Registration to the ICORN Network Meeting in Brussels 22nd-24th March 2023
It is our pleasure to invite you to the ICORN Network Meeting in Brussels 22nd-24th March 2023. Find more information and the link to register below.
It is our pleasure to invite you to the ICORN Network Meeting in Brussels 22nd-24th March 2023. Find more information and the link to register below.
In cooperation with the City of Brussels and our partners at the International House of Literature PassaPorta, it is our pleasure to invite you to join us for the ICORN Network Meeting in Brussels 22nd-24th March 2023.
The registration is open. Please register using this online registration form.
The deadline for registration is 7 February 2023.
Paper is the thematic guideline for next year’s ICORN Network Meeting. Since its invention, paper has enabled us to share knowledge across cultures and continents and has opened horizons, with literature and arts as transforming powers. However, papers also bear the burden of defining who we are, where we belong, and our rights as human beings. The power of paper can be paradoxical, it builds bridges and at the same time limits identity and movement.
One of the main topics of the Network Meeting in Brussels will be the possibility of crossing borders, both physically and metaphorically.
Our annual meeting has become an important gathering place for the whole network. We look forward to welcoming up to 300 writers, artists, journalists, activists, city representatives, politicians, policy makers, partner organisations, sister networks, and experts in the field of human rights, arts, culture, and migration.
This is a space to reflect, to share information, inspiration, and knowledge, and to further develop our common work for freedom of expression and international solidarity. We offer three days with:
- Keynote speeches
- Presentation on common work, challenges, and opportunities
- Discussions in workshops and break-out rooms
- Hands-on courses on relevant topics
- Networking breaks, lunches, and dinners
- A rich cultural programme
Contents:
Our partners – The City of Brussels and PassaPorta
Participation Fee
Participation fee: €550
Participation fee includes:
- Attendance to all programme events 22nd-24th March
- Attendance to special cultural programme/PassaPorta 24th-26th March
- Two nights accommodation at assembly hotel
- Breakfast at the hotel 23rd-24th March
- Lunch 22nd-24th March
- Dinner 22nd-23rd March
Accommodation
We have booked rooms at two hotels 22nd-24th March to accommodate all participants - the Bedford Hotel and The President Hotel. As the two nights at the hotel are included in the registration fee, you will automatically be booked into one of the hotels for these two nights when you register.
Extra nights booking
If you are staying extra nights, please email Ieva Paberzyte at ieva.paberzyte@icorn.org.
Programme Schedule
The programme starts on Wednesday 22nd March 2023 at 12 pm and ends on Friday 24th March at 3 pm. To be able to plan your travel, we present here a tentative, reduced schedule for the start and end of the Network Meeting. A more detailed programme schedule will be provided soon.
Wednesday 22nd March 12.00 -16.00 Training courses for city coordinators and ICORN residents (for all coordinators and residents in the ICORN programme)
12.00-13.30 Lunch
17.30-19.00 Plenary opening of the ICORN Network Meeting at the Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles (for all participants)
19.15 – 20.00 Welcome reception at the Hôtel de Ville de Bruxelles hosted by the City of Bruxelles (for all participants and guests)
20.30 Dinner
Thursday 23rd March Full programme for all participants
Friday 24th March Full programme for all participants until 15.00
Weekend We encourage our participants to stay on and take part in the PassaPorta festival programme after the Network Meeting and throughout the weekend.
Travel
Travel safe, light, and as green as possible. Brussels is located in the centre of Europe and allows many of you to travel by train. There are also good connections with trains to Brussels from Amsterdam airport.
Visa Regulations
When travelling to Belgium, you will need a Schengen Visa if you are a citizen of a non-Schengen country without a visa-free travel agreement with the area, or if you have been refused for visa-free travel.
Please check Visa regulations for entry to Belgium, and take particular care to check this early for/with residents travelling to Brussels in March.
Our partners – The City of Brussels and PassaPorta
With the support of City of Brussels, the International House of Literature PassaPorta and Festival joined ICORN in 2007 and have since hosted 6 ICORN residents.
Every two years, the Passa Porta Festival celebrates Brussels as a city of literature with the arrival of hundreds of writers and artists and a large, interested public. The festival is the largest one of its kind in Europe and welcomes a great variety of creative professionals for several days of meetings, readings, performances, and discussions, shared by thousands of literature- and arts lovers from different backgrounds.
We are excited to have the opportunity to form part of this important event, to be included in the programme, and to attend the events during the ICORN Network Meeting and throughout the weekend.
Contact us
You are welcome to contact us for any questions regarding the Network Meeting on event@icorn.org.
