Gradually, cultural development is turning towards partnership with creative ‘enterprise’ – that is the full gamut of non-grant funding income, creative economy, commercial resources and corporate linkage in culture , as an alternative to grant funding, which is spiralling headlong towards dependency.
Lotta Lekvall is the Director of Nätverkstan, a Cultural Organisation in Sweden. Within the Economy of Creativity project of DoDown Artscentre in Nairobi - she and her collegue Karin Dalborg provided a two days traning "The Art of living on Art" for Kenyan artists. From this stay - she collected stories and reflections that you can share.
