Kulturarbetare förena er!

Cultural workers unite!

Next meeting:
Art and culture in a permacrisis
March 25, 2025
17.30–19.30
KKVMM, Bragegatan 15, Malmö

ART IN A PERMACRISIS:
WTF DO WE DO?

We’ve been ”living in unprecedented times” long enough to know that the world is in a state of crisis, and has been for a while. The various crises we face here in Sweden and around the globe today don’t happen in isolation in a violent, extractive, capitalist system—they ignite, fuel, and worsen each other by design.We want to make some time and space to look at what our role as artists and creatives is in a permacrisis. How do we respond? What power do we have? What and who does and can our art serve?Join us as we meet and discuss this to move towards a manifesto for Cultural Workers Unite! The usual ranting and venting is, of course, always welcome. No need so sign up, just show up!Optional reading (in Swedish):
Är konsten relevant i klimatkrisen?Date: Tuesday March 25
Time: 17.30–19.30
Place: KKV Monumental Malmö
Address: Bragegatan 15, Malmö

Previous events

January 6th, 2025 · Direktörsvillan
Workshop: Culture after capitalism?December 13th, 2024 · Far i hatten
After workOctober 14th, 2024 · Lodgatan 3b
Dinner & DiscussionSeptember 2nd, 2024· STPLN
Sharing and learningJune 10th, 2024 · Karavan
Where do we go from here?March 25th 2024, · Krakel
Venting our frustrations

AboutAre you an artist, designer, architect, musician, writer, dancer, performing artist, illustrator, photographer, animator, craftsperson, curator, museum guide or some other kind of cultural, arts or creative worker?Fully or part-time employed, self-employed, freelance or newly graduated?Join us in building and organizing a community of leftist cultural workers in of Malmö!

Most of us feel the political, financial and technological difficulties of our times. Funding for arts and culture are slashed, cultural policies serving only commercial interests, our cities are rapidly gentrifying and AI is creeping closer to automating us out of our livelihoods. Simultaneously we’re overwhelmed by the realities of climate and ecological crisis, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, growing militarism and the inequalities inherent in capitalist society everywhere.But artists have always dreamed of another world. A socially, economically and ecologically just society, where art no longer is an exchangeable commodity and luxury for the few, but a joy for the many. So let's get together to think and discuss how we can organize ourselves as cultural workers and how we can use our skills in support of existing progressive movements and organizations. It could be workshops, political actions, social gatherings, study circles, unionizing, community organizing and much more.Bring your colleagues! No prior experiences needed, we’ll learn together and from each other.

Who are we?

These meetups are organized by a loose group of cultural workers who want to create opportunities for leftist colleagues in the culture, arts and creative fields of Malmö to get together in solidarity and organizing.