IFACCA Announcements in November 2002
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Indigenous Arts Protocols Available
IFACCA is pleased to be helping the Australia Council to distribute to national arts and culture funding bodies the world's first 'good practice' guides for working with Indigenous artists and Indigenous cultural materials. Launched by the Council's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board this week, the guides cover Indigenous cultural protocols and intellectual property rights in writing, song, new media, performing and visual cultures. More information can be found at:www.ozco.gov.au/issues/releases/2002/rel02_54.htm Electronic versions of the protocols at:www.ozco.gov.au/resources/publications/index.htm more >
Membership Invoices Coming Soon
IFACCA is the world's only network of national funding bodies for the arts and culture. It relies solely on you, its members and supporters, to fulfil its charter www.ifacca.org/en/organisation/index.html Next week we will be sending annual invoices to our 40 current members and affiliates. We strongly encourage other national government arts funding agencies to help ensure IFACCA's activities continue in 2003 and beyond. To find out more see:www.ifacca.org/en/support/index.html more >
Ifacca Board Meets In Barcelona
The interim board of IFACCA, comprising experts in government funding of the arts and culture in Canada, Finland, Latin America, Ireland, Singapore and Australia, concluded its two-day meeting in Barcelona today. Business included membership, new projects, finances and the 2003 World Summit - the theme of which will be announced next month. Guests at the meeting included Dr Jonathan Katz, Executive Director of the US National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, who shared his expertise in developing associations and member services; Péter Inkei, Executive Director of the Budapest Observatory to discuss the financing of culture in East-Central Europe; and Diane Dodd, the Coordinator of CIRCLE, Cultural Information and Research Centres Liaison in Europe. The board also met with representatives of various cultural agencies in Barcelona at a meeting organised by Eduard Delgado, Director of Interarts, the European Observatory for Cultural Research and International Cultural Cooperation. more >
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