KreativLandTransfer
New Projects of Cultural and Creative Businesses in Rural Areas
The nationwide KreativLandTransfer project of the Landesverband für Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft Sachsen (State Association of the Cultural and Creative Industry in Saxony) encourages creative professionals to establish themselves in rural areas or develop new areas of work. In the first part of this project, the experiences of six established enterprises and initiatives have been compiled on a digital knowledge platform. This offers tips on organisation, participation, financing, branding and much more.
In the second part of the project that begins in April 2021, a further twelve project ideas will be chosen after a public appeal. simul⁺ is a member of the nationwide jury. Over a period of eighteen months, these twelve projects will be supported by the KreativLandTransfer project team and already established partners in a “tandem model” so that they can realise their ideas.
The cultural and creative industry with twelve defined submarkets includes, for example, crafts and the performing arts, though also music and the design sector. There are around 10,000 enterprises in Saxony, more than half of these outside the cities. In rural regions, they make a crucial contribution to economic development and innovation as well as to participatory actions in connection with revitalising town centres.
UPDATE Kulturbahnhof Leisnig
The Kulturbahnhof Leisnig is one of four tandem partners from Saxony in the nationwide KreativLandTransfer simul+ project. A team of musicians want to turn the former abandoned railway station in Leisnig into an international arts centre. They hereby profit from swapping their ideas with Künstlerstadt Kalbe e. V. in Saxony-Anhalt and the suggestions of the team from KreativLandTransfer.
Learn more at: https://www.kreativlandtransfer.de/projekte/
The simul⁺ project is being supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media on the basis of a resolution of the German Bundestag and the Saxon State Ministry for Regional Development. It is co-financed by tax money on the basis of the budget adopted by the Saxon state parliament.
Further information: www.kreativlandtransfer.de
