Arts Administration

The Ghana Cultural Fund (GCF) is governed by a framework between the Royal Danish Embassy in Ghana and the Danish Centre for Culture and Development (DCCD) in Denmark. The GCF has a total budget of 5.65 million GH Cedis and it is scheduled to run for three years 2007 - 2009. The objective of the fund is to strengthen inter cultural relations, mutual understanding and promotion of democratic values among the people of Ghana through inter-cultural expressions and interactions. It is also to foster Ghanaian/Danish collaborations through the contemporary Arts and the preservation of our shared cultural heritage.

The Arterial Network is an informal, dynamic network of individuals, institutions and funding partners working to support the effectiveness and growth of African arts and culture in civil society and to enhance the sustainability of creative industries in Africa.

ICACD Secretariat was established in 2005 as an advocacy body committed to pushing forward cultural considerations into the policy development framework of Africa.

The Cultural Development Trust (Cuhede) was established in 2001 mainly to help both emerging and established artists be it as individuals artist or as a group with finding information and assistance and training in all aspects of Management, Financial and other administrative processes in the Arts & Cultural Sector.

African Arts is devoted to the study and discussion of traditional, contemporary, and popular African arts and expressive cultures. Since 1967, African Arts readers have enjoyed high-quality visual depictions, cutting-edge explorations of theory and practice, and critical dialogue. Each issue features a core of peer-reviewed scholarly articles concerning the world's second largest continent and its diasporas, and provides a host of resources - book and museum exhibition reviews, exhibition previews, features on collections, artist portfolios, dialogue and editorial columns. The journal promotes investigation of the connections between the arts and anthropology, history, language, literature, politics, religion, and sociology.

The Artful Manager seeks a new set of metaphors for the administrative leaders of arts and culture. There is a need for business thinking, to be sure, with an intensity and deftness we have only begun to understand. But there is also an energy beyond money and markets that the artful manager must channel. What if, in the end, the arts organization is not a problem to be managed, but an instrument to be played?

The Foundation for Community Dance is the UK development agency for access, participation and progression in dance for all.

ISPA is a not-for-profit international organization (founded 1949) of over 600 executives and directors of concert and performance halls, festivals, performing companies, and artist competitions; government cultural officials; artists' managers; and other interested parties with a professional involvement in the performing arts from more than 50 countries in every region of the world, and in every arts discipline.\n\nThe purpose of ISPA is to develop, nurture, energize and educate an international network of arts leaders and professionals who are dedicated to advancing the field of the performing arts.

The International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) is the global network of arts councils and ministries of culture. IFACCA aims to benefit artists, arts organisations and communities worldwide. Our vision is a dynamic network, sharing knowledge and creating understanding to enrich a world of artistic and cultural diversity.

May 5 to 6 2008 Barbados' National Cultural Foundation hosted the Caribbean International Conference on the Cultural and Creative Industries in order to stimulate discussion at the level of policy, programming and successful case studies.

In 1982 the International Dance Committee of the International Theatre Institute, UNESCO, created International Dance Day to be celebrated every year on the 29th April. The date commemorates the birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre (1727 - 1810), the creator of modern ballet. Every year a message from a well-known dance personality is circulated throughout the world. The intention of International Dance Day and the Message is to bring all Dance together on this occasion, to celebrate this art form and revel in its universality, to cross all political, cultural and ethnic barriers and bring people together in peace and friendship with a common language - DANCE.

The Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) provides opportunities for dance professionals from a broad range of specialties to exchange ideas, resources, and methodologies through publication, international and regional conferences, and workshops. We encourage research in all aspects of dance and related fields and promote the accessibility of research materials.

The Canadian Dance Assembly (CDA) is a national arts service organization dedicated to serving the professional dance community in Canada.\n\nThe CDA exists to facilitate the dynamic exchange of information relevant to Canadian professional dance of all forms and aesthetics.\n\nWe strive to cultivate a strong national voice for Canadian professional dance and to support the development of resources for this field of artistic expression.

Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative is a program designed to provide planning assistance and consulting to struggling arts organizations throughout the United States. Open to non-profit 501(c)(3) performing arts organizations, the program will provide counsel from Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser and the Kennedy Center executive staff in the areas of fundraising, building more effective Boards of Trustees, budgeting, marketing, technology, and other areas pertinent to maintaining a vital performing arts organization during a troubled economy.

ACASA, the Arts Council of the African Studies Association, promotes greater understanding of African material and expressive culture in all its many forms, and encourages contact and collaboration with African and Diaspora artists and scholars.

Danish Center for Culture and Development (DCCD) promotes cultural co-operation between Denmark and the developing countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Middle East through: * Presentation of art and culture from the developing countries in cooperation with partners in Denmark and abroad * Information and advice about cultural exchange and cooperation * Allocation of funds for Danish cultural cooperation with developing countries * Co-ordination and implementation of festivals in Denmark for the developing world's cultures * Facilitation of capacity building within the cultural sector in the developing countries as well as presentation of Danish art and culture. The center provides the framework for large initiatives such as the Images festivals and information projects.

Fédération Régionale de Danse de Martinique

Misión El Ministerio del Poder Popular para la Cultura, es el órgano del Ejecutivo Nacional responsable de generar y proyectar los lineamientos y las políticas culturales del Estado que coadyuven al Desarrollo Humano de manera integral, a la preservación y conocimiento del Patrimonio cultural tangible e intangible de la nación, y el fomento y potenciación de las expresiones culturales del país, como elementos sustantivos y determinantes para el resguardo de la memoria, el Patrimonio Cultural y la profundización del sentido de identidad nacional, como expresiones del ideario de una vida digna e íntegra. Visión Ser un ministerio modelo para el proceso de transformación de la administración pública en materia cultural, coadyuvando en el cumplimiento de los deberes del Estado Venezolano en materia de preservación, enriquecimiento y restauración del patrimonio cultural tangible e intangible y la memoria histórica de la nación, con atención especial a las culturas populares constitutivas de la venezolanidad; así como ser garante de la emisión, recepción y circulación de la información cultural, con miras a la plena satisfacción de los derechos culturales de los venezolanos.

The Dance Guild of Nigeria is a legal equity set up with the aim of promoting, protecting and projecting the image, aspirations and welfare of the Nigeria dance practitioner and the affiliate dance company.