(April 21, 2009) Vancouver The Creative City Network of Canada (CCNC) unveils a new project on cultural development in rural communities today. The report, Developing and Revitalizing Rural Communities Through Arts and Creativity, is a comprehensive review of existing and original research and identifies 'best practices' in rural communities and includes information from Canada and around the world. This new research sets the stage for rural communities to determine the best approach to reach out and take advantage of their creative capacity.
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Arts Management (AM), Americas oldest continuing periodical for cultural administrators, trustees and supporters, has a new co-publisher, effective with its January-February 2009 issue. The Association of Arts Administration Educators (AAAE), the international organization of higher education degree programs in arts administration, cultural management, and cultural policy, will be responsible for insuring distribution of the periodical to arts professionals throughout the world.
Almost 600 cultural manager subscribed to December conference Culture In Motion, held by the European Commission of Culture in Brussels on December 12th, 2008. Was it the chance to get first-hand information from the commissioners on how to apply for one of the grants? Was it the perspective to be presented to some of the best-practice models of the last eight years of the programme? Was it to network on a European level? Probably all of this.
The festival boom throughout Europe araises questions and demands analysis:
- how are festivals born, how do they develop,
- how do they balance local interaction and international cooperation,
- how do they economically, culturally or socially impact on their respective territories?
For many organizations, recession and the long shadow cast by September 11 have replaced the rosy glow and giddy expansion boom of recent years with a nervous pallor of uncertainty. In Boston, New York, Chicago and San Francisco, museums have already announced staff cuts or postponed building plans. And in an October survey of more than 800 performing arts groups conducted by AMS Research and Planning, nearly 60 percent of respondents indicated that they're paring their budgets by 5 to 25 percent.
1. New Cultural Managers between Art and Economy
The balancing act between art/culture and economy, just as much as the connection between the two, has been especially critically discussed ever since cultural managment emerged as an occupation. Among the many postulates are the following: Commercialisation of Art and Culture or the Business-ization of Artistic Processes. In this context, the New Cultural Manager between Art and Economy was the title of a forum within the 53rd Loccum Cultural Policy Colloquium After us: the cultural economy? ... And what about cultural policy? in which the young/new cultural manager had to deal with this subject area in the context of his work in a differentiated way.(1) The role of the cultural manager within this tense relationship was to be discussed, especially since the words culture and manager are united in the name of this occupation.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
Arts & Business, the national charity dedicated to increasing private investment into the arts will, on 4th October, launch an on-line tax guide with Margaret Hodge, Minister for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism, explaining how to give efficiently and effectively to the arts. The on-line tax guide is for arts fundraisers, donors and wealth managers. A&B's guide includes simple information demonstrating that, contrary to popular belief, it has never been easier to give to the arts and the tax benefits have never been greater.
After the hype for contemporary Chinese art, the scene's interest seems to be shifting to India. Therefore the next UBS Arts Forum will look at the trends in contemporary Indian art and provide insights by top-experts like Ranjit Hoskoté (writer and co-curator Gwangju Biennale), Nitin Bhayana (collector, New Delhi), Elaine Ng (editor and publisher ArtAsiaPacific) and Hugo Weihe (International Director Asian Art, Christie's, New York).