Arts advocacy
Description
D'Art 16: National arts advocacy campaigns: overview of case studies and good practice
En français: Campagnes nationales de promotion des arts : aperçu des études de cas et des bonnes pratiques
Arts advocacy is a key challenge, one shared by government agencies and arts communities around the world.
Based on desk research and responses to a survey distributed in August 2009 to the IFACCA network, this report provides a platform for the exchange of information and ideas about arts advocacy by exploring a range of campaigns currently being undertaken or planned by national arts funding agencies.
We thank the Australia Council for the Arts and the Salzburg Global Seminar for their financial contribution to this research project.
IFACCA is interested in expanding on the information contained in this report and welcomes case studies or information about other international, national and regional campaigns aimed at raising awareness of the arts. If you would like to contribute, please contact the IFACCA secretariat at info@ifacca.org.
IFACCA’s report is the first stage of a research project that identifies campaign success factors, challenges, strengths and weaknesses with a view to exploring the feasibility of developing, with others, a coordinated international campaign to promote the value of the arts.
A summary of this research is available in French and Spanish
Publications
How to demonstrate the value of public investment in arts and culture
Supporting their role as an advocate for the value of arts and culture, Arts Council England has refreshed its advocacy toolkit for the sector. The new toolkit contains updated advice and guidance on how to raise awareness and demonstrate the value of public investment in arts and culture. more >
A Night Less Ordinary evaluation report published
Arts Council England and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) have today (05 April 2012) published a report in to the A Night Less Ordinary (ANLO) scheme which ran from February 2009 until March 2011. more >
Why we must maintain funding for the arts
Making a case for the Arts – key advocacy messages. more >
Advocacy Guide: Making the case for the Arts
This guide can help you to indicate how the arts are of value to society and the wider economy. more >
Why should Government support the arts?
State governments today face monumental challenges: record-breaking budget shortfalls, rising unemployment, widespread home foreclosures and escalating needs for public assistance. Designed for public arts leaders and advocates to excerpt and adapt, this material can be used to support your state’s case for the arts. more >
D'Art Report: National arts advocacy campaigns: overview of case studies and good practice
This report provides a platform for the exchange of information and ideas about arts advocacy by exploring a range of campaigns currently being undertaken or planned by national arts funding agencies. more >
The Arts Ripple Effect
Supporters of the arts have struggled to develop a national conversation that makes the case for robust, ongoing public support for the arts. more >
Using the arts and culture to deliver positive activities for young people
Following three successful national events run by Arts Council England and Museums Libraries and Archives which looked at the ways arts and culture deliver positive activities for children and young people, we have collated a small number of case studies which represent the essence of the three events and which we hope you will find useful as an advocacy tool. more >
Call For Papers - Making The Case for The Arts
In recent years it has become increasingly evident that those who wish to advance the cause of the arts, culture and creativity as a recognized element of social policy and as a significant contributor to the new imagination economy have to find new arguments and evidentiary materials in their support, and new ways to present them. more >
Call For Papers - Making The Case for The Arts
In recent years it has become increasingly evident that those who wish to advance the cause of the arts, culture and creativity as a recognized element of social policy and as a significant contributor to the new imagination economy have to find new arguments and evidentiary materials in their support, and new ways to present them. more >
Making a single case for the arts: an international perspective
This research report aims at investigating how other countries have addressed the issue, and succeeded in developing a collaborative modus operandi among arts organizations each articulating cultural policies in order to make a single case for the arts. more >
TPAM/IETM Satellite Performing Arts meeting record
Tokyo Performing Arts Market (TPAM) and International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts (IETM) Satellite Performing Arts meeting record now available on-line. The report looks at the difference between the concept of “contemporary” in Asia as compared to the occidental world... more >
Social and Economic Value of Public Libraries, Museums, Arts and Sport in Northern Ireland
A new report produced by Pricewaterhousecoopers, commissioned by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure of Northern Ireland looks at the Social and Economic Value of Public Libraries, Museums, Arts and Sport in Northern Ireland. more >
Artist Space Development: Making the Case
Considers how artist space developments have been positioned and the arguments made to garner support for them, the advocacy strategies used, and the impacts claimed or anticipated. more >
Making the Case for Culture
Six papers that detail the “how and why” culture is key to our betterment. more >
Arts Advocacy Arguments: Navigating the Network
In pursuit of increased public financial support, arts advocates strategically... more >
Making the case for the arts
Reports from the advocacy session at the second World Summit, Singapore, November 2003. more >
Arts Advocacy Toolkit
Everything you need to help make the case for the arts and arts education. more >
Ten Good Reasons to Eliminate Funding for the National Endowment for the Arts
As the U.S. Congress struggles to balance the federal budget and end the decades-long spiral of deficit spending, few programs seem more worthy of outright elimination than the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). more >
A Creative and Generous America: The Healthy State of the Arts in America and the Continued Failure of the National Endowment of the Arts.
A Creative and Generous America: The Healthy State of the Arts in America and the Continued Failure of the National Endowment of the Arts. more >
Separation of art and state
David Boaz, Executive Vice President of the Cato Institute, provides a Libertarian's arguments against government involvement in the arts. more >
Ten Good Reasons to Continue (in fact to increase!) Funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities
Why should the National Endowment for the Humanities survive? Here are ten good reasons. more >
News
The Value of Public Investment in Arts and Culture – New Film Released
The Arts Council has launched a new film, A Credit To Britain (Demonstrating the value of public investment in arts and culture). Featuring celebrated artists, organisations and locations, the film showcases the world-class creativity our country is home to, and the important role public investment plays in nurturing this talent. more >
Robert Sirman Speaking Points for Culture Days National Congress
The speech made by Director and CEO of the Canada Council for the Arts at Culture Days National Congress held on 24 May 2013 has been made publicly available. more >
Exciting new partnerships for the National Reading Campaign
TD Bank Group and the Canada Council for the Arts / Conseil des arts du Canada have each made major funding commitments to the National Reading Campaign. more >
Canadian Conference of the Arts ends 67-year run
The Canadian Conference of the Arts is folding this week, ending a 67-year run as the country’s oldest and largest arts advocacy organization. more >
Celebrating culture
Culture Night is a Temple Bar Cultural Trust initiative in partnership with the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, when a number of free events celebrating culture and the arts will take place across 34 Irish towns and cities this Friday. more >
Arts ‘must adopt language of government’
Subsidised arts organisations need to learn how to use the “language of the government” to secure future public funding, a leading culture researcher has warned. more >
Canadian Conference of the Arts vows to live on, despite funding loss
Canada’s oldest and largest arts advocacy organization, the Canadian Conference of the Arts, has decided to keep functioning, until mid-October at least, even as the Harper government has announced it is ending a 47-year tradition of federal support from Liberal and Conservative administrations for the organization. more >
A national celebration of reading - Culture Secretary announces Book Week Scotland 2012
The Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs joined author Ian Rankin and Scots Makar Liz Lochhead at the Writer’s Museum in Edinburgh today, to announce that Book Week Scotland will be held from Monday November 26 until Sunday December 2, 2012. People the length and breadth of Scotland will be encouraged to engage in the first ever national celebration, and to participate in a range of free events to be held throughout the week. more >
Creative Civil Society Mounts Arts and Culture Advocacy Campaign
From the 28th of April to the 30th of May, 14 arts and culture practitioners and activists participated in a training workshop in Harare on tools for advocacy and lobbying for the arts and culture sector. more >
"We all Read" campaign organizes "The Best Book I ever Red"
The aim of this event is to spread the reading culture through public gathering, as well as developing the critical mind in people attending the workshop through literary discussion of the certain selected texts. more >
NAC'S “I Never Imagined” Advocacy Campaign Highlights How The Arts Help Draw People Closer
Since the “I Never Imagined” campaign (INI) was launched a year ago to create awareness about the value and importance of the arts, Noel Gifts, a homegrown SME and a household name in the gifts and flowers industry, has stepped up and participated in a series of co-branded advertisements to highlight the power of the arts in bringing people closer. more >
Arts advocates make case for federal funding
A year ago, the threat of a government shutdown was raising the prospect of a major slash in government arts funding. This year, as arts advocates lobby for another round of funding, they face a different hurdle: the upcoming election. more >
Know Your Arts Advocates: Americans For The Arts' Robert Lynch
According to some estimates, there are as many as 40,000 lobbyists in Washington, D.C., but you don't even need all of your fingers to count how many work on behalf of artists and arts communities. more >
What's your most inspiring cultural experience?
In a contest leading up to the cross-country celebration of the arts held on Sept. 30-Oct. 2, Culture Days is asking Canadians to submit stories about how their lives have been enriched by arts and culture. more >
Rocco Landesman Prepared Statement Before The House of Representatives
Rocco Landesman, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts Prepared Statement Before The House of Representatives Appropriation Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies. more >
What Do I Say? Tips for Advocacy Meetings
NASAA staff have conversations year round with state arts agency leaders and their colleague advocates who are preparing for meetings with elected and appointed officials. Jonathan Katz shares with you some of the most common questions they're asked and offers responses. more >
Voluntary Arts Week
From choirs to quilters, dancers to drummers, over 2 million people have discovered just how fun and fulfilling getting involved in arts and crafts can be. more >
Big Dance announces nationwide plans for 2012
In 2012 the biennial week-long event will expand to reach out beyond London to communities all over England through a network of leading national dance organisations coordinated by the Foundation for Community Dance. more >
The Top 10 Reasons to Support the Arts (from Arts Watch)
Randy Cohen, Vice President, Research and Information, Americans for the Arts: I was recently asked by a major biz leader for “10 reasons to support the arts.” He needed the points to help him pull an 8-figure inve$tment for a new arts center…Make it compelling to government and business leaders, he asked. more >
Alec Baldwin, Hill Harper, Kevin Spacey and Kerry Washington Participants at AAD
Americans for the Arts, in conjunction with the Congressional Arts Caucus and more than 80 national co-sponsors, announces the event schedule for Arts Advocacy Day 2011. more >
Manifesto of the Europe-wide arts advocacy campaign we are more
To national governments – to European decision-makers: We call on you to strengthen the recognition of the role of arts and culture in the development of our European societies by increasing the support to culture in the next EU budget.
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Australian theatre finds a new voice
The Theatre Board of the Australia Council for the Arts is providing funding and support for the establishment of a national advocacy network for the small to medium theatre sector in Australia. more >
Cultural ministry launches website
The federal ministry of culture launched its new website www.pakistanculture.org on Thursday in a prestigious opening ceremony graced by Federal Minister for Culture Pir Aftab Hussain Shah Jilani. more >
Join the Culture Action Europe campaign 'we are more'!
Culture Action Europe, the umbrella advocacy organisation for the arts and culture in Europe, has launched a new campaign: we are more (2010-2013) will use the upcoming EU political and financial negotiations for the period 2014-2020 as a timely opportunity to develop and sharpen the arguments used when advocating for arts and culture. The ultimate goal of the campaign is to contribute to a strengthened recognition of the role of arts and culture in the development of our European societies. more >
Launch of the campaign we are more
On Thursday the 7th of October 2010 at 6pm, Culture Action Europe - the umbrella advocacy organisation for the arts and culture in Europe - will launch the large-scale campaign we are more. As well as mobilising Culture Action Europe's membership that covers over 100 members and 50.000 arts and culture players across Europe, the campaign will seek to mobilise everyone who cares about culture in Europe. more >
Haitian artists reach out in weekend program
Nestled inside this weekend's three-day Journees de la culture event is an initiative called Culture pour tous, designed to stimulate intercultural dialogue.
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NCA launches grassroots campaign to prevent arts funding cuts
Cultural advocacy organisations and industry bodies have united to launch a sector-wide campaign to encourage members of the general public to speak out against cuts to central and local government support for the arts. more >
Report on national arts advocacy campaigns is now available in French
IFACCA is delighted to release Campagnes nationales de promotion des arts : aperçu des études de cas et des bonnes pratiques the French translation of National arts advocacy campaigns: overview of case studies and good practice. more >
Le rapport sur les Campagnes nationales de promotion des arts est maintenant disponible en français
La FICAAC est heureuse de diffuser le rapport Campagnes nationales de promotion des arts : aperçu des études de cas et des bonnes pratiques la traduction française de National arts advocacy campaigns: overview of case studies and good practice. more >
El informe sobre campañas nacionales a favor de las artes ya está disponible en español
La FICAAC se complace en hacer público el Informe D’Art No. 16 Campañas nacionales en favor de las artes: panorama general a partir de algunos estudios de caso y buenas prácticas. more >
Report on national arts advocacy campaigns is now available in Spanish
IFACCA is delighted to release Campañas nacionales en favor de las artes: panorama general a partir de algunos estudios de caso y buenas prácticas the Spanish translation of National arts advocacy campaigns: overview of case studies and good practice. more >
Report on national arts advocacy campaigns released
IFACCA is delighted to release D’Art Report 16 National arts advocacy campaigns: overview of case studies and good practice. more >
'One Book, One Twitter' launches worldwide book club with Neil Gaiman
American Gods chosen as the launch book for plan to get 'a zillion people all reading and talking about a single book'. more >
Arts Advocacy Day 2010 Tops Attendance and Tweets
A week after the largest Arts Advocacy Day in years, arts advocates from across the nation are looking to Congress to take the next step in supporting strong public policies for the arts and arts education. more >
Arts Supporters Take to Washington for Arts Advocacy Day
Americans for the Arts, in conjunction with the Congressional Arts Caucus and 86 national
co-sponsors, celebrates Arts Advocacy Day 2010 today.
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National Arts Advocacy Day – April 12–13
Coordinated by Americans for the Arts, the 23rd Annual National Arts Advocacy Day brings together arts, education, entertainment, and policy leaders to develop strong public policies and support for increased public funding for the arts. more >
More reasons to Get Reading! in 2010
Arts Minister Peter Garrett today announced a fresh new name and 10 new author ambassadors for Australia’s largest annual promotion of books and reading. more >
North East family learns the value of art
A north east family have endured a week without art as part of the Arts Council's efforts to demonstrate that people take part in lots of art throughout their daily lives, sometimes without realising it - and just how important art is to a full life. more >
At Sacramento retreat, wondering how to make the arts matter
A ray of hope: With the rise of interactive online experiences, people are become more interested in participating in the arts instead of merely watching them, and new means of connecting with the world of culture offer novel, fresh experiences that undermine the more traditional allure of going to a public arts event. The demand for arts education is up, too. more >
We need to act now to save theatre
Blog: British theatre has grown better and broader than ever this decade. But unless we improve models of arts funding, that progress will be swept away. more >
National arts initiative launched
A new, national initiative is under way to heighten Canadians' awareness of the arts, their accessibility to art and artists, and their “participation in and engagement with” the activities of the cultural sector. more >
October is National Arts and Humanities Month
Be one of the thousands of communities and millions of people throughout the United States who celebrate every year. more >
Research questionnaire: National arts advocacy campaigns: what makes them successful?
What are the key success factors, challenges, strengths and weaknesses of national arts advocacy campaigns? IFACCA seeks your help in its research on the advocacy campaigns of the world’s national arts support agencies more >
How advocacy, fund-raising can uplift culture
The problems facing Nigeria's cultural sector are multi-dimensional. Few of them were the subject of debate at the quarterly Art Stampede of the Committee for Relevant Art (CORA). more >
Winter school on networks and advocacy
The Arterial Network’s first (southern hemisphere) Winter School on arts advocacy and building civil society networks was held in Cape Town from 31 May-10 June. The event – funded by the European Union and HIVOS – was a major success with seventeen countries representing all five African regions. more >
Leitura para Todos 2009
Projeto quer alcançar mais seis milhões de leitores em 21 cidades de sete estados do país. more >
National arts advocacy campaigns: what makes them successful?
What are the key success factors, challenges, strengths and weaknesses of national arts advocacy campaigns? IFACCA seeks your help in its research on the advocacy campaigns of the world’s national arts support agencies. more >
Minnesota libraries gain $4.25 million for arts and cultural programs
Thanks to some savvy lobbying and enlightened legislators, public libraries in Minnesota will get $4.25 million for arts and cultural programs in the next fiscal year, which starts July 1, as well as the fiscal year after that. The sum, which an advocate said should at least triple such programming, represents nearly ten percent of the $44.5 million allocated in the first year by the legislature; nearly half of the total will go to the State Arts Board. more >
Arts Advocacy Day 2009
Americans for the Arts, in conjunction with the Congressional Arts Caucus and 83 national co-sponsors, celebrated Arts Advocacy Day 2009 yesterday as more than 500 arts advocates from across the nation met with their representatives on Capitol Hill, calling on them to support arts-friendly legislation and policies. more >
£100,000 to support mental health and wellbeing through the arts
Five arts organisations have been supported by the Scottish Arts Council to further develop their work within the field of arts and mental health recognising the positive role the arts can play in improving mental health and wellbeing. more >
Keeping art alive in hard times
Will White, Visiting Arts' new head of communications and development, considers the case for arts funding during the global economic slump. more >
Sir Christopher Frayling's valedictory lecture
The lecture, ‘Slaying the Sixth Giant: On being Chair of the Arts Council’, was chaired by TV presenter Kirsty Wark. The ‘Sixth Giant’ of the title refers to the aim sixty years ago of the newly founded welfare state to ‘slay the five giants of physical poverty’. The Arts Council set out to tackle the sixth giant, poverty of aspiration. more >
Support programme for cultural and creative enterprises creates new website
A programme carried out in Medellín (Colombia), coordinated by the Interarts Foundation and the University of Antioquia, with support from the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation for Development (AECID) is set to support creative enterprises. more >
Arts Action Fund: summary of 2008 Presidential candidates arts positions
Just released from the Arts Action Fund, a summary of 2008 Presidential candidates arts positions. more >
Layton and Duceppe protest culture cuts in Montreal
NDP Leader Jack Layton and Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe joined the audience at a Tuesday night concert in Montreal organized by artists protesting $45 million in cuts to culture funding announced by the Conservative government last August. more >
No winners of Miss Vietnam 2008 picked for Miss World
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s Inspectorate last weekend found the organizing board of Miss Vietnam 2008 violated the rules and requested a reconsideration of Tran Thi Thuy Dung’s Miss Vietnam 2008 crown. more >
A home for art in Belfast's stained soul
The Royal Uster Academy of Arts Annual Exhibition '08 runs until Oct 19 at the Titanic Drawing Offices, Belfast. Campaigners hope that the North's new Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure, Gregory Campbell MLA, of the DUP, will be open to a more permanent arrangement. more >
Why public funding of arts matters to all of us
An article by Jan Ghomeshi in the National Post makes the case for the arts. Despite the best attempts by the PM and others to suggest that Canadian art is for a small elite, it's not, and he goes on to explain why. more >
Website for the Ministry of Heritage and Culture, Oman
The Sultanate of Oman launches an English language website for the Ministry of Heritage and Culture. more >
Filipino individuals become National Artists
The Order of National Artists is the highest national recognition given to Filipino individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of Philippine arts; namely, Music, Dance, Theater, Visual Arts, Literature, Film, Broadcast Arts, and Architecture and Allied Arts. more >
IETM Satellite meeting in Tbilisi, Georgia postponed
In the light of the latest events in Georgia, IETM have decided to postpone the Satellite Meeting on the theme “Neighbour to Neighbour”, which was planned to take place in the capital city. more >
Chair of Arts Council England
The Department for Culture Media and Sport would like to invite applications for Chair of Arts Council England. more >
Testimony to Museums and Libraries’ Role in Strengthening Communities
Director Radice of the Institute of Museum and Library Services testifies on Museums and Libraries’ role in strengthening communities more >
Platform for Success - Scottish Broadcasting Commission's final report
The Creative Scotland Transition Team welcomes the publication of the Scottish Broadcasting Commission’s final report, Platform for Success. We fully endorse the view that, “Broadcasting is important to the economic, cultural and democratic health of the nation.” more >
Presidential Candidates on Federal Funding for the Arts
The NEA's current budget is a little less than fifty cents per American per year. America can afford to support the arts financially. This article provides a few reasons why our government should want to support the arts. more >
Art for art’s sake
There are more substantive reasons for valuing arts education than the current 'arts assist academics' perspective. more >
INAC and SAMAAP sign Cultural Co-operation Convention
An agreement Cultural Cooperation was signed between the National Institute of Culture (INAC) and the Society Friends of the Museum of Afro-Antillean Panama (SAMAAP). The agreement aims to promote joint cooperation... more >
Advertisements Championing Arts Education
A new series of public service advertisements designed to promote the benefits of arts education has been launched across the USA. more >
Noises off: Lessons in arts education
Chris Wilkinson considers instrumental and intrinsic arguments in support of the arts, focussing on arts education. more >
Why fund the arts?
The recent controversy surrounding bill C-10 rekindled the old debate about arts subsidies. Why do we need them? more >
The Arts & Democracy: A Conversation with Dana Gioia
Dana Gioia, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, in an interview with Jonathan Katz, CEO of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, discusses the major challenges facing public funding for the arts at the beginning of the 21st century. more >
Smothered With Money
The arts are important. But that doesn't mean taxpayers should have to subsidize them. more >
The truth about music
The term ‘the research shows…’ is often deployed because we find it difficult to justify art as true or good in its own terms. This opportunistic manipulation of art ends up seriously devaluing it. more >
'We All Play a Part' Campaign Launched in Sydney
A coalition of national arts organisations and leading Australian artists today pledged to promote the part played by all Australians in making the performing arts industry a national and international success. more >
Redford, Legend ask legislators to better fund the arts
Actor, Robert Redford, singer John Legend and actress Kerry Washington, joined arts supporters from across the United States for Arts Advocacy Day in Congress. They urged legislators to restore funds for the National Endowment for the Arts to the high of $176 million received in 1992. more >
Equity launches online survey on funding after ACE cuts cause outrage
Equity has launched an online survey to discover the industry's views on whether the arts funding system should be changed. more >
Success of arts can be matter of terms
Advocacy for the arts has become a lot easier in recent years. The idea that arts and culture are a critical component of building and maintaining a healthy, vibrant community is almost universally accepted, and there are all sorts of resources available to help strengthen the case for the arts. more >
Funding the arts : the false alternative
A counter to the ‘false alternatives’ argument against arts funding. more >
Arts Funding: It’s All in the Story
As a tool for encouraging the City Council to vote for arts funding, Santa Monicans were asked to describe a personally meaningful or memorable arts experience. more >
Artsvote intitiative for 2008 presidential election
Americans for the Arts' Action Fund has launched a new, national initiative designed to promote the arts during the 2008 presidential campaign. more >
Why the arts needs creative accountancy
There's more to cultural life than just how much per head is spent, says Dr Sam Burnside. more >
Postcards target arts funds
A group calling itself Save Cincinnati Arts is urging Cincinnatians to create postcard-sized works of art with the words 'Save Cincinnati Arts' on them to send to City Council. more >
Call to Keep Our Arts Alive
Keep our Arts Alive is the plea of the arts sector, as the Arts Council of Northern Ireland embarks on the second phase of a campaign for improved funding for the arts. more >
Arts council debate - people believe in public arts funding
The Arts Council's arts debate results show that the people of England believe the arts are a truly important part of life and should attract public funding, but resources should be directed to art that is as inclusive as possible. more >
Arts Council publishes The Value of the Arts pamphlets by Emer O’Kelly and John McAuliffe
Mary Cloake, Director of the Arts Council said, "The pamphlet series was commissioned to encourage consideration of the many ways in which the arts impact upon our lives..." more >
In the Mountains With Robert Redford
He was not only a gracious host to the Americans for the Arts, organizers of the event, but he shared with its participants his commitment to the importance of the arts in his life and of finding ways of making the arts central to the lives of all Americans. more >
Give art a sporting chance
In their advocacy, major arts bodies including Arts Council England seem to have lost sight of the unique qualities and value of culture. Over time, the special case for the arts has been forgotten. more >
Labour conference fringe: The 39p question
An event organised by Arts Council England had an intriguing title: "Culture or cuppa: for 39p, which do you value more?" 39p is the amount of money contributed towards the arts by every English household through their taxes. more >
20th Arts Advocacy Day to be held in Washington DC
In March, arts advocates from all over the country will gather in the nation's capital for two days of workshops, presentations, and visits to members of Congress to lobby for increased public funding for the arts. more >
Americans for the Arts launches citizens initiative for arts advocacy
Americans for the Arts has announced a major new initiative to involve people in advocacy for the arts. more >
Events
2012 National Arts Marketing Project Conference
2012 National Arts Marketing Project Conference takes place November 9-12 in Charlotte, NC, USA. more >
Arts Reach National Arts Marketing, Development & Ticketing Conference Fall 2012
Hundreds of top arts marketing professionals will gather on October 12-14, 2012 at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles for the Arts Reach National Arts Marketing, Development & Ticketing Conference Fall 2012. The theme of the Conference is “Next Generation Strategies – Are You In?” more >
National Youth Arts Week
From May 1 to 7, 2012, young people across Canada will join together to host the largest youth-led celebration of creative expression and community involvement Canada has ever seen. more >
We Are More - Culture Conference
This international conference is organized in cooperation with Culture Action Europe – an umbrella arts advocacy organization focused on improving European cultural policies – within the Europe-wide campaign for the arts and culture called ‘we are more’. more >
Arts Advocacy Day
The 24th annual Arts Advocacy Day is the only national event that brings together a broad cross section of America’s cultural and civic organizations, along with hundreds of grassroots advocates from across the country, to underscore the importance of developing strong public policies and appropriating increased public funding for the arts. more >
The Time is now!
The conference will inspire, argue and debate what choices we make now and how they will alter the landscape of future EU policies for culture. more >
What can art still do?
This seminar, to be held in Paris, seeks to identify certain specific contexts in which art does not simply function as a source of income or of identity politics. more >
Researching the arts - why bother?
A debate on the value of arts and humanities research. Organised by the Institute of Ideas, Kings College London and the AHRC. more >
Arts Advocacy Day
The 2008 National Arts Action Summit more >
The international who's who in cultural policy, planning and research >