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THE FUNDING AND NETWORK PROJECT OF THE MIGROS CULTURE PERCENTAGE FOR FAIR PRACTICES AND SUSTAINABLE STRUCTURES IN CULTURAL WORK
Do you care about structural change in the cultural landscape? Migros Culture Percentage m2act connects you with like-minded people and promotes your project for change in the culture scenes. Together with you, we endeavour to adopt fair practices and sustainable structures and foster open knowledge transfer with a view to creating future-oriented living and working realities in cultural work.
Funded projects
m2act supports co-creative projects that promote fairer and more sustainable practices in the fields of performing arts, film, games, music, visual/fine arts, literature, comics, and digital culture – ranging from tools and processes to activist initiatives.
Ideas and projects currently being funded:
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2026 Coucou Culture Magazine: Special issue «Working in the field of culture»
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2026 ROXY Birsfelden: Team awareness training, developing, disseminating and implementing an awareness concept and learning communication strategies
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2026 Unofficial Hiking Society: Fair Pay – Fair Play: Implementing Fair Structures in the Visual Arts
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2026 compagnie O.: MULTIVERSE | neurodiversity in the arts
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2026 Red Brick Records and Forcefield Records: Making the music industry more sustainable – how and what indie labels can learn from one another
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2026 Encirqué Project(s) and plusQ’île festival: Equipping the artistic sector
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2026 Wages For Wages Against: TOKEN & WASHING
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2026 The Collective & homegirl productions: Workshop programme on sustainable structural and artistic practice
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2026 Institute New Switzerland – INES: Co-creative Thesis and Question Laboratory for Participatory Survey Support
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2026 Flinn Works & Feminist Leadership in the Arts: Workshops on Feminist Leadership in the Cultural Sector
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2025-2028 FIT Festival Internazionale del Teatro e della scena contemporanea – Lugano: FIT for the Future
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2025-2027 EWA: EWA_Empowering Women in the Arts
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2021-2027 FAIRSPEC: Development of the Code & Review as part of the Faircheck event series
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2025-2026 auawirleben: Individual, team, organisation, environment – a compass for resilience in the performing arts
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2025-2026 Les Créatives: Residency Le Carnet Rose
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2021-2027 Vert le Futur – Alliance for Sustainable Culture: Tatenbank, Sustainable Culture Ecosystem Map and Alliance Building
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2021-2026 art+care: Networking & knowledge transfer
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2025-2026 ZÜRICH TANZT: Team Wiki – sustainable knowledge management as the basis for flexibility & resilience in festival work.
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2025-2026 Belluard Bollwerk: Intersectional guidelines for and voluntary commitment to cooperation based on a critical examination of power structures
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2025-2026 The Collective: An infrastructure project for greater visibility, access and change
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2025-2026 TOBS! theatre: Creating a Culture of Feedback
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2025-2026 Costumières & Cie: From thread to needle – building sustainable governance
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2025-2026 Arts_Sainement: For a healthy climate in the performing arts
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2024-2025 Fair Practice Coordination Office
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2024-2025 Zirkusquartier Zurich: Circ-Exchange
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2024-2026 TU – Théâtre de l’Usine: Implementation of an in-house whisper translation
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2024-2025 Heitere Fahne: Practical Training for Culture Makers
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2024-2025 Theater Chur: Making Peace – Domestic Peace and the Path to Democratic Participation at Theater Chur
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2024-2025 Experi_Betriebsbüro (E_BB): Reflections
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2023-2025 Dampfzentrale Bern: A salary scheme for Swiss cultural institutions
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2023-2024 Kleintheater Luzern: Inclusive cultural sector – more inclusion on, behind and in front of the stage
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2023-2025 Swiss Theatre Meeting: Supporting Programs
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2022 – 2023 Das Theaterkolleg: Towards an ‘Economy for the Common Good’ in the independent performing arts
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2021-2025 reflector: Green Guide & Consultation
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2023-2024 Tasty Future: For an eating culture looking forward to the future
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2022-2024 StuFF in Cycles: New material cycles for theatre
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2022-2024 Biografie.art: Biography & Stage. Questions about the ethical handling of personal stories
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2023 A:Practice: An ecological organizational development tool for cultural institutions
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2023 FemaleAct: Care costs Calculator
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2023 Group50:50: Residence for new forms of transcontinental collaboration
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2023-2024 Festival de la Cité Foundation: Team training for sustainability
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2023-2024 produktionsDOCK: Production guide
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2022-2025 far° fabrique et festival des arts vivants Nyon: PERMA-CULTURE
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2022-2023 Bühnen Bern: x-change
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2021-2023 t. Theaterschaffen Schweiz: Revision of «Indicative fees/wages for professions in the independent theatre scene»
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2021-2023 FemaleAct Checkliste – für Gleichstellung und Diversität in Schweizer Kulturbetrieben
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2022 KlimaKontor Schweiz
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2022 movo: Tanzworkshop.Kreation – Tanzvermittlung.KörperBildSinnSprache
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2020 – 2023 Blackbox
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2020 – 2022 KlimaKontor Basel
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2021 Disrupting Harm in Dance: How to Feel Safe, Connected, Empowered
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2021 MESHRUM
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2021 Schauspielhaus Zürich: Praxis der Fürsorge
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2021 Criptonite: ACCESS
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2020 Théâtre de l’Usine: Décentrer les pratiques et les postures: une recherche sur la blanchité à l’œuvre dans la création culturelle romande
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2020 PARASITE
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2020 Pintozor Productions: Kit de Survie en territoire masculiniste
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2020 home made climate conference
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2020 #BigDreams
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2020 Parlament der Dinge, Tiere, Pflanzen und Algorithmen
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2020 Schwar zenbach Kompl ex – eine andere Zukunft erinnern
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2020 This is not theatre, this is a f*** protest!
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2021 Swampy Rituals
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2021 Ticino is Burning: TIB meets FIT
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2020 WALLMAPU EX SITU
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Network
m2act network events bring together cultural professionals and experts from various disciplines and sectors of society. The events focus on facilitating knowledge exchange and the joint development and testing of new ideas in order to promote a fairer and more sustainable future of the Swiss cultural sector.
CURRENT EVENTS BY M2ACT AND PARTNER-EVENTS
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February – August 2026
Various regionsm2act x regional Migros cooperatives
Toolbox
The m2act toolbox offers practical tips and solutions developed through co-creative projects, which can be used to meet current challenges across all disciplines. We expand the toolbox continually with findings and insights from the networking events and projects that have received funding. The tools are available to everyone for unrestricted use and further development.
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Newsletter Friendly Reminder – Mail out with important deadlines and to-do lists for artists and cultural practitioners by Sparx
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action platform Diversity Finder – The Platform for Lived Diversity
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Peer-to-peer exchange Open art+care Zooms: Online format for discussion and thematic input (DE/EN/FR)
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Annex to contract Working conditions for the costume industry
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Video From thread to needle – building sustainable governance
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Solidarity game Kleintheater Luzern: «All Inclusive» – A Box for More
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guideline More Impact with Culture
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Documentary Documentary film on the transcontinental collaboration of GROUP50:50
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Newsletter art+care Newsletter – Visibility of current topics and activities of the community
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Action Matrix A:Practice
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Guide produktionsDOCK: Guide – Producing in the Swiss independent performing art scene
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concept SPARK THE FLAME! – art+care Meet-up format to adopt
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Guide Artists Take Action
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Online course Disrupting Harm in Dance
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Documentary Perma-curatorial seeds: A series of workshops by the far° festival and factory of living arts
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Calculator FemaleAct Calculator
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guideline Migros Pioneer Fund: From 0 to 100
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Guide Green Rider
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Salary model Dampfzentrale Bern: Salary scheme for fair wages at cultural institutions in Switzerland
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glossary Talking Diversity
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Annual Report FIT FOR THE FUTURE: 2025 Annual Report
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Calculator t. Standard wages and fees
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action platform Tatenbank
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Calculator Sustainable Impact Tool
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Material catalogue StuFF
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Solidarity game Values of Solidarity
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guideline Biography.art: Questions About the Ethical Handling of Personal Stories
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publication PERMA-CULTURE, for more sustainable performing arts
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Guide Green Guide for cultural organisations
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Position paper m2act × Burning Issues: towards a just, diverse & inclusive culture – Position paper
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guideline Impact Guide
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Documentary «Alle inklusive – ein Kleintheater will mehr»
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publication Supporting Relevance
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guideline g3 method
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Codex FAIRSPEC Codex
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glossary Cooperation in the performing arts sector
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self-assessment Les bonnes pratiques
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Dialogues
We regularly engage in dialogues regarding co-creative processes, fair practices and sustainable structures with experts from the arts, culture, and other areas.
- Article AOI: m2act x Helvetiarockt 2025: A networking event against silence
- Listen to the Radio X broadcast: m2act x Helvetiarockt 2025: keynote by Agota Lavoyer and panel dialogues featuring, among others, Naomi Chinasa Bögli (Federal Office of Culture), Noemi Grütter, Mattia Iacobelli, Agota Lavoyer, Agathe Raboud, Themis (Trust Center against Sexual Harassment and Violence), and Andrea Zimmermann.
- Article Ensemble Magazin 2025: biografie.art: Auch heikle Situationen in Rollenspielen
- Article Ensemble Magazine 2025: produktionsDOCK: Endlich ein Profi-Leitfaden für Bühnenprojekte!
- Input#1: Rohit Jain, m2act x forum dance 2024: Allianz, Kollaboration, Teilhabe? Praktische und theoretische Denkanstösse für eine Kunst der Solidarität
- Interview, November 2023: Conversation with Lucrezia Perrig and Noemi Grütter about Das Rosa Heft.
- Listen to the Radio RaBe broadcast: m2act x burning issues 2023: the reporters Soya the Cow and Maja Brönnimann reported in a live broadcast on Radio RaBe.
- Listen to the Radio RaBe: m2act x burning issues 2023: Burning topics in the performing arts
- Interview, 2022: In conversation: The magazine Theater heute with Matthias Baumgartner.
- Dialogue #02, 2021: Discussion with Björn Müller about transformation processes.
- Dialogue #01, 2021: Exchange with Moritz von Rappard about co-creation.
Jetzt bewerben für unseren Open Call Double Kleinkunst:
🟣Für Künstler*innen aus allen Bereichen der Kleinkunst
🟣Finanzielle Unterstützung und individuelles Coaching
🟣Mentoring während eines Jahres
Der Open Call richtet sich an Künstler*innen mit Wohnsitz in der Schweiz. Weitere Informationen über den Link in der Bio.
Postulez maintenant à notre Open Call Double Petites Scènes:
🟣 Pour les artistes de toutes les formes des arts de Petites Scènes
🟣 Soutien financier et accompagnement individuel
🟣 Mentorat pendant une année
L’Open Call s’adresse aux artistes résidant·e·s en Suisse. Plus d’informations via le lien dans la bio.
Candidatevi ora al nostro Open Call Double Piccoli palcoscenici:
🟣 Per artiste/i di tutte le forme di arti di piccoli palcoscenici
🟣 Sostegno finanziario e coaching individuale
🟣 Mentoring per un anno
L’Open Call è rivolto ad artiste/i residenti in Svizzera. Maggiori informazioni tramite il link nella bio.
Apply now for our Open Call Double cabaret:
🟣 For artists working in all forms of cabaret
🟣 Financial support and individual coaching
🟣 One year of mentoring
The Open Call is open to artists residing in Switzerland. More information via the link in our bio.
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Foto Meret Matter: Adrian Moser
Foto Fabienne Hadorn: Linda Kaesbohrer
Foto Thierry Romanens: Marie-Lou Dumauthioz
Julie-Yara Atz arbeitet an einem Filmprojekt, in dem sie die Geschichte ihrer Mutter erzählt, die in Syrien lebt. Dank Story Lab erhält das Projekt den Raum und die Zeit, die es für seine Entwicklung braucht.
Julie-Yara Atz travaille sur un projet de film à travers lequel elle souhaite raconter l’histoire de sa mère, qui vit en Syrie. Grâce au Story Lab, le projet peut bénéficier de l’espace et du temps nécessaires à son développement.
Julie-Yara Atz sta lavorando a un progetto cinematografico con cui desidera raccontare la storia di sua madre, che vive in Siria. Grazie a Story Lab, il progetto può avere lo spazio e il tempo necessari per svilupparsi.
Julie-Yara Atz is working on her film-project with which she wants to tell the story of her mother, living in Syria. Thanks to Story Lab, the project can get the space it needs to develop.
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Video: Alan Koprivec
DoubleFilm unterstützt Filmschaffende bei der Weiterentwicklung ihrer künstlerischen Praxis. Im Zentrum steht die individuelle Zusammenarbeit zwischen Coach und Mentee über ein Jahr hinweg. Ufuk Emiroglu begleitet Camille Briffod bei der Weiterentwicklung ihres Drehbuchs.
DoubleFilm soutient les professionnel·le·s du film dans le développement de leur pratique artistique. Au cœur du programme se trouve une collaboration individuelle entre un·e coach et un·e mentoré·e sur une année. Ufuk Emiroglu accompagne Camille Briffod dans le développement de son scénario.
DoubleFilm sostiene le professioniste/i del film nello sviluppo della propria pratica artistica. Al centro del programma vi è una collaborazione individuale tra coach e mentee nell’arco di un anno. Ufuk Emiroglu accompagna Camille Briffod nello sviluppo della sua sceneggiatura.
DoubleFilm supports filmmakers in the development of their artistic practice. At the heart of the programme is a one-year, one-to-one collaboration between a coach and a mentee. Ufuk Emiroglu is supporting Camille Briffod in the further development of her screenplay.
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Video: Alan Koprivec
Die Kulturbranche sensibilisieren und Strukturen verändern: Das ist das Ziel von arts_sainement. Mit Workshops sensibilisiert die Initiative Akteur*innen der Kulturbranche für diese Themen.
Sensibiliser le secteur culturel et transformer les structures: tel est l’objectif d’arts_sainement. À travers des ateliers, l’initiative sensibilise les acteur·rice·s du secteur culturel à ces enjeux.
Sensibilizzare il settore culturale e trasformarne le strutture: questo è l’obiettivo di arts_sainement. Attraverso workshop, l’iniziativa sensibilizza gli attori/trici del settore culturale su queste tematiche.
Raising awareness in the cultural sector and transforming structures: this is the goal of arts_sainement. Through workshops, the initiative encourages cultural sector actors to engage with these issues.
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Video: Edoardo Nerboni
Regionale Kulturförderung dank dem Migros Kulturprozent. Luca erklärt, wie die Kulturförderung im Tessin funktioniert. Mehr Infos zur regionalen Förderung via Link in der Bio.
Le soutien culturel régional grâce au Pour-cent culturel Migros. Luca explique comment fonctionne le soutien culturel régional au Tessin. Plus d’informations sur le soutien culturel régional via le lien dans la bio.
Il sostegno culturale regionale grazie al Percento culturale Migros. Luca spiega come funziona il sostegno culturale regionale in Ticino. Maggiori informazioni sul sostegno culturale regionale tramite il link in bio.
Regional cultural support through the Migros Culture Percentage. Luca explains how regional cultural support works in Ticino. Find out more about regional cultural support via the link in bio.
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Video: Edoardo Nerboni
Jetzt bewerben für unseren Open Call Double Kunst:
🟣Coaching für Künstler*innen und Kurator*innen
🟣Finanzielle Unterstützung und individuelles Coaching
🟣Mentoring während eines Jahres
Der Open Call richtet sich an Künstler*innen und Kurator*innen mit Wohnsitz in der Schweiz. Weitere Informationen über den Link in der Bio.
Postule dès maintenant à notre Open Call Double Art:
🟣Coaching pour artistes et curateur·rice·s
🟣Soutien financier et coaching personnalisé
🟣Mentorat pendant un an
Cet Open Call s’adresse aux artistes et curateur·rice·s basé·e·s en Suisse. Plus d’informations via le lien en bio.
Candidati ora al nostro Open Call Double Art:
🟣Coaching per artisti/e e curatori/trici
🟣Sostegno finanziario e coaching personalizzato
🟣Mentoring della durata di un anno
L’Open Call è rivolto ad artisti/e e curatori/trici residenti in Svizzera. Maggiori informazioni tramite il link in bio.
Submit now for our Open Call Double Art:
🟣Coaching for artists and curators
🟣Financial support and personal coaching
🟣Mentoring during one year
The Open Call is aimed for artists and curators that are Swiss based. More info via link in Bio
#migrosculturepercentage#culturefunding
Foto Latifa Echakhch: Sebastien Agnetti
Foto Sabian Baumann: Costas Maros
Foto Aïcha Revellat: Basim Magdy
✨Supporting young artists and cultural practitioners in their idea development! Submit your idea now and benefit from coaching, exchange and financial support.
More infos via link in bio
✨Unterstützung für junge Kunst- und Kulturschaffende bei der Entwicklung ihrer Ideen! Bewirb dich jetzt mit deiner Idee und profitiere von Coaching, Austausch und finanzieller Unterstützung.
Mehr Informationen via Link in der Bio.
✨Soutien aux jeunes artistes et acteur·trice·s culturel·le·s dans le développement de leurs idées! Soumettez votre idée dès maintenant et bénéficiez d’un coaching, d’échanges et d’un soutien financier.
Plus d’informations via le lien dans la bio.
✨Sostegno a giovani artisti e operatori/trici culturale nello sviluppo delle loro idee! Invia subito la tua idea e beneficia di coaching, scambi e sostegno finanziario.
Maggiori informazioni tramite il link nella bio.
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Foto: Samira Gollin – Tender Photo
Weltpremiere in Locarno! «Der Engelmacher» von Marina Klauser feierte am Locarno Film Festival Premiere. Das Migros-Kulturprozent Story Lab hat die vierteilige Dok-Serie in der Stoffentwicklung unterstützt. Ab dem 20. August ist sie auf Play Suisse verfügbar.
Première mondiale à Locarno! «Le faiseur d’anges» de Marina Klauser a célébré sa première au Festival du film de Locarno. Le Pour-cent culturel Migros Story Lab a soutenu le développement du scénario de cette doc-série en quatre épisodes. À partir du 20 août, elle sera disponible sur Play Suisse.
Prima mondiale a Locarno! «Il fabbricante di angeli» di Marina Klauser ha debuttato al Locarno Film Festival. Il Percento culturale Migros Story Lab ha sostenuto lo sviluppo della sceneggiatura della doc-serie in quattro episodi. Dal 20 agosto sarà disponibile su Play Suisse.
World premiere in Locarno! «The Angel Maker» by Marina Klauser premiered at the Locarno Film Festival. The Migros Culture Percentage Story Lab supported the development of the four-part doc-series. It will be available on Play Suisse starting August 20.
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Video: Alan Koprivec