Claire Bullen (UK) is the winner of the 7th Cultural Policy Research Award 2010 (CPRA). The prize, worth 10,000 for the best proposal in comparative cross-cultural research in Europe, is a joint initiative of the European Cultural Foundation along with the Swedish Riksbankens Jubileumsfond in partnership with ENCATC. The final decision was announced on 7 October during the 18th ENCATC Annual Conference which took place in Brussels (6-8 October 2010). The 6 finalists were shortlisted among 22 applications from 13 countries and each presented their research proposal publicly to the CPRA jury and to all the participants of the Young Cultural Policy Researchers Forum at the international event.
Walk into a crowded museum, and what do you see? People with cameras or cellphones snapping pictures of people looking at objects. The artwork, document or fossil is a tourist site; the photograph is our souvenir. And the looking for which museums were created becomes a memory before it has even begun.
Now something else is in play that may distance the museum experience even further though it intends to do just the opposite. During the last week I have walked through galleries, half-looking at objects and half-consulting an iPhone screen.
I have swiped, tapped and maneuvered in iSpace while negotiating Egyptian sarcophagi, Matisse paintings and Apatosaurus bones. I have searched for item IDs, audio-tour-guide numbers and tagged thumbnail images while trying to get information about Pacific Islanders or Picasso. I have used museum apps to help me navigate museums. But I have generally felt used along the way, forced into rigid paths, looking at minimalist text bites, glimpsing possibilities while being thwarted by realities.
Back in April 2008 we took a close look at the developments in human resource management, and now, two and a half years later, we would like to return back to this theme. Human resource management plays an important role in the cultural sector as it is focused squarely on individuals and how they, through their abilities, creativity, and ability to innovate, play an eminent part in organizations as a whole. The cultural sector is currently being subjected to fundamental changes, and therefore it is all the more necessary to find and hold onto the right people for the job, as well as to offer them the chance to continue their training.
For this issue of the Arts Management Newsletter we were able to get in contact with several experts in the field of human resource management, like William J. Byrnes (Utah Center for Arts Administration), Susan Annis, director of the Cultural Human Resources Council (CHRC) in Canada, as well as Lisa Watts, CEO of ArtsHub Australia.
Strategy. One word. Multiple meanings. Some organisations direct their strategy at playing the existing game better. Some others decide to play new games. Only few decide to redefine how an existing game is being played. Avenso Projects redefined the rules in the contemporary photography market and created a new space for art photography. A sound strategy seems also crucial in the art business. The following paper will firstly describe how the strategic position of Lumas, Avensos first business unit, came about.
The Australia Council for the Arts has become one of the worlds first funding agencies to tackle the issue of how to measure the artistic vibrancy of the companies it funds.The council has developed a set of resources to encourage arts organisations to measure their artistic achievement through audience surveys and internal assessments.
The councils Executive Director of Arts Organisations, Tony Grybowski, says the new program marks an important enhancement of councils priorities and those of its funded companies.
Sustainability has been a strong focus for Australias major organisations, particularly through the global financial crisis, says Tony Grybowski.
Thats clearly still important, but if our industry leaders are to continue to develop and champion their artforms and artists, its time for a new conversation about artistic vibrancy, he said.
Human resource management plays an important
role in the cultural sector as it is focused squarely on individuals and how
they, through their abilities, creativity, and ability to innovate, play an eminent part in organizations as a whole. For this issue of the Arts Management Newsletter we were able to get in contact
with several experts in the field of human resource management.
Music China, Asia-Pacifics most established music industry event will be held during 12 15 October 2010 at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre (SNIEC), Shanghai, China. Hugely popular with Asian and international visitors, Music China is the Asian counterpart to Musikmesse in Frankfurt.
In 2009, Music China attracted more than 42,000 visitors from 86 countries and regions who visited 1,164 exhibitors from 24 countries and regions. There were six exhibition halls covering an area of 65,000 sqm.
October 7-9, 2010, Brussels/Belgium - The Culture Action Europe conference has a long established tradition as the key focal point for cultural operators, civil society, experts and policy makers to come together and debate key issues at stake for Europes cultural life.
The conference will inspire, argue and debate what choices we make now and how they will alter the landscape of future EU policies for culture. It will try to embrace two interconnected visions: first, the contributions of arts and cultural sector to the vision of Europe in the future; second, the recognition and support for these contributions within the range of programmes and policies that the EU has to offer.
The programme for the conference is concentrated and focused on in-depth debate, allow space for extensive audience participation and interaction between speakers and delegates.
Arts Council England (ACE) has suspended adverts for unpaid jobs on its Arts Jobs website, due to the high volume of placements that contravene minimum wage legislation. A statement on the site declares that this suspension is only temporary, but covers all unpaid work, work experience, voluntary roles and internships. In line with its commitment to ensure that artists and arts professionals are appropriately remunerated for the work they do, ACE has emphasised that it recognises the value of genuine volunteering opportunities, but states that these must be of mutual benefit not just a way of attempting to circumvent paying a proper wage.
The aim of this conference is to bring together researchers, urban planners, policy designers, artists, cultural activists and tourist professionals to assess the benefits of international collaboration in the rapidly developing field of creative tourism. The conference will provide an opportunity for face-to-face networking prior to the creation of a virtual network on the Internet.
The conference programme is designed to provide ample room for networking and discussion, and participants will also have the opportunity to promote their own creative tourism projects.
A review on the Regional Studies Associations 16th Annual International Conference 2010
With about 600 delegates from 50 countries this years International Annual Conference took place from May, 24th till 26th. The conference was hosted in the European Capital of Culture 2010 Pécs, Southern Hungary.
The Regional Studies Association (RSA) is an international learned society concerned with the analysis of regional and urban issues. The organisation represents an authoritative voice and research network for academics, students, practitioners and policy makers. It organises events and conference, publishes journals, a newsletter and a book series and funds related research networks.
The discussion of the conferences main topic »Regional Responses and Global Shifts: Actors, Institutions and Organisations« aimed at a better understanding of the complex array of those actors involved in todays regional development agendas.
As an educational major, it has been possible to study cultural management for nearly the past 50 years. Just looking at our education guide online, you will quickly get an overview of just how many degree programs there are currently in this area worldwide. This in turn has contributed to the fact that many students go abroad now to study, thereby making cultural industries increasingly international. It also leads us to ask the following questions: what are the different programs available and which subjects are important for students? Moreover, which fields of research are being developed in result of these teachings and in what ways has cultural management profited from such degree programs? These are just some of the questions we would like to investigate in the latest issue of Arts Management Newsletter.
Between 11 and 16 July the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) in cooperation with the European Cultural Parliament gathered more than 30 participants at its European headquarters in central Berlin. Some participants had come from as far as Mexico, the US, Canada and Swaziland to meet with like-minded graduates and post graduates as well as young professionals in order to learn more about cultural diplomacy by following a week-long intensive programme while experiencing the summer heat in buzzing Berlin. Berlin, having become an international melting pot with an outstanding cultural offer and a compelling history and a place which is sought after by many as a conference and meetings location, did certainly further underline the case for the arts and cultural diplomacy.
Hundreds of top arts marketing and development professionals will gather on October 21-24, 2010 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles for the Arts Reach National Arts Marketing and Development Conference Fall 2010. Empower Yourself and Your Team with the Most Successful, Cost-Effective Ways to Boost Audience & Donor Growth is the theme of the event.
In light of the economic downturn, this conference is designed to help organizations focus their precious resources in the most effective ways to maximize the achievement of their organizations mission. The faculty includes leaders from such prestigious organizations as the Center Theatre Group, the Autry National Center of the American West, the Pacific Chorale, and many others.
Following a very successful launch in Brussels in July 2010, the outcomes of the European Capitals of Culture Policy Group's work have been presented in a final report. The document is the result of the international group made up of representatives from Liverpool, Stavanger, Turku, Marseille, Essen for the Ruhr and Kosice working together for one year to produce a research framework, including recommendations for future European Capitals of Culture.
The National University of Mar del Plata and the Argentinean Graduate Cultural Managers Association are glad to inform you about the realization of the First International Congress of Cultural Management New Paradigms in the context of the Bicentenary, which is going to take place in Mar del Plata on October 21-22-23, 2010.
The main aim of this congress is to create a place where ideas, experiences and reflections on cultural management may be exchanged. Moreover, the new sociocultural paradigms of management will be analyzed.
The symposium Economics of the Visual Arts is intended to bring together experts from the field of cultural economics, to discuss key issues of economics of the visual arts: arts markets and art auctions, copyright in the visual arts, economics of museums, policy and non-profit issues in the visual arts, labor market in the visual arts, etc. The topics will form guidelines for the lectures, performed by renowned experts from the field, coming from all over the world, mostly from countries where cultural economics has gained prominence in the past decades.
Apart from the invited speakers, the symposium will also host two panels, one with presentations of good practices in financing visual arts in Slovenia, and the other with presentations of selected young researchers.
The four Member State expert working groups established in the 2008-2010 Workplan for Culture have published their final reports on:
1. mobility of culture professionals;
2. cultural and creative industries;
3. synergies between culture and education;
4. museum activities,
5. Eurostat ESSnet-culture.
These groups have worked through the "Open Method of Coordination", exchanging good practices, comparing policies and making recommendations for action at national or European level. Their work is feeding into Member State discussion of the next Workplan from 2011.
1. mobility of culture professionals;
2. cultural and creative industries;
3. synergies between culture and education;
4. museum activities,
5. Eurostat ESSnet-culture.
These groups have worked through the "Open Method of Coordination", exchanging good practices, comparing policies and making recommendations for action at national or European level. Their work is feeding into Member State discussion of the next Workplan from 2011.
The European Cultural Foundation organised with the British Council and the DOEN Foundation, the first Conference on cultural policies in the Arab region in early June. The event, which took place in Beirut, marked an important step in gathering research and setting out recommendations to support planning and cultural cooperation in the Arab region.
The Creative City Network of Canada (CCNC) released a toolkit on public art today. The Public Art Toolkit was developed to assist local governments, arts, cultural and heritage organizations with the management of public art. The Toolkit is intended as a how-to guide when planning a public art program or evaluating an existing one, and contains resources for the management of public art projects.