Creative Clusters in the Life of Culture and the Life of the City will be held from 17-20 March 2005, in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. The conference, facilitated by INTERSTUDIO - collaboration with the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation and the Federal Agency on Culture and Cinematography of the Russian Federation - is aimed at the exchange of the Russian and world experience on the social functioning of culture and its inclusion as phenomenon into the economics of the city (crafts, art design, cultural tourism etc.). The following topics will be discussed during the plenary and the round tables: - Artistic creativity and cultural product: bounds and facets; - Cultural welfare and cultural product: specificity of promotion; - Forms of the cultural industries and cultural projects (creative clusters); - Culture within the economics of region. Arts and cultural experts, teachers, scholars, cultural tourism professionals and officers of the cultural sector are encouraged to attend. For further information, contact: INTERSTUDIO Nevsky prospect, 86, of.93, St. Petersburg, 191025 Russia Phone: +7 (812) 275-37-09 Fax: +7 (812) 275-42-21 E-mail: conference@interstudio.ru Or visit www.interstudio.ru/eng