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SUCCINCT #1: 2 August 2010
SUCCINCT will cover a wide range of news and information (italics mean this area is not covered in this issue):
- Funding News
- Funding Programmes
- General
- Events
- Museums, Archives, Heritage
- Language, Literature, Translation
- Media
- Performing: General
- Performing: Music
- Visual Arts & Architecture
- Policy & Research
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- Themes: Arts & Cultural Centres
- Themes: Audiences
- Themes: Cities
- Themes: Creative Industries
- Themes: Disadvantage
- Themes: Economics
- Themes: Education & Training
- Themes: Festivals
- Themes: Management
- Themes: Mobility, Connections, Residencies
- And finally…
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THE FUNDS ARE BEING CUT ALL OVER EUROPE… WE SHALL NOT SEE THEM RESTORED IN OUR LIFETIME… Funding cuts in the arts in Europe are being monitored via a number of online resources - for example, a report has been compiled by SICA in the Netherlands which can be accessed from a webpage entitled " Hard times for the arts in Europe". The Guardian newspaper in the UK has published a number of articles on this topic - e.g. by Mark Ravenhill and Polly Townbee - and have set up Cutswatch.
IT'S ALL KICKING OFF IN THE UK… The UK government has axed the UK Film Council and the Museums, Libraries and Archives Association. Arts Council England has just concluded its series of meetings telling all its RFOs (Regularly Funded Organisations) that this funding stream won't exist beyond 2011 - they will have to apply to one of three new programmes - not fully clear what these will be, but they look like SAP, PAP and TAP - specific arts programmes, partnership arts programmes, and task-based arts programmes. The gloom can be cut with a chainsaw... However, the artsfunding.ning blog has been launched - a particularly interesting example of grassroots activism
MEANWHILE IN THE USA… The NASAA (National Association of (US) State Arts Agencies)Legislative Appropriations Preview (Fiscal Year 2011) provides a preliminary forecast of US state government funding for the arts as budgets for FY2011 are being finalized. Thirty-one state arts agencies predict decreases in legislative appropriations for fiscal year 2011 but ten states expect their appropriations to increase. In a number of states, this reflects a partial restoration of funds lost in FY2010. Fifteen states are reporting flat funding in FY2011. Total appropriations will likely decline another 12.9% between fiscal years 2010 and 2011.Appropriations have declined 34.7% in the last 10 years.
AND AN AUSTRALIAN SOLUTION IS… Research reveals direct funding for individual artists has fallen by a third since the mid 1990's and an alternative funding model is needed to support artists and nurture creative work. Arts Plus, New Models New Money, a discussion paper developed by Arts Queensland and the Centre for Social Impact, proposes the establishment of a Foundation for the Artist - the first of its kind in Australia - to bring together public, private and corporate funding for artists. The idea is that a Foundation for the Artist would complement existing agencies and provide a range of options for artists and donors, from micro-loans to fellowships and superannuation planning.
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See also the MOBILITY / CONNECTIONS / RESIDENCIES section towards the end of the newsletter
WE LOVE THE MAYORS! US National Endowment for the Arts has announced 21 grants totaling $3 million awarded through the NEA Mayors' Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative (MICD 25). MICD25 supports creative placemaking projects that contribute toward the livability of communities and help transform sites into lively, beautiful, and sustainable places with the arts at their core. The grants range from $25,000 to $250,000 and each project takes a problem such as isolated neighborhoods or a neglected waterfront and uses the arts to solve that problem.
ALWAYS WANTED A LINK WITH THE SOUTH OF FRANCE? Marseille-Provence 2013 (EU capital of culture) and the Roberto Cimetta Fund have opened a joint Mobility Fund to support artistic mobility in the Euro-Med region that links into the Marseille-Provence 2013 project. Projects need to be linked to the Marseille-Provence 2013 project and/or the concerned area of Marseille Provence 2013 (which encompasses 130 local towns from Arles to Hyères, through the Pays d'Aix.)
OR PERHAPS NORTH AFRICA AND THE CAUCUSUS? The European Commission is making€10 million available of €757.6 million in thePromoting Inter-Regional Cultural Action(People to People) programme under its ENPI Inter-regional Programme (IRP) for the period 2011-2013. ENPI countries are Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Territories, Syria, Tunisia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia. Support will be provided for the development of an inter-regional (East-South) action with a particular focus on the independent cultural sector and the promotion of contacts between people.
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WE ALL KNOW THE QUESTIONS, SO WHAT ARE THE ANSWERS? Designed for public arts leaders and advocates, the US report Why Should Government Support the Arts? (PDF) describes why the arts are an essential public investment. It provides answers to questions such as: Why should government support the arts? Are the arts a worthwhile investment during hard economic times? Why can't the private sector pick up the costs? Why are state arts agencies important?
SO DOES OPEN COMMUNICATION IN EUROPE WORK? FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF… The European Commission has published the final final reports of the four Member State expert working groups established in the 2008-2010 Workplan for 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. The reports cover: mobility of culture professionals; cultural and creative industries; synergies between culture and education; museum activities.
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MUSEUMS, ARCHIVES, HERITAGE
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SO WHAT SKILLS DO WE NEED FOR THE 21st CENTURY? The Institute of Museum & Library Services (US) has launched its Museums, Libraries, and 21st Century Skillsinitiative. It has three components: an Online Self-Assessment which analyses an institution's 21st century strategies and describes next steps for action; a Report which outlines a vision for the role of libraries and museums in the dialogue around learning and 21st century skills and includes case studies of innovative audience engagement and skills practices from across the country; and a Self-Assessment Tool which allows museums and libraries to determine where they fit on the continuum of 21st century skills operations and programming.Download the PDF here.
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LANGUAGE, THEATRE, TRANSLATION
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AND WHO SAID WORDS CAN NEVER HURT? In 2010, the Writers in Prison Committee ofInternational PEN celebrates 50 years of defending freedom of expression around the world with a year-long campaign - Because Writers Speak their Minds . Freedom of expression has been a linchpin of International PEN since its formation in 1921. Concerns for colleagues imprisoned, executed, tortured through times of war, peace, revolution, and détente took the form of speeches at congresses, resolutions, letters of support, telegrams to offending governments and an embrace of exiled writers. The annual case list often contains around 900 names of writers, editors, journalists, publishers and internet writers.
A DEATH KNELL FOR PUBLISHERS? Literary agent Andrew Wylie has drawn criticism from US publishing houses for his decision to launch Odyssey Editions , which will sell ebook editions of modern classics, including Lolita, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Updike's Rabbit trilogy - exclusively through Amazon's Kindle store. This has prompted Random House, which publishes in-print versions of several of the authors involved in Odyssey Editions, to challenge Amazon as to their right to sell these titles. Does this mean a world without big publishers ?
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THE EU IS A WONDERFUL THING… BUT PERHAPS NOT FOR CULTURAL WORKERS…The European federations representing cultural and creative workers (musicians, actors, technicians, journalists, screenwriters, directors, etc.) are concerned about the ongoing problem of the application of EU competition rules to cultural workers who work on a freelance basis. This is an important issue that affects the fundamental rights of cultural and creative workers. To this end these Federations have drawn up a strong common position and call for actionon this issue and have submitted it jointly to the Commissioners for Competition, Employment, Culture and Internal Market, as well as to the European Parliament.
JUGGLING ACROSS BORDERS… A new publication, Circus and street arts: Encouraging European cooperation projects, presents operations taking place in 2010 within the EU or in relation to outside countries. The goal is to help these sectors identify current networks and projects, to promote the opportunities available to (future) professionals in circus and street arts and to emphasize different community-related grants.
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COPYRIGHT REMAINS AN ISSUE…. On 9 June 2010 representatives of European composers societies met in Bilbao to address the challenges faced by the European music creators' community. The three pillars of ECSA (European Composer and Songwriter Alliance) - the European Composers Forum (ECF), the Federation of Film and Audiovisual Composers in Europe (FFACE) and the Alliance of Popular Composer Organization in Europe (APCOE) - met as well and endorsed the adoption of a " Resolution on the management of Authors' Rights " (PDF), which stresses the basic principles in the administration of authors' rights.
LET'S HOPE IT WASN'T ALL TALK… The first European Forum on Music took place in April 2010 in Vienna's University of Music and Performing Arts. The results of the conference as well as photographs and presentation downloads are online here. The press release can be downloaded here:short version (English), long version (English). The complete documentation held within the EMC Reader, which was introduced in Vienna, is online here.
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VISUAL ARTS, ARCHITECTURE
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A CODE OF CONDUCT AT LAST… The Indigenous Australian Art Commercial Code of Conduct is now available. The Code will be administered by Indigenous Art Code Limited, a public company established to manage the Code for the Indigenous visual arts industry.
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WELL, IT'S NOT COMIC-CON, BUT IT IS CULTURE… The 6th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research will be held in Jyväskylä, Finland, from 24-27 August 2010, organized by the Cultural Policy unit of the University of Jyväskylä, in collaboration with the International Journal of Cultural Policy. ICCPR2010 aims to provide a space for exploring cultural policies, their meanings, roles and impact in an interdisciplinary and international environment.
OH THE IRONY - RESEARCH LAUNCHED AS THE PARTNERS FACE CUTS OR ABOLITION… CASE Drivers, Impact and Value research has been launched. CASE is a £1.8M, three-year joint programme of research lead by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport in collaboration with Arts Council England, English Heritage, the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and Sport England. CASE aims to strengthen our understanding of how best to deliver high quality culture and sporting opportunities to the widest audience, generating positive outcomes for society. It builds on the success of Taking Part - the national survey of participation in culture and sport, by using the data in a variety of ways to inform policy across culture and sport.
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MORE IDEAS FOR OUR CITIES - BUT ARE ENOUGH PEOPLE LISTENING? Human Cities: celebrating public space has just been published - a result of an international project supported by the European Commission via the Culture 2007-2013 programme. It focuses on approaches, techniques and methods as to how to achieve liveable public places and attractive cities. Each chapter answers three basic questions: Why is the tool/approach created? What and who for? How does it work? (with several interesting case studies). The contributors are mostly from the European countries, and the partners in the project: Belgium, Italy and Slovenia. However, there are some guest authors, including from the USA.
NOT SURE WHICH NAME TO USE, BUT CONGRATULATIONS! Derry / Londonderry , in Northern Ireland, has been chosen as the firstUK Capital of Culture, a title introduced after the success of Liverpool as European Capital of Culture 2008.
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THEMES: CREATIVE INDUSTRIES
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FURTHER PRESSURE ON THE EU TO REALLY COMMIT TO THE CREATIVE INDUSTRIES… Earlier in 2010, more than 75 experts adopted the Amsterdam Declarationduring a two-day workshop held in Amsterdam urging regions, Member States and the European Commission to follow a more strategic European approach in support of innovation in creative industries. The workshop also discussed a possible "European Creative Industry Alliance", which would aim to turn Europe's cultural diversity into a competitive advantage for the rejuvenation of Europe's industry. The challenge is to promote better transnational cooperation and support services in this field, with a view to creating new and better jobs and sustainable growth in the EU.
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THEMES: EDUCATION, TRAINING
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BUT CAN THE "AESTHETICS" DEBATE LEAD TO PRACTICAL ACTION? T he 1st World Forum for Culture and Education for Transformation was held in Belem, Brazil from 23-25 July under the theme "In search of a new aesthetics of sustainable transformation". Culminating the IDEA 2010 World Congress, the WFCET was an intimate global forum around three clear objectives: a) How to transform every institution into a 'sustainable project of culture and education'? b) How to transform every school into a 'project of sustainable culture and education'? c) How to integrate an aesthetics of transformation into every local, national, regional and world forum, towards the World Social Forum of 2011?
DON'T EXCLUDE CREATIVITY FROM ACCREDITATION… The European University Association (EUA) has published a publication on quality assurance in higher education entitled'Creativity and Diversity - Challenges for Quality Assurance' beyond 2010' , which includes an article written by AEC (European Association of Conservatoires) quality assurance expert Linda Messas and Martin Prchal, AEC Chief Executive. In this article entitled 'Why respecting diversity and creativity is essential in quality assurance and accreditation processes: Observations and experiences from the field of music' , the authors advocate for a stronger subject-specific and European-level approach to quality assurance and accreditation in Europe.
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A CHALLENGE FOR FESTIVALS: ARE YOU DOING ENOUGH? On the occasion of the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion theEuropean Festivals Association (EFA) has launched its 2010 campaign " Open The Door". Under the motto "Festivals: Open Doors. Open Minds. Build Societies!", EFA highlights the transforming power of arts and culture in our societies today and showcases examples that demonstrate the privileged position of festivals to provide the means for everyone to experience culture.
AS IF ANYONE NEEDED AN EXCUSE TO VISIT EDINBURGH AT FESTIVAL TIME… In Edinburgh, from 18-22 August, International Events will hold a summer symposium alongside the Edinburgh festivals. During the day, there will be professional development workshops, panel discussions, on-site tours, and networking sessions featuring leading international experts from Edinburgh and abroad.
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A NEW ARGENTINA - why does that ring Lloyd's bell? The National University of Mar del Plata and the Argentinean Graduate Cultural Managers Association announce the FirstInternational Congress of Cultural Management - New Paradigms in the context of the Bicentenary , which will take place in Mar del Plata on October 21-23, 2010. The main aim of this congress is to create a place where ideas, experiences and reflections on cultural management may be exchanged.
MIX IT UP IN TURKU… 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.
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THEMES: MOBILITY, CONNECTIONS, RESIDENCIES
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A BREATH OF FRESH AIR… (sorry, couldn't resist) The Japan Foundation has launchedAIR_J, a new website with information on Artist-in-Residence programmes across Japan in both Japanese and English. The AIR_J website provides information on AIR programs in Japan, such as the outline, achievements, and application requirement of each program, to those living abroad who are interested in AIR programs and culture of Japan. It also offers the cross-searchable database of AIR programs, FAQ, interviews and essays to update the user with the latest information of AIR programs in Japan and abroad.
AND IF YOU THINK YOU CAN'T LIVE ON JUST AIR… Those running an artist residency (AIR) program with limited resources or support should attend the Somethin' from Nothin' workshop (6-8 August 2010) where Estonian and international artists, teachers and culture professionals will share their knowledge and experience about how to run effective international AIR programs with limited financial resources. Estonian and international AIR coordinators will offer presentations about their programs and experienced educators will offer instruction about teaching artists to teach and the promotion of intercultural dialogue through AIR led workshops, artist lecture series and exhibitions.
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CULTURE ON THE INTERNET? REALLY?? The following are some of the best websites for live arts: upstream.tv (YouTube for live events); secondlife.com (esp for experimental theatre or conceptual art);tendu.tv (dance - only viewable from America as yet);ubu.com/film (avant-garde films); metoperafamily.org/metopera/broadcast (everything produced by the Met);operalive.org (Royal Opera of Liege);vimeo.com (making films); digitaltheatre.com (fee to watch productions from important UK theatres).
A FEW HISTORICAL DATES IN THE NEXT 2 WEEKS… 3 August 1778: La Scala opened in Milan; 4 August 1966: in a US radio interview, John Lennon claimed the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ; 10 August 1787: Mozart completed Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; 15 August 1969: Woodstock began.
NO LONGER WITH US… Raymond Allchin (archaeologist), Elliot Kastner (Hollywood producer), Willem Brueker (Dutch experimental music), Harry Beckett (jazz trumpeter & composer), Carola Hicks (art historian), Slim Bryant (country musician), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Gunter Behnisch (architect, e.g. Munich Olympics), Ilene Woods (actor, voice of Disney's Cinderella), Laurent Terzieff (actor)
And if you're looking for a job, don't forget to visit Culture Jobs International…
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