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 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.

The Nordic Innovation Centre presents a Creative Economy Green Paper for the Nordic region

April 15-17.2009

The Cultural Management Programme at HUMAK University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland invites academics and practitioners as participants for the 3rd international symposium on topics concerning the field of arts and cultural management.

More than 150 cultural policy researchers from nearly all parts of the world came together in August of this year in Istanbul to present current research results, to have discussions with each other and to speak about unsolved questions. They presented more than 100 high quality papers on 13 different subject areas. Thus, it was no wonder that towards the end of the conference, this variety and abundance of offerings led to a search for a general theme that could be used as the signature of todays cultural policy.

2ND4TH OCTOBER 2008, HELSINKI

The Art of Music Fair is to become the annual creativity fair for the contemporary Art&Classical Music landscape in Europe, initiated by the composers of Europe.

Alvin H. Reiss, perhaps the most prolific writer on the business of the arts, has donated his vast collection of materials on the arts and arts management to The Ohio State University Fine Arts Library, in Columbus, in support of the Department of Art Education's graduate-level Cultural Policy and Arts Administration Program. The collection includes thousands of books, periodicals, reports, studies, clippings, tapes, and papers of historical significance.