In 2012, which marks the 15th anniversary of the Foundation, policy dialogue initiatives will focus on heritage, creative industries, cultural infrastructure and the role of culture in development. Read More
By Kiwon Hong South Korea is among the first Asian countries whose cultural policy profile has been commissioned for the global cultural research platform, WorldCP-International Database of Cultural Policies… Read More
By Kiwon Hong South Korea is among the first Asian countries whose cultural policy profile has been commissioned for the global cultural research platform, WorldCP-International Database of Cultural Policies… Read More
By Bui Hoai Son Vietnam is among the first Asian countries whose cultural policy profile has been commissioned for the global cultural research platform, WorldCP-International Database of Cultural Policies (worldcp.org). … Read More
Malou Jacob is a playwright and the Executive Director of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) in the Philippines, which was started by a group of artists immediately after the revolution in 1986 and which is composed by 19 committees at lowest level. Read More
On 3-6 October the 5th World Summit on Arts and Culture took place in Melbourne, Australia, coinciding with the development of a National Cultural Policy of Australia, something of real significance for Asia. Read More
The protection and promotion of cultural heritage; the development of independent infrastructure for the arts; and, capacity building for arts management are some common priorities shared by Asian countries… Read More
The NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR THE ARTS was established in the Republic of Ireland in September 2009. The purpose of this body is to act as a lobbying group for the arts to key policy makers in Ireland. Read More
Cultural policymakers are increasingly coveting ‘hard’ evidence, requiring cultural organisations to report against performance indicators and asking grant recipients to demonstrate their projects’ impacts. Read More
culture360.org “maps” the creative intersections at the 5th World Summit on arts and culture that took place in Melbourne, Australia on 3-6 October 2011. Read More
culture360.org invites everyone to participate to the 5th World Summit on Arts and Culture and give a reason as to why the arts are a catalyst for change in today’s society. Read More
New Zealand remained untouched by humans until around the 11th Century, when Polynesian travellers chanced upon its remote and pristine islands. Europeans began colonising as commercial settlers in the early 1800s. But it was not until the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 that New Zealand became a nation in a modern sense. Read More
The Ministry for Culture and Heritage builds its policies and strategies around three key themes: create, preserve and engage. Read More
Policies that encourage arts demand can return balance to an oversupplied Australian arts sector and fix many of the ills of Australian cultural policy. Read More
Australia became a nation in 1901 with the federation of six British colonies into a single ‘Commonwealth of Australia’. Seven years later the new nation launched into cultural policy… Read More
Culture and Economics: a counterintuitive pairing? culture360.org contributor Deepak Srinivasan, explores how culture has become more important than ever in addressing questions of sustainability and crises of the social and economic. Read More
In the part II of the “perceiving cultural rights” series, culture36.org contributor, Deepak Srinivasan investigates cultural rights in relation to the politics of development and food production, with 2 case studies from Greece and Belgium. Read More
The Cultural Rights discourse is a new and emerging one, intrinsically tied to processes of the political. culture36.org contributor, Deepak Srinivasan looks into some of the interventions from Europe that redefine urban and rural divides. Read More
culture360.org contributor Deepak Srinivasan reports on the Asian perspectives and European experiences from the Ready to Change? Conference held in Ljubljana, December 2010, with 2 video interviews and his his personal analysis on the role of culture in society. Read More