Ceyda Berk-Söderblom

Ceyda Berk-Söderblom is an award-winning cultural manager, curator, festival programmer, and expert of DEI. She is a senior project manager and researcher at the Trans Europe Halles (TEH), and leads the Cultural Transformation Movement project, a four-year project that aims to transform cultural organisations with full engagement of under-represented communities. Ceyda is also in charge of developing TEH’s relationship with the academic sector to be updated on the relevant academic literature on social justice, spatial justice, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI), and other topics relevant to underrepresented communities. With over 20 years of experience in the field of arts, Ceyda has curated programmes internationally and worked closely with world-known institutions, orchestras, artists, and ensembles. In 2015 she founded  MiklagårdArts, a facilitator and connector for promoting transnational and transcultural collaborations. Ceyda is a public advocate for equity, diversity, and inclusion, focusing on policies, practices, norms, and institutions through her practice and her non-profit work as a board member and chair of Globe Art Point (2017-2021). She was an expert in the working group on cultural policy, immigration and cultural diversity appointed by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture (2020) to prepare policy guidelines and the Art, Culture and Diverse Finland Report.