Solidarity Campaign for IDEA (International Drama/Theatre and Education Association)

IDEA (The International Drama/Theatre and Education Association) currently needs some help from all of us who are supportive of arts education, in a difficult situation they are experiencing at the moment with the Ministry of Culture in Brazil. The campaign focus in short (quote from Robin Pascoe): We need to convince Ms Marta Suplicy, Minister… Continue reading Solidarity Campaign for IDEA (International Drama/Theatre and Education Association)

ESA Arts 2014. Arts and its contexts: cross-disciplinary dialogue

Update: Deadline extended to March 15th, 2014 The 8th midterm Conference of the European Research Network Sociology of the Arts will take place at „Babes-Bolyai” University in Cluj-Napoca from 4 to 6 September 2014, and will be conducted in English. The general theme of the conference is Art and its contexts: cross-disciplinary dialogue. The Research… Continue reading ESA Arts 2014. Arts and its contexts: cross-disciplinary dialogue

The 8th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (ICCPR)

The 8th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research will take place in Hildesheim, Germany, from September 9th to 12th, and in Berlin, from September 12th to 13th, 2014. ICCPR2014 aims to provide a space for exploring cultural policies, their meanings, roles and impact in an interdisciplinary and international environment. This exploration is not restricted to… Continue reading The 8th International Conference on Cultural Policy Research (ICCPR)

Call for papers

Deadline 15 September 2013 Arts Conference : “Spectres of evaluation, rethinking : arts/comunity/value”, Footscray Community Arts Centre in Melbourne, Australia, 6-7 February 2014 The making of art seems to be haunted by spectres of evaluation, with competing claims and judgments about the limits, uses, and value of art. This international conference will examine critical approaches to… Continue reading Call for papers

Call for papers!

Deadline = August 9th 5th October 2013, Dreams, Revolution and Process : Spatial & temporal approaches to rural sustainability and regeneration, at fforest, Cilgerran, Ceredigion (UK) This interdisciplinary conference aims to respond to a range of material that addresses rural sustainability and regeneration, with a focus on how and why decisions are made at individual, local, community… Continue reading Call for papers!

Call for papers : The aesthetics of sustainability

Deadline : 3rd of August 2013 The symposium will take place on 3rd and 4th of October 2013 at the School of Design and Art at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. The debate will discuss the role of aesthetics in the development of a sustainable world : ” How might an understanding of aesthetics impact upon our understanding of… Continue reading Call for papers : The aesthetics of sustainability

Healing Walk!

July 5-6, 2013, The 4th Annual Healing Walk near Fort McMurray Alberta (Canada) A DIFFERENT WAY TO PROTECT OUR LAND, AIR, WATER AND CLIMATE FROM TAR SANDS EXPANSION Over the past decade First Nations communities, non-native communities, scientists, politicians, and others are recognizing that the expansion of the tar sands is betraying the human responsibility to… Continue reading Healing Walk!

Fringe Sustainable Production Award

June 3rd 2013 – A Greener Fringe for Edinburgh (Scotland, UK) Applications are now opened for consideration for the 2013 Fringe Sustainable Production Award, designed to reward sustainable practice in the production of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe show. Productions are invited to engage their audiences with sustainability, take responsibility for their environmental impacts, and think… Continue reading Fringe Sustainable Production Award

Call For the WEAD Magazine : DIRTY WATER

Extended Deadline : July 8th 2013   WEAD seeks proposals for the upcoming issue of the WEAD magazine from artists working with “dirty water” projects. “Rainwater, stormwater, graywater and blackwater are being treated with increasing frequency as important resources. Designers and artists, together with engineers and agencies, are highlighting the presence of water reuse in… Continue reading Call For the WEAD Magazine : DIRTY WATER

More for Less – Design in an Age of Austerity

June 21st, deadline for sending papers! The Cumulus Dublin Conference 2013 proposes, in the deepest recession since the great depression of the1930s to turn the modernist mantra ‘less is more’ on its head as the reduced budgets of governments, business and people demand ‘more for less’, and develop a ‘New Deal’ for design.Vibrant economies are… Continue reading More for Less – Design in an Age of Austerity