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Citerne.live www.sareyyet.ps RCDFpalestine 11:00 am to 1:00 pm Sareyyet Ramallah & Zoom July Conference & Forums Tuesday 13 Second Session The Artist-Audience Relationship amid the Pandemic. The term “economic empowerment” has connotations that vary according to the economic, social and cultural contexts of each society, these connotations differ in the extent to which art relates to and influences the process of economic development and affects its role in driving the economy. Cultural institutions and independent artists faced major economic challenges during the pandemic. Many institutions stopped working, and many artists were forced to seek other jobs to meet their daily needs even with some official and non-governmental donor institutions pro- viding financial grants to cultural institutions and independent artists during the pandemic aiming to enhance their resilience and economic empowerment. This session will discuss the economic empowerment of cultural institutions and artists amid the pandemic by hosting a group of donor in- stitutions, cultural institutions, artists and a group of artists who received financial grants during the pandemic to answer the following ques- tions: How does art generally contribute to economic development? To what extent is culture used as an instrument of economic empower- ment? What is the importance of cultural artistic productions in economic empowerment? Is art a cultural force that affects the mind without affecting the economy? What is the role of cultural institutions in the process of economic empowerment of independent artists? What is the role of donor institutions in the process of economic empowerment of cultural institutions and independent artists? What is the role of the government in the process of economic empowerment of cultural institutions and independent artists? How does conditional funding affect the sustainability of cultural institutions and independent artists and enhance their independence? What are the alternatives? Will attention continue to be given to the economic empowerment of cultural institutions and independent artists after the end of the pandemic? He is Executive Director, CEC ArtsLink and an independent curator and educator, co-curating Crossing the Line, the annual trans-disciplinary fall festival in New York City from 2008 to 2018. Previously Professor of Practice and Director of the School of Dance at Arizona State University from 2007 to 2012 and curator and Artistic Director of Springdance, the international festival of new developments in dance and performance in the Netherlands from 2000 to 2007. Executive Director, CEC ArtsLink Simon Dove – USA Enrica Palmieri is a choreographer and dancer from Rome (Italy). In 1979, she moved to New York City to study dance and composition. Since 1986, she has been involved in a research work on the body as a place of matter and density in relation to space, on the different textures of motion and space, on the time as a motor base of energy. Graduated in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Rome La Sapienza.She writes articles about the representation of the existence in the Occupied Territories for the weekly magazine La Nuova Rinascita. Since 2017 she is the Director of the Accademia Nazionale di Danza. Rima was appointed Executive Director of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture - AFAC in 2016, building on her extensive experience as AFAC Deputy Director. She sat on several festivals’ juries, contributed to critical writ- ings on Arab cinema, moderated panels and wrote for regional media outlets. Director of National Academy of Dance Executive Director – The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC) Enrica Palmieri – Italy Rima Mismar - Lebanon