Workshop for Cultural Mobility Developers in Tunis

Toni Attard, founder and director of Culture Venture, was one of the workshop facilitators for cultural mobility developers in Tunis, organised by On the Move in collaboration with Culture Funding Watch. The other facilitators were Maria Daïf (independent consultant in cultural management, Morocco), Yohann Floch (On the Move), and Ouafa Belgacem (Culture Funding Watch). The workshop focused on the South Mediterranean countries, in connection with the Cultural Mobility Forum that was held in Tunis on 9–10 May 2023.

Having a more fragile cultural infrastructure, and still facing an unequal distribution of resources, these Mediterranean contexts had more limited access to regular professional development and mentoring programmes that embedded a strong international dimension. Even when such capacity-building schemes existed, research underlined that opportunities for cultural mobility funding and information about them were extremely limited.

The confirmed 10 participants, selected after an open call, were: Faraj Alsileeni (Libya), Mehdi Azdem (Morocco), Mouna Belgrini (Morocco), Houari Bouchenak (Algeria), Toufik Douib (Algeria), Marwa Helmy (Egypt), Paolo Lolicata (Sicily), Margerita Pulè (Malta), Emily Sarsam (Tunisia), and Kholoud Yaseen (Egypt).