Memory of Water Digital Exhibition

The Digital Exhibition gathers images, films, and texts from the artists' projects during the international residency programme in three post-industrial European cities. Visit the work of Ira Brami, t s Beall, Mary Conroy, Jonas Myrstrand, Siegfried Vynck and Iwona Zając.

Memory of Water Webinar Series

Introducing a series of webinars that will profile the achievements of six partner cities striving to impact the future of post-industrial cultural heritage on European waterfronts by looking at those places through the lens of socially-engaged, interventionist art projects.

Memory of Water Podcast Series

Welcome to the Memory of Water Podcast. The artists and curators from six European cities in the River Cities Platform Foundation share their experiences of working on the international residency programme and City Labs in Levadia, Gdańsk and Govan.

Govan Remote Production Residency Pivot

Over the next two months, a series of public art projects will be happening across Govan, Glasgow, as part of Fablevision’s role in Memory of Water. These six productions will be designed by an artist in Scotland and five European artists remotely. The projects will include a music production, mural painting, printed work, stencilling, performance, and filming. You can read more here.

Creative Europe meeting in Athens

Local development through culture

The Municipality of Levadia participated in a meeting held in Athens, February 18th 2020, organized by the Hellenic Creative Europe Bureau and the Municipality of Keratsini - Drapetsona.  The participated speakers at the meeting focused on the pivotal role of culture for local develpment.

The director of Culture, Sports & Tourism Department of the Municipality of Levadia, Mr Andreas Stamatakis participated at the above metioned meeting and he presented to the audience the aim of the programme "Memory of Water", the objectives, the participating cities and the results of the two artists' residencies in Levadia.

The audience was facinated from the programme "Memory of Water" and many participants expressed their desire to be further informed by Mr. A. Stamatakis for the benefits of the Levadia from its participation to the progrmme.

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Gdansk City Lab

Dreams to Fulfill. Check full program here.

Gdansk Artistic Residency

From 14 to 19 October, the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre hosted the second artistic residency curated by Agnieszka Wołodźko and produced by Katarzyna Szewciów for the Creative Europe project, Memory of Water. Artists from Belgium, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Scotland and Sweden carried out artistic actions and interventions related to local cultural heritage: the former Gdańsk Shipyard was both the subject and location of their work. Read more.

Govan City Lab

Memory of Water's first international urban lab in Govan (the second one is scheduled for June 2020) took place in Film City which is located in the magnificent (and fairly newly refurbished) old Govan Town Hall.
The overall theme of the Lab was the role of participatory arts practice and artistic interventionism in future planning for post-industrial heritage zones in Europe. Read more.

Govan Artistic Residency

Our residency was constructed as an intensive cultural mapping process. The objective: to support our visiting artists to uncover as much as possible in the history, heritage, landscape, people, story, myths, legends, architecture and memory of Govan and its context within Glasgow. Our overall aim was to start with the big picture: like a drone eye in the sky overlooking the Strathclyde valley with the scope of the whole River Clyde gradually zooming in to look closely at identified people and places of interest. Read More.

Govan City Lab

Turning the Tide On the Clyde

The purpose of the event was to launch the Turning the Tide On the Clyde project and to run a ‘pilot’ that can inform the planning and operation of potentially larger and/or more in-depth future events and sub-projects (or spin-off projects). It was also the start of the process of engaging stakeholders and interest groups in the objectives of the project. Read more.

Govan City Lab

The second Govan Local Lab took place on Saturday 8th June 2019 with funding from various partners including Clyde Docks Preservation Initiative, Govan Docks Regeneration Trust, Creative Europe and the Universities of Strathclyde and the West of Scotland. Twinned with a matching event in Gdańsk where students from the Architecture Department of Gdańsk University of Technology took on the task of revisioning the future of the shipyard, third year architecture students from the University of Strathlyde took on the matching task of revisioning the future of Govan’s Graving Docks. Read more.

Gdansk City Lab

Discussion forum about the future transformation of the shipyard area in Gdansk. An opportunity to meet with various representatives of stakeholders in the process of transformation of the shipyard's post-industrial areas. Read more.

Gdansk Artistic Residency