Why every future European Capital of Culture needs a legacy plan before the title year even starts.

Arcadia has appointed Muriël Besemer as the Artistic Director of Arcadia 2028. Besemer is a theatre maker, educator and cultural programmer who has worked with young people for more than thirty years. In the coming years, she will work alongside the Arcadia team to develop the programme for Arcadia 2028, in which young people will play a central role.

Cáceres 2031 presented this Wednesday the new Office of Cultural Activation and Citizen Participation (OAC), a space created to support, connect and promote the cultural fabric of the city and Extremadura within the project of candidacy for European Capital of Culture.

The open call “Magazia’32 – Treasury for Ideas,” announced by the Burgas-2032 Foundation, gathered nearly 250 conceptual projects. Amid tremendous interest and proposals received from over 20 countries across four continents, the process has concluded for gathering creative and artistic ideas, and educational, partnership and community projects, for inclusion in the cultural program with which Burgas, supported by the region, will apply for the title of European Capital of Culture in 2032.

MedSEA is an international project that focuses on socially engaged art practices as tools for empowering communities in remote areas of the Mediterranean.