The project “ArtPower Belarus” worth 2 million euros will support Belarusian culture

The Belarusian Council for Culture and Danish Cultural Institute are happy to announce the project “ArtPower Belarus: Safeguarding the Belarusian Civic Space Through Culture and Arts” supported by the European Union.

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creating a progressive cultural policy in Belarus, without terror and repressions.

We are a non-governmental organization that unites cultural actors forming the sustainable infrastructure of the free Belarusian culture.

The BCC activities now focus on the promotion of Belarusian culture (patronage of artists, performers, and art managers), development of new cultural projects, unification of the culture community, and promotion of Belarusian culture across the globe. The Council also focuses on the facilitation of the civic impact on culture formation and development.

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Team

Siarhiej Budkin
Chief Executive Officer of the Belarusian Council for Culture
Elina Kałnibałockaja
Head of the finance department, the Resource Centre representative
Aleś Čachoŭski
Director for Cultural Diplomacy
Irena Kaciałovič
Public affairs representative of the Belarusian Council for Culture, project manager

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Taćciana Pašavałava
Organizational development and fundraising consultant
Mikałaj Chalezin
Expert of the Belarusian Council for Culture
Anžalika Krašeŭskaja
Expert of the Belarusian Council for Culture, representative in the Coordination Council
Maksim Žbankoŭ
Head of the analytics team

Alena Rydzieŭskaja
Assistance direction manager
Cimafiej Akudovič
Expert of the Belarusian Council for Culture, project manager
Kaciaryna Ramančyk
Expert of the Belarusian Council for Culture, supervisor of the “Cultural Code” hackathon
Mikoła Bieńka
The Belarusian Council for Culture representative in educational projects

Volha Kasiančuk
SMM specialist
Nastaśsia Marozava
Financial manager
People

Siarhiej Budkin
Chief Executive Officer of the Belarusian Council for Culture
Elina Kałnibałockaja
Head of the finance department, the Resource Centre representative
Aleś Čachoŭski
Director for Cultural Diplomacy
Irena Kaciałovič
Public affairs representative of the Belarusian Council for Culture, project manager

Taćciana Pašavałava
Organizational development and fundraising consultant
Mikałaj Chalezin
Expert of the Belarusian Council for Culture
Anžalika Krašeŭskaja
Expert of the Belarusian Council for Culture, representative in the Coordination Council
Maksim Žbankoŭ
Head of the analytics team

Alena Rydzieŭskaja
Assistance direction manager
Cimafiej Akudovič
Expert of the Belarusian Council for Culture, project manager
Kaciaryna Ramančyk
Expert of the Belarusian Council for Culture, supervisor of the “Cultural Code” hackathon
Mikoła Bieńka
The Belarusian Council for Culture representative in educational projects

Volha Kasiančuk
SMM specialist
Nastaśsia Marozava
Financial manager
People

Strategy

Photo by Daria Sapranetskaya

What we do in three words

Photo by Daria Sapranetskaya

Preserve

Develop

Promote

creative potential

our culture

The best cultural assets

How we help

Supporting independent cultural initiatives
Despite a vivid possibility of repressions, there are artists, who openly state their civic position. They inspire and support the spirit of change and hope among Belarusians. We organize concerts and theatrical shows in Belarus and abroad, produce an online show for children, make documentaries and music videos. You, too, can support the artists.
Supporting repressed artists
We provide direct targeted financial support to the artists and their families, who have experienced repressions.
Supporting repressed musicians
The Belarusian Council for Culture has started the campaign in support of the musicians from the Irdorath fantasy-folk band and their friends detained on August 2 at a summer house near Minsk. Criminal proceedings have been instituted against seven people (five of them were recognized as political prisoners). According to human rights activists, the band members and their friend-bagpiper are charged under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code (organization of actions that grossly violate public order). They face up to 4 years in prison. After all, they played in the streets a year ago, during the peaceful protests in Minsk in August 2020.
Counteracting state propaganda
We conduct awareness campaigns among international partners of the state TV channels, who air the recordings of tortures of political prisoners, and spread fake news, meant to discredit the civil society. Among them — a successful #stopBTRC campaign, aimed to block the participation of a Belarusian band, assigned by the state to perform a song, mocking the protests, at the Eurovision contest

Supporting independent cultural initiatives
Despite a vivid possibility of repressions, there are artists, who openly state their civic position. They inspire and support the spirit of change and hope among Belarusians. We organize concerts and theatrical shows in Belarus and abroad, produce an online show for children, make documentaries and music videos. You, too, can support the artists.
Supporting repressed artists
We provide direct targeted financial support to the artists and their families, who have experienced repressions.
Supporting repressed musicians
The Belarusian Council for Culture has started the campaign in support of the musicians from the Irdorath fantasy-folk band and their friends detained on August 2 at a summer house near Minsk. Criminal proceedings have been instituted against seven people (five of them were recognized as political prisoners). According to human rights activists, the band members and their friend-bagpiper are charged under Art. 342 of the Criminal Code (organization of actions that grossly violate public order). They face up to 4 years in prison. After all, they played in the streets a year ago, during the peaceful protests in Minsk in August 2020.
Counteracting state propaganda
We conduct awareness campaigns among international partners of the state TV channels, who air the recordings of tortures of political prisoners, and spread fake news, meant to discredit the civil society. Among them — a successful #stopBTRC campaign, aimed to block the participation of a Belarusian band, assigned by the state to perform a song, mocking the protests, at the Eurovision contest.

Reforms

The analysis of cultural policy models and funding mechanisms of the culture sector in Eastern Europe

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More about the Reforms

Together with the most outstanding cultural managers, we are preparing a set of reforms and a roadmap for them to be implemented in the new Belarus to stimulate and support the country’s cultural development.

Analytics

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General situation, literature, cinema, theatre, music.

Belarusian Culture: Review

Issue #1 (May-August 2022)

Why we help

Artists and cultural activists are behind bars on political grounds at the moment.

Artists and cultural activists have been going through repressions since the 2020 elections. We monitor every case of terror.

Artists, repressed for standing up against violence in Belarus, received our targeted support.

People have been repressed by the Lukashenka regime since August 2020

More about the situation

a Belarusian painter, who was killed during the protests

Raman Bandarenka

Some of the cases

Girl with flowers, an art exhibition of the Belarusian resistance “Every day”. Photo BCC©️

On 9 August 2020 mass protests against the falsifications during the presidential elections took place in Belarus. The “winner” in the race, the incumbent Aliaksandr Lukashenka, answered with violence - tens of thousands arrested, thousands beaten, several persons killed. Photo BCC©️

“A car without registration plates”, an art exhibition of the Belarusian resistance “Every day”, Photo BCC©️

Handmade towels, an art exhibition of the Belarusian resistance “Every day”. Photo BCC©️

Peaceful protests and demonstrations continued despite all the violence from the police forces. Photo Radio Free Europe.

“A present for the President”, 1999, Ales Pushkin. Photo BCC©️

The money will be passed on directly to the repressed artists

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