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In 2012, ENCATC celebrates the 20th anniversary of its foundation with a broad range of activities and events. Throughout the whole year 2012, ENCATC will join forces with its members and main partners to celebrate, debate and reflect on Creative Industries, Cultural diplomacy and networks.

Call for Papers Now Open for Researcher Meeting 17th July 2012  – Service Design in Art Management and Entertainment Economy

 

A part of International Summer Seminar Pori Jazz for Professionals 17th–19th of July 2012 at the University Consortium of Pori, Finland

International Researcher Meeting – Service Design in Art Management and Entertainment Economy, for researchers interested in event management and related issues, such as cultural production and tourism, management of creative projects, social media and marketing – old hands, new beginners, doctors and all those who are interested to study event management in practice.

The Centre for Cultural Management, with support from the European Cultural Foundation, launches Ukrainian Cultural Network to establish culture in a leadership role in the development of Ukraine and to increase the role of culture in the life of its citizens.

Ukrainian Сultural Network is an association of cultural managers, artists, active consumers of culture and all who care.

We are deeply convinced that culture is a determining factor for the society and each of us in particular in order to build and develop a strong Ukrainian state. With the help of our innovative ideas and actions we seek to expand the scope of cultural activities and provoke changes that will enable culture to play an important role not only in moral terms but also in economic and social.

Looking through the pages of this latest IFPI Digital Music Report, you see a striking paradox: on one hand, there is the innovation and drive of a business that has led the way for creative industries in adapting to the digital age; on the other hand, the extraordinarily difficult environment in which these changes are taking place. This is the ninth report that we at IFPI have produced documenting the evolution of the digital music sector worldwide. It has been a challenging and often painful transition, but as we enter 2012, there are reasons for real optimism. The digital music business has now reached out to encompass the globe. The largest international legitimate digital music services are present today in no fewer than 58 countries – this number has more than doubled in the last twelve months.

The Commission is organising a conference on audience development in autumn 2012 and is looking for good examples from projects supported by the Culture and Media programmes.

 

"Creative Europe", the Commission's proposal for its future funding programme for the cultural and creative sectors for the period 2014-2020, proposes an important new focus on audience development in order to foster long-term audiences for European cultural works.

 

The European Commission will therefore organise a conference in autumn 2012 in Brussels on the topic of audience development with a view to fostering European exchange of practice. As part of its preparation of this conference, the Commission wishes to identify and showcase some projects already being supported by the EU's Culture and MEDIA Programmes with an essential and built in audience development component.

With more than 300 delegates registered, new registrations every day, and all expo stands sold out we are looking forward to a great first  edition of Classical:NEXT. (30 May - 2 June in Munich, Germany)

 

The organisers of Classical:NEXT have confirmed that all trade fair stands for the first edition of Classical:NEXT in 2012 are now taken. Almost all the stands were reserved within the first few weeks and only early birds managed to get a stand, as Daniela Teuber, Director of Production, reports: "We are very happy with the high demand for our stands, not just from German companies but from all around the world. As trade fair space is limited this year, we unfortunately had to turn people away. With companies already expressing interest for 2013, we are looking at a bigger trade fair area for next year." 

The Festival and Event Management Masterclass on March 29-30 in Berlin is an intensive 2 day programme designed to inform and inspire anyone involved in the business of creating, managing and developing festivals and events. It is a highly practical course that looks to make a positive difference to the participants’ approach to festival and event management. It includes sessions on Marketing, Press, Programming, Evaluation, Sponsorship and Fundraising. It also provides opportunities for one to one sessions with Paul giving a chance to seek advice on issues of interest to each individual participant. 

 

Paul Gudgin has over 20 years experience in the management of festivals and events and was for 8 years the Director of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. This was during an exciting period that saw the event double in scale hosting 12,000 performances and selling over 8 million tickets. Paul is the Senior Consultant at the Edinburgh Institute for Festival and Event Management at Edinburgh Napier University. This course provides a unique opportunity to work with one of the world’s leading festival and event management professionals. 

 

Amsterdam, March 12th. The epic opera, Aida, has been up for sale on eBay since yesterday, including all of its magnificent set pieces, stage props and hundreds of unique costumes, for a cast of 500 performers. Peter Kroone, who has produced countless large scale 360° opera productions and is the owner of Companions Opera Amsterdam, is retiring from the industry. Peter Kroone has produced a considerable number of large-scale operas around the world. A few examples include: Rotterdam (where it all started), Paris, Munich, Shanghai & Zurich. Many of these operas sold out, selling more than 1 million tickets. Peter Kroone was unable to find a successor for his productions within his own network. He is therefore offering all his unique productions for indoor arenas and stadiums for sale. "It pains me greatly to leave the industry, but productions like Aida cannot be produced in a year. Productions at this level require a 3 to 5 year commitment, which I am no longer able to give. The time has come for me to do other things in life. My successor must be an opera lover like I am, or an entertainment entrepreneur who sees this product as an opportunity to expand into new territories and markets. I have not yet found a successor, but the world out there is big and who knows.... Maybe there is someone out there like me, who wants to bring opera to a broader audience. This is why I have chosen to announce my retirement and the sale of my productions on eBay. It would be a shame if the productions disappeared."

AmbITion is an online toolkit that has been specifically designed for an arts organisation to develop themselves digitally. Through an easy to follow step-by-step approach, supported by a wide range of templates, tips and resources, your organisation can now approach digital development with confidence.

 

Traditionally, audits were mainly associated with gaining information about financial systems and the financial records of a company or a business. However, recent auditing has begun to include other information about the system, such as information about security risks, information systems performance. The general definition of an audit is an evaluation of a person, organisation, system, process, enterprise, project or product. Audits are performed to ascertain the validity and reliability of information, so right here at the beginning of the AmbITion process, be brutally honest with yourselves about where you are at now. By understanding the complete picture of your situation now, you’ll be able to see what your starting point is and so plan accordingly.

Cultural mapping, which spans many academic disciplines and methodologies, is informed by the observation that cultural phenomena are distributed spatially and that people experience the symbolic resources of their communities in spatial terms. While cultural mapping is firmly grounded in the world of academic disciplines and inquiry, it has a pragmatic dimension as well. In the Creative City Network of Canada's Cultural Mapping Toolkit, for example, Cultural Mapping is defined pragmatically as “a process of collecting, recording, analyzing and synthesizing information in order to describe the cultural resources, networks, links and patterns of usage of a given community or group.”

 

Cultural mapping is generally regarded as a systematic tool to identify and record local cultural assets—and these assets are thought of as “tangible” or quantitative (physical spaces, cultural organizations, public forms of promotion and self-representation, programs, cultural industries, natural heritage, cultural heritage, people, and resources) and “intangible” or qualitative (community narratives, values, relationships, rituals, traditions, history, shared sense of place). Together these assets help define communities in terms of cultural identity, vitality, sense of place, and quality of life.