Twenty years of supporting the arts

1990

1991

October, Amsterdam: Founding Conference

Imagination and Diversity, Europe’s richness;

co-operation on Education in the Arts

5 October: ELIA is born!Carla Delfos becomes Executive Director,

Patrick Talbot elected fi rst ELIA President

(1990-1992)

October: Budapest,

Crossroads of Art

and Politics in the

merging Europe

April: European show of work of art

students at De Zonnehof, Amersfoort

November: Strasbourg: 2nd Biennial

Connecting with others: being different,

living, creating and dreaming together

Johan Haarberg elected President

(1992-1994)

June: Amsterdam,

Seminar on Voice teaching

in the performing arts

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1994September: theatre masterclass in Amsterdam and Berlin, Towards a multidisciplinary approach to acting

September: Berlin, 3rd Biennial‘taken at the fl ood’ – Art in our TimesMartin Rennert elected President (1994-1996)

1996 May: Symposium in Graz

Confrontation and Confl ict - the Challenge

to the Arts in Times of Human Turmoil

June: Masterclass New music for

ensembles

October: start of the fi rst Thematic Network

for Higher Arts Education in Europe

(1996-2000)

November: Lisbon, 4th ELIA Biennial

Refl ections on the Human Face

Chantal de Smet elected President

(1996-2000)

First issue of InterELIA

June: Seminar - The management of

International projects in arts education

(Amsterdam)

1995

May: students paint Panorama London

October: exhibition of Panorama London

in Barcelona

June: London, The Artist in the Community

O2 at the Roundhouse CD

Making a Living from the Arts, Exploring

ways of improving employability of artists in

Europe, with meetings in Berlin, Helsinki,

Dublin, and Amsterdam

Thematic Network publication: Toolkit for

Innovation

October: Barcelona, 6th Biennial

“A bounty, boundless as the sea…”

– Art’s generosity

John Butler elected President (2000-2004)

March: Amsterdam,

European cultural networks: between two stools?

October: students paint Panorama Athens

November: Athens,

New Developments in Fine Art

Higher Education

First issue of European Journal of Arts

Education

May: Sofi a, Strangers and Brothers.

Present, Past and Future & Interrelated and

Estranged Societies in Europe

November: Helsinki, 5th Biennial …Where

are we going? The Artist as Communicator

in the Third Millennium

1998

1999

May: Rotterdam,

Survival Skills for

Arts Graduates

September: Warsaw,

drama workshop

Physical sources of

the word

October: Montpellier,

Economies Politiques

de l’Art

2000

2002

2001April: Gent,

WillHigher Arts

Education survive

2010?

Thematic Network

Bologna:

Innovation in Higher

Arts Education

(2001-2004)

Artemisia: Equal

Opportunities

in Higher Arts

Education, with a

seminar in Lisbon

(8-9 June) and a

handbook (2002)

April, Vienna:

A European Dialogue

on the Bologna

Process in the Arts

May, Prague: On the

European dimension

in Quality Assurance

in Higher Arts

Education

July, Barcelona: fi rst

Teachers’ Academy

On the Move!

publication

December, Los

Angeles: Leadership

Symposium in Getty

Center

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Learning abroad in

the Arts (2002-2003)

October 2003,

Tilburg: Quicksilver

October: Dublin, 7th

Biennial “Comhár”

2004

2007April: Chicago, Claiming Creativity

May: Porto, Peer Power! Final conference

of artesnetEurope

Publication: Peer Power! The Future of

Higher Arts Education in Europe

3rd edition of Languages through Lenses

October: Nantes, NEU/NOW Festival

11th ELIA Biennial

HEARTH: l’art au coeur du territoire

March: Cluj-Napoca,

‘Brilliant’

April: Lisbon,

‘Vitality’

May: Ljubljana,

‘Opportunity’

September: Essen,

‘Prologue’

Re:Search - in and

through the arts

(2004-2005)

Thematic Network

inter}artes

(2004-2007)

November: Luzern,

8th Biennial

Challenging the

Frame

Maarten Regouin

elected President

(2004-2006)

2005

2006

Bloom! Students paint murals in 300

hotel rooms, Brussels (2006-2008)

April: Tbilisi, Bologna and Art Education

September: Budapest, inter}artes

mutual learning workshop

October: Gent, 9th Biennial

Art, Engagement & Education

Chris Wainwright elected President

(2006-2010)

artesnetEurope

(2007-2010)

Film project …I see

you. The Language

of the Arts and

Intercultural Dialogue

Meetings in Kassel

and Berlin, première

in Torino

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First edition of

Languages through

Lenses

October: Berlin,

Prese nted at Prix

Europa Festival

2008

July: Sofi a, 4th

Teachers’ Academy

September:

Glasgow, EUFRAD

European Forum for

Research Degrees

in Art and Design

2nd edition of

Languages through

Lenses

2010

April: Rotterdam,

2nd Teachers’

Academy

October: Berlin,

Re:Search in and

through the arts

conference

November: London,

2nd Leadership

Symposium

April: Tallinn,

Towards Strong

Creative Disciplines

in Europe

July: Brighton, 3rd

Teachers’ Academy

Published as Teachers’

Academy Papers

December:

Hong Kong,

3rd Leadership

Symposium

2009

Inter}artes: Tapping

into the potential

of Higher Arts

Education in Europe

…I see you

publication

October:

Gothenburg,

10th Biennial

November: Vilnius,

NEU/NOW Festival

Virtual at

www.neunow.eu

December: Zurich,

4th Leadership

Symposium

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Since its founding in 1990, ELIA advocates the arts and

higher arts education on a European level and is recognised

as an important voice in the cultural realm, bringing

together expertise in all artistic disciplines.

Looking back at dramatic social and political changes

in our societies and at what has been achieved, looking

forward to new challenges, and standing at the point where

we are now, we have put these snapshots and milestones

together to cherish this moment: 20 years ELIA.

The end is in the beginning,

and yet we go on…(Samuel Beckett)

Carla Delfos

Founder and Executive Director

Assorted images from Bloom! Students

paint murals in 300 hotel rooms, Brussels

(2006-2008)