This publication resembles a resource book of the most relevant developments and priorities of past and present cultural policies in the Netherlands. It describes the Dutch administrative, financial and legal systems governing the arts and culture.
The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon has today published two pamphlets as part of the series The Value of the Arts. The pamphlets have been written by journalist Emer OKelly and poet John McAuliffe.
Gerlach Art Packers & Shippers, specialized in national and international art transport and in packaging and storing art, antiques and other valuables, offers a new service to museums, galleries and other art collectors as of October 2007. For Gerlach customers and other parties, it is now possible to engage special trained employees on a temporary basis. People, specialized in art preservation.
This paper outlines how museums could better address the process of developing public programs. It presents a strategy for involving community members more meaningfully in the program development process, in a way that can be tailored to the specific audiences of individual museums. It also addresses the contribution that community-based programs make in fostering diverse museum audiences and points towards ways of expanding sustainable audience support.
Recent government funding for museums in the UK has identified museums as vehicles for addressing socio-economic issues such as urban regeneration and social inclusion. This paper examines the role that geography can play in assessing whether museums are engaging with these issues.
The intention of the collection is always to accumulate, protect and exhibit to make visible and to explain. However, the distinction between the nature and the role of museums has undergone significant evolution, compelling us to study anew how the question of universality has been addressed in the past, and how it is addressed today.
The programme for the fifth Creative Clusters Conference, released today, shows strong evidence that UK creative economy people have moved to a new level of engagement with the mainstream. But is it too little too late?
The fourth symposium of the Association of Cultural Management Professionals in Catalonia (APGCC) in Barcelona, 22-23 November, aims to identify skills emerging from the business sector which can have relevance in the field of culture. Specific areas in the arts and heritage as well as related spheres in media, tourism, new technologies, urbanism and landscape will be explored.
Seville hosted the 10th annual ministerial meeting of the International Network on Cultural Policy (INCP) on 20-21 September. The event was attended by delegations from the ministries of culture or equivalent departments in 46 countries, aiming to foster the implementation of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and dealing with other emerging issues in the international cultural scene.
The second Congress on Cultural Management and Training was held in Turin on 21-22 September, an initiative of the Fondazione Fitzcarraldo, Regione Piemonte and the Fondazione CRT, sponsored by the City of Turin.
The Vermont Council on Rural Development's summer conference, Advancing Vermont's Creative Economy, drew over 250 participants from across the state. They were eager to share their stories, strategies and questions about growing a vibrant economy rooted in creativity, entrepreneurship and Vermont values.
Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre hosted an international cultural management summer academy Synaxis Baltica on the topic of Creative Clusters Future Model for the Cultural Field? from 1st to 14th of August.
This volume examines the nature of cultural diplomacy and draws from a conference on cultural diplomacy and includes speeches given by Cultural Ambassador Joel Meyerowitz, Karen L. Perez, Singaporean Artistic Director T. Sasitharan, and articles by Emeritus Professor John Pick, Patrick Hughes and Ruth Bereson.
Box office income remains a sacred cow and a neglected art when it comes to setting budgets in arts organisations. However, a new collection of essays commissioned by Arts Council England - Call it a tenner: the role of pricing in the arts - exposes and debunks some of the myths and legends surrounding ticket pricing and the cost of entry into arts events.
Given the reputation which economists have nowadays as desiccated calculating machines, you may have been surprised to find that any economist is interested in the arts, let alone spends part of his time chairing a body such as the Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board.
The Music Information Center Austria (mica) is co-ordinating the project. DMET Digital Music Education Training, with the support of the Culture 2000 programme of the European Union. The main goal of DMET is to create a curriculum for digital music business affairs, providing artists and labels with the knowledge they need to take advantage of the new marketing and distribution possibilities of the Internet. Currently one of the main activities in DMET is the creation of a consolidated body of knowledge on the digital music market. The following article gives an example of these topics, mainly focusing on the present situation of the music industry and the problems they are struggling with.
The 2007 TCG National Conference, Artistry in a New Century, hosted by the Twin Cities theatre community, was held in the new Guthrie Theater facilities from June 7-9, 2007 with a pre-conference day at Penumbra Theatre on June 6th. A new world, a new country, a new audience, new art - the 2007 TCG National Conference turned its attention to creating theatre for today and tomorrow with Artistry in a New Century.
For years, Theatre Communication Group (TCG) has heard from artistic and management leaders and senior staff that there is an increasingly urgent need in the field for human resources training and professional development opportunities for managers and artists who manage personnel. In response to this need, TCG partnered with Target Corporation in 1998 to create this dynamic program.
Theatre figures have endorsed the first Performing Arts Technical Training Handbook, published by Entertainment Technology Press working in conjunction with the Association of British Theatre Technicians.
We know that an event is not theatrical unless an audience is there to witness it. Indeed, the audience itself transforms what might otherwise be a moment of reality into an artistic event. We also know that a theatrical production, however small, will not happen unless there is funding to support it. Whether it is a community production in someones backyard, or a full-scale musical on a Broadway stage, funding support is always a necessity.