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First International Congress of Cultural Management – New Paradigms

The National University of Mar del Plata and the Argentinean Graduate Cultural Managers Association are glad to inform you about the realization of the First International Congress of Cultural Management – New Paradigms in the context of the Bicentenary, which is going to take place in Mar del Plata on October 21-22-23, 2010.

The main aim of this congress is to create a place where ideas, experiences and reflections on cultural management may be exchanged. Moreover, the new sociocultural paradigms of management will be analyzed.

Management Topic: Policy & Research
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Jul 23, 2010

Online Exhibitions: Low cost, Big results! Strategies, tools and training for doing it yourself

This major international event will take place in Brussels on the 16th of September 2010 and will offer you the opportunity to learn about the project’s findings and network with other professionals in the cultural and ICT/media sectors. Taking place at the Royal Library of Belgium, situated in the heart of Brussels, you will be only a few minutes from many of the city’s major museums and its historical centre. The second day of the conference, on September 17th, the project partners are proposing two free workshops where you may produce your first digital exhibition and learn more about museums using Web 2.0 and the use of 3D technology in virtual worlds.

Many institutions think more and more about doing a part of their public relations on the internet. More traditional forms require costly resources and are often only visible for a limited time. Moreover, many of the smaller institutions have hidden treasures in their collections, but because of financial restrictions may not be able to reach a larger audience. The “Digital Extra” project offers to sort out this problem. By creating a kind of toolkit to help create small, concise, well-presented online exhibition projects, Digital Extra has developed basic and advanced training courses that use simple methods to produce professional results. This event will provide the opportunity to learn about these training courses, techniques, strategies, and best e-practices that could be most useful when creating your online exhibitions.

Management Topic: Technology & Multimedia
Cultural Area: Museum+Visual Arts
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Jul 22, 2010

The European Museum Forum Workshop about Art, Science and Heritage

The European Museum Forum Workshop ‘Art, Science and Heritage: Interdisciplinary Museum Projects in the Local Communities’ will be held in Turku, Finland, on 15–18 September 2010.

The workshop has been organised in cooperation with the Directorate of Culture and Cultural and Natural Heritage of the Council of Europe and with support from Kone Foundation.

Management Topic: Job & Training
Cultural Area: Museum+Visual Arts
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Jul 22, 2010

SHOWTECH 2011: New Lecture Forum to Complement Conference

A new lecture forum and new themes on the Safety Action Stage: one year before opening, SHOWTECH 2011, the International Trade Fair and Congress for Stage Technology, Equipment and Event Services, further enlarges its programme. The 15th edition of the trade fair will take place from 7 to 9 June 2011 in Berlin. One year before the start of SHOWTECH, 65 percent of the exhibition area have already been booked. A total of 350 international exhibitors are expected in the halls at the foot of the Berlin Television Tower.

Forum complements DTHG Congress

Once more, SHOWTECH will be accompanied by the conference of the Deutsche Theatertechnische Gesellschaft (DTHG), the institutional patron of the fair. For SHOWTECH 2011, DTHG has revised its seminar and conference concept. The core element will be the new DTHG Forum which will complement the conference programme. The lecture forum will be located right inside the exhibition halls and enable visitors to attend short lectures and discussions spontaneously. Themes will include best practice examples such as international projects for renovating stages and theatres.

For the first time, visitors will have the opportunity to propose topics for the conference programme. Proposals can be submitted in the SHOWTECH Forum on the DTHG homepage, as well as on the SHOWTECH Facebook page.

Management Topic: Event & Venue Management
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Jul 21, 2010

Economics of the Visual Arts. International Symposium on Cultural Economics in Ljubljana

The symposium Economics of the Visual Arts is intended to bring together experts from the field of cultural economics, to discuss key issues of economics of the visual arts: arts markets and art auctions, copyright in the visual arts, economics of museums, policy and non-profit issues in the visual arts, labor market in the visual arts, etc. The topics will form guidelines for the lectures, performed by renowned experts from the field, coming from all over the world, mostly from countries where cultural economics has gained prominence in the past decades.

Apart from the invited speakers, the symposium will also host two panels, one with presentations of good practices in financing visual arts in Slovenia, and the other with presentations of selected young researchers.

Management Topic: Policy & Research
Cultural Area: Museum+Visual Arts
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Jul 21, 2010

Concert Hall Research Group (CHRG) Summer Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Concert Hall Research Group Summer Institute The fourth Concert Hall Research Group (CHRG) Summer Institute will be held in intimate and historic Santa Fe, NM July 25-29, 2010.

The institute will consist of a great blend of technical sessions, including venues for chamber music and opera houses, and spectacular performances from the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the world renown Santa Fe Opera, with a technical tour or two thrown into the mix of performing arts spaces.

S. Leonard Auerbach of Auerbach Pollock Friedlander, Performing Arts/Media Facilities Planning and Design, is on the faculty for the Summer Institute. Len Auerbach, Tim Hartung of Ennead (formerly Polshek Partnership Architects) and Tom Clark of Artec (the Opera’s former sound designer) will be making a presentation on the design of the 1998 Santa Fe Opera renovation.

Management Topic: Event & Venue Management
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Jul 21, 2010

E-Culture-Fair 2010

The E-CULTURE FAIR 2010 will be showcasing innovative projects in the fields of creative industry, research, education and media art at the Dortmunder U. It is the first step of the envisaged long-term cooperation between three partners: Virtueel Platform (NL), BAM (BE), and medienwerk.nrw (DE).

Between August 23rd and 25th, the fair will be open from 10:00 - 20:00 h at the Dortmunder U.

Management Topic: Technology & Multimedia
Cultural Area: Creative Industries
Submitted by editor-in-chief on Jul 20, 2010

The Four Member State Expert Working Groups - Final Reports

The four Member State expert working groups established in the 2008-2010 Workplan for Culture have published their final reports on:

1.      mobility of culture professionals;
2.      cultural and creative industries;
3.      synergies between culture and education;
4.      museum activities,
5.      Eurostat ESSnet-culture.

These groups have worked through the "Open Method of Coordination", exchanging good practices, comparing policies and making recommendations for action at national or European level. Their work is feeding into Member State discussion of the next Workplan from 2011.

Management Topic: Policy & Research
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor on Jul 16, 2010

Vitalising Cultural Action in the Arab Region

The European Cultural Foundation organised with the British Council and the DOEN Foundation, the first Conference on cultural policies in the Arab region in early June. The event, which took place in Beirut, marked an important step in gathering research and setting out recommendations to support planning and cultural cooperation in the Arab region.

Management Topic: Policy & Research
Cultural Area: General
Submitted by editor on Jul 09, 2010

CREATIVE CITY NETWORK OF CANADA RELEASES PUBLIC ART TOOLKIT

The Creative City Network of Canada (CCNC) released a toolkit on public art today. The Public Art Toolkit was developed to assist local governments, arts, cultural and heritage organizations with the management of public art. The Toolkit is intended as a how-to guide when planning a public art program or evaluating an existing one, and contains resources for the management of public art projects.

Management Topic: Marketing & Communication
Cultural Area: Creative Industries
Submitted by editor on Jul 02, 2010