The book entitled Cultural Tourism Goes Virtual: Audience Development in Southeast European Countries, is the latest in the series of Culturelink research studies in the course of the past few years on the subjects connecting new technologies and culture.
angewendete Filter: intersectorial
The necessary balance between subdivided means of human commerce has become jeopardized by current economic primacy and thrown into question, which in turn is compromising the entire traditional value system in western culture. For this reason, a solution must be found to regain equilibrium.
Dresden, Germany, October 8-10, 2009
The degree of independence that governments afford arts support is a universal concern. Debate has often centred on the choice between arts council or ministry, but such a dichotomy enormously oversimplifies the issues, particularly as so many countries have a mixture of the two institutional forms. This report, written by Christopher Madden, reviews the cultural policy literature and data gathered over by IFACCA over several years to address two main issues relating to political involvement in arts support: how much influence do governments have over arts funding?; and how much influence should governments have over arts funding?
This is the 92nd edition of Arts Management Newsletter, published in July/August 2009.
For arts organizations, the ability to skillfully brand art and artists is key to success. Through the celebration and translation of artists' iconic works into a distinctive brand identity, arts organizations can draw more attention to their art, artists, and offers. Additionally, arts organizations should strive to keep their branding simple, streamlined, and secondary, resisting the impulse to overshadow their art.
ENCATC and its member Goldsmiths University of London have the honour of inviting you to attend the International Forum Cultural Diplomacy and culture in a Changing World organised next Thursday 18 June - 2pm-6.30pm at the Romanian Cultural Centre (Ratiu Foundation), 18 Fitzhardinge Street, Manchester Square, London W1H 6EQ.
This event is one of the activities of the ENCATC Working Group, Europe International lead by Gerald Lidstone from the Goldsmiths University of London.
(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.
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.
This is the 91st edition of Arts Management Newsletter, published in March/April 2009.
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.
This is the 90th edition of Arts Management Newsletter, published in January 2009.
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.