IFACCA Announcements in May 2007
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Gus Casely-Hayford joins IFACCA board
Dr Augustus Casely-Hayford, Executive Director of Arts Strategy at Arts Council England, has been appointed to the board of IFACCA. Dr Casely-Hayford, who joined Arts Council England in March 2007, is a curator and cultural historian. Previously the Executive Director of inIVA, he also instigated and then led the delivery of the immensely successful Africa 05 initiative, and has also directed and produced arts programmes for the BBC and Channel 4 in the UK. You can read more on Dr Casely-Hayford, and IFACCA's other board members here. more >
IFACCA website redevelopment underway
Over the next few months we will be (finally!) developing a new website and database. After commissioning ripeonline to undertake a scoping report for us last year and then considering a range of options, IFACCA has entered into an agreement with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) to develop the new site. All three IFACCA staff are working closely on the project with Julien Phalip and the overview of Professor Ernest Edmonds from UTS's Creativity and Cognition Studios. The new site, which will be ready by late 2007, will make it easier to navigate the increasing volume of news items, research reports, links, country directories and other information resources that are being continually added to the site. By linking the IFACCA secretariat's own database with the new website, we will be able to streamline our administrative processes and meet the needs of members and network participants more easily. We also plan some exciting new website developments for 2008! more >
Welcome new affiliate members
We are delighted to welcome two new affiliate members to IFACCA: * The International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA), a not-for-profit international organization founded in 1949 to develop, nurture, energize and educate an international network of arts leaders and professionals who are dedicated to advancing the field of the performing arts. The ISPA network is currently made up of over 600 performing arts executives and professionals from more than 50 countries. * Peter Stark, an independent consultant in both South Africa and the United Kingdom, who specialises in culture and regeneration policy, programs and projects. Mr Stark has over thirty-five years direct experience of leadership and management in the cultural sector and of the interaction of that sector with issues of economic and social regeneration. For more information on membership, please refer to the membership pages on the IFACCA website. more >
CONNECTCP CANADA LAUNCHED
The Canadian Cultural Observatory has collaborated with IFACCA to create ConnectCP Canada, a sub-set of ConnectCP, the international who's who in cultural policy, planning and research’. ConnectCP Canada will enable visitors to Culturescope.ca, the Observatory’s website, to search for Canadian cultural policy experts in English and French. ConnectCP, an initiative of IFACCA, is an international online database of cultural policy experts. It consists of profiles that outline experts’ experience, current interests, and other information relevant to their work in cultural policy. The international database currently contains over 420 profiles of experts from 68 countries. ConnectCP Canada is expected to stimulate the interaction between Canadian cultural policy experts, mobilize human resources in Canadian cultural policy, and facilitate the flow of cultural policy information to and from Canada. An exciting development as a result of the Culturescope–ConnectCP collaboration is that both ConnectCP International and ConnectCP Canada are now available in French. So far, twenty-seven key Canadian experts are listed on ConnectCP Canada, including Serge Bernier, Jocelyn Harvey, Joyce Zemans, Sharon Jeannotte and Simon Brault. IFACCA and Culturescope.ca are looking to expand the list further in 2007. “By collaborating with ConnectCP, our national portal is more effectively able to cross boundaries: Canadian experts now have the benefits of both national and international coverage,” said Vladimir Skok, director of the e-Culture directorate at the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canadian Cultural Observatory. Organisations interested in discussing similar collaborations with ConnectCP are invited to contact the ConnectCP co-ordinator, Diane Dodd, at diane@connectcp.org. more >
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