Chris Torch

Chris will talk about developments and changes are we asking from our cultural leaders? What kind of skills do policymakers, institutional directors and artists need to meet the challenges? Re-directing our resources and re-inventing our missions. Success stories and constructive failures. Concrete examples of Action Cases as gathered and analysed for The European Commission, during a study on audience engagement and approaches (2016) that Intercult participated in together with a small European consortium. 

Chris Torch is founder and Senior Associate at Intercult, a production and resource unit focused on culture, ideas and the arts. Created in 1996, it is a publically-financed institution, based in Stockholm, managing both a designated Europe Direct office and Access Europa, a platform for cultural organizations in Sweden focusing on international collaboration.

Intercult focuses to a large degree on exchange and co-production with the European Neighborhood, reflected in the long term SEAS project 2003-2010 (www.seas.se) and CORNERS, a complex partnership of organisations at the ”edges of Europe”, 2011-2018 (www.cornersofeurope.org), both financed by the EU Creative Europe program. Torch is presently Program Director for Rijeka 2020 - European Capital of Culture. Apart from large-scale project design, Torch contributes to intercultural policies. He currently serves on the Board of Culture Action Europe. During 2012-2013, he was designated expert to the EU Open Method of Coordination (OMC) group on Cultural Diversity, including 22 EU Member States.