This Year's Theme: Community Building
- Thore Davies
- 4 days ago
- 2 min read
Kulturkraft
Culture & Commerce
Kulturkraft is the annual meeting place for cultural actors who want to strengthen the relevance and business of culture in practice. Here you will gain new knowledge, useful methods and international cases that show the most effective approaches and strategies - across the cultural field and its many purposes, genres and types of organization.
Kulturkraft's recurring theme, Culture & Commerce, sets the stage for conversations about fulfilling the potential and strengthening culture's ability to create value - culturally, socially and commercially.
Kulturkraft25
Community Building
Many strategies in the cultural sector point to communities in 2025 as the key to both cultural and societal relevance, and not least sustainable business. But what do we really mean by community - and which concrete approaches work in practice? How can culture best become a gathering point for more people - with relevance and fulfilling the commercial potential?
At Kulturkraft25 we examine how Community Building can be translated into concrete strategies and practices that strengthen both the societal role and business among cultural actors. We focus particularly on international cultural actors who succeed in creating communities – and show how the most effective approaches to community building can inspire across the cultural sector.
As a participant, you will gain new knowledge, useful methods and inspiration from actors who are already successful in creating strong communities.
A Few Highlights
This year's keynote speakers show how you, as a cultural actor, can strengthen relationships in practice, create both local and global relevance and mobilize communities and new target groups.
We start in London, where the Victoria & Albert Museum is working strategically with digital engagement and has created a new narrative about creativity and a youth platform that both strengthens the museum's brand and attracts new, younger visitors.
From there, the trip goes to the Welsh city of Wrexham, where the local football club Wrexham A.F.C. has become the focal point of a new urban community - and today is a global cultural story where local ownership, passion and ambassadorship are the keywords.
We end at LEGO, where children's creativity and voices are put into play in the face of global change. Their international outreach program Build the Change engages over 2 million children a year in creating concrete solutions to today's major societal challenges - and shows how culture, creativity and play can become the building blocks of the future.
