National Arts Agency News in July 2010
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NICH Strategic Plan 2010-2015
The NICH 2010-15 Strategic Plan is premised on the centrality of culture to all aspects of Belize's development, including building social cohesion and fostering national identity. more >
Engaging with Architecture Scheme launched
The Arts Council and the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government have launched a new scheme with the purpose of engaging the public with architecture. more >
Fruitful cultural exchange at World Expo
The cooperation between Chinese and Dutch cultural professionals at the Dutch Culture Centre (DCC) in Shanghai is going ever better and growing ever more closely. Over a 6-month period, the DCC – which is an official part of the World Expo 2010 – is serving as a venue for Dutch and Chinese cultural exhibitions and performances. more >
New cultural agreement leads to closer co-operation between Britain and India
A step change in cultural co-operation between India and the UK was made today when a new cultural agreement was signed by the Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt and Jawhar Sircar from the Indian Ministry of Culture, in the presence of Prime Minister David Cameron and the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. more >
New funding programmes for multi-year arts investment
Creative New Zealand will introduce two new and complementary multi-year funding programmes from January 2012 to provide more clarity, stability and flexibility in the way it funds arts organisations and artists. more >
Achieving great art for everyone: Arts Council England publishes analysis of responses
We have now published the findings from Achieving great art for everyone - a consultation on our 10-year strategic framework for the arts. more >
Arts Council announces new funding scheme in dance and theatre
The Arts Council has announced the introduction of four new funding schemes on a pilot basis for 2010-2011, one in dance, and three in theatre. more >
Arts Council England publishes annual review 2010
We have now published our annual review for 2010, which looks back on a year of radical thinking and great change for the Arts Council as we worked to reduce our running costs by 15 per cent and to manage the impact of a budget reduction of £19 million, in addition to an earlier in-year reduction of £4 million - bringing the total to £23 million. more >
Arts cubed: join the digital challenge
What do the arts mean to a TV chef or a professional footballer? Do they engage with art the same as a retired nurse or a bowls club greenkeeper? How do the arts make you? Australians are about to find out. more >
Aprueban la creación del Ministerio de Cultura
Luego de un debate aproximado de dos horas, la Comisión Permanente del Congreso de la República, presidida por el legislador Luis Alva Castro, aprobó este miércoles 14, en segunda votación, el Proyecto de Ley Nº 3622 que propone la creación del Ministerio de Cultura. more >
Culture and Sports Evidence (CASE) reports are published
The Culture and Sport Evidence programme (CASE) have published their first set of research publications, databases and toolkits. more >
The creation of the Ministry of Culture has been approved
After debating for two hours, the Permanent Commission of the Congress of the Republic, chaired by the legislator Luis Alva Castro, approved on Wednesday the Bill Nº 3622 that proposes the creation of the Ministry of Culture. more >
Book publishers to benefit from improved Canada Council for the Arts translation program
Over the next three years, more money than ever before will be available for official language translations by professional publishers through the National Translation Program for Book Publishing. more >
Business sees arts as good creative partners
There is much potential for the arts to capitalise on the benefits they offer business, according to a new survey of corporate decision makers. more >
Indigenous Australian Art Commercial Code of Conduct
The Indigenous Australian Art Commercial Code of Conduct is now available. more >
Information clinics for new theatre funding schemes
The purpose of the clinics is to invite those interested to discuss the purpose and priorities of the new schemes and to offer technical information on the application process. more >
Launch of Music against poverty contest
Today, the European Commission launches the European Music Contest calling young Europeans, between 15 and 25, to submit a song expressing support to the fight against poverty in the world. more >
New report confirms arts as Ireland's most popular pursuit
The majority of people in Ireland go to an arts event at least once a year, with plays, art exhibitions and classical music concerts most popular in every part of the country, according to research to be published this week. more >
You can cut us but don’t kill us say the UK’s cultural leaders
Today, many of the leaders of Britain's most prominent cultural institutions - speaking on behalf of organisations across the whole country - appealed directly to the Prime Minister not to cause irreparable damage to our most economically successful sector in the imminent Spending Review. more >
Creative Scotland Scotland's new cultural development body is formally established
Today marks a truly momentous change in the way we nurture and support Scotland’s reputation as a cradle and cultivator of talent across all art forms. A single, national body for the arts, culture and the creative industries in Scotland is what this Government promised and this is what we are now delivering. more >
Wadley: the arts must hold their nerve
Veronica Wadley has begun her term as London Chair and National Council member of Arts Council England with a call for everyone in the arts 'to hold their nerve'. more >
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