The International Network for Cultural Diversity and the Danish
Centre for Culture and Development announce:
Cultural Diversity, Glocal Politics, Lobbying, Networks and
Research
Why another conference ?
Inspired by the UNESCO World Commission on Culture and its report "Our
Creative Diversity" and the UNESCO Intergovernmental Conference on
Cultural policies hosted by the Swedish Government in Stockholm in 1998, DCCD
organized in 1999 a large festival "Images of the World" which entirely
focused on the effects of globalisation on Cultural Diversity.
Since then government and NGO networks have come far in developing strategies
on policies, but there still exist a lot of confusion and quite a number of
national variations on the definition of "cultural diversity". UNESCO
has formulated a declaration and in October 2002, NGO's as well as government
networks met in Cape Town to discuss "local, national and global
strategies".
DCCD would like to sum up some of the experiences - a sort of "where are
we now" during the:
"Cultural
Diversity Conference"
Friday November 29th
at WHO/Regional
Office for Europe in Copenhagen
Admittance is free.
Registration must be made by Monday November 18th.
http://diversity.dccd.dk/dccd/cultdiv.nsf/doc/start?OpenDocument&lang=uk
On this web site you can register online, see the draft programme, read
background papers and presentations of speakers.
The Cultural
Diversity Conference
is organized by the Danish Center for Culture and Development (DCCD) in
collaboration with the Danish UNESCO National Commission and DJBFA, a Danish
NGO representing contemporary composers, as well as the International Network
for Cultural Diversity (INCD).
9:30-13:00
Saturday, November 30, 2002
Danish Centre
for Culture and Development
Vestergade 5
The
International Network for Cultural Diversity will hold a special working
seminar on Saturday, November 30. This seminar is open to INCD members and
interested non-members and will elaborate on the work done at the INCD’s third
annual conference in Cape Town, Oct 11-13 2002. Delegates at that meeting
debated the Convention on Cultural Diversity as well as the role of culture in
development policies. Delegates also looked at concrete strategies to promote
cultural diversity regionally which is where we will pick up in Copenhagen.
The
session will be facilitated by INCD Coordinator, Garry Neil and INCD Steering
Committee member, Nina Obuljen, Researcher with Culturelink Network, Croatia.
Admission
is free. For more information, please contact incd@ccarts.ca
.
9:30-9:45
Opening
remarks:
Garry
Neil, INCD Coordinator; Nina Obuljen, Researcher Culturelink/INCD Steering
Committee
9:45-10:30 Organizing
the INCD in Europe
Moderator:
Nina Obuljen
Review of
current membership: strategies for membership expansion
When/where/how
do we create formal INCD Europe?
S/election
of European Steering Committee members
10:30-10:45
Coffee
break
10:45-12:00
Convention
on Cultural Diversity
Moderator:
Garry Neil
Selling
the Convention: Country by country assessment
12:00-13:00 Other
developments in the cultural diversity file
Moderator:
to be confirmed
Relationship
with other organizations (UNESCO, WTO)
Current
events and meetings
Concluding
remarks: Garry Neil
Rapporteur:
Mike van Graan, General
Secretary, Performing Arts Network of South Africa/INCD Steering Committee