17 "To be relevant, you have to beconnected with the society in which you live" « Pour être pertinent, il est indispensable d’être en lien avec la société dans laquelle vous vivez » © Daryl Cauchi daniel azzopardi Daniel Azzopardi, artistic director of the Spazju Kreattiv Foundation, Malta’s National Centre for Creativity Daniel Azzopardi, directeur artistique de ladream museum, or that they believed that“To be relevant, you have to be connected fondation Spazju Kreattiv, centre national de lathat this could change not only their regionwith the society in which you live,” states création à Malte but their own lives. These 8,000 letters areDaniel Azzopardi, artistic director of still in my office. They are the foundation ofthe Spazju Kreattiv Foundation, Malta’s the museum’s philosophy, which is a National Centre for Creativity —the philosophy of action. We think about thatonly contemporary arts centre in what every day.” is a very young country, having only gained independence in 1974. “We need This leads one to pose another to create and define our identity. Our hope is question: how does culture, and how doto give the next generations the opportunity cultural representavties,participate into choose what they want to be and what the world and in people’s lives? We havethey can do. And the energy brought by to accept the need to engage in fieldsyoung people is contagious. ” Co-creation, other than culture and education: in or co-cre-action, to use a term coined society, the economy, the environment,by Bondil, with local partners has in town planning, ecology, health and become essential if institutional doors equality… It’s a dizzying task. Every are truly to be opened and if every situation is nonetheless unique, person’s participation is to be valid. especially in localities where artisticThis suggests the need to seek out institutions are few and far between. audiences in places where they might