IFACCA members participate in Culture|Futures symposium in Copenhagen

IFACCA,
09 December 2009, Denmark

IFACCA members, including Arts Council England, the Ministry of Culture Cuba, Scottish Arts Council, Danish Arts Agency and the National Arts Council of South Africa have joined the world’s most influential cultural networks, organisations and leaders at the Culture|Futures symposium concluding today in Copenhagen.

IFACCA is one of the key international organisations promoting this important symposium as arts and ecological sustainability is a priority topic for IFACCA (see http://www.ifacca.org/topic/ecological-sustainability/ for more information). Other agencies include
• European Union Network of Institutes of Culture (EUNIC) (www.eunic-europe.eu),
• Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF) (www.asef.org),
• Arup (www.arup.com),
• Danish Cultural Institute (www.dankultur.dk),
• British Council (www.britishcouncil.org),
• Goethe Institute (www.goethe.de),
• Italian Cultural Institute (www.iiccopenaghen.esteri.it),
• European Cultural Foundation (www.eurocult.org),
• Cultura21 (www.cultura21.org),
• Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) (www.thersa.org),
• Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) (www.artspresenters.org).

Culture|Futures is providing a global platform to address:
• a set of common understandings and definitions, and to identify important perspectives for cultural strategies for sustainable development;
• collaboration between research centres and networks supporting the creation of an evidence base of best practice to support the work of cultural practitioners;
• cooperation between leading cities on ways to develop comprehensive cultural actions as the world’s population becomes increasingly more and more urbanized;  and
• collaborations with other sectors to enable the cultural transformation to an ecological age.

Initiated by the Danish Cultural Institute and Arup, further information on the symposium can be found at  www.culturefutures.org

The outcomes from the symposium will be reported on early in the new year.

http://www.culturefutures.org/