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Arts and Culture Under Pressure

December 4 - 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Join us on 4 December in Lisbon for the launch of the winter 2025 print edition of the Green European Journal, Acting Out: Arts and Culture Under Pressure.

About the Event

Across Europe, arts and culture are facing defunding, job precarity, censorship, marginalisation, and instrumentalisation by economic and political agendas. How do we assert the value of culture and protect artistic freedom in this challenging landscape? And can culture contribute to the ecological transformation?

A debate around the winter 2025 print edition of the Green European Journal. Subscribe now and get it straight from the printer.

Speakers

  • Mafalda Dâmaso, part-time professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute and co-chair of the EU-UK Forum on Cultural & Media Relations. She edited the volume The European Union as a Global Cultural Power (De Gruyter Brill, 2025). 
  • Patrycja Kaszynska, Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Arts London (UAL) and Research Fellow at the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre, Newcastle University. Her expertise lies in the field of cultural value: how the value of art and culture is articulated and evidenced in the context of policy and decision-making. 
  • Jacinto Lucas Pires, writer and playwright. His sixth novel, Vento nos olhos(“Wind in your eyes”), has just been published. With The True Actor (2013), he won the 2013 DST Distinguished Literature Award. Oração a que Faltam Joelhos(“Prayer Lacking Any Knees”) won the John Dos Passos Award in 2021. Jacinto Manupela is his musical alter ego. He has a Substack newsletter, Pardon my English.

Moderator

Alessio Giussani, editor-in-chief of the Green European Journal.

Practical Information

Date: Thursday 4 December 2025
Time: 18:00 to 19:30 CET
Location: Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Amália Rodrigues Room, Lisbon
Languages: English
Entry: Free, no registration required

This event is organised by the Green European Foundation with the financial support of the European Parliament. The European Parliament is not responsible for the content of this event.

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