Culture|Futures Forum at APAP Conference in New York 6th January
Culture|Futures
and Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) organizes a Culture|Futures Forum as a pre-conference 6th January during the 2012 APAP world conference. The full APAP conference takes place in New York at the Hilton Hotel from 6th – 10th January and will have 4000 arts presenters attending. The Culture|Futures Forum takes place Friday 6th January 9 – 12 and 1-3 in the Mercury Ballroom. Program includes introductions and closing by Terre Jones, CEO Wolf Trap Centre for Performing Arts and Olaf Gerlach-Hansen, Director CultureFutures. Key notes on the Ecological Age by Peter Head, Chair Ecological Sequestration Trust and on Cities Preparing by NYC Deputy Director for Long Term Planning and Sustainability, Adam Freedman. Creative cases on working with ecology is shared by artists Cynthia Hopkins, Mary Miss and the Civilians. A session on financing and funding will feature Raj Patel of Arup, who will address how cultural venues can save money and go green, Peter West of the National Science Foundation and James Lochner of NASA will address how their foundation/agency work with art presenters on developing new work, followed by a break out sessions and a closing session addressing next steps.
The conference is open for any one interested. No fee. For pre-registration and more information please visit the APAP conference web-site
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Eco-Leadership through Culture
Dec 5th, City Council Chambers, Durban
Culture|Futures is organising the conference “Eco-Leadership through Culture” on December 5th from 9.30 to 19.00 during the UN Climate Summit COP17 in South Africa. The conference is co-organized with the Municipality of Ethekwini (Durban), the Ecological Sequestration Trust and the Danish Cultural Institute in co-operation with many other partners in Durban and worldwide.
The conference will take place at the Durban Municipal City Chambers located at The City Hall, 263 Dr Pixley KaSeme Str (West Str), 1st Floor Council Chambers, Durban. The program will feature key notes and panel-interventions from some of the world’s highly recognised specialists and activists in solutions needed to solve the challenges of the World and Africa.
Key notes include Peter Head, one of the world leaders in integrated urban sustainable development and chair of the new Ecological Sequestration Trust, and Prof. Edgar Pieterse, director of the Africa Centre for Cities. They will present global and the African perspective to address major global and African challenges for urban/regional development and discuss the significant role of culture.
To view the full programme and register for the event, read more here
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Past Events:
EcoAçãoCultural Seminar, 25-26th of November 2011
As a result of the Culture|Futures Conference in Sao Paulo May 30th 2011, the following key Sao Paulo institutions; British Council, Centro Cultural da Espanha, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Crie Futuros, Instituto Cultural da Dinamarca, Instituto Cultural Italiano, Instituto Goethe, Virada Sustentável, Serviço Social da Indústria (SESI), Universidade Aberta do Meio Ambiente e da Cultura da Paz (UMAPAZ) have united a group called EcoAçãoCultural, which will join forces the 25-26 of November to discuss sustainability. The seminar will deal with the questions of how the institutions can implement sustainability in their own daily work and how they approach culture, artistic and social work in a sustainable way.
The themes to discuss at the seminar will be:
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The way we live
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The right ways of organizing a sustainable platform
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Cultural/Creative economy
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Creative networking and art production
At the seminar there will be speakers from Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Germany and United Kingdom.
Venue of seminar 25-26th November at Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, Sala de Oficinas Tarsila do Amaral – Piso Caio Graco.
For further information and indication of interest go to www.culturefutures.ning.com or contact:
Maibrit Thomsen,
mai@dinacultura.org
Tlf: + 55 21 2532 0599
Culture|Futures
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Culture|Futures conference in Milan, Italy: Oct 19, 2011
Culture|Futures Eco-Leadership by Cultural Institutions São Paulo Cultural Centre 30 May 2011
Culture|Futures conference in Milan, Italy: Oct 19, 2011
The amazing Palazzo Marino in Milan will October 19th 2011 be the setting for another international Culture|Futures conference, which in Milan is organised by Ragnarock Association in cooperation with the City of Milano and other partners.
The conference will discuss the role that Scandinavian and Italian actors in the creative industry have in reaching an ecological age that is the Culture|Futures vision for 2050.
The conference will also be focusing on the way design, food, fashion and innovation can guide people towards more sustainable standards of living in the next few years.
To speak at the conference, Culture|Futures and Ragnarock have invited several guests from the sector to talk about how they connect creativity and sustainability, the guest-list includes among many others Kigge Hvid (CEO of INDEX), Francesco Paulo Zurlo (Vice director of INDACO) and Guizy Bettoni (Director of CLASS).
For further details on the Culture|Futures Conference in Milan and the full program and guest-list of the day download the Culture|Futures programme
For registration please write conferenza@ragnarock.eu
Please also see, RSVP the Italia Facebook Event page
If any other question, please contact:
Elisabetta Ferrario
e-mail: elisabettaferrario@ragnarock.eu
mobile:(+39) 3473578941.
