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The cultural dimensions of the fight against poverty and social exclusion: A European perspective
In the framework of the preparations for the EU Belgian Presidency conference on culture and social inclusion, Culture Action Europe drafted a short position paper on the European perspective on the subject. more >
Why culture attracts and resists economic analysis
The realm of arts and culture can be seen as ephemeral and ill-suited to the ‘intrusion’ of quantitative analysis. Yet, demand amongst end-users for economic research into cultural and creative industries is stronger today than ever it has been in the past. Oddly, culture seems to both attract and resist economic analysis. Drawing on an analysis of recent research findings related to multi-platform strategies in the television industry, this article examines what is distinctive about economics of culture, and it assesses the appeals but also the challenges associated with conducting scholarly research work in this particular area. more >
Access of young people to culture
Access to culture goes beyond accessing cultural products, attending spaces and receiving information, it is also about an experience of personal development and enjoyment. Apart from classic channels and institutions, youth culture channels are dynamic and often informal, and many times do not enjoy official recognition. more >
Culture: what is development missing?
Governments, development organisations and donors are failing to engage with a crucial component of development by ignoring culture. more >
Making adaptive resilience real
This publication focuses on developing understanding and debate about adaptive resilience, and increasing sectoral understanding of its importance through experimentation and sharing of best practice. more >
Working with Government: Guidance for Grantmakers
Foundation-government collaborations seem to be on the rise as each sector looks to pool resources with new partners. 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 published this month. more >
Achieving great art for everyone
Arts Council England has today published the findings from Achieving great art for everyone - a consultation on its 10 year strategic framework for the arts. more >
An international framework of good practice in research and delivery of the European Capital of Cultural programme
The document is the result of the international group – made up of representatives from Liverpool, Stavanger, Turku, Marseille, Essen for the Ruhr and Kosice – working together for one year to produce a research framework, including recommendations for future European Capitals of Culture. more >
Compendium Newsletter No. 16
This newsletter highlights some of the latest additions and features that have been developed and provides selected highlights on policy news and developments for 5 updated or new country profiles. more >
ICACD-09 Report
Conference report on The 2nd International Conference on African Culture and Developement (ICACD) 2009. more >
Creating growth: a blueprint for the creative industries
The report calls on the government to set a clear strategy to ensure the UK’s creative industries can flourish. It argues that they can play a key role in rebalancing the economy and delivering growth, but that the government should help deliver the right business conditions for the sector to fulfil its potential. more >
Self-evaluation framework
The Arts Council has published its self-evaluation framework to provide arts organisations with a flexible, development tool to support them in evaluating their own performance and to help inform their future planning. more >
European Commission 2008-2010 Workplan for Culture Reports
The four Member State expert working groups established in the 2008-2010 Workplan for Culture have published their final reports. These groups have worked through the "Open Method of Coordination", exchanging good practices, comparing policies and making recommendations for action at national or European level. Their work is feeding into Member State discussion of the next Workplan from 2011. more >
The Asialink Essays
Ignorance is Not Bliss; Art and its place in Australia-Asia Relations [pdf, 348kb, 9 pages]
Vol. 1, No. 10, 2009
Alison Carroll reveals how the Arts are a microcosm of our Australia-Asia engagement. Unless we are proactive in Asia, the burgeoning Arts community in Asia will continue to grow in complexity and internal goodwill, and Australia will remain forever on the edge. Australia must make some harder decisions, including re-looking at the Australia Council’s quota of half its international funding being for Asian projects. That quota, set in the early 1990s, was never met. It reached 35 per cent around 1993, and has since quietly fallen away.
Media Coverage: "An art for blurring borders", Gabriella Coslovich, cover story, The Age, Holiday Edition [pdf, 540kb, 2 pages], also available online
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Creative Rural Communities: Proposal for a Rural Cultural Strategy
The main purpose of this report is to stimulate and inform wider public debate around the proposal for a national rural cultural strategy. In this context it presents in basic outline what some elements of a possible future rural cultural strategy might look like, nd how they might be implemented in practical terms. more >
Mapping Asia-Europe Cultural Cooperation: report launched
The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and On-the-Move.org announce the publication of a new report Mapping Asia-Europe Cultural Cooperation. This study was carried out by Judith Staines and maps the Asia-Europe government-to-government bilateral cultural agreements between ASEM country partners. more >
Management and the Arts, 4th Edition
Management and the Arts, Fourth Edition provides you with theory and practical applications from all management perspectives including planning, marketing, finance, economics, organizational, staffing, and group dynamics ALL related to an arts organization. Whether you are a manager in a theatre, museum, dance company, or opera, you will gain useful insights into management. more >
How People Live their Lives in an Intercultural Society
The report is the result of conversations between people living in Ireland who have different roots. It becomes apparent that many aspects of an individual’s life – such as being a parent or playing a sport or being a member of a religion – have special effects on one’s attitudes to the cultural environment. more >
Pacific Heritage Arts Report 2009
The Pacific heritage arts research project provides a broad overview of the health of heritage arts amongst the seven main Pacific communities in New Zealand. The communities are Samoan, Tongan, Fijian, Cook Island, Niuean, Tuvaluan and Tokelauan. more >
The Performing Arts in Lean Times: Opportunities for Reinvention
What questions should performing arts leaders be asking themselves right now? Economic shifts, global and individual reach in technologies, the pursuit of strong and delineated national identities and the appetite for a voice from younger people are all changing how the performing arts are viewed, created and consumed. Fifty performing arts leaders from around the world gathered in February 2010 for a Salzburg Global Seminar focused on opportunities for reinventing the performing arts at a time when many factors are contributing towards a large-scale disruption of the arts. This report, written by the co-chairs of of the event, NAS President and CEO Russell Willis Taylor and Adrian Ellis, Executive Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, summarizes the discussions that took place. more >
Arts in Education and Creativity: A Literature Review
Mike Flaming of Durham University offers an historical and theoretical overview of arts education and its place in the English curriculum. more >
Arts indicators for local government
This paper presents a set of arts indicators for local government, developed particularly for Australia. It includes a brief overview of the emerging international literature around arts and ‘cultural’ indicators, focussing particularly on work that has informed the current project, especially that of Maria Jackson and colleagues from the USA. more >
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