With Lille 2004, European Capital of Culture in full swing, Espace Culture of the University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille(USTL) will organize an international conference: "PERSPECTIVES ON CULTURE" at the Aéronef in, the heart of the city of Lille, on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th November 2004...

National Museum of Women in the Arts Library and Research Center (LRC):

Position: Project Coordinator/Researcher for Database of Women Artists

Two years-full time (40 hours/week)
Competitive salary and benefits

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission invites applications for its 2005-2006 Scholars in Residence Program, including applications for collaborative residencies...

Beautiful and culturally rich New Mexico set the scene for this year's Annual Conference of the Visitor Studies Association (VSA)...

Culture Driven Economic Development (CDED) is a comparatively novel concept in economic development in general and urban development in particular...

The arts policies of the major parties appear to cancel each other out rather than break any new ground.

OTTAWAAs usual when arts people get together, the subject was money or the lack of it. The occasion: last weekend's roundtable on private-public partnerships in the arts world, held at the National Arts Centre, as orchestrated by NAC president Peter Herrndorf...

On 7 and 8 October the Service Centre for International Activities/SICA and Cultural Contact Point the Netherlands/CCP will be organising the international expert meeting and conference Artists on the Move, about the mobility of people working in the cultural sector...

On October 2-3, Belgrade will host the international workshop "Cultural policy research in the countries of South East Europe: setbacks and prospects"...

The purpose of this meeting (Shanghai, China, 25-27 September 2004) was to establish a workable network between autonomous art centres from Europe and Asia, wherein exchanges (artistically and intellectually) and projects could be implemented in a sustainable way

BalkanKult and association Progetto Musica are jointly working on developing cultural tourism between the two regions. This project includes networking 77 cities from both regions...

BalkanKult is jointly publishing a new cultural policy document "The Green Paper on the cultural policies of local and regional authorities in Europe" with Les Rencontres, a cultural network from Paris, France...

CAPACOA's 17th annual conference takes place from November 4-8 in Edmonton, Alberta. Read more about the topic of this conference here...

The third "Art of The Land " festival opens in Tel Aviv 65 years old power station on October 3rd. This is an unusual festival in the sense that it is open for three evenings only in spite of the fact that it exhibits some 40 contemporary artists and that numerous works are being created especially for this festival...

The Spanish general elections in March resulted in an unexpected change of the party in government, switching from the Popular Party, in office for 8 years, to the former governing party for 14 years, the Spanish Workers Socialist Party. It is worth to observe that one of the priorities of the new Prime Minister, Rodriguez Zapatero, is precisely culture...

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The Congress on Cultural Rights and Human Development, which Interarts organised for the Forum Barcelona 2004 on 23 to 27 August, has come to a successful end....

A new independent arts school, set up by Singapore's Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, is recruiting for these senior positions - Principal and Directors of Arts/Academic affairs.

What strategic aims do companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland pursue through their cultural commitment? Does cultural commitment generate competitive advantage? What do companies commit themselves to, and who makes the decisions here? These are the questions that a survey by the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIAR) and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants considers.