The (D’)Evolution Summit was a civil society meeting to open the minds of the European Community Ministers of Culture, who had gathered in Barcelona for an Informal Meeting in the framework of the Spanish Presidency of the European Union.

On March 30 and 31 the Ministers of Culture of the 27 European Union member states brought to a close the European Forum for Cultural Industries.

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So was ours: /(D') EVOLUTION SUMMIT, The Returns of Culture./

(Download here .mov videos or download here .ogg videos)

Although we weren’t invited to the official event, the creative community and civil society organised three days of activities to show our proposed culture for the digital era: a model of culture that benefits everybody – citizens and creators – a model that stimulates creativity and not just profit, and, above all, one that does not attack the Internet.

We invited Ministers, participants attending the Forum of Cultural Industries, the media and anybody who wanted to come, to participate in the (D') Evolution Summit.

UNMISSABLE

- We create, we decide

- The Tracks Collector, reality show

- Sharing is necessary

- I co-produced Vicky Cristina Barcelona

- New models of returns

- ACTA vs HACKTA

- The Internet will not be another TV

- Giving music to hairdressers vs the greed that refuses to understand the future

- Leo Bassi presents: We will not carry the Can for an industry that refuses to adapt to reality

- Looking for a (North) American friend

- The missing panel

- Dear Minister, this is what you think is happening, and this is what is happening. Live performances from the creative community, as it really is: Derivart, Màquina de Turing Live, Michel Bauwens (P2p Foundation), el Cosmonauta (Riot Cinema), YProductions

From 29th to 31st March

24h live retransmission

Permanent information point

March 29th, 2010, from 11h to 21h in Conservas, (Sant Pau 58 street, ground floor - Metro: Liceu - Barcelona)

March 30th, 2010, from 11h to 21h in square Fossar de les Moreres, (a few meters away from the ministers congress -Metro: Jaume I o Barceloneta - Barcelona)

March 31st, 2010, from 11h to 21h in Conservas, (Sant Pau 58 street, ground floor - Metro: Liceu - Barcelona)

Mail: info[at]d-evolution.fcforum.net