UNactions
From this rich soil of ancestral wisdom and ongoing transformation, our actions take root: UN Meet sows community seeds through local outreach; UNacademy nurtures growth through dialogue and exchange; UN Roundtable connects networks nationwide; UN LAB experiments in underserved and socially marginalized settings; and UN@ brings our voice to cultural spaces.
Growing an Equitable Culture Landscape Together
UN Actions are formats developed by United Networks in collaboration with racialized and marginalized (RaM) artists, cultural workers, activists, and community organizers. They emerge directly from community exchange and combine practice, knowledge, and empowerment to support sustainable cultural change.
Across Germany, our team organizes spaces for connection, creativity and critical dialogue – whether in networking gatherings, creative laboratories, workshops, residencies, or public interventions. Through this work, we develop and share tools, methods, and competencies —like the UN Study, UN Guideline—grounded in lived experience and driving structural change toward equity and inclusion.
Our formats take root in Safer Spaces (RaM only) or Braver Spaces (RaM & committed anti-racist allies). Their shared goal is fostering connection, unlearning, and transformation – so together, we can cultivate a more just and sustainable cultural landscape.
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UN Meet
A space for connection, visibility, and growing networks – where racialized and marginalized (RaM) artists deepen community work and share strategies for change locally and beyond.
From young to old – beginners to experienced – RaM artists and cultural workers are invited to local networking gatherings, organized by trusted individuals embedded in their communities, known as ‘Community Outreacher’.
There’s food, drinks, workshops, and activities – all tailored to the specific needs of local RaM communities. These are spaces where needs are voiced, and connections flourish.
UN LAB
A cross-sector creative laboratory in underserved regions or with underrepresented children and youth — fostering inclusive, community- and dialogue-driven arts or cultural education.
These 3–14 day artistic laboratories take place in areas with limited resources, barriers to access, and sparse cultural infrastructure – ranging from rural areas to socially marginalized settings and spaces for displaced children and youth.
The goal is to provide artists the opportunity to work under supported and equitable conditions, centering marginalized perspectives.
UNacademy
connects discourse with practice by bringing racialized and marginalized (RaM) artists and cultural workers together with policymakers, administrators and institutions to co-create equitable cultural practices.
These are curated dialogues between RaM artists, cultural workers, and representatives from politics, administration and institutions. We build forums for exchange on structural challenges and cultural policy from marginalized perspectives.
The goal is to enter a shared process of learning and unlearning, explore solutions, and build bridges – between policy, activism, art, and culture.
UN Roundtable
A regular digital space where racialized and marginalized (RaM) artists, cultural workers and their allies connect to share knowledge, develop tools, and strengthen intersectional movements.
In recurring online sessions, UN partners, RaM networks, and individual artists from across Germany come together to talk, share ideas, and collaborate.
RaM networks exist in many sizes, cultures, and forms. Here, we exchange insights and tools to strengthen our intersectional movements.
UN@__
A format for invitation and intervention — showcasing UN’s work for equity while creating opportunities for racialized and marginalized (RaM) artists to present their work, build visibility, and strengthen community networks.
If you’re organizing an event, symposium, or conference that could benefit from our expertise on equity and diversity in arts and culture, invite us!
We recognize an ongoing information gap in these sectors – and we aim to address it. The more platforms we have access to, the greater our reach and impact for RaM communities.
UN Publication
Brings together community knowledge and analysis to amplify racialized and marginalized (RaM) perspectives and support advocacy for equity and access within the cultural sector.
On our Resource Page you will find collaboratively developed materials that offer insights, recommendations, and practical tools to support equity and inclusion in Germany’s arts and cultural landscape. Available in English and German.
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Photo: Michael Tibes
Photo: Michael Tibes
