Cultural Mobility Forum 2026
On the Move will be holding their annual Cultural Mobility Forum in Skopje, North Macedonia, from 29 to 30 April 2026. The theme for this year is ‘Cultural Mobility Justice’.
Each year On the Move proposes a Cultural Mobility Forum to collectively investigate international artistic and cultural mobility trends. As a knowledge platform, the network works together with its members and partners to design thematic panel discussions and contextualise global mobility issues.
The theme of cultural mobility justice examines and challenges the systemic inequities that determine who can move, create, and participate within the global cultural landscape. It exposes how visa restrictions, economic disparities, and enduring colonial, ableist, and patriarchal power structures disproportionately limit the mobility of artists and culture professionals – particularly those from marginalised communities, burdened by precarious working conditions, family responsibilities, or personal constraints, or from non-Western contexts.
Speakers come from a number of contexts, including Slovenia, Italy, UK, Portugal, Sweden, Germany, France, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Romania, Croatia, and Cyprus. There are also cultural visits and curated discussions.