The Norwegian Ministry of Culture today announced an ongoing investment in Norwegian-Russian cultural cooperation with Pikene på Broen being one of the key cooperation partners for continued cross-border cultural dialogue. “The cultural sector in Northern Norway has had contact with partners in Northwest Russia for many years. The government wants good relations with Russia in the cultural…

The Slovakian delegation from Project Zip visited Pikene på Broen for an informal presentation and lunch meeting. Project Zip is cooperation project between Sloavaki and Ukraine and operates under that tag lined “Zipping and Innovating the Development Planning of the Cross-Border Slovak-Ukrainian territory”.

Norwegian author and social anthropologist Erika Fatland visited Pikene på Broen for an office lunch as she continues her journey following the Russian border from North Korea to the Norwegian coastline at Grense Jakobslev. Her eight month, 20,000km journey has taken her through Russia’s Asian neighbours, ex-soviet republics and eastern bloc nations by car, train…

The final event of the INTRANSIT project organized by the Goethe Institut Stockholm was following the theme somewhere else today is already tomorrow – What can we learn from co-productive, user-led forms of urban development in northwestern Europe? It took place in Erfurt/Germany from Wednesday 27th to Friday 29th of April of 2016.

Pikene på Broen is pleased to be a partner in the Transfer North curatorial, critical writing and research residency programme taking place over autumn and winter 2016. Application deadline for the program is the 15th May, 2016.

Pikene på Broen is proud to announce that we are now a project partner for the INTRANSIT urban development and place-making initiative arranged by the Goethe Institut.

Cold capitals – hot borders.  Cross border art as a creativity and soft security tool for regional development. Our artistic director, Andreas Hoffmann, traveled to Germany to take part in the “Go Local” conference being held at the Nordic Embassies, Felleshus, Berlin.  The conference is a meeting place to discuss regional development of culture and the arts in…

Francois Zvardon’s stunning, large-scale photographic exhibition, ‘Iron Heroes’, travels to Nikel this weekend for the 2015 Petchenga Days festival (5th and 6th of September).

Peter and Magda Razus, the driving forces behind the Slovakian organisation PRERAG (Prešov regional development agency) visited Pikene på Broen in beginning of March