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January 2010
Sixth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability
The Conference will work in a multidisciplinary way across the various fields and perspectives through which we can address the fundamental and related questions of sustainability. more >
10th Cultural Diversity in Music Education Conference: The cultural aesthetics of teaching
Increasingly, scholars are turning their attention to the development and use of culturally appropriate pedagogies that match the music they chose to teach. Tensions between ways of teaching, what happens when music travels to new teaching and learning settings, the outcomes of mismatches between culturally developed learning styles and teaching methods in music, how teachers adapt methods to suit learners from different learning backgrounds - all of these are issues on the agenda if music education is be truly culturally diverse. more >
February 2010
Havana Book Fair: Huge Deployment of Culture
With 2009 just coming to an end, Cuban culture welcomes the New Year with the launch of 5 million books in the upcoming Havana International Book Fair, running February 7 through March 7, with its main venue the Morro Cabaña Complex. more >
PEOPLE: The Human Face of the Box Office
People help deliver the service of live performance in a variety of roles from the usher to the artist to the person behind the bar after the show and many other supporting roles. The staff in your box office are often the first point of contact for a patron and hopefully .. not the last! more >
Cultural Trends: a 'golden age'?
Reflections on new labour's cultural policy and its post- recession legacy. Call for papers. Conference to be held in London, November 2010. more >
The sea of creativity
Perspectives of Creative Industries in the Baltic Sea Region. more >
Creating Cities: Culture, Space, and Sustainability
The conference Creating Cities: Culture, Space and Sustainability, which will take place from 25 to 27 February 2010, investigates the forces that shape the conditions of urban development and the creation of cities in comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. more >
March 2010
Literature in Abu Dhabi - international book fair
The authorities in the United Arab Emirates have announced that they intend to turn Abu Dhabi into a publishing hub for the Arab world. more >
The economic slowdown and the future of local cultural policies
Les Rencontres Board Meeting and Annual General Meeting. more >
Good for the soul - Arts Council of Wales ‘Arts in Health and Well-being' Conference 2010
Have you ever wondered how the the arts can benefit the patient experience? ‘Arts in Health and Well-being' conference will offer you the answers. Held at the Wales Millennium Centre on Thursday, 4 March 2010, the conference will highlight the importance and benefits of the arts for patients receiving medical care and for the wider population. more >
The African Indigenous Knowledge Systems Summit
This summit will explore various issues to do with indigenous knowledge. more >
National Arts Marketing and Development Conference
As we enter a new decade, what new marketing and fundraising strategies must we adopt to not only survive, but thrive? Which ones that aren’t working well will we need to throw out? What paradigms shifts will be required of us to keep apace of the revolution in the way people are seeking cultural experiences? more >
Art and Social Justice Conference
Durban University of Technology and Art for Humanity invite you to a three day international conference on Art and Social Justice. more >
Higher Education and the Creative Economy
The conference aims to explore issues and research questions emerging in both academic and policy arenas in reference to the relationship between Higher Education and the Creative Economy. more >
Celebrating 25 years of the European Capital of Culture
2010 marks the 25 year anniversary of the European Capitals of Culture, which were launched in 1985. On 23-24 March 2010 the European Commission will be hosting a celebratory event and strategic conference to mark the event, to look back at the achievements of the past 25 years, and to reflect strategically on its legacy and impact. more >
From the Margins to the Core?
International conference bringing together museums, heritage, cultural and community organisations, to explore equality and diversity in all its aspects. more >
Arts Activated Conference 2010
The Arts Activated conference provides an opportunity for those passionate about the arts and disability sectors to come together to explore, debate, discuss and connect ideas and practice. more >
European Forum for Cultural Industries
Organised by the Ministry of Culture in collaboration with the Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry and International Trade of Barcelona, the forum will be the ideal prologue to the Informal Meeting of Ministers for Culture of the European Union that will also be held in the Catalan capital on 31 March. more >
April 2010
Conference on applied interculturality research (CAIR)
The first conference on Applied Interculturality Research will be held in Graz, Austria from 7-10 April 2010. The main thematic focus of cAIR10 is the application of interculturality research, understood to mean any constructive exchange, interaction or dialogue between theory and practice in any area of interculturality. The deadline for paper proposals is 31 August 2009. more >
Experts meeting: arts and health
To enhance the contribution of art and culture to health and well-being is a very topical issue which will be explored in this meeting of experts. more >
Le Pari de la Méditerranée - Staking the Mediterranean
COPEAM Conference is the occasion for the Euro-Mediterranean audiovisual operators to meet, to exchange, to set up concrete projects and to focus together on the challenges of the Mediterranean media sector. more >
Le Pari de la Méditerranée - COPEAM
La Conférence de la COPEAM est l'occasion pour les professionnels de l'audiovisuel euro-méditerranéen de se rencontrer, d'échanger, de réflechir ensemble sur les enjeux de l'audiovisuel méditerranéen et de construire des projets concrets. more >
Challenging the curriculum: exploring the discipline boundaries in art, design and media
The 2010 cltad international conference will focus on curriculum design in art and design Higher Education meeting the challenges of changing times and demands. As old discipline structures are eroded, new liaisons are emerging. more >
IETM Spring Plenary Meeting in Berlin
After having tried Plans A and B from Capitalism to Communism, from the market economy to protectionism, from surrealism to post-modernism, the democracies in which we live are looking for new ways of getting out of this so-called crisis. more >
Journeys of Expression VIII
Celebrating through times of crisis: prospects and potentials for tourism, festivals and cultural events in Copenhagen. more >
Claiming Creativity: Art Education in Cultural Transition
In partnership with Columbia College Chicago, ELIA announces a joint international symposium that adresses the role of the arts and its "claim to creativity", in relation to other forms of creativity and society at large. more >
Oracle Seminar in Luxembourg
Oracle is about two questions: what type of cultural projects are needed to enable bottom-up, edge-in social innovation, and how do we design them? more >
Research Meeting of the European festival Research project (EFRP)
Under the theme: “Artistic festivals with a social and intellectual agenda” the symposium will be organized in association with and at the Institute of Cultural Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University. Deadline for submission for proposals is 1 February 2010. more >
Performing Arts Training Today
Participation is invited to the international conference on Performing Arts Training Today, open to performers from all over the world interested in the research of topical questions and processes in contemporary performing arts education and training, offering an opportunity for performers, performing arts educators and teachers to demonstrate their methods and techniques. more >
Dance Day 29 April 2010
On 29 April, as every year since 1982, the Dance Day, an initiative of the International Dance Council CID, UNESCO, will be celebrated all over the world by the international community of dancers and dance enthusiasts. more >
Museum Next
A one day conference about where museums, technology and audiences meet, With a line up of speakers from some of the world's top museums and galleries. How are they using technology to keep up with audience expectations? How are they using the web to build deeper relationships? How are they using technology to meet their wider objectives? more >
May 2010
Social Capital in Practice
The Social Capital Foundation invites papers for the TSCF 2010 International Conference entitled Social Capital in Practice, to be held in Mellieha, Malta. more >
Seminar Arts, migration and intercultural dialogue
Art Aspects, based in Berlin, will organize two seminars in the island of Lanzarote with the aim to stimulate exchange in the cultural sector on the issue of migration in Europe and to identify possible solutions through a creative and practical approach. more >
Second World Conference on Arts Education
This conference in Seoul aims to promote and to reinforce the value of quality arts education for all, in developing a capacity for creativity in the 21st century for youth and all generation. more >
June 2010
World Heritage and Tourism: Managing for the Global and the Local
This conference to be held in Quebec City, Canada, seeks to explore a series of critical and fundamental questions being raised by the various 'owners', managers and local communities involved with World Heritage Sites in relation to tourism. more >
European conference “Shortcut Europe 2010: Cultural policies and social exclusion”
For the second time the Fonds Soziokultur e.V. is organizing an international event in the series of European conferences named Shortcut Europe. more >
ISPA 2010 Zagreb Congress: Globalisation and Identity
Two times every year international arts leaders convene in one location to exchange and develop ideas, strengthen and nurture relationships, and rejuvenate their passion for the arts. more >
16th International Conference on Cultural Economics
The Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI) invites you to attend its 16th international conference on cultural economics in Copenhagen on June 10-12, 2010. The Call for Papers has just started. more >
IVth International Congress of Cultural Heritage and Cooperation towards Development
Call for papers for the IVth International Congress of Cultural Heritage and Cooperation towards Development. “Cultural heritage and the new settings for development” is the title of this edition of the Conference. The deadline for the submission of papers is set at 31 December 2009. more >
InSEA European congress 2010
The InSEA (International Society of Education through Art) European congress 2010 in Rovaniemi, Lapland, Finland, offers an artistically and intellectually inspiring meeting in a fascinating context. more >
Half-century Summit
The 2010 Americans for the Arts Half-Century Summit will celebrate, connect, and prepare leaders to create their own dynamic future for the arts in America as a united field. more >
July 2010
Audiences: keeping the old, finding the new
Communicating the Museum conference will be hosted in the prestigious venues of the Imperial capital: the Kunshistoriches Museum. This 10th anniversary conference will review the fundamentals of communication with leading experts. more >
Japan Association for Cultural Economics Conference 2010
With a view to hosting the biannual conference of the Association of Cultural Economics International (ACEI) to Japan in 2012, this Research Conference will welcome papers in English from international researchers, both based overseas and those residing in Japan, contributing to discussions and exchanges of ideas on various issues in the field of cultural economics as widely defined between Japanese and international participants. more >
Global Events Congress IV: Events and Festivals Research: State of the Art
This conference will take stock and to add insight by enabling connections to be made between different aspects of the currently rather fragmented festivals and events research landscape. By bringing together the researchers from across the world, the event will encourage the creation of new research partnerships. more >
VII World Congress of IDEA 2010
Live, Living Diversity! Embracing the Arts of Transformation! more >
Third Arte-Polis International Conference on Creative Collaboration and the Making of Place: Learning from Shared Creative Experiences
Call for Papers - Abstracts due 22 February 2010. Building on the successes of the first two Arte-Polis international conferences in 2006 and 2008, Institute of Technology Bandung is pleased to present Arte-Polis 3, an international conference with the theme "Creative Collaboration and the Making of Place: Learning from Shared Creative Experiences". more >
August 2010
Call for participants: International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation (ASSiST)
The first International Summer School of Arts and Sciences for Sustainability in Social Transformation (ASSiST) is planned for August 2010 in Bulgaria, in the beautiful Balkan mountains. The theme of the first edition of the summer school will be: Walking and Places: building transformations. more >
The 6th International Conference for Cultural Policy Research iccpr 2010
The 6th International Conference for Cultural Policy Research iccpr 2010 will be held in Finland. ICCPR2010 theme "Truths, Taboos and Myths of Cultural Policy" refers to the ways in the field of cultural policy takes place and positions itself in praxis and research. more >
September 2010
Environmental change - cultural change
The conference will seek to gain new insights into the potential role of environmental literature, film and other media in generating environmental knowledge. more >
Arts for Education!
The aim of the symposium is to promote exchange between and networks of international actors in the area of arts education on an academic, practical and political level. more >
Creative Communities 2
‘Creative communities’ is a phrase that appears in a wide range of government policy and strategy documents, commissioned reports and academic texts. more >
National Arts Policy Roundtable
The goal of the Roundtable is to create actionable policy recommendations for both the public and private sectors to consider in advancing the topic. more >
Performing the World 2010: Can Performance Change the World?
The theme of this year’s conference is: “Can Performance Change the World?”. With this theme, we ask performance activists and scholars to reflect on and address the political aspects of their performance work; at the same time, we invite social change activists to reflect on and address the performance aspects of their political activities. more >
October 2010
Representations of European Identity
Paper and/or panel proposals are invited for a 3-day multi-disciplinary international conference on representations of European identity entitled Europe in its Own Eyes / Europe in the Eyes of the Other. more >
11th ELIA Biennial Conference
ELIA - European League of Institutes of the Arts announces a call for papers (deadline 14th December) and presentations for its 11th Biennial Conference, to be held in Nantes, France in October 2010. more >
November 2010
Call for Papers: 11th International Joint World Tourism Conference
The aim of this conference is to provide a forum for international educators, scholars, researchers, industry professionals, policy-makers and graduate students with opportunity to explore and discuss issues in the topics on cultural tourism. more >
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