Festivals & Events related News & Alerts
Cultural Policy News in Europe
2008-03-21 source:www.culturalpolicies.net
Finland: Artists and interest groups have been protesting and striking to express their dissatisfaction with the government economic led cultural policies, with success in reversing key decisions.
Ireland: In response to criticisms about the lack of touring theatre, the Arts Council has launched a two year action research project to inform a future touring policy.
Hungary: Museum professionals lobbied against the decision to grant free access to museums. The Ministry of Culture has complied. As of January 2008, visitors will be charged entry fees.
FYROM: The new Retirement Law 2007 raised the age of retirement for ballet dancers by 10 years. On receiving complaints from the Macedonian National Ballet, the Ministry of Labour stated that no revision was possible and that the problem should be solved by re-deploying the older ballet dancers to other jobs.
Sweden: Heated debates took place on issues of the freedom of artistic expression, on copyright regulation over the Internet, the possible re-introduction of an official national literary canon in the school system, and the future of the Film Censorship Authority.
ORGANISATIONAL REFORMS
Austria: New Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture was created (formerly the State Secretary for the Arts and Media).
Finland: Protests over the transfer of responsibility for copyright from the Ministry of Education and Culture to the new Ministry of Labour and Industry were successful.
Sweden: The Swedish Arts Council will set up new procedures to monitor gender equality in the performing arts.
Ukraine: The newly established Ministry of Regional Development and Building was empowered to develop international cultural collaboration on the regional level.
Read articles at: www.culturalpolicies.net
New Webpages for EU Funds relevant to the cultural sector:
• www.culturefund.eu - about the Culture programme - REVISED• http://eufunds.culture.info - the funds in summary - REVISED
• http://transnat.culture.info - about the trans-national funds - NEW
• http://structural.culture.info - about the structural funds - NEW
• http://interreg.culture.info - about the Interreg programme - NEW
• http://thirdcountries.culture.info - about third country programmes - NEW
CulturEuro Seminars
The seminars will provide the latest news and opportunities on European Funding. Confirmed locations include Manchester (Mar 26), Nottingham (Apr 2), Cambridge (Apr 3), Dewsbury (Apr 9), Newcastle (Apr 10), Bristol (Apr 17), London (May 7), Birmingham (May 8), Brighton (May 14), Sheffield (May 20), Edinburgh (May 21) and Belfast (May 28).
Intercultural Cities Conference, 1-3 May 2008, Liverpool
An official UK event for the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008.EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT UNTIL 31 MARCH – MAIN CONFERENCE FEE £300 - http://inter.culture.info/icc
New thinking is needed on how diverse communities can co-operate in productive harmony instead of leading parallel or antagonistic lives. Taking place in this year’s European Capital of Culture, the conference will not only provide an opportunity for international city leaders and experts to look at how different cultures can live together but how mixing can be turned to economic, social and cultural advantage.
It will feature leading European and international speakers, such globalisation guru Saskia Sassen, the world authority on diversity and city planning Leonie Sandercock, Lord Bhikhu Parekh, who says it is time to rethink multiculturalism, city leadership expert Carol Coletta, Keith Khan who leads the campaign to make the London 2012 Olympics an unprecedented intercultural festival, and leading European city politicians including Ilda Curti and Pascale Bonniel Chalier.
The conference aims to engage and inspire everyone interested in the intercultural city, particularly those responsible for planning and regeneration, local economy, community cohesion, education and cultural services.
evenTech also planed for Ireland in 2008
After the announcement that evenTech Scotland would be launched in Glasgow (20-21 February 2008), IFEA Europe now received the news that event suppliers can reserve a exhibtion space for evenTech Ireland, that will take place in Dublin 18-19 November 2008.
‘1001 Actions for Dialogue’ is a major international campaign which sets out to create a mass mobilization of people and actions across thirty seven countries, all focused on the aim to know the ‘other’.
The ‘1001 Actions’ campaign is being launched by the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation countdown to 2008, the EU Year of Intercultural Dialogue, and builds on the Foundation’s unique role as a network of thirty seven national networks of diverse civil society organizations.
