Browsing by topic: Cultural Policy
Gwangju Biennale announces 2012 Artistic Directors
For the first time, the Gwangju Biennale has appointed a group of six young Asian women curators to co-direct the exhibition and programme. The Artistic Directors of 9th Gwangju Biennale are young and internationally renowned curators in Korea, China, Japan, India, South-East Asia, and the Middle East. Read More
Philippines | Cebu City declared ASEAN City of Culture
Cebu City, considered as the Philippines’ Queen City of the South, has been declared a City of Culture by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Read More
Denmark-Vietnam Cultural Development and Exchange Fund
The Cultural Development and Exchange Fund (CDEF) provides support to contemporary artists and cultural performances in Vietnam and to cultural exchange activities between Denmark and Vietnam. Read More
Mini Centres for Regional Creativity by TCDC in Thailand
The Thailand Creativity and Design Center (TCDC) opens new learning centres in partnership with 12 regional universities in order to share knowledge and learning resources with local students, academics, designers and entrepreneurs in the country. Read More
An introduction to New Zealand cultural policy – Part 1
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
(2)An introduction to New Zealand cultural policy – Part 2
The Ministry for Culture and Heritage builds its policies and strategies around three key themes: create, preserve and engage. Read More
(2)2011 European Culture Forum
Registration is now open for the European Commission’s key culture event of 2011. On 20 and 21 October, the European Culture Forum will bring to Brussels 800 participants from culture civil society, the EU Member States and EU institutions. Read More
(1)New World Cultural Policies Compendium to include Asian Countries
ASEF is lending its support to the World Cultural Policies (WorldCP) project, a new web-based database of national profiles, which will expand on the highly-regarded Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe to include Asian countries. The new section will be called WorldCP-Asia and will be part of ASEF’s Asia-Europe Compendium of Cultural Policies programme. Read More
Policies for boosting arts demand
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
(5)Thailand’s first ‘PM’s Creative Awards’ announced
First Creative Awards for outstanding producers or creators announced in Thailand, in support of creative economy initiatives. Read More
The Art of Difference | From Europe as a cultural project to EU policies for culture
Gottfried Wagner, former Director of the European Cultural Foundation, has written a new publication looking at Europe as a cultural project and the development of EU policies for culture. Read More
An introduction to Australian cultural policy
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
(4)Germany and China sign cultural cooperation agreement
Germany and China have signed an agreement on greater art, cultural and educational cooperation. Read More
Urbanity and new governances in Eurasian regions
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
(1)Cultural ties between Vietnam and Denmark strengthened
New Cultural Development and Exchange initiative for 2011-2015 between Vietnam and Denmark approved. Read More
Artbombs all over the world
On Friday 24 June at noon local time, coloured smoke bombs went off all around the world in a peaceful arts supporters citizens’ initiative launched by the Dutch cultural sector. ARTBOMB was one signal, one moment, one act to show support in the face of huge cuts to the arts budget in the Netherlands and elsewhere. Read More
Perceiving cultural rights | Politics of development and food production (Part 2)
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
Perceiving cultural rights | Social spaces and living spaces (Part 1)
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
Changes in contemporary art practices | 2 case studies from Asia and Europe
How have changes in contemporary art practice affected institutionalized forms like the gallery and the museum? Drawing from emerging practices based on 2 case studies, India and Croatia Read More
Heritage education for ASEM youth
Heritage dominated the agenda of the Fourth ASEM Culture Ministers’ Meeting in Poland in 2010 and will continue to shape the deliberations of the next Ministerial meeting, scheduled to be held in Indonesia in 2012. Read More
Role of culture in society: Asian perspectives and European experiences
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
(2)Murakami wins International Catalunya Prize
Japanese author Haruki Murakami has been awarded the prestigious Premi Internacional Catalunya 2011 at a ceremony in Barcelona. Read More
Mongolia and Germany sign MOU to increase cultural cooperation
Goethe Institute and the Arts Council of Mongolia will initiate and implement a series of capacity building and subject matter exchanges in the field of film, theatre, arts journalism, arts journalism,arts administration and policy. Read More
Philippines | Cultural property law divides art world
A new National Cultural Heritage Act in the Philippines proposes setting limits on ownership of works of art. Read More
European Confucius Institutes conference in Hungary
The 2011 Joint Conference of European Confucius Institutes will be held in Budapest, Hungary, on 16-18 June, 2011. Read More
Singapore | New Asian Imaginations conference
The New Asian Imaginations: (Re)searching the Arts in Southeast Asia symposium 19-21 September brings together international arts academics, practitioners and professionals in a fresh discussion on the arts. Read More
Hong Kong | Backroom Conversations
Asia Art Archive presents ‘Backroom Conversations’ during ART HK 11 – Hong Kong Art Fair, a series of panel discussions in which leading experts and practitioners in the contemporary art field consider regional artistic currents within a global context. Read More
Chinese opera star named UNESCO Artist for Peace
Chinese opera performer Zhang Jun has been selected as the UNESCO Artist for Peace. Read More
Singapore – UK cross cultural partnership in the arts
On May 18 2011, the Singapore International Foundation (SIF) and the British Council (BC) entered into a two-year collaboration to promote cross-cultural understanding between the people of Singapore and… Read More
Chiang Mai Creative City
The Creative Chiang Mai initiative aims at developing the city’s core creative industries while building upon its existing assets such as its local craftsmanship skills and the Lanna cultural heritage. Read More
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