Almost 600 cultural manager subscribed to December conference Culture In Motion, held by the European Commission of Culture in Brussels on December 12th, 2008. Was it the chance to get first-hand information from the commissioners on how to apply for one of the grants? Was it the perspective to be presented to some of the best-practice models of the last eight years of the programme? Was it to network on a European level? Probably all of this.
The Istanbul Section of CID will host for the third time the international congress, 8-12 April 2009. You are invited to showcase your work or simply attend, together with dance practitioners from many countries. The venue is in the heart of the city, 10 minutes walking from Taksim Square. As in all CID congresses the program includes: research reports (papers), lectures, classes, performances, video projections, exhibitions, evenings, opening cocktail & gala dinner, visits to places of special interest. All forms of dance are represented. Strictly non-profit. Not to be confused with festivals, workshops, competitions, forums or open conferences. Registrations are open.
In his latest study, the Canadian cultural economist Harry Hillman Chartrand argues that 'cultural property' has been extended thru the 2005 UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity to include the so-called cultural industries. He also highlight the emerging split in the multilateral system between WIPO and UNESCO.
Washington, D.C., January 12, 2009 -- For the first time in more than 25 years, American adults are reading more literature, according to a new study by the National Endowment for the Arts. Reading on the Rise documents a definitive increase in rates and numbers of American adults who read literature, with the biggest increases among young adults, ages 18-24. This new growth reverses two decades of downward trends cited previously in NEA reports such as Reading at Risk and To Read or Not To Read.
The festival boom throughout Europe araises questions and demands analysis:
- how are festivals born, how do they develop,
- how do they balance local interaction and international cooperation,
- how do they economically, culturally or socially impact on their respective territories?
For many organizations, recession and the long shadow cast by September 11 have replaced the rosy glow and giddy expansion boom of recent years with a nervous pallor of uncertainty. In Boston, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, museums have already announced staff cuts or postponed building plans. And in an October survey of more than 800 performing arts groups conducted by AMS Research and Planning, nearly 60 percent of respondents indicated that they're paring their budgets by 5 to 25 percent.
The 10th World Leisure Congress held in Quebec City, Canada was attended by over 3000 delegates from over 70 different countries. According to World Leisure Board of Directors Chair, Dr. Derek Casey, the event was marvelous and will be long remembered by many people.
1. New Cultural Managers between Art and Economy
The balancing act between art/culture and economy, just as much as the connection between the two, has been especially critically discussed ever since cultural managment emerged as an occupation. Among the many postulates are the following: Commercialisation of Art and Culture or the Business-ization of Artistic Processes. In this context, the New Cultural Manager between Art and Economy was the title of a forum within the 53rd Loccum Cultural Policy Colloquium After us: the cultural economy? ... And what about cultural policy? in which the young/new cultural manager had to deal with this subject area in the context of his work in a differentiated way.(1) The role of the cultural manager within this tense relationship was to be discussed, especially since the words culture and manager are united in the name of this occupation.
Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds (UK), 5th December 2008
Given the privileged global role of the English language and the undoubted popularity of English literature throughout the world, it would seem that the United Kingdom has much to offer the world in terms of its literary heritage. However, despite some national, regional and local initiatives over the years, there is still substantial potential for the development of literary tourism.
The Centre for International Heritage Activities is a knowledge centre and a network organisation in the area of shared cultural heritage and culture and development. It organised the third CIE Heritage Day on 5 June 2008. After past heritage days for Indonesia and Suriname, this year the event highlighted the range of heritage in South Africa. Appropriately, the day started in the Moravian Church in Zeist, which has direct ties with Genadendal in South Africa.
In Québec the term cultural mediation is currently being used by a growing number of cultural actors and covers a broad spectrum of practices ranging from audience development activities to participative and community arts. The many forms that the notion and practice of cultural mediation takes on, its obstacles and stakes, raise the more general question of cultures condition in todays context.
The annual report is a report on the operations of the Australia Council for the 2006-07 financial year. It has a theme of the
'the arts for Australia' to express the vital contribution that artists make to the nation.
'the arts for Australia' to express the vital contribution that artists make to the nation.
The realisation that culture plays a vital role in areas as divers as understanding economic performance and development and individual behaviour patterns has led to social scientists searching for appropriate indicators of culture in an economy. This paper tries to define culture and then explore the arguments about why culture is important.
Three years after the publication of the Green Paper on the cultural policies of local and regional authorities in Europe (2004), the European cultural scene changed with the evolution of local authorities, works of the Commission, of the Parliament and of the Committee of the Regions.
As in more or less every country and especially every big city between Finland and India, the Creative Industries are, at the moment, a big issue in Austrian cultural and economic policy.
The Asian Cultural Council (ACC) is an organization that has been promoting exchange in the arts between America and the countries of Asia for four decades by providing Asian artists with grants to stay and study in the U.S. and American artists with grants for stay in Asia. In its 45 years of activities the ACC has given grants to over 5,000 artists and researchers.
While many Americans are happy about last night's Presidential election results, a handful of geeks are even more excited about an important Federal Communications Commission vote.
The search for a concept that will draw the public of tomorrow is releasing unforeseen energies in the opera. Since 1996 Cologne has possessed a children's opera as part of its rich cultural offering, and now Dortmund too has one.
On 30 September, the new laws on cultural promotion came up for debate at the National Council (Nationalrat). In its preparatory work, the commission responsible had integrated the Pro Helvetia law into the federal law on cultural promotion with the aim of achieving a clearer definition of who is responsible for what.
Times are tight and nonprofits are searching for answers. They desperately need to address their budgets that are simply not sufficient enough to meet current demands, never mind the increases to come as a result of our current economic climate. We all know the reality: more and more people in communities all across our country are losing their jobs...their homes...their basic lifeline services.