National Campaign for the Arts Petition
The National Campaign for the Arts is a broad and inclusive coalition that reflects the scale, reach and diversity of the arts in Ireland today. Its membership has a national reach that includes major festivals, venues, producers...read more
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Policy: Irish Government & EU
Keeping up to date with cultural policy nationally and internationally is important. Awareness of the overall future direction that the Irish government and the European union are taking in relation to cultural and social policies can help with an organizations ability to access funding and develop collaborative projects.
| title: | Discover Art at the Hugh Lane Gallery |
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Discover Art Shortlisted for Children's Book of the Year Award 2008
Discover Art at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane written by Jessica O'Donnell was shortlisted for the 2008 Bisto Children's Book of the Year Award. The CBI Bisto Book of the Year Awards are presented annually in recognition of excellence in writing and illustration.
Discover Art explores the Hugh Lane's wonderful collection of modern and contemporary art and includes ideas for art activities contributed by artists who have participated in the Hugh Lane's programmes for children. Since its launch last June, Discover Art has been enthusiastically received and has become one of the best selling books in the Hugh Lane gallery bookshop. To celebrate the Hugh Lane gallery's centenary year a copy of Discover Art was sent to every primary school in the Republic of Ireland in April 2008. This programme was generously supported by the Department of Arts, Sport and Tourism.
| title: | Council of Europe |
Founded in 1949, the Council of Europe seeks to develop throughout Europe common and democratic principles based on the European Convention on Human Rights and other reference texts on the protection of individuals.
| title: | EFAH - The European Forum of Arts and Heritage |
The European Forum for the Arts and Heritage (EFAH) was founded in 1992 to ensure that cultural associations, operators and artists have a voice in Europe.
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A comprehensive Compendium of Cultural Policies and Trends in Europe
an expanding Europe-wide information and monitoring system on cultural policy measures, instruments, debates and cultural trends
| title: | The European Cultural Parliament (ECP) |
The European Cultural Parliament was founded in the premises of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, in 2001. The objective was - and is - to strengthen the role of cultural and artistic ideas and initiatives in Europe. In addition, the founders of the ECP wished to strengthen the dialogue between citizens in Eastern and Western Europe and between the various arts sectors.
| title: | Culture Communication for a European agenda for culture in a globalizing world |
An important strategy document on culture in the form of a Communication, which proposes a European agenda for culture in a globalizing world.
| title: | European Institute for Comparative Cultural Research |
European Institute for Comparative Cultural Research is an independent organization which carries out comparative cultural research and cultural policy monitoring in co-operation with experts from over 40 European countries.
| title: | The Lisbon Agenda- Report |
"Culture, the heart of a knowledge-based economy: the strategic use of culture in the European project", completed by ECP Lisbon Agenda Research Group in Tuscany, July 2006