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Meeting of the Board of the UBC Commission on Culture

Elections

Visby hosted the latest Commission in Culture (CoC) Board meeting on 14-16 of April 2005. The chairmanship and structure of the CoC Board were among the main topics of this meeting. The members of the Board chose Ms Tarja Hautamäki, Head of Culture Department of Vaasa, Finland, to be the new Chairman and Mr Olov Gibson, Cultural Official from the Department of Culture and Leisure in Visby, Sweden, was chosen as the Vice-Chairman. The CoC secretariat will continue to be run by the city of Szczecin Culture and Cultural Heritage Department.

In addition to election of a new chair, the board discussed the CoC annual sessions and other activities that are planned for this year. Representatives from Szczecin confirmed that two international art exhibitions in the National Museum in Szczecin - Metropolis and Baltic Biennial of Contemporary Art-Habitat are going ahead. The events are being organized with the Mare Articum Online project, which will see the bi-annual magazine transferred to an Internet-based platform.

Sessions of the Commission

This year's annual CoC Session, under the working title Roles and Value of Art Museums in the Post-Modern World, will take place in St. Petersburg. No dates have been set, but the meeting is planned for the end of October or second weekend of November.

The next year's session, devoted to cultural festivals, will take place in Vaasa (23-26 November 2006), in conjunction with the Wild Life International Film Festival. The working title of the 2006 annual session is 'Cultural Festivals and Local Identity' and it is aimed both at festival producers and municipal culture officials.

The newest invention of the CoC Board is a UBC Cultural Prize, which will recognize extraordinary achievement by artistic groups or associations working in the field of cultural activity in UBC member cities. The Board is working now on details, rules and application forms and anticipates the first prize to be awarded in 2006.

The CoC Board Meeting in Visby was fruitful and productive. The board has prepared a schedule of its activity for 2005 and is working hard to accomplish its goals for this year and beyond. Anyone interested in the Commission on Culture and its activities is urged to contact us!

Further information:

Ms Marlena Chybowska
City of Szczecin
e-mail: mchybow@um.szczecin.pl  

 

 


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