Opinion polls confirm that Europeans are generally concerned about the speed of economic and technological change, as well as the phenomenon of globalisation. They feel a loss of identity and often have a sense of disconnection from the European Union...

This brief article, which is written by Ms Katherine Giles, gives readers definitions of who owns the copyright and what rights the copyright owner have in dance field, especially in Australia.

A Note from the Performance Art Urban (Perfurbance)
By Nunuk Ambarwati (Head of Archive and Media Relations)

A so called festival, simply held but performed foreign performers with even inadequate things was what I noticed from the whole day event of Perfurbance #2 on the last April 30, 2006. Perfurbance is an acronym of performance art and urban. It is an annual festival initiated by PerformanceKlub that is chaired by Iwan Wijono focusing on the development of performance art in Indonesia and managed by a group of youths. It was established on July 31, 2003 in Yogyakarta. Perfurbance presents performance art in public spaces in Yogyakarta and sends out actual issues on urban life.

One day just before I began this writing, a friend told me about the currently depressing situation in the art market. Its hard to sell paintings now; great names cannot warrant your investment, he remarked. Then I asked him why it is so. He told me that the great number of auction houses in Indonesia contributes much to the sad situation. Another factor has been the powerful current of Chinese painting sweeping Indonesia lately...

If you, as a dancer, would like to begin a freelancer or a studio as a career, here are some very important advices and good resource for your business. This is an example from New Zealand, which presents including income tax, GST, employing others and further information.

To read the whole resource:
http://www.danz.org.nz/Downloads/YoureInBusiness.pdf

IDEA 2007 - The Sixth World Congress of International Drama/ Theatre & Education Association

If we take the usual symbol of A as marking an excellent performance (we know it's exam-driven, but very local!) and sharp creativity, and the O as the peaceful circle in ancient human rituals, the theme in this sixth IDEA Congress is literally and symbolically expressed through its titles: We need to cultivate the human mind, heart and soul in everyone of us, not only be infused with professional knowledge and innovative artistry in different specialized contexts, but also woven by visionary, communicative and culturally empathetic eyes, ears and skin.

This new OECD project will provide an approach to measuring the economic and social importance of culture and will deliver initial quantitative estimates of these measures. The project will also explore the linkages between culture and well-being. An international workshop is planned for December 2006.

British Council Seminars is running the forthcoming international seminar Sustainable cultural heritage from 3-8 December 2006 in Bath, UK. It will explore strategies for historic buildings and archaeological sites, including:

* advocacy
* adaptive reuse
* heritage protection and maintenance
* local and regional partnerships
* regeneration and cultural tourism.

It is of interest to senior managers from museums and heritage institutions, government officials with responsibility for the historic environment, and representatives from cultural heritage NGOs.

Directed by Jane Weeks, Henrietta Hopkins and Anita Van Mil, this event is based in the historic city of Bath, a World Heritage Site since 1987, and study visits will be made to the surrounding area, industrial archaeology sites in South Wales and urban regeneration sites in Bristol.

This article, which was written by Ellen Rosenholtz, Director of Programs Painted Bride Art Center, aims to through herself as an example giving readers some hints about how to improve his or her career in the arts.

She mentioned that "One important skill I learned during this time was to address unsatisfied needs in an organization in order to increase my value as an employee." To read the article for more suggestions:

http://www.artjob.org/cgi-local/displayPage.pl?page=article_template.html&sid=PUT_SID_HERE&article_number=12

Young Performers Career Advancement (YPCA), part of the Arts Presenters Classical Connections initiative, is a program designed to assist selected classical musicians in the formative stages of their careers by offering opportunities to meet and work with established presenters, managers, agents and artists.

In the paper, the authors would like to present a model of the performing arts, and especially focus on three stylized facts the provision of the performing arts is assigned to public sector in many countries, publicly run performing arts organization usually have relatively low box-office taking in relation to operating cost, and the rate of capacity utilization is far below 100%.

As the authors mentioned, they does not intend to challenge the public provision; however, they would like to pinpoint the problems through this paper.

In accordance with internationalisation in education in Australia, this paper investigates how applicable Australian training courses might be in meeting demands of other countries in the Asia Pacific region.

The 2nd Culture.mondo International Roundtable offers a unique opportunity for cultural portal experts from all continents to enhance their working practices, to recognize emerging trends and to exchange experiences.

Novato, CA -- Hundreds of top arts marketing professionals will gather on November 17-19, 2006 at New York University for the Arts Reach National Arts Marketing Conference 2006: Building Your Organization Through Strategic Marketing.

In the context of the i2010 Digital Libraries initiative, the European Commission adopted yesterday, 24 August, a Recommendation on digitisation, online accessibility and digital preservation of cultural resources.

The Culture Plus Forum is an annual international event held on the initiative of the Cultural Policy Institute in Moscow, Russia, and conceived as a presentation space and a discussion club. The Forum is an opportunity to examine various aspects of interaction between culture, society, economy and politics. The Culture Plus Forum 2006 will explore the contribution of culture for the urban and regional development.

Philharmonia Orchestra launced the first virtual orchestra to make music accessible. Specially designed cube seats activate when sat upon, and each box "plays" a different instrument. The seats have been laid out in an orchestra arrangement so that participants can experience how being in an orchestra sounds.

Looking for sound arguments to build your case for sponsorship? This paper, which is written by David Cowan, the first in a series from Arts and Business, outlines the substantial economic and brand building benefits arts sponsorship offers corporations.

adviceBank and boardBank create opportunities for people from arts and business to work together to strengthen management and governance in the arts.