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SUCCINCT #3: 30th August 2010
NO LINK BETWEEN TAX BREAKS AND SPONSORSHIP ?? Opera Europa's Fundraising Academy has commissioned a survey by Deloitte Madrid to assess the different fundraising models across European opera houses. The extremely detailed results are a sort of guide on how European opera institutions approach the fundraising matter. A counterintuitive result of the survey points out that a favourable taxation policy for sponsors in some European countries seems not to result in a significant increase in terms of sponsorship in favour of the opera companies from those countries. On the other hand, some countries have proven that a change of tax regime had helped the opera houses in increasing their private support.
JUST HOW BAD IS IT ?? Following the publication of its two reports on the impacts of the recession on the cultural and wider not-for-profit sectors in 2009, Arts Quarter is now repeating its online survey a year on from conducting its second such survey to continue to plot the ongoing affects of the current economic climate on these two sectors. In anticipation of some of the outcomes of the CSR (comprehensive spending review) to be announced in October, this survey also invites respondents to share views on Government policy and create a new political agenda for the arts and charitable sectors at large. The findings of this Survey will be published free of charge at the time that the CSR findings are to be announced in the hope of adding to the debate at that time. With wide-spread participation by the cultural community and other not-for profits, all communities will be able to benchmark their own performance once again. UK organisations wishing to take part in the latest survey should click here.
YES, WE'LL TRY ANYTHING... Crowd funding is a new funding model that enables you to create closer relationships with your audiences. Crowd funding is how Obama raised much of his campaign funds and Frannie Armstrong raised funds to make her film The Age of Stupid. An open/public crowd funding platform for the wider arts community is now available. One of the people offering help with this model is Salette Gressett: salette.gressett@gmail.com
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HELP TO GET YOUR HANDS ON EU FUNDS FOR NON-EU PROJECTS… The ACP (African, Caribbean & Pacific) Secretariat and its ACPCultures programme is offeringtraining courses on writing and managing EC funded projects . The next courses will be in October 2010 and will cover management for development, and also about accessing grants in the framework of the EC external cooperation: how to obtain EC funding? how to manage an EC grant contract?
YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN THOSE ARABIC SKILLS WILL COME IN HANDY… The Culture Resource Foundation is calling for proposals for The Production Awards Program. This program aims to encourage and support a new generation of Arab artists and writers by funding their early projects in the various fields of arts and culture. Culture Resource (Al Mawred Al Thaqafy) also provides young creators with advice on managing their productions and promoting them. Proposals must be submitted in Arabic using the form available on the Culture Resource website. Deadline: 30 September 2010. back to top
CLIMATE CHANGE ADDRESSED IN AFRICA… The Tipping Point Conference on Climate Change and the Arts was held at Spier in Cape Town from 24-26 May. Tipping Point aims to 'harness the power of the imagination to help stabilise the climate'. They offer a range of activities centred on exposing creative artists to the enormous challenges of climate change; including meetings involving very high quality, intense dialogue between artists, scientists and others close to the heart of the issue.
WHO SAYS THE ARTS TODAY HAS NO SOUL?? Under the "A Soul for Europe" initiative, there will be an Istanbul Forum on Global Challenges, Cultural Visions" from 11-13 October 2010 at the Tophane-i Amire Culture Center. This will feed into the 4th Berlin Conference - "A Soul for Europe" scheduled for 20 November 2010. The Istanbul Forum will initiate a laboratory to define and implement new forms of collaboration between political decision makers and civil society - including the business sector and the individual citizen - to develop Europe as a cultural project. Istanbul Forum will be a step forward to constitute a common working platform of Culture and Economy, in line with the European Commission's Agenda for culture in a globalizing world (COM -2007. 242 final of May 2007). back to top
ARTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS… The Journal of Arts and Communities will be publishing a Special Edition dedicated to critical examination of Arts and Human Rights in September 2011, in partnership with Amnesty International as part of their 50th Anniversary celebrations. A Call for Contributions is extended to artists, human rights practitioners and activists, researchers and informed commentators to explore and share ideas and knowledge regarding the area of Arts and Human Rights. This initiative is also in partnership with the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award at the Edinburgh Festival. The Judges for the Award include Joyce McMillan, theatre critic and columnist for The Scotsman and Neil Cooper writer and critic for The Herald, who Guest Editors for this Special Edition. The deadline for submissions is 15th November 2010. Contributions should be sent initially to the guest editors who will then forward them to the Editorial Board for the peer review process: Joyce McMillan (joyce.mcmillan@virgin.net) or Neil Cooper (Cooperhack@aol.com). Publishing guidelines are available here (PDF).
COPYRIGHT VS ACCESS ? BUT IS THE ARGUMENT BECOMING IRRELEVANT ?? In June 2010, UNESCO held the 14th session of the Universal Copyright Convention Committee of 1971. The meeting was dominated by two items on the agenda: "the new challenges to achieve the right balance between protecting copyright and access to knowledge, information and culture" and the fight against piracy. With regards to exceptions and limitations, UNESCO presented a study carried out by Dr. Patricia Akester from the University of Cambridge. The author considers that the real benefit from exceptions to copyright would be reduced by the combined effects of contracts, technology and law. UNESCO has committed itself to fighting against piracy, via training seminars in Africa and the setting up of a "World Anti-piracy Observatory" which it presented to the Committee.
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| NOW WE'VE LOST IT, TIME TO CELEBRATE IT… Recently E-FAITH, the European Federation of Associations of Industrial and Technical Heritage, launched a campaign to influence the the European authorities (European Commission and/or Council of Europe) to declare a European Industrial and Technical Heritage Year. E-FAITH wants this initiative to grow bottom-up, and are appealing to all heritage organisations, local preservation groups, associations for regional and local history, associations of museum friends and friends of heritage sites, museums, regional development and tourism organisations, etc. to endorse this campaign.
GONGS FOR PAST GLORIES… Each year, Europa Nostra and the European Union reward the best of cultural heritage achievements through the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards. The Awards celebrate exemplary restorations and initiatives of the many facets of Europe's tangible cultural heritage, in categories ranging from the conservation of monuments and buildings, their adaptation to new uses, and new interventions in historic settings, to urban and rural landscape rehabilitation, archaeological site interpretations, and care for art collections. Also awarded are research and education projects, dedicated service to heritage conservation by individuals and organisations, and education and awareness raising initiatives related to cultural heritage. Anyone can make a nomination or enter a project (with the permission of the project's owner). Closing date for submission of entries: 1 October 2010 back to top | | LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, TRANSLATION
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PUBLISHING IS STANDING ITS GROUND… The total annual sales revenue of book publishers of the EU and the EEA in 2008 was approximately €23.75 billion, according to the survey (PDF) conducted by FEP (Federation of European Publishers); this represents a decrease from the last estimate of €24.5 billion for 2007, but in very large part such decrease was only nominal, due to changes in exchange rates. The largest markets in terms of publishers' turnover in 2008 were Germany, followed by the UK, France, Spain and Italy. A total of about 510,000 new titles were issued by publishers in 2008, an increase of an estimated 4%. The countries reporting the largest new titles output were the UK (120,947), Germany (83,381), Spain (42,592), France (38,354) and Italy (36,409). According to the report, a total of approximately 135,000 people were employed full time in book publishing in 2008, an amount slightly lower than one year earlier.
MORE ARTS JOURNALISTS IN AFRICA… The Task Team elected by arts journalists in Zimbabwe in April to help build and consolidate an African Arts Journalists Network, met in Grahamstown at the end of South Africa's National Arts Festival to draft a constitution and a strategic plan towards the formal launch of the network. The proposed Network will be launched during Zanzibar's Sauti za Busara music festival in February 2011, where arts journalism workshops will also be hosted with the support of Africalia.
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NOT QUITE STRAIGHTFORWARD FOR TV ON THE INTERNET… The BBC Trust, the corporation's governing body, has given a provisional go-ahead for a project which could kick-start demand for internet TV. Project Canvas is a partnership to develop a so-called Internet Protocol Television standard. It would see a range of set-top boxes available to access on-demand TV services such as iPlayer and ITVplayer. Set-top boxes, expected to cost around £200, could be available next year. Users will also be able to access internet services such as Facebook, YouTube and Flickr via their TVs. However, the success of Project Canvas could be jeopardised by the increasing number of internet-ready TVs available on the market. Analyst firm Futuresource predicts that 20% of flat-screen TVs shipped in Europe next year will have internet connectivity.
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WORK STILL TO BE DONE FOR PERFORMERS RIGHTS… The study, Performers' Rights in European Legislation: Situation and Elements for Improvement (Dec 09) can now be downloaded from the website of AEPO-ARTIS - Association of European Performers' Organisations
THE THEATRE ARTS CREATE WEALTH TOO… At its General Assembly, hold in Nicosia, Cyprus in May 2010, and in response to the Green Paper "Unlocking the potential of cultural and creative industries" published by the European Commission, the member theatres of the European Theatre Convention ask the European Parliament to join forces in a structured partnership to the benefit for the society and citizens of Europe to access the immense wealth theatre art creates in each country. The ETC member theatres ask the members of the European Parliament to co-sign this resolution to show their support for the well-being of the European citizens. National public authority bodies are also invited to co-sign this resolution. back to top CAN YOU TRAIN A SONGWRITER ?? Composers and songwriters generate significant cultural and economic wealth, so understanding their lifelong educational and training needs is crucial. A major international survey, The Training and Education of Composers , has therefore been launched by the Royal College of Music's Centre for Music and Multimedia. The survey seeks to investigate the appropriateness and effectiveness of training and education opportunities for music composers, both in prospect and retrospect. It will capture the experiences of a large number and wide range of composers and songwriters within Europe and beyond, in order to lobby for better opportunities and resources to study the art and craft of composing, including lifelong learning.If you are a composer or songwriter, please complete the survey.
WE LOVE RYANAIR, PART 37… 12-year old music student Francesca Rijks, who studies at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, was recently turned away with her violin at the boarding gate of a Ryanair flight returning to the UK from Germany. Her parents were told the violin was not allowed as hand luggage, and were given an ultimatum to either put the violin in the baggage hold of the plane, which would most likely cause damage to the instrument, or to purchase an additional seat at a cost of 230 euros. This was despite the fact they had received confirmation from the Ryanair customer service department (prior to purchasing any tickets) that the instrument would be accepted. They had also checked in without problems. The Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) is warning anyone intending to travel with a small instrument to check very carefully before travelling with Ryanair, and to ensure their instruments will be accepted as hand luggage before booking any flights. In addition, the ISM has advised its members to take with them a letter, signed by ISM Chief Executive Deborah Annetts, confirming that they are music professionals. back to top | | VISUAL ARTS including ARCHITECTURE
| ARCHITECTS ON THE MOVE… From 22-26 November 2010 EUNIC South Africa will run the third edition of the EUNIC Architecture Studio, an annual event which brings European architects to Johannesburg to work together with local architects and students and staff from South African Universities, and to involve local government and the public in the results of their collaborations. EUNIC is an organisation representing the EU National Institutes for Culture. back to top TURNING RESEARCH INTO ART… Professor Stephen Coleman of the Institute of Communication Studies at the University of Leeds found an innovative way to raise the impact of hisAHRC funded research project The Road to Voting. During his research, he conducted nearly 60 research interviews with British residents from a range of social and economic backgrounds on attitudes to voting and democracy. He then gave the interview transcripts to artists from theatre, film, visual art, and a range of other disciplines, to use as material for projects seeking to engage members of the general public with the electoral process.Look Left Look Right productions created Counted, a documentary drama that insists democracy can only function practically if people know or believe their actions can change the system. Counted has just finished a début season at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and will be touring the UK, being performed in "unusual political spaces".
MINISTRIES OF CULTURE RANKED LOWDOWN… The 6th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research was held last week in Jyvaskala in Finland - lots of interesting (and some not so interesting) research - sadly there seems to be no mechanism for sharing the more interesting papers and presentations with the wider arts and cultural community. Conference delegates can download the papers from the conference organiser's website, but the rest of the world has no chance. One of the more entertaining papers (from Clive Gray & Melvin Wingfield, De Montfort Univ) assessed the importance of the UK Ministry of Culture (Dept for Culture, Media & Sport, DCMS) compared to other ministries. Using a range of indicators (expenditure, law-making, policy centrality, ministerial career trajectories, press coverage, departmental age, executive centrality, manifesto coverage and staffing patterns), the research concluded that the DCMS ranked 11th out of 13 - the only ones with a lower ranking were the Dept for International Development (foreign aid et al) and the Dept for Energy & Climate Change….hmmm…
MAKE YOUR CASE IN AFRICA… A conference entitled Arts, Society and Sustainable Development will be hosted by the Faculty of the Arts at Tshwane University of Technology (South Africa) at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria, in July 2011. A call for papers is open. The conference will encourage debate around the socio-cultural development of communities, development of products, entrepreneurship, and the economy…aspects such as the ability to brand, determining niche markets, developing business plans and attracting customers should be investigated since they play critical roles in the development of arts and design. Click here to download the call for papers (in PDF). back to top CAN CULTURE HELP THE POOR AND EXCLUDED ?? The last meeting of the EUROCITIES Culture Forum held in Vilnius on 16-19 June put special emphasis on the role of culture in addressing poverty and social exclusion. The meeting outcomes will contribute to the conclusions of the EUROCITIES 2010 campaign being run as part of the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. One of the main conclusions of the session was that the EU should take into account both the role of culture and local authorities in tackling social exclusion and poverty. Further research on the role of culture in tackling poverty and social inclusion, and on innovative practices fostering access to culture, would also be very much welcome. back to top BUT DOES IT ALL ADD UP?? An international symposium on cultural economics will take place at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, on 17-18 September 2010, and will be dedicated to the Economics of Visual Arts. The symposium will involve several key figures in contemporary cultural economics to present their theories and findings (among them Victor Ginsburgh, Arjo Klamer, Kathryn Graddy, Ilde Rizzo, Hans Abbing and Victor Fernandez-Blanco). Registration for the symposium is now open. The symposium is organised in close partnership with Erasmus University Rotterdam, Kecskemet College and the sculpture network.
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| SO WHAT ARE YOUNG ARTISTS UP TO ?? The NEU/NOW Festival to be held from 27-30 October 2010 is an innovative platform for talented graduating or recent graduate artists - coming out of Higher Arts Education Institutions and Universities across Europe and beyond - to present themselves to a wider international audience within professional contexts. The Festival features the most excellent new artists now entering the professional arts arenas and will be a showcase of emerging creative talent. back to top NEW NETWORKING OPPORTUNITY…. At the invitation of the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF), Arterial Network co-hosted (with ZIFF) a two-day symposium on African festivals with a view to launching the African Festival Network, a continent-wide network of festivals and major events in all disciplines. Forty-one delegates representing more than twenty festivals including FESPACO in Burkina Faso, Harare International Festival of the Arts, the National Arts Festival of South Africa, analysed the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats facing African festivals and events and agreed on the need for a network that would help festivals address their challenges and realise their possibilities. back to top CAN ACADEMICS HELP THE PRACTITIONERS ?? The 11th International Conference on Arts and Cultural Management (AIMAC 2011) will be held in Antwerp, Belgium 3 - 6 July, 2011. Researchers are invited to submit proposals for paper presentations. Proposals from any relevant discipline will be considered, provided they make an original academic contribution to the study of the management of arts and culture. The conference will address various sectors of the arts and cultural industries (performing arts and festivals, heritage, museums and visual arts, film production and distribution, book publishing, recording, broadcasting, audiovisual media and multimedia, design…). Deadline for abstracts is 18 October 2010.
HOPE THERE IS STILL SOMETHING LEFT TO LEAD… The UK Cultural Leadership Programme is offering senior, established and mid-career leaders a course in Leadership Facilitation Skills using a technique called action learning. The CLP is keen to attract applications from leaders in a wide range of creative and cultural industries. Courses will run in London and the Midlands with the remaining two locations decided by the application process. An intensive three day course in November 2010 is followed by another two days in January 2011. Funded by the CLP it costs £250 + VAT and delegates pay for any travel or accommodation. More information can be found at Leadership Facilitation Skills and applications close on 15 September 2010. back to top
| | THEMES: MOBILITY, RESIDENCIES etc
| EUROPE'S GOT TALENT… The European Talent Exchange Program (ETEP) is an initiative from the Noorderslag Foundation and Buma Cultuur and is supported by EMO, the European Music Office. ETEP's goal is to stimulate the circulation of European artists within Europe by performing at selected ETEP festivals throughout Europe. The actual selection is done at EuroSonic Noorderslag out of the 250 artists performing there, by the ETEP festivals themselves. This unprecedented cooperation between European partners has a proven track record of success for European artists within Europe and beyond since its start in 2003. ETEP 2010 supports promising talents as well as already booming artists such as the XX, Lucy Love, Charlie Winston, Band of Skulls or Los Campesinos!
RESIDENCIES ON OFFER… The map programme , which has been initiated by the Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes, has offered a wide range of artistic mobility concepts sustained by several partner structures in Europe (and Quebec) for 9 years. It has now been extended over 2010-2011. This year, the partner structures still propose new residencies opportunities that allow young artists build new plural projects and meet new audience. They have launched a first call for applications for the residencies planned in 2010, with a deadline of 16 August, and the second call for the 2011 residencies should be launched in the autumn on the e.mobility website. This programme is open to young artists from all artistic field between 18 and 35 years old, residing in one of the programme's member countries in Europe. This residency must be outside of their country of origin and/or residence.
LET'S CUT THE RED TAPE… Pearle* , the European trade federation representing the live performance sector, is organising a seminar on the application of regulations concerning incoming and outgoing artists and cultural professionals on 5 October 2010 in Brussels, from 1400 to 1830. The seminar will focus on the issues at stake for mobile performing arts organizations and individuals and will discuss ways in which impediments to mobility can be dealt with. This seminar is also initiated in the context of the European project PRACTICS, supported by a Pilot Programme for Artist Mobility of the European Commission. You can register here. back to top
ANNIVERSARIES IN THE NEXT 2 WEEKS: 30 Aug: 1797: birth of Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein
31 Aug: 1829: Puccini's final opera, William Tell, premiered in Paris; 1986
1 Sept: 1875: birth of Edgar Rice Burroughs, author of Tarzan
2 Sept: 1910: death of J R R Tolkien, writer
3 Sept: 1991: death of Frank Capra, film director
4 Sept: 1907: death of Edvard Grieg, composer; 1940: demonstration of colour TV by CBS in USA
5 Sept: 1902: birth of Daryl F Zanuck, film producer
6 Sept: 1852: opening of Britain's first free lending library in Manchester
7 Sept: 1936: birth of Buddy Holly, singer & musician
8 Sept: 1504: unveiling of Michelangelo's David in Florence
9 Sept: 1901: death of Henri de la Toulouse Lautrec, artist
10 Sept: 1981: return of Picasso's Guernica to Spain from New York
11 Sept: 1962: recording of the Beatle's first single, Love Me Do
12 Sept: 1940: discovery of prehistoric cave paintings at Lascaux, by four teenagers
NO LONGER WITH US… Robert F Boyle (art director of many Hitchcock films), Richie Hayward (drummer), Sir Frank Kermode (literary scholar, critic & author), Abbey Lincoln (jazz singer songwriter & actor), Edwin Morgan (Scottish poet), Patricia Neal (actor), Jack Parnell (drummer), Bruno Schleinstein (actor & musician)
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