Dear
Reader,
What
comes
to mind when you hear the words culture
and budget?
The most likely
next word
in the sequence is cuts.
From all corners of Europe,
from local to national, the same alarming news is arriving in our
inboxes, on
our facebook walls or twitter accounts - public funding for culture
appears to be under threat, big time!
Despite the great effort made to prove its added value with statistical
data
particularly on the economic advantages of a culturally vital
society, budget politicians
seem to fall back on the same old reflex to take a knife to the
spending on
culture.
But
there
are initiatives out there that aim to refresh the memory of the
positive aspects of culture and the arts in our European society. We are more
and I
value the arts
are just two
and we are interested to hear about
other initiatives that
you know or are active in.
This
newsletter will provide you with the latest news on EMC and IMC
events
(WGY event Access! and the World forum on music in Tallinn), it will
give you
an up-date on various EU cultural policy issues (such as the new EU
budget as
of 2014), introduce you to some interesting studies on the UNESCO
convention on
the diversity of cultural expressions and last but not least, provide
you with the
latest news from members of the EMC
Enjoy
reading the EMC Newsletter,
Secretary
General
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European
Youth
Forum on Music: Access!
The
Working
Group Youth (WGY) of the European Music Council hosted a highly
successful
first European
Youth Forum on Music: Access! in Turin,
Italy
from
15 -17 October 2010. The event was part of the six month Access!
project supported by the EU's
Youth in Action programme. The more than sixty
participants from all corners
of Europe,
mostly in their twenties,
agreed that this was an
invaluable opportunity to network and learn from one another. They
shared their
concerns and ideas for the future of the European music sector in a
series of
interactive workshops and worked together towards producing a European Agenda for Youth and Music.
Following the main event, several participants stayed to attend an open
Working Group Youth meeting in which priorities for the coming years
were discussed and new committee elected, consisiting of: Claire
Goddard (GB/DE) - Chair, Karolien Dons (BE/NL) - Vice Chair,
Floriane Cottet (CH/AT), Maiju Kopra (FI), Katharine Lane (GB), Eline
de Langhe (BE) and Arianna Stornello (IT).
The next
stage of the Access! project will see the drafting of the first version
of the agenda which will be disseminated amongst a wider public in
order to obtain feedback.
For more
information on the first European Youth Forum on Music:Access! and the
Access! project in general, visit the WGY section of the EMC website.
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4th
IMC World Forum on Music – EMC and IMC join forces
IMC
World Forum
on Music and General Assembly will return to the
European continent for the first time since 1997, therefore the IMC and
EMC
Boards have decided to join forces and make this 4th IMC World Forum on
Music a
truly inclusive event on which the IMC and its regional group for
Europe, the
EMC, will strongly collaborate.
The forum will take place from 26 September to 2 October 2011 in Tallinn,
Estonia.
The
local partner for the forum is the Estonian Music Council. The focus of
the
forum will be “Music and Social Change”, which will
be dealt with in various
session formats and different contexts, e.g. music education,
development,
youth.
The IMC will hold its General Assembly and the EMC its Annual Meeting
within
the forum's framework. The
forum is open to
the interested member
of the public – more information will be available soon on
the websites of the
IMC and EMC.
The
next European Forum on Music will take place from 19-22 April 2012 in Istanbul,
Turkey.
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Prepare
for the EMC Seminar on Music Education
The
main outcome of the second UNESCO World Conference on Arts Education in
Seoul
in May 2010, was the Seoul
Agenda:
Goals for the Development of Arts Education, a
comprehensive plan of
action for all arts education stakeholders.
In May
2011 (exact date to be confirmed), the EMC is planning a 1 day seminar
in Bonn,
Germany, in cooperartion with the German
UNESCO Commission, that will
deal with the adaptability of
the Seoul agenda to the realities
in music education, training and learning in Europe. The seminar will
examine
formal, non-formal and informal music education strategies and how they
reflect
the Seoul
agenda for a European environment. In this way the seminar will take on
the results
of the 2004 EFMET project and develop them further. More information
about EFMET available at: www.emc-imc.org/efmet
We
will communicate the exact dates of the seminar as soon as they are
available.
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EU
Green
Paper Results
- the
importance of synergies between culture and education
- a
transversal approach, bringing culture and the CCIs to the attention of
other policy areas
- acknowledgement
of cultural diversity
- and
a fair access approach
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The current EU budget
runs until 2013. From 2014
onwards a
new budget will be in place and
the
discussion on the shape of future EU programmes starts now. The
Directorate
General Education and Culture (DG EAC)has launched several public
consultations
on its programmes, such as youth, MEDIA, education and training as well
as
culture. You will find a list of consultations published by DG EAC at
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/consult/index_en.html
The
current Culture
programme (2007-2013) aims at improving trans-national
cultural cooperation and exchange, it has been developed in the context
of the Lisbon
Strategy for growth and jobs and the UNESCO Convention on the
Protection and
Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Today, the Lisbon
strategy
has been
replaced by the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and
inclusive
growth and the EU has adopted the European Agenda for Culture.
The consultation on the culture programme is available here: http://ec.europa.eu/culture/our-programmes-and-actions/doc2805_en.htm
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Culture
and Local and Regional
Development
The
EU
Commission has created a website ( http://ec.europa.eu/culture/eu-funding/doc2756_en.htm)with
practical information on how culture can contribute to local and
regional
development For which, it has
gathered
practical
examples from the ‘Study on the Contribution of Culture to
Local
and Regional
Development that have been supported by the structural funds. According
to the study the cultural sector is one of the fastest growing in Europe
and more resources should be made
available to
match this growth. The study also calls for a longer-term and more
strategic
approach to culture-based development.
The
results
of and the examples presented in the study are available at: http://ec.europa.eu/culture/key-documents/doc2942_en.htm
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Culture
in Motion
On
15-16
February 2011 the EU will present cultural projects that have received
EU
funding. The 2011 edition of “Culture in Motion”
will
present projects that
have been funded in the context of the Pilot Project for Artist
Mobility and by
other EU programmes like the Lifelong Learning Programme, Citizenship
Programme, Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme and
European
Regional Development Programme. In the afternoon of 16 February 2011, a
discussion
session on the future Culture Programme will be held. Read
more
at: http://ec.europa.eu/culture/news/news3001_en.htm
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| WE ARE MORE
CAMPAIGN |
we
are more
(2010-2013) is a Europe-wide arts advocacy campaign set up by Culture Action Europe. It will use the
upcoming EU
political and financial negotiations for the period 2014-2020 as a
timely
opportunity to develop and sharpen the arguments used when advocating
for arts
and culture. The ultimate goal of the campaign is to contribute to a
strengthened recognition of the role of arts and culture in the
development of
our European societies. The concrete campaign objectives focus on
improving the
quality and quantity of support that the sector receives from 2 key EU
policies
(the Culture Programme – providing direct support to cultural
co-operation
projects, and EU regional development policies – supporting
cultural
interventions as key contributions to social, economic and territorial
development). The aim is for the campaign to function both as an
eye-opener for
policy-makers at local, regional and national level, and as a
mobilisation and
professional development tool for the sector.
Read
more: www.wearemore.eu
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| UNESCO |
Studies on the implementation of the UNESCO convention
The Culture Committee of the EU Parliament commissioned several studies on the implementation of the UNESCO convention:
Implementing
the 2005
UNESCO Convention on
the Diversity of Cultural Expressions in the European Union:This
study
provides a summary of the current state of implementation of the 2005
UNESCO
Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural
Expressions. Focusing on fields in which the EU is expected to provide
leadership or coordination, it is intended to provide ideas and
long-term
guidance on implementing the Convention. The study takes a critical
approach on
the issue of copyright, stating that in some cases, too much copyright
might be
detrimental to diversity of cultural expression. Furthermore, the study
deplores the lack of formal discussions between EU and WTO on questions
of
trade and culture, especially that the issue of “cultural
exception” had not
previously been mentioned in negotiations. Finally the study gives
recommendations
for the implementation of the UNESCO conventions, among others it
proposes:
establishing an observatory on public and private practice of
censorship,
creating a permanent technical body for cultural diversity (comparable
to the
Institute on Gender Equality of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change),
protecting the interests of weak players in the cultural sector against
strong
private and public actors, a “new deal” to
materialise
balanced exchanges of
cultural goods and services against implementation of intellectual
property
law.
The
study
was conducted by the Swiss law firm Germann Avocats
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/studies/download.do?language=en&file=32024
Implementing
the UNESCO Convention in
EU’s
Internal Policies:The
study
presents an assessment of the implementation of the Convention in EU
internal
policies. The study focuses on culture in the digital environment (many
references are drawn to television broadcasting). It
acknowledges the
need for balance between authors’ rights and the public
interest
access to
information. The study recommends targeted action in the following
areas:
Facilitating access to cultural content; Fostering the production of
high-quality content; Applying tools that work; Mitigating the existing
conflicts between copyright and cultural diversity (in particular for
the
creation of a Single Market for Creative Content Online); Fostering
creativity
as the dynamic dimension of cultural diversity.
The
study was conducted by Mira
Burri (World Trade
Institute, University
of Bern,
Switzerland).
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/studies/download.do?language=en&file=31355
The
Implementation of the UNESCO
Convention on
the Diversity of Cultural Expressions in the EU’s External
Policies: The study
focuses
on areas of international trade, development and human rights, as well
as to
the implications of the Convention in terms of governance. The study
also
emphasises the specific nature of cultural goods that should be taken
into
account in multilateral trade negotiations. It stresses the cultural
dimension
of human development and appeals to the EU to encourage member states
to
contribute to the “International Fund on Cultural
Diversity” of the UNESCO
convention.
A
set of
conclusions and recommendations closes the document. The paper was
prepared by
Jordi Baltà, project coordinator at Interarts. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/activities/committees/studies/download.do?language=en&file=31351
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White
Paper:
Shaping Cultural Diversity
The German
UNESCO Commission published a White Paper on the implementation process
of the
UNESCO convention in Germany.
The White Paper contains recommendations from civil society for
political
action to implement the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and
Promotion
of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions in and by Germany.
http://www.unesco.de/3938.html?&L=1
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Following
its 'Nuove Carriere' 2010, which concluded with the diploma of pianist
Alessandro Marino, CIDIM
presents a
new project dedicated to the launching of young classical music
talents,
realised in collaboration with UPTER (Università Popolare
Roma). Parallel
Lives 2010 –Schumann and Chopin
is a series of concert-lessons with Alessandro
Tardino, Ilaria
Loatelli, Shizuka
Salvemini, Massimo
Spada, André
Gallo,
marking the bicentenary of the birth of the two composers held in Rome
every
Thursday from 11 November - 9 December 2010.
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50
years
following the
federation's foundation, the Europa
Cantat membership will meet
at the
end of November in Namur,
Belgium,
together with members of
the European Association of
Choir Federations (Arbeitsgemeinschaft
Europäischer Chorverbände), for
its
annual General Assembly. With members of both associations having
already
decided on a merger in 2009, they will now together decide on the
statutes for
the new association, creating a legal basis for the European
Choral
Association – Europa Cantat
which will exist from
January 2011
onwards. The programme
for
weekend includes discussion rounds on the future of the merged
association, a
keynote on the EU Agenda 2010, a presentation of the Culture Action
Campaign
'We are more', as well as workshops highlighting the importance of
singing as a
human right. More at www.EuropaCantat.org
or from info@EuropaCantat.org
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| On
12
December 2010, the International
Federation for Choral
Music (IFCM) invites you to
join thousands of choirs in the celebration of World Choral Day, for
the
promotion of solidarity, peace, and understanding through Choral
Singing, and
to share your activities on the IFCM website and YouTube. Write to WorldChoralDay@ifcm.net
and let
them know what events you're taking part in or organising, how many
people will
be involved, where it is taking place and who is responsible. Send them
your
videos in YouTube format and they'll upload them for you! |
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| At
the
last meeting of
the Committee of Cultural and Media Affairs of the German Parliament,
the
President of the German Music Council, Prof. Martin Maria
Krüger,
and General
Secretary Christian Höppner reported on the main activities of
the
umbrella
organisation.
The
suggestion of the German
Music Council (DMR) to promote
the implementation of the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity was
highly
supported by the Committee Members. Furthermore, they welcomed the
DMR's campaign
“Without
Music No Education”
which
calls on all citizens to give their vote for Music Education. For
further
information visit www.ohne-musik-keine-bildung.de |
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| As
part of its 10th
anniversary celebrations, European
Strings Teachers' Association (Malta)
organised the
First National Conference on the Future of
Music Education in Malta.
Foreign representatives included Martin
Prchal
(Chief Executive of the AEC) as well as Werner Schmitt and Dr Nils
Franke. The
programme for the general public, which can be found at www.estastrings.org
(click on
Malta),
includes information about venues, sponsors, and the State departments
and NGOs
that were represented amongst the active participants. |
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The
European
Association of Conservatoires
(AEC) is preparing meetings of
its subject-specific platforms
during the
spring of 2011. The
AEC Early Music Platform
plans to meet at the Conservatoire de Genève on 14-15
January
2011, the AEC Pop & Jazz
Platform
at the University of Music Graz on 18-19 February, while a meeting of a
new
platform entitled the European Platform for Artistic Research in Music
(EPARM)
is scheduled to take in place at the Belgrade Music Faculty on 9-10
April.
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The
next EAS
conference will take place from 18-21 May 2011 in Gdansk
at The
Stanislaw
Moniuszko Academy and will be held in partnership with ISME as their
European
regional conference. Details at http://www.eas2011.amuz.gda.pl/
The conference will also host the EAS Student Forum for music teacher
training
students.
The
EAS is
currently working
on a publication concerned with ICT in music education across Europe.
Contributions from more than 15 countries will give an overview of
theory and
practice in the use of ICT in music education. Prospective date of
publishing:
2011. EAS
Contact: gerhard.sammer@hfm-wuerzburg.de
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The
30th ISME
World Conference will be held from 15-20 July 2012, in Thessaloniki,
Greece.
The conference theme: «Music Paedeia: From Ancient Greek
Philosophers Toward
Global Music Communities», links today with Ancient Greece
and
will give a
great opportunity to everyone to be expressed in their own, distinctive
way, by
also connecting the past with the present and the future. Calls for
Performing
Groups close on 31st
August 2011 and calls for Presenters
close on 1st
October 2011. For further information visit: http://www.eeme.gr/ISME2012/index.htm
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Czech
Music
Council:
The documentary film Keep the
beat! (Drž
rytmus) about
the
'Špalíček'
project, produced by the Arts
and
Theatre Institute in Prague (Lenka Dohnalová) and
inspired methodologically
by the German project 'Rhythm is it!' has to date received three
prizes: 2.
Prize in the category: Music, Theatre,
Literature
at the Art Film Festival in Telč 2010 (June 2010); The Dagmar and
Václav Havel
Foundation Vision 97 Prize at the ITF Golden Prague 2010
(October
2010); Prize
of jury at the Festival of documentary films Nadotek in
Ústí nad Orlicí
(November 2010)
The
19th edition of the prestigious international
competition of electro-acoustic music Musica nova 2010
was held on
12 -14 November 2010 in Prague,
in which an
international jury considered 54 pieces from 28 countries. Winners
included You
Chung Tseng from Taiwan
with
Points of Departure with 17 Variations and Adrian Moore from GB
with Fields
of Darkness and Light. The special award for composition by a young
composer
went to Martin Klusák from CR. The
concert of laureats will take place in Prague,
Theatre Inspiration, Maltézské sq. 13, on
8 December 2010. |
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