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Urban karaoke“Karaoke – a great activity to make strangers meet and to create community.”Karaoke is a wonderful way of gathering people and creating a community-powered by the joy of music, singing, and performing – the activity spreads energy and creativity, and makes people connect. When you are hanging out at a karaoke place there is always something fun to talk about with your fellow bar mate – and when you are in the queue waiting for your turn there’s that tingling feeling of excitement in your gut. All around the world people are gathering to grab the mic, sing-a-long, and meet new people. Anyone can sing karaoke and share the musical experience with strangers. That’s what makes it such a good activity to create a community around.In Mauerpark in Berlin an initiative called Bearpit karaoke started in 2009. It is a joyful Sunday hang out an activity that works great together with the ongoing flea-market. In the summertime, hundreds of people gather to have fun and enjoy their 15 minutes of fame in the old amphitheater. The audience engages and often sings along with the performer, creating an atmosphere of belonging. Participating in one of these joyful events in 2017 inspired one of the members of Culture Creates Community (CCC) to take this urban karaoke experience to Sweden.In September 2019 CCC carried out their first culture activities under Traneberg bridge. To try out the concept of urban karaoke under the bridge was a given. The great acoustics in the mighty outdoor rooms reminds you of being in a church. The karaoke sessions were combined with a small art exhibition and free fika (thé, coffee and cookies) for all. Local citizens, a youth house, and people from The Red Cross came to participate in the events. After decorating the place they sang and enjoyed fika together. A new adventure had begun for the 90-year-old bridge…and more exciting encounters are yet to come!Source: https://www.berlin.de/en/news/5704688-5559700-no-more-bearpit-karaoke-in-mauerpark.en.html Urban karaoke, under Traneberg bridge, Stockholm.  Photo: Ann Dahlberg Contact: culturecreatescommunity@gmail.com

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WHYThe recent and ongoing outbreak of a global pandemic has highlighted the preciousness of public space and showed us how quickly it can become a scarce resource. The pandemic has also aggravated some of the challenges that we need to tackle, such as inclusiveness, sustainability, precarious employment conditions, financial stability, and others. Cultural squares are unique spaces that often are at the heart of the cities. They fulfill an important role in bringing different stakeholders together, contribute to the livability in cities (culture and fun) and bring forward social and economical matters, like diversity, gentrification, and climate adaptation. Nevertheless, the pandemic hit those squares quite hard as well and on an organizational level, many of them had to address the challenges of financial stability, employment and adjust their programming to the new realities.At this very decisive moment, the cultural working group of Placemaking Europe is organizing a webinar with five different cultural squares from around the world with an overarching goal of initiating a network of cultural squares. In this webinar representatives of cultural squares with existing financial and organizational structures, with active cultural programming can come together to share their best practices, challenges, and tools as the first step toward building up the network.WHATNazaket Azimli from STIPO took an initiative to come up with10 Highlights for the Schouwburgplein, Rotterdamand this could be a good format for us to follow in the process of the webinar. As a result, we would have the highlights from other participating squares and can envision the forms of future collaboration.We define the squares and public spaces that have cultural programming and an organizational structure as a potential participant of the initiative. HOWTherefore, if you think the square you are working with would be interested to become part of it would be great if you fill this survey by July 5. This will help us to understand the vision and mission for your organization in joining this initiative and what are your preferences for this particular webinar and further development of the initiative.   If you have any questions please contact the organizers Nazaket Azimli: nazaketazimli@gmail.com and Jeroen de Leeuw: Jeroen.7SE@theaterrotterdam.nlContact and join the activity -Facebook - Instagram - Site - Youtube - Whatsup Schouwburgplein Rotterdam Map  Street view 

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WhyThe process of CommunityStory aims to bring people together around a common interest to improve the local connectedness and sense of value.Telling the local story is a process that aims to brand a place and its community in a way that celebrates its potential.The local story interactive story online is a platform for cooperation and creation, building the neighborhood’s resilience and sustainability.WhatThe process of Community Story bringing people together and gathers them around a common interest to improve the local connectedness and sense of value.Telling the local story is a process that aims to brand a place and its community in a way the celebrates its potential.The local story interactive story online is a platform for collective connections and creations building the neighborhood resilience and sustainability.HowContact and join  -Facebook - Instagram - Site - Youtube - WhatsupExample of digital map and action on public space