21 Dec 2021
We wish you very happy holidays and we are looking forward to seeing you in the new year!
Dear partners,
Another year has gone by. One were, even though we hoped it would be over, we were still coping with the challenges covid bring us.
Besides this very real struggle and the hard times it has brought the cultural sector, we saw great creativity and flexibility. Within the sector, but also with all of you; our partners.
ULG walks in London, great numbers of participants in Dublin in online meetings, colourful voting boxes in Lisbon. Covid won’t bring us down.
But it has been hard. And therefore we want to take the time to say thank you! For all you hard work, for your patience, for you work in the IAP’s, for your input is de MTR and the Progress report, for all the hours spending behind a screen instead of strolling the streets of Tallinn, Riga and Sofia. Your believe in the importance of this network, on inclusion, is the motor on why we all still keep going forward.
With the beginning of 2022, the end of ACCESS is becoming a bit closer. But before we say our goodbyes, we have the transnational meeting in Vilnius (online), our end event in Amsterdam in June, the Urbact City Festival and our final IAP and Guidebook to finish.
We hope that you have some time off now. To reflect, to rest. Play a game with family and friends, enjoy diners and nature (or culture if you are not in lockdown).
We wish you very happy holidays and we are looking forward to seeing you in the new year!
Rebakah (lead expert), Jacobien and Corynne (lead partner on behalf of Amsterdam)