| 1/13/2009: Paving the way for an audiovisual cooperation programme linking Europe and the world | |
| The European Commission is planning a substantial programme for international cooperation in the audiovisual sector. MEDIA MUNDUS especially aims at extending and intensifying cultural and economic re...... Read Announcement... |
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| 12/12/2008: 4th Summit on Arts and Culture 2009 to take place in South Africa | |
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The 4th international Summit on Arts and Culture, hosted by the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) in collaboration with the Arts Council of South Africa, will tak...... Read Announcement... |
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| 11/28/2008: Culture – a lever for African development | |
| On December 16th the Network of African Promoters of Cultural Events (RAPEC) and the UNESCO are organising a meeting-debate on “Culture, economy, regional integration – Culture, a lever for African de...... Read Announcement... |
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| 10/21/2008: Culture Summit in Avignon | |
| There finally will be a summit dedicated to culture. The Avignon Forum, which will be taking place at the Cité des Papes in Avignon from November 16th to 18th 2008, already is on everyone’s lips as th...... Read Announcement... |
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| 10/6/2008: South Korean Design | |
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After publishing a first report on design in Germany in January 2008 the Agence régionale d’information stratégique et technologique, the strategic and technological information agency of the Paris C...... Read Announcement... |
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| 8/1/2008: Difficulties getting visa keeps world music at bay | |
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The age of internet and globalisation means that music and musical inspiration has ceased to respect national borders. But, as the Roskilde Festival can testify, this doesn't apply to the people behin...... Read Announcement... |
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| 6/20/2008: Design Special: IT giant establishes European design centre in Denmark. | |
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The American high tech leader, Cisco, wants to broaden its access to the European markets for its consumer-division, Linksys. Therefore, an international designcenter has been placed in Hørsholm, a su...... Read Announcement... |
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| 5/15/2008: First global report on creative economy | |
| The world market of creative industries goods and services almost doubled between 1996 and 2005, according to the Creative Economy Report 2008, recently published by the UNCTAD (United Nations Confere...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/8/2008: April 23: UNESCO celebrates World Book Day | |
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Every year, UNESCO celebrates 23 April as Book Day throughout the world to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright. The date was chosen because of its...... Read Announcement... |
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| 3/28/2008: Film Special: Promoting French cinema abroad | |
| Promoting French cinema in the world is one of the main focuses of French cultural policies abroad. The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs distinguishes between commercial and non commercial activitie...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/2/2008: No Cultural Diversity without Creative Industries? The UNESCO informs! | |
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This newly published volume "Cultural Diversity - Our Common Wealth" comprises a report and the keynotes of the conference as well as important contributions on the topics of film, music, media polici...... Read Announcement... |
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| 12/10/2007: The G8 of Culture | |
| Beginning of next year the city of Avilés in the North-East of Spain will see the construction of an art centre designed by the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.
For the journalist Borja Hermoso th...... Read Announcement... |
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| 11/30/2007: Swedish architects design buildings in China | |
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The Chinese market grows also for architects. The other day, one of Sweden’s largest architect bureaus, the Tengbom Group, announced that it was selected as one out of eight companies to participate i...... Read Announcement... |
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| 11/13/2007: Photoquai, Paris’ first Biennial of the Images of the World | |
| The Photoquai project, initiated by the Quai Branly Museum, is the first Biennial fully dedicated to the non-Western visual arts. 10 other cultural establishments on the Seine embankment could be gain...... Read Announcement... |
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| 11/2/2007: Polemics about restitution of Maori warrior head | |
| Last Tuesday French Minister of Culture Christine Albanel opposed the restitution of a Maori warrior head to New Zealand by the city of Rouen. She filed a suspensive appeal at the administrative tribu...... Read Announcement... |
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