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Artists help public diplomacy to push Australian 'soft power' | The Arts | The Australian
Cultural diplomacy in Australia.
from : samjones
19th April 2007
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John Tusa on Arts Funding
Sir John Tusa, Director of the Barbican Centre has written a piece in today's Times that strikes out at some of the mentalities that can dog debates around cultural funding.
from : samjones
17th April 2007
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Cultural Literacy
We’re currently developing some work around the idea of cultural literacy. Both Cultural Diplomacy and As You Like It raised the need to focus on a new skill. Mass communication enables us to express and focus on individual interests to a greater degree than ever before and culture has come to the fore as a means by which, and space in which, we relate to each other. But do we have the skills with which we can make the most of this? Historians offer an insight onto what these skills might be.
from : samjones
17th April 2007
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Culture Flows Through English Channels, but Not for Long -
An article from Wired suggesting that one of the challenges to cultural diversity lies in the media dominance of the English language.
from : samjones
13th April 2007
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The cultural origins of anti-Americanism
An article that raises some interesting points about the cultural roots of old world attitudes to the new world.
from : samjones
12th April 2007
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300 and the Real World
In Cultural Diplomacy, we talk about the defining characteristics of a new era in which 'the ability of individuals to reap the benefits of globalisation and connect with other people on a truly global level'.
A similar situation is developing around the new film, 300.
from : samjones
16th March 2007
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Cultural Diplomacy on the agenda
Cultural Diplomacy was debated in the House of Lords yesterday, there's a full transcript of the debate, here. It's great to see the work being dicussed in this context and it follows Tony Blair's comments yesterday that 'culture in a globalised world is an important form of diplomacy'.
from : samjones
7th March 2007
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Whipping up a perfect storm...
Last year’s Demos report A Perfect Storm? predicted that there would be widespread cases of local authorities cutting back their cultural provision. Since then, Wandsworth has threatened to close Battersea Arts Centre and Walthamstow Museum, the William Morris Museum in Waltham Forest is under threat, Bolton is selling assets, and Southampton is discussing closing part of its museum service.
from : samjones
6th March 2007
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We're all diplomats now...
Today, we launched Cultural Diplomacy at the V&A in South Kensington. It argues for the importance of culture in the way that we relate to each other in the world today. As well as providing a medium through which we can relate to one another, culture is emerging a space in which those relations can be conducted.
from : samjones
28th February 2007
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Cultural Diplomacy
Cultural Diplomacy argues that the huge global reach and potential of Britain’s world class artistic and cultural assets – from Razorlight to the Royal Ballet - should be at the heart of government relationship building abroad.
from : markfuller
27th February 2007
