This month, IFACCA was pleased to partner with the Culture Summit 2024 in Abu Dhabi, which was organised by the Department of Culture and Tourism (DCT) of Abu Dhabi, an IFACCA Affiliate Member. This year, the Culture Summit explored the theme, A Matter of Time.
An IFACCA delegation of senior leadership from public institutions worldwide attended the Culture Summit. The delegation consisted of IFACCA Board members Kristin Danielsen (Kulturdirektoratet - Arts and Culture Norway and Chair of IFACCA), Julie Diphofa (National Arts Council of South Africa), Ascala Tsegaye Sisk (National Endowment for the Arts, USA) and Nguyen Phuong Hoa (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Viet Nam), and representatives of other IFACCA member institutions Stephen Wainwright (Creative New Zealand), Bernan Joseph Corpuz (National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Philippines), Robert Špoták (Slovak Arts Council), Mercedes Pico de Coaña (Ministry of Culture, Spain), Nicholas Moyo (Ministry of Sports, Recreation, Arts and Culture, Zimbabwe), as well as Magdalena Moreno Mujica and Anupama Sekhar from the IFACCA Secretariat. In addition, as part of the Ministerial dialogues, four IFACCA National Members were present at ministerial-level: HE Nina Obuljen Koržinek, Minister of Culture, Croatia, HE Alpidio Alonso, Minister of Culture of Cuba, HE Adriana Ortiz, Minister of Culture of Paraguay, and HE Ernest Urtasun, Minister of Culture of Spain.
As part of this important partnership, IFACCA presented a panel at the Culture Summit titled The Clock is Ticking: Leading Public Agencies for Culture in Times of Polycrisis on 2 March. The panel addressed how public institutions over the last five years have undergone significant transformations, with the pandemic further exposing the urgent need to overhaul approaches that are no longer sustainable. These disruptions provided an opportunity to rethink the future. Consequently, public institutions around the world find themselves engaged in a profound reconsideration of their roles and responsibilities, within government, with the cultural and creative sectors and with society at large. Watch the panel here.
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Top: IFACCA delegation (left to right): Bernan Joseph Corpuz (National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Philippines), Ascala Tsegaye Sisk (National Endowment for the Arts, USA), Stephen Wainwright (Creative New Zealand), Anupama Sekhar (IFACCA Secretariat), Magdalena Moreno Mujica (IFACCA Secretariat), Robert Špoták (Slovak Arts Council), Julie Diphofa (National Arts Council of South Africa), Nguyen Phuong Hoa (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Viet Nam), Nicholas Moyo (Ministry of Sports, Recreation, Arts and Culture, Zimbabwe), Kristin Danielsen (Kulturdirektoratet - Arts and Culture Norway and Chair of IFACCA), and Mercedes Pico de Coaña (Ministry of Culture, Spain).
Bottom: IFACCA panel (clockwise from top left): Nguyen Phuong Hoa (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Viet Nam), Kristin Danielsen (Kulturdirektoratet - Arts and Culture Norway and Chair of IFACCA), Stephen Wainwright (Creative New Zealand) and Nicholas Moyo (Ministry of Sports, Recreation, Arts and Culture, Zimbabwe). Photo credit: @DCTAbuDhabi