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What Cities Are Learning Through Arts Education

Call for Papers: Space and Flows. An International Conference on Urban and Extraurban Studies

This conference aims to critically engage contemporary spatial, social, ideological, and political transformations in a transitional world. In a process-oriented world of movement, the global north and global south now simultaneously converge and diverge in a dialectic that shapes and transforms cities, suburbs , and rural areas. This conference addresses the nature and mapping of these forces and the dynamics that propel these changes. The conference also examines and defines the myriad of different spaces that make up our contemporary world, including urban, edgeurban, de-urban, micro-urban, greenfield, and off-the-grid.

Art.public.tourism. 21 May 2010

Artwork is now often used in place marketing, but does public art attract tourists? Do artists share a language with destination managers? How can artists, art managers, destination managers and tourism promoters work together? Is what is good for art also good for tourism? And what kind of publics do art and tourism produce?

The 2nd World Conference on Arts Education

The 1st World Conference was a very first experience of organizing a global forum of arts education and exploring the possibilities of international cooperation. In succession to the 1st world conference, the 2nd world conference is to revaluate the Road Map, develop advocacy strategies focusing on socio-cultural values, enhance the capacity to realize the values, and furthermore adopt joint declaration on development goals of arts education.

PRACTICS. See Mobile See Practical

PRACTICS. See Mobile See Practical is a 3-year project coordinated by the Finnish Theatre Information Centre which joined forces with ten other cultural organisations from six EU-countries with the aim to facilitate the provision of information about EU cross-border mobility in the cultural sector.

SUMMER SCHOOL ON MANAGEMENT OF CREATIVITY

This two-week intensive program is offered by HEC Montréal and the University of Barcelona, in collaboration with ESADE and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Discover and experience two of the most creative cities in the world.

                                                                                     Montreal : July 2nd to 9th & Barcelona : July 10th to 17th 

Arts Management Fellowship

The Kennedy Center Arts Management Institute Fellowship provides 10 mid-career arts managers with academic training and practical work experience at the nation’s cultural center, one of the world’s largest and most dynamic performing arts institutions.  Fellows study with senior staff in weekly seminars (strategic planning, development, finance, and marketing), and complement that study with practical work rotations in three departments.

International Cultural Connections: The Times, They Are A’Changing May 24 & 25, 2010

SAVE THE DATE for an exciting two days of presentations and panels by some of the top cultural officials of Chile, China, and Britain, as well as alums of OSU’s Arts Policy and Administration Program working in the field of international cultural relations.

Creating a mindset for music among young people aged between 15 and 25

Encouraged by the huge success of the first symposium "The Art of Music Education" in 2008 the Körber Foundation in cooperation with the Elbphilharmonie, has invited well- known experts from all over Europe, the USA and Asia to an international symposium to take place in Hamburg from 24 to 26 February 2010 in the KörberForum. This year the theme is »Creating a mindset for music among young people aged between 15 and 25«
 

Cultural Management and the State of the Field

The Cultural Management Programme at HUMAK University of Applied  Sciences in Helsinki, Finland invites academics and practitioners as participants for the 4th international symposium (May 19-21) on topics concerning the field of arts and cultural management.

Previous symposiums, held in 2007-2009, addressed the issues of cultural management in the area of globalization, the disciplinary profile of our field, and the future perspectives that are shaping the field. This year's theme asks academics and practitioners to engage in debate on the pedagogy of cultural management.