Special topic of this newsletter issue is Australia. In 2002 during an extended learning trip, we visited arts managers in organizations and universities in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne and Adelaide. Already at that time we were impressed by the high level that Australian cultural sector has achieved, especially, in the arts management education. There is a close networking system among arts professionals that aims at strengthening cooperation between professionals as well as sustainable audience and organizational development programs which are considered to be leading principles of the arts management education.
The London Journal of Tourism, Sport and Creative Industries (LJTSCI) is a new on-line journal that seeks to publish articles on a variety of related topics encapsulating London's diversity and the nature of its local-global interactions. The journal addresses a broad subject field. While under the banner of tourism, sport and the creative industries it also includes, but is not restricted to, events, the arts including music and dance - heritage, hospitality, advertising & communications, music media & entertainment.
This week sees the launch of a brand new ArtsProfessional website, after a year-long programme of development by an in-house team. The new website marks the latest stage in the magazines burgeoning online development.
This is the 76th edition of Arts Management Newsletter, published in November 2007.
Has the change with the cultural economy already started in Germanys biggest state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)? How can 2010 - the year when Essen (together with Pecs/Hungary and Istanbul/Turkey) is the European Capital of Culture - push the development toward a creative economy? And what about the traditional industry, which the Ruhr Area was famous for in the past? These and other questions tried to answer an international congress in Essen in September.
Suddenly cities are all the rage. After several decades of preoccupation with globalization and free trade, attention is shifting to cities as the new spawning grounds for innovative, dynamic and creative activity.
Between September 06 and September 09 a new innovative Music Masters programme will be developed by five higher education institutions in different European countries and two in the USA. This one-year programme is designed to meet contemporary demands of the international music practice and therefore combines studying at ones home institution with studying at a partner institution abroad. The Masters programme is initiated by the Lectorate Lifelong Learning in Music of the Prins Claus Conservatoire in Groningen, The Netherlands.
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Though the Netherlands aren't such a large country as the UK or Germany, a lot of arts management faculties has been established. The reason therefore lays not only in the rich cultural scene that needs management professionals, but also in the high number of foreign students. Courses like in Utrecht or Rotterdam are offered partially in English, so it became much easier for foreigners to meet their decision to choose a Dutch university for their graduate studies.
A short introduction about fundraising possibilities in the Dutch performing arts
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.
This issue is all about arts management in the Netherlands.