HACERIA ARTEAK — a Basque cultural centre expert in Creative & Cultural Industries!
Haceria Arteak is a non-profit cultural association located in the neighbourhoods of Ribera de Deusto / Zorrotzaurre in Bilbao. Their main project, ZAWP (Zorrotzaurre Art Work in Progress), is a movement that was created in 2008 to address the newly-approved urban development plan for these neighbourhoods. In order to revitalize these areas, Haceria Arteak work to change the landscape of this island through arts and creativity. They also aim at achieving the widest possible sustainability of the projects of the different sectors of the Creative and Cultural Industries of the Basque Country, generating business models and internationalising them.
Since: 1997
Staff members: 5-10
Expertise: Creative & Cultural Industries
Target groups: They reach the community in its diversity.
Areas of work: Sociocultural activities & cultural mediation — Artistic activities — Local / regional / national projects — International projects (EU and beyond) / managing EU funds — Event management — Artistic creation / production — Distribution of grants / scholarships — Running coworking spaces
Fields of work: Theatre — Music — Dance — Street art — Development of alternative / non-conventional / innovative art practices
Topics of work: Participation / audience engagement — Impact of cultural activities — Creative & cultural industries — Cultural management & methods — Territorial development in urban areas — Development of underused spaces — International(isation) and mobility — Digitalisation — Sustainability — Tourism
EU/International cooperation: CREhAbana (3 partners, topic: local development and urban transformation as a vector of the economic growth and sustainable local transformation in the Historic Centre of La Habana) — FastLab (2 partners) — TRAINART (Creative Europe, 5 partners, aim: giving new skills to cultural producers and artists by focusing on two particular fields of the Cultural and Creative Industries: management models for cultural spaces and artistic interventions in non-conventional contexts) — #OOSEU The Origin oF Spaces (5 partners, topic: innovative practices in the field of creation and management of urban eco-creative groups)
Priorities for the network: Training — Projects — Networking events
