Events in Beijing

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Events in Nederland

Be(ijing)S(eoul)T(okyo)-NL is a program for innovation in cultural co-creation and will be a catalyst for long-term cross-sectorial cooperation between creators in the East-Asian region and the Netherlands.
BeST-NL is initiated by the Dutch embassies in Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo in collaboration with Company New Heroes, Europees Keramisch Werkcentrum, Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics, and Studio The Future.
The core of the BeST-NL program consists of three case studies: Hello Asia, Lokaal Internationaal, The Cool Ceramic Hunt/Made in Holland. They represent a clear and intrinsic demand from the Dutch cultural sector to develop, improve or broaden exchanges with the East-Asian region. Each focuses on different aspects of, and approaches to, cultural co-creation between East-Asia and the Netherlands.
BeST-NL’s program shows in what ways young people are changing their methods of connecting and collaborating on an international scale—across and between sectors. The program will also introduce the Dutch creative sector to the East-Asian creative community, and contribute to new reciprocal cultural exchanges. The program also results in a new, sustainable network of creators that collaborate in various ways, and as such enhance a strong Dutch cultural presence in Asia.
Best-NL is a platform for co-creation that aims to serve as a hub for new exchanges and co-creation.
Concrete output of the program will be expert meetings, theater performances, documentaries, visitor programs to the participating countries and the Netherlands by cultural influencers, exhibitions, publications, and an international conference and final symposium.
BeST-NL is funded with the International Cultural Policy funds of the three embassies supplemented with a contribution from the ‘Programmamiddelen Plus’ governed by DutchCulture. This contribution was administered by a committee of representatives of the Dutch funds and organizations involved in the implementation of the International Cultural Policy: the Agency of Cultural Heritage, the Creative Industries Fund, the Mondriaan Fund, the New Institute, the Performing Arts Fund.

Please find the full proposal BeST-NL here.

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Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands

BEIJING: Tjarda Arendz
SEOUL: Hajin Lee
TOKYO: Bas Valckx

Case Studies

LOKAAL INTERNATIONAAL:
Studio The Future,
Vincent Schipper, Klara van Duijkeren, Jorrit Weeda

HELLO ASIA:
Company New Heroes,
Lucas de Man, Kimberly Major

THE COOL CERAMIC HUNT/MADE IN HOLLAND:
Europees Keramisch Werkcentrum,
Ranti Tjan
Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics,
Kris Callens

DutchCulture: Maarten Bul

logo and website design: Tjobo Kho
website: Haris Hadzic

BeST-NL thanks the representatives of the Agency of Cultural Heritage, the Creative Industries Fund, the Mondriaan Fund, the New Institute, and the Performing Arts Fund for their support of BeST-NL.

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Introduction

Posted on August 31, 2018September 11, 2018 by admin

Hello Asia is a multi media art project portraying the upcoming generation of millenials in East Asia. It searches common ground and a new narrative shared by millennials in Eastern and Western parts of the world.

Six cities, six weeks

In project Hello Asia, Lucas De Man (Belgium/The Netherlands) and Hyunsin Kim (Germany/South Korea) take you on a fascinating journey to meet their peers in Asia. As cultural contexts of Europe and East Asia differ greatly Lucas and Hyunsin find out there’s lots to learn. Mostly millennials attempt to answer the same basic life question: How to be happy while making our society future ready?

Lucas and Hyunsin travelled, together with documentary director Joep van Osch, to 6 key East Asian cities in 6 weeks: Seoul, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Taipei and Shenzhen. They met and spoke to over 100 millennials. Ranging from students to professors, corporate business owners to social entrepreneurs, experts in robotics and artificial intelligence to experts in love and sex. Educators, activists, sociologists, politicians, environmentalists, artists, men, women, married, single, gay, hetero, you name it.

What Lucas and Hyunsin found is an inspiring generation dealing with surprisingly similar societal issues and personal questions. A generation that is finding their voice and is ready to use it.

Multimedia art project
Multimedia art project Hello Asia takes on different forms. Right now a 6 episode (online) documentary series and a lecture performance tour by Lucas De Man are being developed. Both go by the name: Meet the Millenials. These different forms of storytelling enable us to connect to as many different audiences as possible, in both Europe and East Asia. We love to meet you! Not only in theaters, but also at festivals, universities, conventions etc.

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