Events and activities

The Nordic Culture Fund is present at Nordic Cultural Policy Conference at Hanaholmen (FI). The conference bears the theme “Art and Culture as Critical Infrastructure in a New Era” and Kristin Danielsen, The CEO of The Nordic Culture Fund, will give a keynote speech at the conference about “How Investment in Culture Creates a Better Society”. The conference is hosted by Hanaholmen and Nordic Culture Point in collaboration with The Culture Fund of Sweden and Finland. 

Nordic Culture Fund participates at “MONDIACULT – World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development” in Barcelona. The Fund’s Director Kristin Danielsen will be a panelist at the official Nordic Side Event entitled “Access to Culture and Cultural Heritage Bolsters Societal Development and Resilience in Times of Crises” on 30 September.

Nordic Culture Fund is co-facilitator of the break out session “Arts as a Driver for Social Innovation”, a “deep dive” conversation at this year’s conference. It is facilitated in collaboration with Bikubenfonden and Konestiftelsen.

Kristin Danielsen, director of The Nordic Culture Fund, will participate in two Nordic-language conversations at this year’s book fair in Gothenburg. She will moderate the conversation  “Art, Culture, threat and (self)censorship” on 25 September, an participate in the conversation “Should crisis or war arrive – would we need culture?” on 26 September.

The Nordic Culture Fund will participate in multiple panel discussions during the large event, hosted every August in the town of Arendal in Norway.

The Nordic Culture Fund will be present at Kulturytring in Drammen, Norway. The meeting is one of the biggest in the Nordics of its kind, and is part of a partnership between Nordic gatherings on arts and culture that the Fund has supported, additionally composed of Folk och Kultur (SE) and Kulturmødet Mors (DK).

The Nordic Culture Fund’s acting director Søren Merrild Staun and deputy director Anni Syrjäläinen takes part in Nordic Culture Forum. The event is organized as a part of Finland’s and Åland’s presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers 2025.

The Nordic Culture Fund participates in IFACCA’s (International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies)10th World Summit on Arts and Culture in Seoul, Republic of Korea.

The Nordic Culture Fund will attend UNESCO’s 18th conference on protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions.

The Nordic Culture Fund will participate in various entries in the program at this years Folk och Kultur in Sweden. The cultural meeting is supported by the Nordic Culture Fund.

On January 28, the Nordic Culture Fund will participate in a workshop hosted by Globe Art Point in Helsinki, focusing on Nordic support for arts and culture.

The workshop provides a valuable opportunity to explore how Nordic support can greatly benefit individual artists and cultural professionals. Participants will gain insight into the various funding schemes offered through both the Nordic Culture Fund and Nordic Culture Point. The event will particularly highlight initiatives that promote mobility, collaboration, and innovation across the Nordic countries.

Norway’s national meeting arena for cultural policy, Kulturytring, will host a Nordic evening in Bodø focusing on cultural policy and the place of art in society. The Fund’s director, Maria Mediaas Jørstad, will participate in a panel discussion and live podcast recording as part of the programme. The Nordic programme is supported by the Nordic Culture Fund.

The Nordic Culture Fund will give a presentation of the Globus programme at an online information meeting organised by On the Move (OTM). OTM is an international information network dedicated to artistic and cultural mobility with 73 members in 27 countries. The meeting is organised under the auspices of one of the network’s working groups focusing on artistic mobility in an international perspective.

The Nordic Culture Fund participates at the Kulturkraft24 conference in Copenhagen. This year, the annual conference aimed at cultural sector stakeholders will focus on communication, business development and communities in culture – in the company of Nordic colleagues from across the sector.

The Diversify Nordics Summit, organised by Diversify Norway, is the leading conference for leadership, innovation, and sustainable change in the Nordics and Europe, attracting leaders and professionals from diverse industries and backgrounds. The Nordic Culture Fund participates at the conference as part of an ongoing collaboration with Diversify.

The Nordic Culture Fund participates at an international conference connecting 65,000 libraries across Europe. The Summit is organised by the European Cultural Foundation and addresses current issues concerning the role of libraries and the resilience of societies.

The Nordic Culture Fund will attend the Nordic cultural meeting in Mors, where the Fund – among other things – is facilitating a panel discussion about artistic leadership in a Nordic perspective.

A 3 day arts and culture workshop, with a goal of opening the cultural field to practical solutions and tools for structural change, all in the work for a cultural field based on diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, justice and opportunity.

The workshop is hosted by Diversify, and is supported by the Nordic Culture Fund.

(Diversify is also the host of the Diversify Nordics Summit later this year)

The Nordic Culture Funds attends a two-day conference in Zagreb arranged by Philea (Philantropy Europe Association) in partnership with Kultura Nova Foundation. The gathering will explore European philanthropy in advancing the just triple transition (social, green and digital) within arts and culture. 

Nordic Culture Fund arranges an online event on Wednesday March 20th at 3 – 3.45 pm (CET) to present the new digital platform within Globus.

The webinar is open for all but the presentation will primarily be directed towards foundations, funding agencies and other supportive actors and policy institutions. There will be a walkthrough of the platform, a presentation of the methodology of the research as well as an in-depth look at one of the dimensions of the platform. It will be possible to pose questions throughout the webinar.