art+care Newsletter – Visibility of current topics and activities of the community

The art+care newsletter is a collaborative publication format that brings visibility to topics, actors, and activities within the community. It is published monthly and serves as a curatorial tool for the network, bringing together discourses on care, art, and solidarity practices and offering different perspectives. This format provides a publicly accessible platform for networks, projects, and resources.

Most of the content shared in the newsletter comes from the multilingual Signal groups of the art+care community, where all chat members can contribute.

The tool shows that a newsletter can be used not only as an information channel but also as a participatory knowledge archive. Such a newsletter can support communities in continuously promoting visibility, exchange, and networking.

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What does this tool consist of?

Updates on art+care activities and current contributions from the entire community (called art+care Cosmos)

Why is this tool needed?

Strengthening the care discourse and interdisciplinary exchange in art and culture

What can this tool do?

Creating visibility and knowledge transfer

Who is this tool for?

A newsletter for anyone interested in contributions and formats related to the topic of art and care work

Concept & editing:
art+care core team

Content:
Contributions from members of the Signal groups (art+care Cosmos)

Contact:
contact@artandcare.org

Website:
artandcare.org

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Signal Group (art+care Cosmos)

Published 05.03.2026

Artists Take Action

This guide supports cultural workers from all disciplines with questions about social security.

With this comprehensive knowledge database, Artists Take Action provides information on important topics such as retirement, family, stays abroad, accidents, and illnesses. It also explains which insurances are mandatory and which are optional. Regardless of how much you already know about social security, this guide—created by cultural workers for cultural workers—answers the most pressing questions.

Due to the legal content, the Artist Take Action guide is in German, French and Italian.

Who is this tool for?

Artists Take Action is aimed at all cultural workers who live and work in Switzerland.

 

What does this tool consist of?

Artists Take Action is the most comprehensive cross-disciplinary guide to social security in the cultural sector. It provides answers to specific questions about social insurance and forms of employment. For further inquiries, it facilitates contact with the respective professional association.

Why is this tool needed?

Many cultural workers receive little to no education about the basic principles of the labor market during their training. Artists Take Action helps to fill fundamental gaps regarding labor law, self-employment, social security, and insurance.

Impressum

Suisseculture Sociale

info@suisseculturesociale.ch

artists-take-action.ch

StuFF

New material cycles for theatre

StuFF – new material cycles for theatre is a community-based, environmental project by Nadia Fistarol (stage designer and head of the stage design field of practice at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK Zurich) and Barbara Ehnes (stage designer and professor of stage and costume design at Dresden University of Fine Arts (HfBK Dresden). In cooperation with committed theatre professionals, StuFF is initiating more sustainable, environmental thinking, research and behaviour in the performing arts. Current knowledge of stage and costume design is clustered, refined and disseminated in an open-source catalogue to facilitate sustainable behaviour.

What does this tool offer?

The StuFF tool is a website. It serves as an

  • open-source catalogue for
  • environmentally friendly and reusable structures.

Topical discussions are shared on the platform, material cycles researched and interested parties in the German-speaking area and across Europe can swap notes.

Tags

#stuff
#common
#materialscatalogue
#knowledgeexchange
#referencework
#collaboration
#platform
#allies

What does this tool do?

The reference tool collates and clusters the knowledge and experiences of and for all theatre professionals and students who want to help drive the process forward. The project is an opportunity for everyone interested in sustainable use of resources to join the StuFF network and benefit from what it has to offer.

  • New prototypes,
  • new material findings,
  • application examples,
  • expertise,
  • university contributions,
  • publications and
  • links to events

can be identified and contributed.

Why is this tool important?

StuFF enables stage designers, students and theatre professionals to

  • build on other people’s expertise when
  • researching how to act more sustainably

in the performing arts instead of starting from scratch. There is information on how to use materials and structures sparingly, there are also links to books, texts, videos, workshops and events.

The networking also incorporates associated projects.

Who is this tool for?

The website is for stage and costume designers, students, scenographers, interior designers, technicians and workshop craftspeople, but also for directors, dramaturges, production managers and performers.

Contact

info@stuffincycles.com

People involved

Barbara Ehnes, founder
Nadia Fistarol, founder
Konrad Walkow, employee
Franziska Müller-Reissmann, material expertise
Leonor Kotoun, material expertise contributor
Esther Bätschmann, head of costumes
Nik Emch, artwork and graphic design
FLX Labs, website implementation
Ramun Bernetta, administration
Livia Frehner, administration assistant​
Roger Merguin, advisory
Nicolás Hinrichs, translator