[oberlist] AU* evnt: 5th World Summit on Arts and Culture: Programme announcement

[ober at emdash.org]

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: 5th World Summit on Arts and Culture: Programme announcement
From:    "IFACCA" <info at ifacca.org>
Date:    Mon, August 29, 2011 12:25 pm
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

----------------------------------------------------------
5th World Summit on Arts and Culture: Programme announcement

Thursday, 25 August 2011
----------------------------------------------------------

WORLD SUMMIT PROGRAMME ANNOUNCEMENT

It's only six weeks until the world's leading thinkers in the arts descend
upon Melbourne, Australia, for the 5th World Summit on Arts and Culture -
have you registered yet?

The World Summit theme is Creative Intersections and each day a field of
70 speakers from all over the world will explore three broad aspects of
the central theme: place, people and projects. Throughout the Summit,
delegates will also have an opportunity to participate in a vibrant arts
programme and attend performances from the Melbourne Festival.

CLICK HERE FOR THE FULL SUMMIT PROGRAMME*
[http://2011.artsummit.org/media/files/ProvisionalProgramme.pdf]

Highlights include:

Keynote sessions

Jacques Martial, came into his role as President of Paris's Parc de la
Villette with an express policy of inclusion for both local residents,
many of whom are from North Africa and who use the park for family leisure
but seldom enter its major cultural facilities.

Wan Smolbag, will discuss the theme from a very different perspective, as
a theatre company that receives foreign aid to support its social welfare
and health programmes that are deliveredvia drama (theatre and TV) and
music throughout Vanuatu and its remote islands.

Catherine Cullen, will discuss local arts policies from her perspective as
Deputy Mayor in charge of Culture for the City of Lille, and bring a
worldwide perspective gained through her Presidency of United Cities and
Local Government's Committee on Culture.

Alison Tickell, established Julie's Bicycle in 2007 as a not-for-profit
company to unite and lead the music industry in tackling climate change.
Julie's Bicycle has brought together a coalition of scientific and
industry figures to map the carbon profile of the industry and take
practical steps to reduce it.

Panel sessions

Chairman of the US National Endowment for the Arts, Rocco Landesman,
Director of India's International Artists' Association, Pooja Sood, and
Lockie McDonald from Western Australia will talk about creative
intersections in three very different places in the world.

Moroccan journalist and playwright, Driss Ksikes, Mexican anthropologist,
Lucina Jimenez, and South African playwright and cultural activist, Mike
van Graan, will talk about places where the arts intersect with real
danger.

Held over two days, the Summit's 18 roundtable sessions will encourage
delegates to debate many aspects of creative intersections such as health,
education, and creative industries as well as:

    * Indigenous wisdom of placeIndigenous Australian artist, Vernon Ah
Kee and the Canada Council's Louise Profeit-Leblanc will discuss how
Indigenous peoples have a richly layered connection to 'country' and
how this intimate knowledge can inform 21st century environmental
behaviour, especially through the arts

    * Rebuilding communities Maria Victoria Alcaraz from Buenos Aires,
Komi M'Kegbe Foga Tublu from Benin, Pilar Kasat from Community Arts
Network Western Australia, and Elise Huffer, from Fiji, will discuss
how the arts help rehabilitate communities that have been hit by
extreme environmental or economic disturbances.

    * A climate for change - Venzha Christ, from Indonesia's House of
Natural Fiber, Theo Anagnostopoulos, of SciCo, Greece,  Alison Tickell
and Pooja Sood will join Angharad Wynn-Jones of Tipping Point
Australia to discuss arts initiatives throughout the world that
address the effects of climate change and consider how policy can
encourage best practice.

    * Moving fast and flexible - the changing landscape of digital
technologies Cambridge University's Becky Schutt, ANAT Australia's
Gavin Artz, media lawyer Shane Simpson and European Culture
Foundation's Katherine Watson will discuss the fear that download
culture will eat away at traditional arts audiences, and that there
will be a shift to new forms of creativity away from books, theatre,
live music.

    * The art of misdemeanour Creative Scotland's Andrew Dixon and big
hART Australia's Scott Rankin discuss where policy fits in the
intersection of arts with 'outsider culture' as well as the work of
artists in prisons and in other contexts outside the law.

    * It's not just a case of 'show me the money' India Foundation of the
Arts' Anmol Vellani and philanthropist and chair of the National Arts
Gallery Australia, Rupert Myer, will discuss the relationship between
the philanthropic spirit and public policy in the arts.

Click here to register for the Summit
[http://www.artsummit.org/registration/howtoregister/]


For the latest updates, make sure you become a fan of us on Facebook
[http://www.facebook.com/pages/International-Federation-of-Arts-Councils-and-Culture-Agencies-IFACCA/152337271506543]

Also, subscribe to Acorns for the latest IFACCA and World Summit news
[http://www.ifacca.org/accounts/register/]


Co-hosts
International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA)
Australia Council for the Arts

Partner
Arts Victoria

www.artsummit.org

* As additional speakers are being confirmed each day, the organisers
reserve the right to alter the programme as required.


-- 
Moldova Young Artists Association "Oberliht"
http://oberliht.com
. . . . . . . . . . .
https://lists.idash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oberlist
portal informational pentru arta si cultura din Moldova
information gateway for arts and culture from Moldova