Cultural Olympiad: For Accessible Culture

Inclusion, diversity, equity, accessibility: values that the BASE Milano cultural centre used to present its Manifesto for the Plural Cultural Institution.

Institutions, Foundations and Associations united by the values ​​of inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility. With this aim, the open cultural centre BASE Milano presented, yesterday, a Manifesto for the plural cultural institution. Reflections and practical ideas for building creative, open and accessible institutions, the result of a path conceived and implemented by BASE with the collaboration of associations and foundations active in the fight against racialisation, ableism and gender discrimination. Fondazione Milano Cortina 2026 was also present to listen to and receive the Manifesto An idea of ​​a cultural centre.

The document, free and open, can be consulted and future changes and improvements can be proposed in order to achieve a better level of accessibility and inclusiveness of cultural spaces. Linda Di Pietro, Artistic Director of BASE said: "We have conceived a collective, shared, open and modifiable working tool. Aware that ours is a partial perspective, we open ourselves to the voices, contributions, experiences of all the organisations and subjects that will make a global reflection possible on the transformations required by plurality."

The Milano Cortina 2026 Cultural Olympics

For the occasion, the Foundation received the Manifesto as a sign of listening and commitment in continuing the path of dialogue in view of the construction of the Milano Cortina 2026 Cultural Olympics, a multidisciplinary and widespread program to promote Olympic and Paralympic Values ​​through union of culture, heritage and sport, sharing some principles with this important project: the value of co-planning, the nature of a plural program, the search for social transformation.

Representing the OCOG of the next Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games is Domenico De Maio, Education Director and Alessandro Andreoni, Paralympic champion and Marks Approval Specialist.