"The projects backed by the Elbkultur Funds promise exciting, artistic explorations of topics now topping the social agenda. They create spaces for artists and audiences to put participation, exchange and networking into action and give us new perspectives on issues," said Dr Carsten Brosda, Senator for Culture and Media. The "How low can we go" project by Lea Connert has received EUR 126,000 in funds. Emphasis is on human reactions to the climate crisis. Set on a dystopian cruise, visitors can travel to the Amazon rainforest, the island nation of Tonga, Heligoland and the Serengeti Desert. Strategies for joint climate activism are developed across generations.
Meanwhile, the "Black Writers Book Festival Hamburg" by Millicent Adjei has received EUR 92,000 in funds. The three-day event gives Black authors from Hamburg, Germany, Europe and Africa a platform to read their works, discuss African and Afro-diasporic literature and address structural inequalities within the book industry. Another project entitled "Diversity Check East-West" by Nina Reiprich has received EUR 77,600 in funds. The project queries changing aesthetics and processes in the context of critiques of racism, struggles for residency, and identity politics, as well as the role of diversity, identity politics, and (anti-) racism in Eastern Europe.
