Trond Lossius on Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:04:06 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> BEK survives (was: URGENT - BEK: Call for support) |
Last autumn BEK, Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts, was running the risk of having to close down due to lack of future fundings. To prevent this we launched a massive lobbying campaign towards the Ministry of Culture, The Norwegian Parliament, The Municipality of Bergen, etc. We also called for artists and others concerned to express their support for BEK at our website. Almost 600 persons responded to this call for support. Concidering that BEK is a small and young organization, that was very impressive. The support statements were forwarded to all relevant politicians and bureaucrats: http://www.bek.no/demo_html Shortly before christmas the Parliament decided to grant support for BEK for the future. In the beginning of January The Norwegian Council for Cultural Affairs and the Ministry of Culture desided to provide additional funding for BEK. BEK now has a long-term security concerning fundings that we have never experienced before. On behalf of everyone involved with BEK (staff, artists, users, etc.) I want to express our gratitude towards all of you that supported us. Sincerely, Trond Lossius On 12-10-03 20:36, "Trond Lossius" <lossius@bek.no> wrote: > BEK - Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts might be forced to close down early > next year due to lack of governmental support. For this reason we call for > your support. If you believe that BEK should continue to exist, please > express your support at our web page: > > http://www.bek.no > > or by sending a mail to demo@bek.no. > > HISTORY > > BEK - Bergen Centre of Electronic Arts, was found while Bergen, Norway, was <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net