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Description
The "Queer Culture Museum" project aims to set up a team of professionals for inventory and research to archive and promote through specific educational events the artistic initiatives from 2001-2021 that address the queer sensitivity through the means of contemporary art. General Objective: Promoting diversity by encouraging cultural entrepreneurship and increasing public access to visual, performative and literary queer artistic productions. Specific objective 1: Encourage cultural entrepreneurship in the field of visual, performative and literary queer arts by creating 4 (four) jobs and professional development of 5 (five) experts in the field over a period of 11 months (2-12 months) . Specific Objective 2: Increase access to queer artistic productions by organizing a queer museum and cultural archive over a period of 11 months (12-23 months). The direct beneficiaries are 220 artists participating in the project, 80 participants in the theater production workshops, 20 people in research and archiving, 4 persons benefiting from job creation, 5 persons benefiting from the professional training. Within the sub-activities related to the publications will directly benefit over 100 people, 15 literary workshop students, 15 participants in translation workshops, 100 beneficiaries of tours guided through queer spaces in Bucharest, 20 queer archive researchers. Indirect beneficiaries, more than 300 people, are human rights activists (gender equality, Roma and LGBT rights, etc.), journalists and the general public. The project will begin with a training course in Norway at the Norwegian Partner headquarters. Using the museum''s definition as the main method of approach, the project is built as a comprehensive cultural intervention that will bring to the public the results of a qualitative archival research in the form of a contemporary art exhibition, a theater stage and a Literature Festival.
Summary of project results
The Queer Culture Museum included events organized with the support of partner institutions and grouped into three sections: Visual Art, Performing Arts and Literature. 31 artistic events gathered 2110 participants and included exhibitions, theater performances, workshops, conferences and artist talks. The project finalized with a publication that includes the results of the research and a first digitized systematization of the archive material collected during the implementation. The "Queer Culture Museum" researched and promoted, through specific educational events, the artistic initiatives from 2001-2021 that address the queer sensitivity through the means of contemporary art. The project encouraged cultural entrepreneurship in the field of visual, performative and literary queer arts by creating more than 17 jobs and ensuring professional development for 5 experts in the field.
Summary of bilateral results
The project included online training sessions with peer professionals from Norway, under the coordination of the Norwegian Partner. Moreover, the artistic creations of Kjersti Vetterstad were included in the exhibition organized during project implementation.