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Fórum Cultural Mundial 2006
Meet ing of Cultural Networks November 24th 27th 2006
List of Participants
Ana uvela Bu nja Culturelink [email protected]
http://www.imro.hr
Ana uvela Bu nj a is Research Fellow at the Inst itute for Internat ional Relat ions (IMO), Zagreb, Croat ia. She has a proven t rack record in arts administ rat ion, arts product ion and market ing, and cultural management, gained through the professional experience, which includes the production of more than one hundered and f if t y cultural events of various ranges and genres. Current ly, she is involved in the proj ect of Developing Local Cultural Stretagy in the City of Dubrvnik. Mrs. Zuvela Busnja is a Assistant Director of Culturelink Network and a Co-Chair of LabforCulture Stakeholder's Forum.
Description
Culturelink, the Network of Networks for Research and Cooperat ion in Cultural Development , was established by UNESCO and the Council of Europe in 1989 in Paris, at the Consultat ion of Representat ives of Regional and Sub-regional Networks for Cultural Development Research and Cooperat ion. The Inst itute for Internat ional Relat ions (IMO, formerly IRMO) in Zagreb, Croat ia has been the Network's focal point since its inception.
Mission: Culturelink's mission is to st rengthen communicat ion among its members, encouraging international and intercultural communication and collaboration, as well as joint research projects.
The long-term obj ect ive is the development of a world-wide informat ion system for the study of cultural development and cooperat ion. To this end, the Network collects, processes and disseminates informat ion on cultural development, cultural life and policies.
Act ivit ies: Aiming to develop appropriate means of communicat ion and speed up the f low of informat ion, the Culturelink Network set up its Internet Gopher service in 1994, while the Culturelink Home Page was f irst established on the World Wide Web in 1996. It has been updated and expanded regularly, growing into a complex WWW Resource Centre.
Besides research, act ivit ies of the Culturelink Network include development of the Culturelink Databank and publicat ion of the review Culturelink, the Culturelink Directory Series and Culturelink Joint Publications Series. Serving its members on a daily basis, the Network disseminates its information both on paper and through electronic means.
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Ana Paula Jones Rede de Cooperação Cultural dos Povos Indígenas [email protected]
Description
WHAT IT IS
Created in 1991, the Network for Cultural Cooperat ion of the Indigenous Peoples is a
cooperat ion network between culture inst itut ions of different scales (autoctonous peoples, nat ional, transnational) for the format ion of indigenous professionals, dif fusion of their cultural t radit ions, self-reflection, seminars, research meetings, as well as for the circulation of up-to-date information.
OBJECTIVE
Network of nat ional cooperat ion (internat ional broadening) which facilitates the life of indigenous peoples, helping them to overcome the dif f icult ies of their daily lives. Establish an exchange between cultural inst itut ions that work with indigenous issues making them complementary, sharing knowledge among each others. Essentially, three institutions compose the network: National Museum (Rio de Janeiro), Maguta Museum (Amazonas), Rondom Museum (Mato Grosso), which maintain an exchange with indigenous organizat ion such as the General Council of the Ticuna Tribe, INSIKIRAN (Roraima/ Macuxi), among others, more frequent ly, and which should serve as a model for agglut inators, for the convocat ion of other cultural inst itut ions, communit ies, organizat ions and indigenous leaderships to be aggregated at a future date.
PROJECT IN PROGRESS
The Maguta Museum, located in the small town of Benj amin Constant in the region of the Solimões High (amazonas) has, since its incept ion (1991) acted in the defense of indigenous rights, through communicat ion and art iculat ion between over 100 Ticuna communit ies in educat ion programmes, health and sustainable development.
MEMBERS
General Council of the Ticuna Tribe, INSIKIRAN, Yakinã, Victor Bakairi (video art ist employee of the Rondon Museum), Nat ional Museum, Maguta Museum, Rondon Museum, Raízes da Tradição Association, APOINME, COIAB, kariri-xocó Culture Point, etc.
INTERACTION BETWEEN THEM
These organizat ions keep in touch among themselves via telephone, internet , meet at events such as symposia, conferences, internat ional and nat ional congresses. There have been several workshops and employee t raining proj ects, workshops in IT, documentat ion, archiving, etc.
EXPECTATIONS FOR THE MEETING
Exchange, learn, st rengthen and dif fuse. Through experience exchanges, workshops and dialogs between inst itut ions and network organizat ions which will be convened during the FCM, make use of the opportunity to acquire knowledges, obtain and learn how to use new tools for communicat ion, at t ract new members, obtain indicat ions and solut ions from other count ries, learn how to attract better financing which will help strengthen projects connected to the preservation of indigenous cultures. Reduce prejudice.
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Ardi Yunanto Ruangrupa [email protected]
www.ruangrupa.org
Ardi Yunanto studied architecture and is act ive as an art crit ics in Indonesia. He has been working in ruangrupa as chief editor of Karbon art j ournal, an art j ournal published every 4 months in the period 2000-2006. In 2007 the art journal will change its format to online.
Description
Ruangrupa is an art ists init iat ive that was founded in 2000, by a group of art ists in Jakarta. It is a non-profit organizat ion that focuses on the building of ideas and pract ices of visual arts that are direct ly related to the culture and society from a bigger picture. ruangrupa concentrates in part icipat ing in the development of visual art in the Indonesian urban environment as a medium of cultural change and analysis, through socially-engaged art proj ects, exhibit ions, art ist residency programs, workshops and the publicat ions of ruangrupa s j ournal, Karbon.
We are open to many (visual) art ist (group and individuals, Indonesian and foreign) and people from other disciplines who are willing to work in collaborat ion with us in a horizontal st ructure and are enthusiast ic about sharing different opinions; exploring and experiment ing the art ist 's interact ion with Jakarta urban environment.
Ruangrupa has been a member of an internat ional network, RAIN Art ists Init iat ive Networks, the member are from south-south countries. Since 2003 we organise bi annual OK.Video-Jakarta International Video Festival
Our website is: www.ruangrupa.org and our email address is [email protected]
Expectations for the meeting:
artists and inter discipline exchanges and collaboration with other organisation that focuses also in urban environment and contemporary culture
we hope the meet ing can develop real exchange, and collaborat ion (research, funding, collaborative artistic production etc)
broadening our network in south-south countries organisations
exchange information and documentation between organisations
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Carla Delfos European League of Institutes of the Arts [email protected]
http://www.elia-artschools.org/
Carla Delfos has worked as an act ress, theat re director and writer. She has also been the director of Foundat ion EuroTheat re, a drama teacher and, subsequent ly, board member of Theat re School Amsterdam, playing a key role in the establishment of the merge into the Amsterdam School of the Arts. She has, since its founding, been the Execut ive Director of ELIA, was knighted as 'Chevallier dans l'ordre des Arts et des Let t res' and was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Art by the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.
Description
The European League of Inst itutes of the Arts - ELIA is an independent organisat ion of approximately 350 major arts educat ion and t raining inst itut ions represent ing the subj ect disciplines of Architecture, Dance, Design, Media Arts, Fine Art , Music and Theat re from 47 count ries. ELIA represents deans/ directors/ administ rators, art ists, teachers and students in the arts in Europe. ELIA was founded in Amsterdam in 1990. T he main aims of ELIA are to promote arts educat ion in Europe, to represent the interests of arts educat ion inst itut ions and to advise nat ional, internat ional and supranat ional inst itut ions concerned with internat ional co-operat ion in the f ield of educat ion in the arts. Mission statement : ELIA aims to uphold and defend the diversity of cultures and to foster communicat ion between European and non-European cultures viewed as partners in a global cultural society; to help establish and maintain adequate social and polit ical condit ions for the free development of educat ion in the arts and to defend and encourage the specific needs of education in the arts and of art production such a singularity, imagination and creativity. M ain areas of act ivity include organising biennal conferences, symposia, seminars and workshops for students and teachers, the production of publications and research in arts education.
Our website is at: http://www.elia.ahk.nl/
Expectat ions of the meet ing: to share experiences with other networks; to establish new contacts; to explore possibilities for co-operation
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Egeu Laus Rede Social da Música, Brazil [email protected]
Egeu Laus is a designer and cultural manager. He is the Coordinator of the Music Social Network, created in November of 2004, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He takes part in workshops and seminars about Culture since 2003, coordinates the Brazilian Graphical Memory and is director of the Jacob do Bandolim Institute.
Description
The Music Social Network aims to map and art iculate the non-prof it civil organizat ions that employ music as a tool for the Human, Social and Economic development and t ransformat ion, promot ing their organizat ion and pract ice as a network and support ing the ident if icat ion of their needs, demands and opportunities.
The Music Social Network is a space for interact ion and cooperat ion among nat ional and internat ional NGOs, ent it ies and proj ects that work socially with music, enabling the exchange of informat ion, knowledge, experiences and good pract ices and promot ing cooperat ive init iat ives. Only non-profit entities are full members. There are 42 members as of November 2006.
Objectives:
To map non-profit civil organizations that work socially with Music;
To map the activities developed;
To map information, knowledge, expertise and experiences;
To map the needs, demands and opportunities;
To organize a database with the information collected;
To articulate cooperative initiatives;
To articulate the collective intervention in the discussion and elaboration of public policies for the Music as Citizenship;
To promote the digital inclusion through the development of online forum, portal and collaborative tools;
To promote de diffusion of the entities experiences and good practices in the context of cities, regions and among them.
Academic Partnership:
Prof. Dr. Claudio D Ipolitto
InoveLab: Laboratory of Innovation, Culture and
Development, associated to the NEICT/UFF (Fluminense Federal University), Niterói, RJ, Brazil.
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Eberto Garcia Abreu CARIBNET [email protected]
Eberto runs the Theat rology and Drama department at the College of Scenic Arts at the Inst ituto Superior de Arte, where he is the t itular professor of History of Theater, Theat rical Invest igat ion and Crit ique. He is a specialist in development programs and sociocultural communicat ion, audiovisuals and internat ional proj ects of the Group for Sociocultural Development of the Cuban Minist ry of Culture. Besides this, he is the president of the Critique and Investigation of Scenic Arts Section of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba and a member of AICT (Internat ional Associat ion of Theater Crit ics), a cultural promoter and specialist regional consultant for UNESCO for social and cultural development projects.
Description
CARIBNET is an organizat ion of cultural nature, not for prof it , non-governmental and independent in what refers to its economic support . Since 1997, year in which it was founded with the support of The Lat in American and Caribbean Network of Cultural Promoters, to the present , all members have shown their faith and perseverance in the dif f icult and chancy work which is the cultural promot ion in this region. CARIBNET is also evidence of the multiple answers to the convocation to join wills and efforts to share and to foster growth in art ist ic creat ion, the knowledge, wisdom and memory which sustain the cultural and historical wealth of this part of the world, opened permanently to the universe.
It works in the st ructuring of a common conceptual and operat ive plat form to allow bet ter condit ions to develop art ist ic exchange, format ion in the dif ferent areas linked to creat ion, cultural administ rat ion and the development of new audiences, also in the design and set t ing in mot ion of feasible mechanisms for the dif fusion of informat ion about art ist ic and cultural pract ices in our area and other internat ional areas of interest for the presentat ion of the proposals, which include the whole Caribbean basin and the Caribbean communities present in the United States and Europe.
To achieve the circulat ion of our cultural products, that include art ist ic product ions in literature, music, the plast ic arts, the theater, dance, cinema, videotape, photography, the invest igat ive, format ive and of social and cultural development projects, through the circulation of the artists and specialists and through the making of events of dif ferent profiles, is the base of the work of CARIBNET. This way we also promote the knowledge, the integrat ion and the respect to the cultural diversity of the region and we work in funct ion of the human development from a cultural perspect ive, t rying to open new exchange spaces and to carry out specif ic programs in each one of our count ries, programs that involve diverse inst itut ions and social sectors as an evident _expression of support to the cultural practice.
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Eberto Garcia Abreu SIDAcult [email protected]
Eberto runs the Theat rology and Drama department at the College of Scenic Arts at the Inst ituto Superior de Arte, where he is the t itular professor of History of Theater, Theat rical Invest igat ion and Crit ique. He is a specialist in development programs and sociocultural communicat ion, audiovisuals and internat ional proj ects of the Group for Sociocultural Development of the Cuban Minist ry of Culture. Besides this, he is the president of the Critique and Investigation of Scenic Arts Section of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba and a member of AICT (Internat ional Associat ion of Theater Crit ics), a cultural promoter and specialist regional consultant for UNESCO for social and cultural development projects.
Description
SIDACULT is an associat ive non-prof it group which unites people and inst itut ions from Lat in America and the Caribbean, dedicated to the mult idisciplinary f ight against HIV/ AIDS, from a cultural perspect ive, through the development of programs for artistic creation, creativity and cultural promotion.
The network intends to convert it self into an ample space for concertat ion, visibilit y, promot ion and mult idisciplinary experience and informat ion exchange, for professionals and inst itut ions engaged in the struggle against HIV/AIDS in their distinct areas of action, through artistic creation, creativity and cultural product ion, responding to the specif icity of each region, count ry, territory and community. All of it will be focused on the execut ion of individual or collect ive work proj ects which have as their essence the development of diverse proposals of artistic creation and its circulation between different audiences.
The network will be composed by professionals and inst itut ions from the dist inct areas connected to artistic creat ion, creat ivity, cultural promot ion, health, communicat ion and representat ion of governmental instances and NGOs, as well as numerous social organizat ions of diverse types, which work systemat ically for the prevent ion and at tent ion pert inent to HIV/ AIDS, its causes and effects, from a multidisciplinary cultural perspective.
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Eugenio Lacerda RICSC Rede de Integração Cultural de Santa Catarina [email protected]
www.ricsc.org.br
Description
The Network for Cultural Integrat ion of Santa Catarina RIC-SC is a type of init iat ive that is current ly among the most important act ion proposals approved in 2005 at the I Nat ional Culture Conference. In Santa Catarina, RIC wants f irst of all to encourage the exchange of cultural agents, promote the circulat ion of informat ion, the capacitat ion of public and private managers and the dist ribut ion of initiatives, events, courses, products and services connected to culture.
As a public policy proj ect , RIC develops an act ion complementary to the state and municipalit ies through a de-cent ralized art iculat ion of high connect ivity with civil society, aiming at the development of the Cataranian cultural market . RIC is a plat form of relat ionships and contents and is designed to act in all the State around five basic axes of action: transversal actions, cultural policies, rights and citizenship.
The main objectives are:
* To develop and organize the cultural market * To capacitate cultural actors * To institutionalize municipal culture systems
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Fábio Ferreira Nucleus for International Scenic Arts Festivals of Brazil [email protected] [email protected] www.riocenacontemporanea/riocena.html
Description
In 2003 some of the most important Brazilian internat ional theat re fest ivals decided to undertake a j oint project to unite forces and make broader act ion possible. Thus was born the Nucleus for Internat ional Scenic Arts Fest ivals of Brazil, an important cont ribut ion for the development and dif fusion of Brazilian culture in the country.
Current ly, the Nucleus unites the Londrina Internat ional Fest ival (Paraná state), the São José do Rio Preto Theater Internat ional Fest ival (São Paulo state), Porto Alegre on Stage (Rio Grande do Sul state), Internat ional Fest ival of Stage & St reet Theater of Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais state), Contemporary Scene - Brasilia Theatre Internat ional Fest ival (Federal Dist rict ) and the riocontemporaryscene (riocenacontemporânea, Rio de Janeiro state).
The festivals which participate in the Nucleus present annually an important panel on global production in the scenic arts, provide the circulat ion of hundreds of performances from diverse regions of the count ry and carry out formative activities which collaborate for the formation of new generations of professions of diverse areas of the scenic arts.
Through its act ivit ies, the Nucleus for Fest ivals has cont ributed to the policy of access to nat ional art ist ic creat ion and product ion and, by incent ivat ing the circulat ion of performances through Brazilian cit ies, enables a st rong exchange of ideas, conceptsand experiences as essent ial to the scenic arts as to the construction of a more critical, free and democratic society.
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Fernanda Capibaribe Individual Participant [email protected]
www.viamagia.org
Fernanda Capibaribe has a diploma in social communicat ion with emphasis on j ournalism by the Federal Communicat ion University of Bahia - UFBA. She is current ly engaged in graduate studies in the Mult idisciplinar Graduate Program on Culture in Society, also at UFBA, under the orientat ion of Albino Rubim. She holds a graduate scholarship and taught an undergraduate course at the Communicat ion University UFBA, ent it led Communicat ion and Culture, in which the approach was the relat ion between the cultural networks and the culture dynamics in the contemporary world.
Fernanda Capibaribe was a part icipant in this Meet ing of Networks as a researcher and observer for the Casa Via Magia Institute, an inst itute which works with the promot ion and awareness of independent art in Salvador, Bahia. The Cultural Inst itute Casa Via Magia is an inst itut ion which works with cultural promotion. It was created in 1992 and its founder, Ruy Cezar Silva is a member not only of the Lat in-American Network as well as the Rede Brasil. In it s work with networks, Via Magia has specialized in the development of strategic planning and capacitating culture professionals.
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Freddy Montero Interlocal [email protected]
http://www.campus-oei.org/interlocal/
Freddy Montero has bachelor's degree in Social Anthropology and Polit ical Science by the University of Costa Rica. He is currently a post-graduate student in Cultural Management and International Cooperation at the University of Barcelona. Additionally, he has been Director of Culture for the Municipality of Escazú in Costa Rica since 2001 and is the President of the Interlocal network for the period 2005 2007.
Description
The Interlocal network arises in 2003 in Montevideo, under the init ial auspices of the Barcelona Disputat ion and the Organizat ion of Iberoamerican States. The Interlocal network of Iberoamerican Cit ies for Culture const itutes a non-prof it internat ional organizat ion charged with the promot ion of cooperat ion for development in the ambit of cultural policies of local governments. To obtain these effects, the network supports itself mainly on human and inst itut ional resources of it s members, as well as on the cooperation problematized with public or private organisms of national and international character.
Interlocal is composed of Iberoamerican (Lat in America, Spain and Portugal) local governments that have officially adhered to the network according to the parameters fixed by this statutory body.
Aff il iat ion to the the network will take place according to the signing and observance of the form ent it led Document of Adhesion to the Network . Adhesion to the network is devoid of economic costs.
Main current projects:
A system of information on local cultural management models and innovative cultural experiences in each municipality. PLATICA website (www.digital77.com/platica)
A system of exchange, circulation, exhibition and diffusion of local artistic productions
A program of groups of cultural managers belonging to the main structure
What I would like from the Meeting:
Know about areas and sources of cooperation for bilateral or multilateral projects
Know about areas or sources of financing for projects which link to culture as a development factor
Determine linkage possibilities to other networks who operate in similar themes.
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Graciela Estela Rodriguez Magdalena Project [email protected]
http://www.themagdalenaproject.org
Graciela is a sociologist , cultural producer and administ rator and a fellow at the Inst ituto Universitario Nacional de Artes de Buenos Aires. She is an advisor on inst itut ional development for cultural inst itut ions and is in the Assessor Pro Dance Council of the Minist ry of Culture for the city of Buenos Aires. Besides being coordinator for Magdalena Lat ina, she is a permanent assessor for the Iberoamerican Women's Meet ing of the Cádiz Fest ival and part icipates in diverse forums and and Cultural Administ rat ion seminars in France, Spain, Brazil.
Description
The Magdalena Proj ect , founded in Wales in 1986, is a cross-cultural network, providing a plat form for women s performance work, a forum for crit ical discussion, and a source of support and performance t raining. It funct ions as a cent ral nexus for diverse companies, individual art ists and scholars whose common interest lies in a commitment to ensure the visibilit y of women s endeavours in the f ield of performance.
Through this network, isolated pract it ioners across the globe have found an appropriate crit ical recognit ion of their work. Fest ivals, meet ings, lectures, workshops, product ions, documentat ion, books, f ilms, the edit ion of newslet ters and a yearly theat re j ournal
The Open Page, and the website, are the means through which the cross cultural connections have been achieved.
The network current ly spans more than 50 count ries, with autonomous nat ional groups organising festivals, symposia and workshops, promoting performances and hosting local events on a regular basis,
The aims of the Magdalena Project are to:
increase the awareness of women's contribution to contemporary theatre;
enable women to explore new approaches to theatre making that more profoundly reflect their own experience rather than that of men;
create the fora that can give voice to the concerns of women working in theatre;
encourage women to examine their role in the future of theatre and to question existing structures.
Magdalena Project's expectations for the meeting are:
1. Break the networks' isolation 2. Create a web page as an information channel and inter-network channelCreate real articulation and programs for collaboration and exchange 3. Create an associated management team with ample representation to elaborate plans and strategies based on the needs of each network. A team composed of culture managers, sustained economically by states. 4. Create an enabling program for networks and their agents, with a platform of specialists available to all networks, by region and/or continents
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Jacqueline K. Munene AfricanColours [email protected]
http://www.africancolours.net/yellowpages
Jacqueline studied Business Studies and Market ing, but has now been working with the Kenyan arts community for over four years. Her aim is to foster the development of new markets for Kenyan arts art ists, and works towards the establishment of a Nat ional Gallery in Kenya and an increased appreciat ion of the Arts and Culture in the country.
Description
The AfricanColours was founded in the Hague, Netherlands in 2000. The website started as a Dutch/ Zimbabwean initiative that was led by Carla Van Beers and incorporated in Nairobi in 2005. Since its incept ion, AfricanColours has had signif icant success in promot ing the use f informat ion and communicat ion technologies on the African cont inent . Its Members are made of art ists in Africa generally and has representation in both Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso. The AfricanColours Objectives include:
Promotion and empowerment of artists and their artwork
Information and education to the artists, art collectors and the general public.
Create a cultural Network within Africa and beyond.
Information and communication technology.
AfricanColours will expect to learn from other part icipants in the Forum mainly in the areas of how to increase the importance and appreciation of Art & culture, working with the private and corporate sectors especially when it comes to public art and art awareness. Hopefully there will be part icipants represent ing under developed count ries who can share their skills and experiences. Get t ing new contacts and network with other participants with the intention of continuing with the conversations even after the Forum.
AfricanColours would like to know how the other part icipants keep arts and culture alive in there prospective countries especially without government backing.
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Jayendran Pather Performing Arts Network of South Africa [email protected]
http://www.pansa.org.za/
Jayendran Pather is Associate Professor in the Department of Drama, at the University of Cape Town and director of Siwela Sonke Dance Theat re and Chairperson of the Performing Arts Network of South África. Pather has served on the Nat ional Arts and Culture Task Group to create new legislat ion for the White Paper on Arts and Culture, the Arts and Culture Trust of the President , the Advisory and State Theat re Board appointed by the Minister of Arts and Culture the delegat ion invest igat ing cultural exchange with Cuba, and National Arts Festival Committee
Description
Performing Arts Network of South Africa (PANSA) is independent , nat ional and democrat ic organisat ion acting in the collective interests of practitioners, technical workers, administrators, educators, companies and service providers within the performing arts. In response to the growing inst itut ional crisis in the performing arts (closure of theat res, orchest ras, NGOs, loss of j obs, etc), the Network was launched in order to defend the interests of performing arts workers and to ensure that there was a viable performing arts industry in the country.
PANSA has emerged to ensure that those who make their livelihood within the performing arts, are heard in policy-making, funding and decision-making processes that affect their lives. Individual art ists and independent companies cannot work on their own to change the macro-condit ions that impact direct ly on their lives. PANSA provides a nat ional framework to network, st rategise and lobby in their collect ive interests.
PANSA was launched in June 2001 In j ust a few years, PANSA has become the most act ive and recognisable representat ive arts lobby in the count ry. Its act ivit ies have ranged from lobbying for the rights of musicians and obtaining funding for performing arts companies, to monthly arts administ rat ion workshops and public forums, as well as f lagship proj ects like a nat ional performing arts database, radio drama workshops and a compet it ion to promote new theatre writing
A Nat ional Steering Commit tee elected at the Annual General Meet ing of members manages PANSA and regions are managed by Provincial Steering Commit tees of volunteer members elected at provincial level. PANSA has a Nat ional Coordinator who manages nat ional affairs and three intern regional coordinators: Gauteng (1), KZN (1) and W Cape (1).
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Juan Eduardo Lopez Ciudades Que Danzan [email protected]
http://www.cqd.info/
Juan is the President and chargé d'affairs of Artistic Direction and Association Techniques of the Associació Marató do Espetacle, besides being the Coordinator of the Dancing cit ies network since its incept ion and having created and directed the Interferencias exhibit on intervent ions in public spaces.
Description
Dancing Cit ies (Ciudades Que Danzan/ CQD) is an internat ional network of fest ivals with a program of dance shows in urban landscapes. Our policy is humanizing the cit ies while revaluat ing their architectural and art ist ic heritage, through promot ing dance in all it s aspects and fostering cultural exchange. Current ly, the CQD network is composed of twenty-six European and South and Cent ral American dance festivals.
The network Dancing Cit ies (Ciudades Que Danzan/ CQD) was created by the Associació Marató de l'Espectacle in 1997 in Barcelona (Spain)
Aims
Dancing Cit ies (Ciudades Que Danzan-CQD) has been conceived by the need to create a dynamic system of cooperat ion, coordinat ion and organizat ion. It 's a voluntary process of sharing proj ects and informat ion in orde to:
Establish a solid platform of exchange, collaboration and promotion between organizers of the CQD festivals;
Offer a tool of artistic and management consulting towards new festivals recently entered the network, as to help young festivals to develop themselves;
Develop common communication and promote actions, in order to reach a greater international exposure, not only for the network s fest ival members but also for part icipat ing companies and
creators;
Establish a platform of reflection and debate on the relation of dance with urban / public landscapes and the audience by the edition of a magazine on this theme;
Create productions together with other cities, including dancers from different nationalities to develop choreography conceived on the base of a specific site;
Offer a moving photographic exhibition, showing work developed in all festivals of the network;
Support the dif fusion of reports and documental videos of the fest ivals offering the possibilit y to spectators and professionals to know the work developed in other cities.
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Keiko Mayama Niterói Arts Network, Rio de Janeiro [email protected]
Cacá Falcão [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Claudio D Ipolitto [email protected]
Keiko Mayama was born in Japan, where studied literature, in Tokio. She studied Ceramic Arts at the Sir John Cass Polytechnic Scholl, in London and improved their studies in ceramics at the Taj imi Design and Research Inst itute, in Japan. She lives in Brazil since 1979, where studied sculpture at Ingá Museum, in Niterói, RJ. She also has studied drawing and paint ing. Keiko had part icipated in collect ive and individual exposit ions, teaches ceramics at SESC Niterói and promotes ceramic workshops in her atelier. She was president of the Ceramists Associat ion of Rio de Janeiro. She organizes events, workshops, classes and exposit ions of art ist ic ceramics and part icipates in social works teaching ceramics in poor communit ies. In 1999, she at tended the Ceramics Millennium, an internat ional congress of ceramics, in Amsterdam. She is member of the Rota das Artes de Niterói and the Niterói Artes de Portas Abertas and integrates the strategic team of the Niteroi Arts Network.
Cacá Falcão, was born in Laj es do Muriaé, RJ, studied Architecture and Urbanism at UFRJ and has a post -graduat ion in History of Arts at the Universit Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. He has part icipated in the following exposit ions: paint ing in Laj e do Muriaé and Niterói, sculpture with dance at Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro and others in many cit ies in Brazil, Spain, France and Holland. He worked as scenographer for dance, at the Municipal Theater of Niterói and for theater, in many cit ies in Brasil, Spain, Swiss and at the Avignon Fest ival, in France. He is member of the Rota das Artes de Niterói and integrates the strategic team of the Niteroi Arts Network.
Claudio D´Ipolitto is the coordinator of the InoveLab: Laboratory of Innovation, Culture and Development and an associated researcher of the NEICT/ UFF (Fluminense Federal University). Also he is a doctor in Product ion Engineering having writ ten his thesis on Innovat ion and St rategy Management in Emerging Technology Firms. Prof. D´ Ipolitto has a Masters in Computer Sciences, having writ ten his thesis on Software Engineering Applied to Educat ion (eLearning); he is also a researcher on the applicat ion of Innovation Methods and Tools in the Creation of Cultural Projects, Processes and Networks.
Description:
The Niterói Arts Network aims to integrate the artists of Niterói and region to identify common problems, demands, opportunit ies and challenges, to promote cooperat ive init iat ives, to promote educat ional act ivit ies, to improve the quality of art ist ic processes and works, to develop a consciousness of the social role of Arts and to have a voice in the formulat ion and management of public policies in the professional, social and business dimensions of the Arts.
The Niterói Arts Network is in process of organizat ion as a partnership among two art ist ic circuits of Niteroi and the InoveLab, an academic laboratory that researches the models and methodologies for design and development of innovation and cultural networks and communities.
Those two circuits of ateliers visitat ion are the Rota das Artes de Niterói (Niteroi Arts Routes) and the Niterói Artes de Portas Abertas (Niteroi Arts Opening Doors) and together congregate almost 150
art ists living or working respect ively, in the Oceanic Beaches Region (Rotas) and in Niteroi downtown (Portas Abertas), covering most art ist ic expressions: paint ing, ceramic, sculpture, drawing, photography and so on.
Members: Artists living in or working at Niterói and region.
Luis Gregoratti Mercociudades [email protected] www.mercociudades.org
Mercociudades (Mercocit ies) is the main network of Municipalit ies and/ or local governments of Mercosur. Cit ies of Mercosur members and associates part icipate, that is: Argent ina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile and Venezula.
The Themat ic Unity of Culture const itutes the responsible instance for development of act ions and cultural proj ects within the Mercocit ies network. This unity act ively intervenes on diverse areas of Culture such as: Immaterial Heritage, Photography, Film, Exchange of experiences and techniques, investigation work on related techniques (such as the Cultural Legislation of Mercosur).
The main objectives and actions of this network are:
To create mechanisms for networked communication between cities to facilitate the exchange of experiences and information and to facilitate citizens' access to cultural themes.
To establish and encourage reciprocal partnerships and services between the diverse member cities of the network.
To formulate and propose common policies within the Culture theme to be suggested in the Mercosur setting.
To promote investigations and sharing of experiences developed in the diverse cities of the region.
While the st ructure and forms of organizat ion, the Themat ic Unity of Culture is coordinated by one of the member cities, proposed by the cities and elected by the council. Even so, the Mercocit ies Network is const ituted by an Assembly which is composed by the government heads of member cit ies, a Council in which take part a representat ive from each head of government , an Execut ive Secretary which is based for a year in a city elected by the Assembly, a Direct ive Comission, formed by the previous city, the current and the next locat ion for the seat of the Execut ive Secretary and the Thematic Unities which develop specific themes.
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Lupwishi Mbuyamba Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa [email protected]
http://www.ocpanet.org/
Lupwishi Mbuyamba has worked as Director of the Nat ional Inst itute of Arts of Zaire, Chief Technical Advisor at the Internat ional Center of Bantu Civilizat ion (CICIBA), Regional Cultural Advisor for Africa and Representat ive to Angola and Mozambique under UNESCO and is the Execut ive Director of the Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa. He has also been act ive in the f ield of Music, as President of the Internat ional Music Council (under UNESCO), President of the Internat ional Society for Music educat ion (ISME), and is current ly the President of the Internat ional Federat ion for Choral Music (IFCM). He has published over 600 articles, 4 books and is a composer of Hymnology and mass.
Description
The observatory was set up in 2002 with the support of the African Union, the Ford Foundation and Unesco wiht a view to monitor Cultural t rends and nat ional cultural policies in Africa and enhance their integrat ion in Human Development st rategies through advocacy, informat ion, research, capacit iy building, networking, coordination and cooperation at the Regional and International levels.
The Observatory is a service-oriented resource Center and Regional Co-ordinat ing and Monitoring Body for a network of experts and inst ruct ions involved in policy and decision making, cultural administ rat ion and management as well as research, training and information.
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Magdalena Moreno South Project [email protected]
http://www.craftvic.asn.au/south/
Magdalena Moreno is the manager of the South Proj ect since January 2004. She is responsible for the overall operat ions, product ion and programming of the proj ect . She is a member of the Aust ralian Residency Network and has been invited to present at several symposia on themes relat ing to networks, arts projects and partnerships. Trained as a visual artist, she developed her interest in arts manager after a fellowship in Paris, based at the Internat ional Council of Museums (ICOM
UNESCO). Moreno is Chilean born, yet resides in Melbourne Australia since 1992. During these 14 years, she has focussed on developing projects to extend dialogue between her home country Chile, and her country of residence (Australia).
Description
The South Proj ect is a f ive-year program, commencing in 2004, designed to develop networks for cultural exchange by building a cultural highway that links count ries of the south and facilitates creat ive and fluent traffic. It is structured in three phases:
South 1: The Gathering that brought a new conversation in July 2004
South 2: The Journey is a series of programs of: - Residencies and Networks in 2005
- Exhibitions and Networks in 2006 - Workshops and Networks in 2007
South 3: The Arrival 2008-09 as a major festival based on the south-south collaborations developed during the course of the project.
It s series of cross-cont inental and cross-cultural forums, exhibit ions, residencies, workshops, performances, publicat ions and commissions, is also it inerant in its regional focus: Aust ralasia in 2004, Pacific in 2005, Latin American in 2006 and Southern Africa in 2007. Mission Statement: The South Project cultivates ongoing south-south cultural exchange. Goals
- To develop dialogue between Australia and other southern countries - To establish and sustain a network of artists, writers and cultural workers in the south - To build confidence and counterbalance cultural deference to the north - To provide development and exhibition opportunities for artists and groups - To present platforms for critical dialogue across the south
Type of member: range from art ists, groups, collect ives, NGO s, cultural inst itut ions to cultural agencies. Interaction between them is majority virtual based, except for gatherings, undercurrents and residencies.
Expectations for the Meeting: To share informat ion and methodology, explore case studies and to develop future collaborat ive proj ects which complement the core obj ect ives of the networks themselves. Also to hear from funding agencies and their interests and seek further connectivity.
What would you like to know about the other participants? To learn about their act ivit ies, editorial and curatorial lines and explore spaces of convergence amongst the range of networks.
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Manuel Mirelles RENCID
Red Nacional de Centros de Investigación y Documentación en artes escénicas y musicales [email protected]
A specialist in Law and International Politics by the Central University of Venezuela and a Higher Specialist in Human Rights by the "Simón Bolivar" Andine University. Bachelor of Educat ion specializing in Pedagogical Sciences at the "Andrés Bello" Catholic University (UCAB) where he is current ly a graduate studies professor. He has ample experience in the planif icat ion and execut ion of social development programs. He is current ly the director of the Laboratory for Invest igat ion and Documentat ion of the Inst itute of Scenic and Musical Arts of the Minist ry of Culture of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. He has taken on the funct ion of Technical Coordinator of the Unit of Cultural Indicators which belongs to the Department of the Vice-Minist ry of Culture for Human Development and as Researcher in the General Directorate of the National Council of Culture (CONAC).
Description:
The National Network of Centers of Investigation and Documentation in Scenic and Musical Arts / Rencid is an instance of interconnect ion and cooperat ion between centers of research and documentat ion, with the obj ect ive of facilitat ing the communit ies' access to direct or referent ial informat ionon scenic and musical arts in Venezuela. Among its main object ives are highlighted the consolidat ion of centers in process of format ion and turning the Network into a space for inst itut ional exchange, which will allow the strengthening of research lines, as well as the exchange of experiences.
In this sense, Rencid has const ituted itself as an inst itut ional space which exercises ref lect ion and development of cultural act ion through the consolidat ion and encouragement of research and documentation activities in each region of the Venezuelan territory.
The network ident if ies itself as a tecnical and professional instance of integrat ion, which recognizes the diversity of research centers and documentat ion which compose it , values its st rategies and funct ioning systems and facilitates the meet ing of communit ies with the scenic and musical arts as a cont ribut ion to the formation of a reflexive conscience to guide the solution to its cultural and social problematics.
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Marcos Candido Red Arte y Transformación Social [email protected] www.artetransforma.blig.ig.com.br/
Marcos Candido works as President ial Assessor and in the area of Arteducação do Cent ro Proj eto Axe (where he has been since its founding). He is responsible for the area of professional development of the supervisor and professor team at the Stanton/HeisKell Telecommunication Policy Center (Project Stretch), at New York University's Graduate Center, where he is f inishing his Ph. D. in Psychology. As a psychoanalyst, he is a member of the Confraria dos Saberes, Salvador - Bahia.
Description
The Arte y Transformación Social Network is composed of 25 organizat ions from Brazil, Argent ina, Chile, Peru and bolivia which carry out quality pract ices around the generat ion of social t ransformat ion through equality, exercise of effect ive cit izenship, social integrat ion, promot ion of human rights, interculturalit y and social global sustainabilit y. These carried out , with the support of the Avina foundat ion, between november 2003 and 2005, a series of synergic trips which had as goals:
Mutual understanding, integration and articulation between organizations dedicated to art projects for social transformation.
The identification of fields of force or propicious circles for the creation of visibility and sustainability of art and social transformation projects in the region and worldwide.
Joint conceptualization of the role of art in the social transformation of the region.
Identification of key elements for the future elaboration of scientific evidence on the impact of art in social integration and the construction of local and global citizenship.
Identification of the actions that must be created in each region so that art and social transformation initiatives.
Possibility of estabilishing agreements and alliances between members so as to, as strategic partners, relate to European associates and/or carry out joint presentations to donor sources from Europe or elsewhere.
Place on the European cultural agenda the contribution of Latin American culture, contained in the practices of Art for Social Transformation of proven efficacy in the region.
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Margaret Shiu Res Artis [email protected]
http://www.resartis.org/
Having studied economic development at the University of California, Berkeley, Ms. Shiu worked as an economist before changing career paths to become a visual art ist in 1980 when she began part icipat ing in nat ional and internat ional exhibit ions. In response to the const raints on the development of the arts in Taiwan, she added the role of art and culture advocate, mainly promot ing internat ional cultural exchange and urban regenerat ion, especially reuse of space as cultural venues. As the director of both, the alternative space Bamboo Curtain Studio and the research unit Bamboo Culture International, Ms. Shiu has act ivated many init iat ives highlight ing the art ist s role in cultural, societal and environmental development ; and has networked internat ionally with many art organizat ions for research and collaborations.
Description
Res Artis is the largest existing network of artist residency programmes, representing the interests of more than 200 centers and organisat ions in 50 count ries worldwide that offer to internat ional art ists facilit ies and conditions conducive for making art.
Current ly members of Res Art is reside in: Aust ralia, Aust ria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Roumania, Senegal, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the Netherlands, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA.
Res Art is began in 1993 as a volunteer organisat ion to represent and support the needs of resident ial arts centers and programs internationally through dynamic exchange of information and face-to-face meetings.
Within a decade it has grown to provide a crit ical forum for residency programs, convening meet ings and conferences internat ionally where the exchange of ideas and creat ive models test cultural assumpt ions and broaden the world-view of its participants.
Res Art is is promot ing the understanding of the catalyt ic role resident ial arts centers play in the development of Contemporary Arts in all cultures worldwide and across all creative media.
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Margaret Shiu IntraAsia Network [email protected]
www.intraasianetwork.org
Having studied economic development at University of California, Berkeley, Ms. Shiu worked as an economist before changing career paths to be a visual art ist in 1980 when she began part icipat ing in nat ional and internat ional exhibit ions. In response to the const raints on the development of the arts in Taiwan, she added the role of art and culture advocate, mainly promot ing internat ional cultural exchange and urban regenerat ion, especially reuse of space as cultural venues. As the director of both the alternative space Bamboo Curtain Studio and the research unit Bamboo Culture International, Ms. Shiu has act ivated many init iat ives highlight ing the art ist s role in cultural, societal and environmental development ; and has networked internat ionally with many art organizat ions for research and collaborations.
Description
IntraAsia Network is based in Taiwan and has been active since 2005. The network aims at facilitating the art ist ic mobilit y of Asian art ists, culture producers and creat ive people, through the development , promot ion and empowerment of culture exchange proj ects. It also seeks to init iate collaborat ions by mobilizing knowledge and resources across Asia and enhance capacity building for Asian organizations.
I t is an open-source network which connects artists and culture organizations, embracing inclusivity of all cultural workers and creat ive spaces, act ing through art ist exchange proj ects, community engagement init iat ives and art ist residency programs. It intends to bring together mult iple count ries, funct ions, sectors, characteristics, disciplines, into its programs.
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Mary Ann DeVlieg IETM - International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts [email protected]
www.on-the-move.org / http://www.ietm.org
Mary Ann has worked as a cultural manager in California, New York, London and the South West of England. She has taught and init iated many cultural t raining programs for art ists. She teaches, advises and speaks frequent ly on culture policy, cultural networking and internat ional and European culture issues. She is the Secretary General for IETM and is on the advisory commit tees of the Fondazione Fitzcarraldo, ADAC and the Fórum Cultural Mundial.
Description
Created in 1981, IETM is the largest and most established network for professionals working in the f ield of contemporary performing arts in Europe. Comprises over 400 member-organisat ions (theat re and dance producers, programmers, fest ival directors, companies, documentat ion cent res and public authorit ies) from 45 countries.
MISSION: IETM is a membership organisat ion which exists to st imulate the quality, development and contexts of contemporary performing arts in a global environment , by init iat ing and facilitat ing professional networking and communicat ion, the dynamic exchange of informat ion, know-how t ransfer and presentations of examples of good practice.
IETM organises IETM Meet ings several t imes a year in Europe and elsewhere, including bridge projects between cont inents, t raining and specialised informat ion provision. We convene in in two yearly Plenary Meetings (in Autumn and Spring) and 4 or 5 smaller 'satellite' meetings outside Euorpe, focused on a theme or geographic region.
IETM also animates 2 websites (www.ietm.org and www.on-the-move.org ,which is a web portal dedicted to giving info on concrete opportunites for art ists mobilit y.
IETM commisions and publishes studies when thre is a direct need, and also offers specalised t raining sessions.
IETM has served as an unoff icial spokesperson for the cultural network movement in Europe for over 10 years, comissioning studies on evaluat ion of networks and advocat ing at the European level for more recognition of networks.
IETM has catalysed and accompanied many new networks and projects, recent ones include Africonnexions (network Chesa Africa), BE (balkan express network), DBM (danse-bassin-méditerannée) and an emerging network in Central Asia.
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MK Wegmann National Performance Network [email protected]
http://www.npnweb.org/
MK Wegmann is currently the president and CEO of the National Performance Network, and has 25 years of experience in organizat ional development , art ists' services, present ing and producing for non-profit visual and performing arts organizat ions. She also works as an individual consultant with organizat ions and individual art ists and is on the Board of Directors for both the Nat ional Performance Network and Junebug Productios.
Description
The Nat ional Performance Network (NPN) was created in 1985 when David R. White, then Execut ive Director of New York's Dance Theater Workshop called together a group of 14 art ist -centered present ing organizat ions to discuss a nat ional dilemma - independent art ists and cultural organizers throughout the United States are limited by art ist ic isolat ion and economic const raints, affect ing the sharing of creat ive ideas within and among communities.
The NPN is a group of diverse cultural organizers, including art ists, working to create meaningful partnerships and to provide leadership that enables the pract ice and public experience of the performing arts in the United States. Our network is made up of 62 art organizat ions, which are considered Partners, based in rural, suburban and urban communities across the United States and its territories. NPN Partners range from the most grassroots operations to large regional arts centers.
NPN has three Subsidy Programs; these programs are Performance Residency Program, Creat ion Fund and Community Fund. The Performance Residency Program provides subsidies to NPN Partners to present performing art ists from other communit ies within the United States for one- or two-week stays. These residency act ivit ies take place in a wide array of set t ings and bring art ists and their creat ive tools to new const ituencies and audiences. The Creat ion Fund provides commissioning support to local or out -of-town art ists toward the creat ion of new work. It was established to provide direct and unencumbered assistance to the process of creat ion and to encourage others to do the same. The Community Fund provides subsidies to NPN Partners for act ivit ies that enhance the connect ion between an NPN Partner s local community and the nat ional art ists part icipat ing in Performance Residency or Creat ion Fund programs. It is designed to help NPN Partners take risks, implement new programs, forge new relationships, and/or diversify their connections.
NPN act ively explores and develops collaborat ive partnerships with other like-minded organizat ions in order to extend opportunit ies to art ists not consistent ly served by NPN s Subsidy Programs. Performing Americas is one of f ive St rategic Partnerships that NPN current ly supports. The Performing Americas Proj ect is a cont inuing partnership with La Red (Red de Promotores Culturales de Lat inoamerica y el Caribe). It is a hemispheric exchange program of US and Lat in American art ists which subsidizes reciprocal tours through NPN Performance Residencies which builds relat ionships and knowledge between artists and curators across cultures.
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Natacha Melo Red Sudamericana de Danza [email protected]
www.movimiento.org
Natacha Melo is a performer and fellow in classical dance, contemporary dance, and tango. She is a member of dance companies in Lat in America and Europe, init iated the Red Sudamericana de Dansa, part icipates in workshops and act ivit ies throughout Lat in America, is the coordinator of the www.movimiento.org website and co-founder of Tango en Escena, project for the development of tango in Uruguay.
Description
RSD, act ive since 2001 is an exchange init iat ive between professionals and managers from the areas of dance and culture in South American count ries, proj ect ing up to Cent ral America and the Caribbean. Its area of action is focusted on management, education and capacity building, exchange and systematization of informat ion and regional integrat ion. Its main obj ect ives consist in support ing the development of culture and dance creat ing a plat form for regional cooperat ion, visualizing the region's enterprises and art iculat ing contact networks. The organizat ion and interact ion between its members is part icipat ive, adopt ing a work modality in groups which assume specif ic dut ies. Each one of these groups adopts a responsability and specific activity:
Management groups (collegiate, rotational, according to particular needs) charged with managing the network's space and integration, methodologically observing the work groups and managing cooperation agreements and network financing;
Executor group for the website, charged with diffusing and recollecting information, databases, contents, network needs, activity documentation;
Thematic workgroups: these are open, dynamic and elaborate proposals according to their specific interests and own resources. Count with a coordination which connects the group's work to the network management team: GT Network Festivals and GT Creation and Exchange.
The RSD work methodology sets off from the idea that involving all interested and involved actors (ballerinas, coreographers, managers from the public and private spheres, communicators, educators, producers) to obtain a greater diversity of integrat ion. In this sense, RSD employs as a guide the Part icipat ive Planif icat ion and Associated Management program, developed by FLACSO and adapted to the realities of the diverse and mutable contexts of the region.
Among the priority proj ects developed by RSD one can specif ically highlight the co-product ions with fest ivals to acommodate annual meet ings (Araraquara Fest ival in Brazil, Montevideo Sit iada Fest ival, Caracas Solos and Duets Fest ival), the www.movimiento.org website and small regional exchange activities carried out in Cuba, Equador, Paraguay, Peru, Bolivia, and Central America.
For the network, this meet ing is a concrete possibilit y for development and empowerment of our work as it produces an exchange of experiences and knowledges with other networks. Furthermore, it enables j oint st rengthening and future cooperat ions. We believe that it is also important that this Meet ing connect it self to other spaces and actors that coexist in the Fórum, such as the f inancial agencies, the governmental authorit ies, the art ists, the debates promoted by such diverse organizat ions on a global level, etc. These are singular possibilit ies and scenerios for ref lect ion, but also of act ion which should be taken full advantage of and recycle ourselves in proj ects and concrete knowledges which t ranscend the Fórum and our work networks. Our expectat ion is also to mot ivate and feed our will and confidence, essential motors of any creative and transformative project.
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Octavio Arbeláez La Red [email protected] www.redlat.org
Octavio Arbelaez is a lawyer and master in Philosophy and Culture and New Technologies. Very much involved in academia, he is an ex-dean and a university professor. Besides this, he is the president of Redlat, director of the Manizales theater festival in Colombia and manager of Vania Latina Ltd., a cultural f irm based in Bogotá and Medellín. Octavio is an internat ional consultant in Brazil (Fórum Cultural Mundial, Mercado da Bahia), Mexico and Spain.
Description
The network of Cultural promoters of Lat in America and the Caribbean, -La Red- is a non-profit organizat ion created in 1991 at Paraty (Brazil) with the obj ect ive of creat ing a j oint workspace between contemporary dance, theater and music producers in Lat in America, which will cont ribute to breaking the traditional cultural isolation of the region.
Our goals:
To promote strategies to foster respect towards cultural diversity
To increment the circulat ion and exchange of cultural products and services from Lat in America and the Caribbean
To consolidate an information and communication system accessible to cultural communities
To promote the formation of new audiences
To create mechanisms of interlocut ion and interact ion with organisms responsible for the design and execution of national and transnational cultural policies
Vision: To be the leading organizat ion in Lat in America in the creat ion and recognit ion of cultural spaces for integrat ion and const ruct ion of a cultural community that is a protagonist in it s own integral social development and that will be conducive to the circulat ion, dist ribut ion and exchange of informat ion, ideas, goods, performances and cultural services.
Mission: To generate j oint and systemat ic workspaces between cultural promoters of the Americas, interact ing with social, art ist ic, cultural and other organizat ions, through communicat ion, advert ising, qualif icat ion, circulat ion and dist ribut ion of cultural goods and services of creators and cultural producers from the continent.
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Olga Garay [email protected] Individual Participant
Olga Garay is an independent producer and performing arts consultant who is current ly working with organizat ions such as the Lincoln Center Fest ival, the Under the Radar Fest ival at the Public Theater, the Nat ional Peformance Network, the Caribbean Cultural Center, El Museo del Barrio and Leveraging Investments in Creativity.
From 1998 to 2005 she was Program Director for the Arts for the Doris Duke Charitable Foundat ion where she was responsible for the planning, design, management , and evaluat ion of the Arts Program. In total $145 million was awarded to arts organizat ions throughout the United States, many with internat ional programs, during her seven year tenure.
Prior to going to NY, Olga was Director of Cultural Affairs at Miami Dade College where she presented contemporary and culturally-specif ic nat ionally and internat ionally recognized performing and visual artists with a special emphasis on Latin America and the Caribbean.
Olga has served on numerous boards including Grantmakers in the Arts and the Associat ion of Performing Arts Presenters from which she received the prest igious Fan Taylor Dist inguished Service Award in 2003. She was a founding member of La Red de Productores Culturales de Lat ino America y el Caribe, Caribnet and the Network of Cultural Cent res of Colour. In 2006 she received a Bessie, the New York Dance and Performance Awards, for sustained cont ribut ion to the f ield as well as an achievement award from the Cuban Artists Fund.
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Oumar Sall Groupe 30 - groupe 30 afrique reseau interafricain d´échanges culturels [email protected] http://group30afrique.ifrance.com/index.htm
Oumar Sall is a j ournalist , author and producer of documentaries on the living arts. He is also a member of the Culturesfrance General Assembly (ex AFAA), member of the Administ rat ion Council and of the Fund for Mobilit y and Arts in Africa Bureau, administ rator of the africinfo.org proj ect and coordinator of the Groupe 30 Africa network.
Description
Groupe 30 is a pluridisciplinar cultural network of Senegalese origin whose act ivity extends to the ent ire African continent.
Its missions are:
Dif fusion of informat ion (newslet ters, website, publicat ions, discussion forums...), experience exchange / development of good practices, education and specialization, research, public relations/lobbying, carrying out of artistic projects (residences, events, co-productions, tours...), socio-cultural projects...
Actions and projects:
Completed and ongoing:
Photography exhibition « Mémoire de Rien » (2002)
www.africinfo.com website launch
International artist residence « L'Universel? Dialogues avec Senghor » (2003)
« Saloum-Saloum »: work on memory and the heritage of the Sine-saloum region (2006)
The Joal Ateliers: education and framework-building for cleaners in the city of Joal- Fadiouth around ateliers on forms and colors animated by plastic artists
The Photography School: created, in a rural setting, from a photographic techniques education unit for young people and amateur photographers
Members of research units on questions of development (in dialog with the artistic question)
Future projects:
Extension of the www.africinfo.org project in ACP zone countries (Africa, Caribe, Pacifico)
The Divine Melodies fest ival
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Roberto Malta Rede Brasil [email protected]
www.rede-brasil.org
Roberto Malta is a cultural producer and promoter responsible for count less cultural exchanges between count ries and within Brazil, business administ rator and execut ive director of MAIS Cultura e Ent retenimento, based in São Paulo and Director of BM&A-Brazilian Music and Arts. He is also a member of the Redes Latinoamericanas e do Mercosur; currently president of Rede Brasil.
Description
Rede Brasil de Promotores Culturais, created in 1996, is a non-profit associat ion composed of nuclei for the product ion of culture and art , cultural events, fest ival directors and performance rooms dedicated to innovat ive product ion and non-convent ional contemporary art , seeking to provide and develop qualification, information and education of its associates in the most diverse regions of Brazil.
Rede Brasil works also, and mainly, through intense informal contact between its members, which have produced several spontaneous proj ects in collaborat ion. These spontaneous proj ects have facilitated enormously the circulat ion of Brazilian art ists across the count ry's vast territory, cont ribut ing towards a greater exchange between dif ferent states and the appreciat ion of the cultural diversity which composes the Brazilian mosaic.
It is also the obj ect ive of the network to connect the Brazilian cultural product ion to other cultures, peoples, networks, such as: Rede Lat inoamericana, Rede Andina, Rede do Caribe, NPN Nat ional Performing Network, IETM-Informal European Theat re Meet ings, Rede do Mercosul, Rede de Agentes Culturais.
Expectat ions: That effect ive dialogs be established that cont ribute to the internal and external st rengthening of the cultural networks through reports and cases. That we discuss the role of networks in the encouraging of product ions and respect ive dist ribut ion inst ruments. That we discuss the nat ional and international mechanisms for investment in local and regional projects.
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Ruben Betbeder Red Cultural del Mercosur [email protected] [email protected]
Ruben is the Director of Visual Arts and of the Provincial Fine Arts Museum belonigng to the Cultural Inst itute of Buenos Aires, President of the Red Cultural del Mercosur (RCM) and has acted as Director of Culture and Director of the Fine Arts Museum of the municipality of Tandil, Buenos Aires province. He has worked with a series of studios and art spaces, has been act ively involved in studies and seminars on the Fine Arts and has carried out different workshops, including the Festival Nacional de Cine.
Description
The Red Cultural Mercosul (RCM) is a non-profit civil organizat ion with cultural and educat ional obj ect ives, indent if ied by the respect towards dif ferences and the defense of diversity and cultural democracy.
Created by art ists and cultural managers, the RCM has been working since 1998 towards the dif fusion and promot ion of the works of Lat in American art ists in the areas of dance, theater, literature, plast ic arts, f ilm, crafts, among others. For this it has worked in art iculat ion with dist inct management levels (nat ional, provincial, municipal, independent , etc.) seeking to opt imize available resources and build t rue cultural circuits, through which productions and producers should pass through and interact fluidly.
Among its act ion st rategies is the promot ion and circulat ion of cultural goods among member-states and Mercosul associates: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Venezuela and Colombia.
Since its statute, RCM proposes two classes of members: those who are integrated as physical persons and those who compose it reassociated and member-statespresent ing an inst itut ion. This way, RCM current ly counts with over 400 members in member count ries and count ries associated to Mercosur, mainly art ists, cultural managers, intellectuals and cultural workers.
Public relat ions are implemented through meet ings accorded with other organisms or inst itut ions to which the establishing of links is of the RCM's interest. Throughout 2006 the RCM presidency was in contact with governmental institutions, embassies and independent or private spaces.
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Rubens Bayardo Iberformat, Network of Centers, Units and Formers in Cultural Management [email protected] http://www.iberformat.org/miembros.htm
Rubens Bayardo is anthropologist and he got a PhD degree researching on independent theatre in the City of Buenos Aires in the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he is director of the Anthropology of Culture Programme. He is also director of the Cultural Management Advanced Studies Programme, High Social Studies Inst itute, Universidad Nacional de San Mart ín, where he is in charge of the Technical Secretary of the IBERFORMAT network. He is consultant of OIS, UNESCO and IDB proyects.
Description:
Iberformat is a network of centers, units and formers in the f ield of cultural management , in which part icipate circles of university faculty as well as centers of non-regulated but specialized in this f ield of action, since 2001.
The Iberformat arises from an init iat ive of the Organizat ion of Iberoamerican States for Educat iona Science and Culture (OIS) and the INTERARTS Foundat ion, aiming to cont ribute to the st rengthening of the processes of format ion in the cultural management of the Iberoamerican ambit for a greater development in the cultural sector and as support to the posit ioning of cultural management and its different actors.
The primordial obj ect ive consists in encouraging the creat ion of an autonomous Iberoamerican Network of centers and units of capacitat ion in cultural management for a greater t ransfer and cooperat ion in the formation of human resources. To these objectives are added:
Fomenting a program of formation of formators (autoformation of formators) in the Iberoamerican space in the specialty of cultural management in general, as a greater broader set t ing of exchange;
The st imulus to to the establishment of specif ic format ion programs in the dif ferent nat ional and regional realit ies of member count ries from technical assitence to materials of support for capacity-building;
The int roduct ion of an internat ional perspect ive in the contents and problemat izat ions of management and administ rat ion of cultural policies for a greater presence of Iberoamerican cultures in a globalized worls.
In its forms and types of Direct ion, the networks is organized in an Assembly which represents the highest organ, which unites members and organizations which support Iberformat.
The Direct ive Comit tee is composed of a minimum of 5 members of the network of different regions of the Iberoamerican regions; nowadays the Technical Secretary is exercised by the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
More information: http://www.iberformat.org
In order to subscribe the IBERFORMAT Digital Bullet in (monthly and freely), please contact Technical Secretary: [email protected]
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Sarah Gardner [email protected]
Santiago Jara Ramirez [email protected] / [email protected]
International Federation of Arts Councils and Cultural Agencies www.ifacca.org
Sarah Gardner is the founding Executive Director of IFACCA. From 1990 until 2001, she held various senior execut ive roles at the Aust ralia Council, primarily Director St rategy and Policy. She was formerly the Director of Public Affairs for the Aust ralian Bicentennial Authority and a consultant in the private and public sectors for the leading Australian firm Issues Australia.
Santiago Jara Ramirez is an anthropologist with a minor in history pursuing a master in polit ical philosophy. He has worked at the Museo Nacional de Colombia; at the Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Theater in Bogota, and as a researcher for the proj ect Observat ório de Polít icas Cult urales operated by the Minist ry of Culture. He is currently the IFACCA Coordinator for Latin America.
Description
IFACCA International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies
The Internat ional Federat ion of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) is the f irst global network of national arts funding bodies. Our mission is to create an international resource and meeting ground for all those whose public responsibility it is to support excellence and diversity in artistic endeavour.
Our vision is a dynamic network, sharing knowledge and creat ing understanding to enrich a world of artistic and cultural diversity.
We aim to benefit art ists, arts organisat ions and communit ies worldwide through our programmes of research assistance, including D Art and www.connectcp.org ; through our website and e-newsletter, ACORNS; the t riennial World Summits on Arts and Culture, (so far hosted by Canada in 2000, Singapore in 2003 and England in 2006), and Mini-Summits organise mini-summits on key arts policy topics.
IFACCA has 55 nat ional members and 47 aff il iate members. Nat ional members include nat ional arts councils and minist ries of culture from around the globe, including Aust ralia, Canada, Colombia, Indonesia, South Africa, and Spain. For a full l ist ing of IFACCA members see www.ifacca.org/ifacca2/en/about/page04_CurrentMembers.asp
The IFACCA secretariat was established in March 2001 in Sydney, Aust ralia. The staff comprises an Executive Director, a Research Analyst and an Administrator. For contact details see www.ifacca.org
Expectat ions for the meet ing: To exchange informat ion with other networks and become more familiar with best practice in networking to help in running my own network. Thanks for organising the meeting, the agenda, etc !
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SuAndi Black Arts Alliance [email protected]
http://www.blackartists.org.uk/
SuAndi is known internat ionally for her work as a poet and performance art ist . Since 1985 she has been the freelance Cultural Director of Black Arts Alliance. BAA is the UK s largest and longest surviving network of Black artists. On behalf of BAA she has organised exhibit ions, performances, seminars, colloquiums and workshops in all recognised locations.
Description
Formed in 1985 Black Arts Alliance is the UK s longest surviving network of Black art ists represent ing the arts and culture drawn from ancest ral heritages of South Asia, Africa, South America, and the Caribbean and, in more recent t imes, due to global conf lict , our newly arrived compatriots known collect ively as refugees.
BAA cont inues its work of profiling all Black art forms in the community, educat ion, galleries, and venues to all comers.
BAA is a member led organization
Aims and Objectives:
Share skills, through discussion and workshops
Share/create a better understanding of the cultural history.
Challenge unspoken cultural issues in relevant organisations and media.
Ensure that art impacts on all aspects of all communities.
Organise celebratory cultural events at local and national level.
Create a forum for closed seminars of discussion of Black arts pertaining to the arts agenda in a contemporary setting,
Address the disenfranchisement, misrepresentation, and marginalisation of Black art and culture
BAA seeks interchanges with similar organizat ions interested in exchanging skills and cultural knowledge via workshops, training seminars and colloquiums.
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Tang Fu Kuen SEAMEO-SPAFA [email protected]
http://www.seameo-spafa.org/
Based in Bangkok, Thailand, at SEAMEO-SPAFA (Regional Cent re for Archaeology and Fine Arts), Tang Fu Kuen runs conservat ion and arts programs in Southeast Asia. He also works as a playwright , crit ic, and festival organiser, promoting contemporary dance and performance between Asia and Europe.
Description
The Southeast Asian Ministers of Educat ion Organizat ion (SEAMEO) was established on 30 November 1965 as a chartered internat ional organizat ion whose purpose is to promote cooperat ion in educat ion, science, and culture in the Southeast Asian region. Under the aegis of SEAMEO, SEAMEO-SPAFA is the Regional Centre for Archaeology and Fine Arts.
SSEAMEO SPAFA s vision is: To inst il pride in Southeast Asian heritage to enable the careful management of it and its promot ion through sustainable development programs that direct ly benefit communit ies and thus raise the quality of life of Southeast Asian people .
SEAMEO-SPAFA's regional programs encompass: archaeology, f ine arts, visual arts, art educat ion, architecture, museology, performing arts, cultural resource management , cultural heritage management , and tourism.
SSEAMEO Member Count ries comprise Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PPDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, & Vietnam. SEAMEO Associate Member Count ries are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, and Norway.
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Tarek Abou El-Fetouh Young Arab Theater Fund [email protected]
http://www.yatfund.org/
Tarek is the curator and art ist ic director of the Young Arab Theater Fund since 2000. He has worked with several theater companies and independent film makers, and was a cenographer and tour manager for the El Warsha Theater Company, organizing over twenty tours for the company. Besides this, Tarek designed the rehabilitat ion of spaces such as the Garage Theater in Alexandria, init iated research on t radit ional egypt ian tents and was curator of performance arts at the DisOrientat ion season at the House of World Culture in Berlin.
Description
YATF is not a network but rather facilitate networking among independent spaces and organizations in the Middle East region.
Those artists attempting to carve out a space for their independent artistic productions suffer from lack of resources and of venues for presentat ion and exchange. Many independent culture organizat ions were founded throughout the region to meet increasing demands by those independent art ists who are developing a new artistic sensibility and critical engagement with their socio-political circumstances.
The fact that most of the count ries in the region are speaking the same language and similarit ies in terms of shared history and current socio-cultural condit ions generates endless possibilit ies of dist ribut ion and mobility of artistic productions and can create a significant impact on the work of the artists.
Since its establishment , Young Arab Theat re Fund, YATF is working act ively not only on support ing young art ists to realize their product ions but also to encourage them to present their work as many t imes as possible, locally, regionally and internationally. On the premise that both performing and interacting with diverse audience would enrich the art ist ic quality of the art ists work and st rengthen their status as independent artists within the local environment.
YATF organizes meet ings for programmers of independent spaces in the region that aims at promot ing networking and exchange of programs among independent spaces in the Middle East and North Africa and to connect them with existing networks in Europe and around the Mediterranean basin.
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