Arts Management in Germany and Latvia. Status Quo and Challenges

Experts from Europes most popular arts management information service Arts Management Network will be present and share their experience. Goal of the seminar is the exchange of know-how and contacts between students of arts management, employees in art institutions and staff members in public authorities dealing with arts and culture. Furthermore, the seminar will widen the network among the participants and support future cooperation for art events between Germany and Latvia.

Programm:
10:00 10:30 Registration for the seminar

10:30 10:45 Prof. Jnis Sili (Principal of the Latvian Culture Academy, Riga/Latvia),
Address and introduction

10:50 11:15 Dance course of the Latvian Academy of Culture (Riga/Latvia), Performance

11:20 11:45 Prof. Klaus Peter Nebel (Head of the international Arts and Media Management course at the Latvian Academy of Culture, Hamburg/Germany), International Networking in the field of Arts- and Media Management

11:50 12:15 Dirk Heinze and Dirk Schütz (CEO of the Kulturmanagement Network, Weimar/Germany),
Trends in arts management and consequences for academic education and profession
12:20 12:40 Discussion

12:45 13:30 Lunch

13:35 14:00 Una Sedleniece (Deputy Director of the Cultural Policy Planning Department of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, Riga/Latvia),
Culture Policy in Latvia, Structure and Priorities

14:05 14:30 Prof. Dr. Ivars Brzi (Coordinator of the arts management faculty of the Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga/Latvia),
Privatisation at the cultural field: Latvia en route from State control to a free cultural landscape
14:35 15:00 Baiba Stille-Dubkevia (Deputy Director of the Latvia Culture college, Riga/Latvia), The Latvia Culture college its status and demand for the professional education in Latvian arts management

15:05 15:40 Discussion

Language: Latvian, German