Publications in March 2008
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Economia della Cultura
Issue 3/2008 of the multilingual journal Economia della Cultura, that devotes its theme to discussing Unesco's Convention on the Protection and the Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. more >
The Heritage Game: Economics, Policy, and Practice
A new book by Alan Peacock and Ilde Rizzo that shows how economic analysis can be used to help formulate better heritage policies and overcome potential policy problems. more >
Entering Cultural Communities: Diversity and Change in the Nonprofit Arts
Interviews leaders, staff, volunteers, and audience members from eighty-five nonprofit cultural organizations to explore how they are trying to increase participation and the extent to which they have been successful. more >
From Economy to Ecology: A Policy Framework for Creative Labour
An examination of the concept of the creative economy and of how the current labour policy framework should adapt to the realities creative professionals in Canada and internationally. more >
The Status of the Artist legislative approach and Rethinking of Status of the Artist approach?
Examines the Canadian approach to the status of the artist question and offers some new thinking about how best to deal with the unique characteristics of workers in the creative economy. more >
Federal Government Support for the Arts and Culture in Official Language Minority Communities
Assesses the support provided to official language minority community artists and organizations by federal government arts and culture institutions. more >
CultureWork: The mid-career arts and culture professional
A two-part instalment of CultureWork that explores what it means to be a mid-career arts and culture professional today. more >
On Entrepreneurship and Education in Cultural Life
A Report on the 15th ENCATC Annual Conference, held in Sweden in June 2007, on how education and training institutions address this issue of cultural entrepreneurship. more >
Unfortunately we could not...: Effects of denial decisions on grants
Looks at the working grant system from the viewpoint of the artist who receives a denial decision on his or her working grant application. more >
Report of the culture voucher committee
A report proposing a tax exemption scheme for sports, recreation and hobbies to be expanded to include more cultural activities. more >
Dance Review
A report to government on dance education and youth dance in England. more >
Annual report: Arts Council and Culture Council
The 2007 Annual Reports of the Flemish Culture Council and Arts Council are available online. more >
Design works: Towards a national policy
Scans design policies around the world to draw lessons for Australian design policy directions. more >
Links between health psychology and the arts
A special edition of the Journal of Health Psychology with a selection of empirical and theoretical reports on the linkages between health psychology and the arts. more >
Social Effects of Culture
Examines the relationship between four cultural activities (reading books, attending live performances, visiting art galleries and attending movie theatres) and social phenomena. more >
The Economic Environment of American Symphony Orchestras
Major symphony orchestras in the United States regularly spend more money than they take in, and some dip so far into endowments that they risk their long-term survival, according to a new report. more >
Compendium of cultural policies in Europe: 9th edition
The 9th edition of the Compendium on Cultural Policies in Europe has been released. more >
Cultural Trends Vol. 17 No. 1
Volume 17, issue 1 of Cultural Trends is available online. more >
Sharing Diversity: National Approaches to Intercultural Dialogue in Europe
A study that maps national intercultural dialogue policies and strategies in European countries. more >
Arts and Cultural Heritage - An Information Development Plan
Identifies the agreed priorities and action for statistical information development in the area of Arts and Cultural Heritage. more >
Arts Management Newsletter No. 80
A selection of articles on audience development in the arts from an arts management viewpoint. more >
The impact of ‘central places’ on spatial spending patterns: evidence from Flemish local government cultural expenditures
Analyses whether and how municipalities influence each other in this decision to spend resources on the arts. more >
Venues policies and programmes
A dedicated area of the Arts Council of Ireland's website where you can find goals, actions and publications relating the the Arts Council's venues policies. more >
Tools for Culture: The Resonance & Use of Online Tools in the Cultural Sector
LabforCulture's latest Research in focus topic, 'Tools for Culture' presents an overview of how the cultural sector is (or is not) taking up online technology tools for collaboration across Europe. more >
Visual Arts Summit
Arts Research Monitor, March, Volume 6, no 10 is a special issue summarising issues explored at a visual arts summit held in Ottawa, Canada, in November 2007. more >
Arts royalties and droit de suite
The March 2008 issue of Gas Quarterly focuses on issues related to arts royalties across literature, design, music, theatre and visual arts. more >
Learning, Arts, and the Brain
A report on scientific findings on defining and evaluating relationships between arts training and the ability of the brain to learn in other cognitive domains. more >
The State of Cultural Infrastructure: Policy and Issues Dialogue
A series of background research papers to be used for a series of regional roundtables on cultural infrastructure’s vital role in creative cities and sustainable communities. more >
A passion for excellence - An improvement strategy for culture and sport
A strategy to support local governments as 'leaders of place'. more >
London: A cultural audit
An overview of London’s cultural environment, including comparisons with New York, Paris, Tokyo and Shanghai. more >
First Ordinary Session of the Intergovernmental Committee for Cultural Diversity
A number of documents have been published following the first Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. more >
Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events
Routledge has released a call for papers for its recently launched Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events. more >
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