A European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres (ENCATC) workshop, Rethinking the interaction between culture, art and city and the process of implementing urban policies will be held in Brussels on 3-4 March, 2005. ENCATC Workshop are designed for members of the network to share common interests and concerns, gain insight into the work of colleagues and explore possible collaborations (such as teacher/student exchange, joint training modules, etc). This latest workshop will endeavour:

To rethink the interaction between culture, art and city and the processes of implementing urban policies;

To allow the participants to reposition the role of urban policies within a European context;

To enable the cultural operators to enlarge their understanding of the relationships between policies and urban interventions and enable them to meet cultural operators who are confronted by parallel situations in other European cities;

To identify the tools that will enable a proactive management of the issues linked with the reality of their being transversal and interdisciplinary, and with the multiple territorial identifications of urban cultural spaces;

To set up a network for the cultural operators from the French Community of Belgium (CfWB) with cultural administrators and managers coming from several European countries. In order to answer to these challenges the following activities are planned:

Identification of the cultural and policy functions of cities within the CfWB and in Europe;

Presentation of the set of themes, analyses and issues by an outside contributor who has carried out several research-actions in Europe;

Presentation of Comparative study of current urban policies and actions using case studies presented by participants from the CfWB and other European countries;

Presentation of methodological tools;

Visit to centres of culture used for cultural creation, circulation and intervention. The workshop is targeted at cultural administrators and managers active in implementing actions and partnerships within the city; and cultural operators who hope to enlarge their activities and integrate into them a European cultural co-operation dimension. The event will bring together cultural operators from the French Community of Belgium, the LEAD network (Linked Euroregion Arts Development assembling cultural operators from the Nord-Pas de Calais, from Kent, from West Flanders and from Hainaut) and members of the ENCACT network (European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres. For more information on Rethinking the interaction between culture, art and city and the process of implementing urban policies, and to download a registration form, CLICK HERE.