Previous Barnett symposia have focused on new frameworks for viewing the scope and dimensions of the creative sector. In 2003 the Symposium began to develop a model of the creative sector and explored the changing configuration of key cultural professions including artists, arts educators, and arts administrators. In 2004 the Symposia investigated the relationship of education and training to launching and developing careers in the creative workforce. In 2006 the Barnett Symposium will combine ideas about the creative enterprise in all its aspects— individual professions, organizations, art industries, and sector infrastructure—with ideas about public value and public purpose as the guiding motivation in a new vision of arts and cultural policy. The Symposium also will explore the interactions of these ideas on the current condition and the future of creative communities. However, this is not simply a theoretical exercise. This symposium will explore a plan of action leading to full participation of these communities in the creative economy; participants will: - trace two strands of emergent cultural policy thinking on creative enterprise and public value - examine the implications and applications of these ideas in the selected fields of Contemporary Craft, New Media, and the Music industry - assess the needs, challenges, and changes of the creative sector infrastructure - survey policy approaches that have the potential to respond to the current policy environment - clarify public values and purposes as a step toward community cultural development - and, finally, gain an understanding of entrepreneurial elements useful in planning for the sector For more information, CLICK HERE.