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Andy is Visiting Professor in Singapore

Andy Had a busy late summer and start of term. He was invited to Singapore Management University to advise on the development of teaching programmes in the field of cultural management, and help support research. Andy gave several seminars to staff (at SMU and at NUS) and the policy community, and artists, where he discussed…

UNESCO Global survey on 1980 Recommendation on Status of the Artist

UNESCO has now launched the online survey on the implementation of the Recommendation concerning the Status of the Artist, adopted by UNESCO’s General Conference in 1980. The survey is available online at the following address: https://en.unesco.org/creativity/2018-survey-1980-recommendation. The following password is required to access the survey: SRV2005artist. It may be completed in either English, French or Spanish by 23…

CCCI post-doctoral fellow and Visiting Professor

CCCI is please to welcome Post-doctoral, and Professorial visitors to boost it’s research profile. The first to arrive is Prof. Robin Kim (Jeong Hoo Kim) who has an externally funded Research Professorship and will work with Prof. Andy Pratt. More news of the post-docs, working with Prof Ros Gill, in a later blog. Prof Kim has…

Central Asia creative industries

Prof Andy Pratt has been invited on to the steering group on the British Council’s Central Asia creative industries initiative. Andy began his his work in Kazakhstan last year giving a keynote at a conference/seminar in Astana on developing the creative industries in Kazakhstan (a report can be downloaded). This meeting led to Andy helping…

Horizon 2020 funding success

Prof Andy Pratt has won a Framework 7, EC Horizon2020, research funding. This 4-year project, entitled ‘Creative Industries Cultural Economy Production Network’ (CICERONE) is funded under EC’s Research and Innovation Action, responded to the European Commission’s call ‘Inclusive and sustainable growth through cultural and creative industries and the arts’. The project will be coordinated by University of…

Namibia hosts the first Arts Summit of Southern Africa

On August 21-23, the National Arts Council of Namibia hosted in the capital city, Windhoek, the first Arts Summit of Southern Africa (ASSA). Under the auspices of the highest representatives of the national public institutions, the event was inaugurated by the Honourable Excellency Vice President of Namibia and closed by the Honourable Ministry of Education,…

#Panic2018 – It’s an arts emergency

This Wednesday the Barbican Centre and Create London held a fantastic event themed around the Panic! It’s an Arts Emergency report, which outlines exclusions and inequalities of access to and within work in the arts and cultural sector. As part of the event Dr Jo Littler from CCCI was ‘in conversation’ with theatre director and…

CCCI Blog gets over 1750 visitors a year

The CCCI blog has been active for 5 years now, and it is serving its purpose well: keeping everyone informed of the pioneering and world-leading work that our scholars do. We had 1769 visits to the web site last year (from all over the world), the mode being 125 a month (75% who are unique…

Paris: Council of Europe. The future of heritage

Andy was in Paris on 25th May at the Council of Europe’s grand offices giving MPs an update on the report that he is drafting for the Council of Europe on ‘The value of cultural heritage in a democratic culture’. A month ago Andy participated in a session at the Houses of Parliament, and at…

Urban salon: art fairs

Andy Pratt gave a paper at a the Urban Salon held at LSE on May 17th. This panel discussed the relationship between art festivals and cities, exploring the way that contemporary art serves a particular function for the urban imaginary. Especially given the proliferation of the art biennial in cities outside of Europe and North America,…