities to thrive in new ways. In their “hubs” across the world, our YCIs are putting these newfound tools to work.With the annual program in Salzburg as its cornerstone, the YCI Forum is structured around a network of hubs, currently including Athens, Baltimore, Buenos Aires, Phnom Penh, Rotterdam, Salzburg, Seoul, and Tokyo.Salzburg Global is actively working to expand its network of hubs in more cities and countries across the world.Baltimore, MD, USA Citizen Artist Baltimore, a project led by 2015 YCI Rebecca Chan with support from Priya Bhayana (YCI 2014) and Deana Haggag (YCI 2015), is mobilizing the Baltimore arts and culture sector to make their interests a critical issue in the city’s 2016 mayoral election. Their activities led to the first-ever Mayoral Forum on Arts & Culture in Baltimore’s history. The project also aims to create connections between organizations and communities that have not customarily engaged with one another and mobilize diverse constituencies around a common goal.Buenos Aires, ArgentinaIn Buenos Aires, Fellows greeted 2015 with a new project to help facilitate high-level artistic production within disadvantaged social contexts. The project, entitled Hangar, aims to create events that will allow artists in poor social and economic situations to participate in creative and cultural activities and showcase their work in venues where they are not traditionally visible.Athens, Greece Our first Greek YCI Fellows created a new independent cultural network, cultureFWD, and in June they hosted an interactive, educational workshop for young artists, creators, and cultural entrepreneurs in Athens, Greece. Dedicated to giving back to their own cultural community, cultureFWD partnered with Salzburg Global to create the day-long event, which brought together 48 participants from around the world and focused on ways in which the Greek cultural and creative sectors may respond to the country’s ongoing social and economic challenges.Phnom Penh, CambodiaSupported by Cambodia Living Arts and the US Embassy in Cambodia, the Mekong Delta hub, based in Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, worked with young students to explore the possibilities of arts and culture as agents of change. The event was held at Sa Sa Bassac, where Meta Moeng (YCI 2015) is the community projects manager. The event used materials such as the Salzburg Global Faces of Leadership video series to inspire students to engage in arts and culture and learn from the achievements and personal stories of Young Cultural Innovators from around the world.Tokyo, JapanWith Mitch Yoshimoto, faculty member of the 2014 YCI session, leading the cultural program for the 2020 Olympics, the YCIs of the Tokyo hub are in the early stages of planning a YCI-led event to coincide with the Tokyo 2020 summer games. They hope to bring together YCIs from multiple years and hubs for the event. Rotterdam, the NetherlandsRotterdam YCIs and Forum sponsor, the Stichting De Verre Bergen, have partnered to support “creative business plans” for public arts projects in the city. Five proposals were selected by the YCIs at an event by Stichting De Verre Bergen in January; the projects are currently in development stages. One project will win €15,000 to invest in its own continued activity and growth.Salzburg, AustriaThe Salzburg Hub has seen many collaboration projects among YCIs and other Salzburg Global Fellows. Martin Murer (YCI 2015) organized a symposium with Shinji Sudo, a faculty member of the second YCI session from Japan, at Salzburg University’s Center for Human-Computer Interaction in June 2015. After attending Beyond Green: The Arts as a Catalyst for Sustainability in February 2016, Robert Praxmarer (YCI 2014) is collaborating with Romanian Fellow Anamaria Vrabie on an eco-game app for schools, which will explore how computer games can change our behavior and society.


FIND OUT MOREThe report from the 2015 session Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Innovators (YCI Forum) is available online to read, download, and share.SEE ONLINE: www.SalzburgGlobal.org/go/554 yci.SalzburgGlobal.org