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Museum literacy for people with low educational level
Museum professionals, specialists on audience policies, researchers and policy makers from 9 countries, around 50 participants in total, met on 24 June in Brussels to explore new paths to include people with low schooling level in museum audiences. more >
Helen Clark’s legacy to the arts
Helen Clark’s legacy to the arts, and will it survive her? While Helen Clark’s status as a Prime Minister will be debated for some time to come, her choice of the arts portfolio perhaps best illustrates her claim to a personal legacy. more >
Millions of dollars renewed in arts funding
Cultural community relieved as Heritage Minister unveils $500-million over five years for key programs. more >
UNESCO, Norway join hands to preserve Pak culture
Norwegian Ambassador Robert Kevile on Monday said Norway and Pakistan would carry out mapping of tangible and intangible cultural assets in NWFP, focusing initially on seven districts, in collaboration with UNESCO. more >
Romanization of Korean officially changed
Minister of Culture and Tourism Park Jie Won announced that the government had changed its official system of Romanization for the Korean language. The new system, developed by the MCT's National Academy of the Korean Language, is in largely a system transcription as opposed to transliteration, and does not use the diacritical marks used in the system in place since 1984. more >
Heritage minister pledges 5 years of stable arts funding
Saying the cultural sector needs "stability," Heritage Minister James Moore has announced a five-year funding package for the arts. more >
Cross-strait cultural summits on horizon
Top governmental cultural agencies on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are expected to meet in September in Beijing and October in Taipei for cultural summit conferences. more >
French govt reworks 'three-strikes' law
The "three-strikes" saga continues in France following the Constitutional Council's recent decision canceling the sanction side of the bill (Billboard.biz, June 10), with the government attempting to find a way around the legal ruling. more >
Deputy Minister of Culture dismissed
Under a June 24 decree of Armenia's Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan Gagik Gyurjian was relieved of the post of Deputy Minister of Culture, reports RoA Government's press service. more >
Arts projects compete for £3m funding
The Scottish Book Trust, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and Edinburgh College of Art are in the running to secure a £3 million arts funding prize for Edinburgh. more >
You can make a difference in tough economic times
Tamara Real: In the past week, several important reports have been released that give a somber, yet thought-provoking, picture of the state of the arts and arts funding in the United. States. As business people, you may think this information irrelevant - but make that assumption at your own risk. more >
£300,000 annual blow to new arts funding body
Scotland's arts funding body is to lose its charitable status at a cost to the arts world of around £300,000 a year, it has emerged. more >
Scots government unveils £5m recession fund for arts
The Scottish government has announced details of a £5 million package of funds aimed at helping the arts and cultural sector through the current economic downturn. more >
Coping with the financial crisis: a creative response
It is important to recall that the creative economy is omnipresent in our daily lives, providing stimulus for our happiness and well-being. Every individual in any part of the world consumes creative products every single day through education or work, as well as in moments of leisure and entertainment. more >
Frédéric Mitterrand adds colour to Nicolas Sarkozy rainbow cabinet
Frédéric Mitterrand, the nephew of the late socialist president François Mitterrand, has been appointed France's culture minister in a highly symbolic move by Nicolas Sarkozy. more >
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