Brandpunt 23 bestaat 10 jaar. 10 sociale fotografie wordt gevierd met een overzichtstentoonstelling die vorige donderdag opende in ontmoetingscentrum Sint Andries. Zeker de moeite om even bij stil te staan. Vrijdagnamiddag had er dan een colloquium plaats rond ‘armoede en cultuur”. Alles is gebaseerd op wederzijds respect en vertrouwen. Er zijn gedurende die 10 jaar al heel wat stappen gezet, maar het thema van vrijdag geeft aan er nog een hele weg te gaan is. Spijtig genoeg kon ik zelf niet blijven tot het einde van het debat, maar op indimedia vind je een interview met de bezielers van Brandpunt 23 en uitgebreid verslag van de studienamiddag .
Het Stormt momenteel volop in HETPALEIS. Regisseur Piet Arfeuille zette weer een eigenzinnige, sterke bewerking van een Shakespeare klassieker neer. Net als bij zijn bewerking van Hamlet, werden ook nu weer de koppen bij elkaar gestoken voor een webkwestie, ook deze keer gericht op 16+. Insteek voor deze webkwestie rond De Storm is de scenografie.
Together with Hadise, Ronny Mosuse and JOSHUA the Belgian part of Alter Ego (a EUNIC-project in the frame of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue) has been launched. This European wide competition (22 countries take part) and exhibition invites young people (14 to 18 years old) to create their doubble portrait (film, video, photo, visual arts) and upload it on the ALter Ego website. 3 October we will know who wins. The winners will join each other in Denmark to take part in an art workshop. 12 artists from all over Europe will be their mentors.
Woensdag 9 werd, door de eerst groep enthousiaste jongeren, StapMedia gelanceerd. StampMedia wil de kritische jonge stem binnen het huidige medialandschap worden. Aan de gedrevenheid van deze groep te zien moet dat wel lukken….
While in Flanders reflections are going on on the Bamford report, the think thank Demos in the UK has launched a consultation paper Culture and Learning Towards a New Agenda and asks for the opinions on how to embed cultural learning in the educational sector. The final report, containing recommendations based on those responses will be published later in 2008.
The writers of this paper recognise that growth of the creative economy, the issues based on identity, the issue of diversity, the influence of cultural in international relation and the digital/technological evolution fundamentally changed the position of culture in society and in the lifelong educational needs of present and future generations.
The paper offers a good overview of cultural education in the UK at the moment and poses a lot of questions towards the future, because the situation is far from ideal currently. Although the policy document All our futures (1999) argues that a national strategy for creative education is essential and although the UK government’s current aspiration to provide five hours of cultural learning, this not yet leads to a complete strategy neither to schools as to longlife learning. If one wants to cope with the changing society a long-term strategy and more settled structures are needed building on successful experiences and leadership … and thus celebrate the value of cultural learning by both education and culture.
The consultation documents provides issues and solutions on specialism, ad-hocery & inconsistancy, on the status of cultural education, on capacity sustainability & finance, and profile. It concludes in saying that the cultural organsations themselves need to be reflective, constantly revisting and reaffirming their values. This links in with the findings of my own research, we need to be willing to ask the right questions in order to better intergrate cultural education/learning in the cultural organisation.
To be continued later this year…I’ll keep you posted
Just back from DNA2008. Digital News Affairs … what we learned from Michael Rosenblum’s opening keynote is that we are now at the 500 year switch. 500 years ago Gutenberg’s technology was a revolution for print and for the dissimination of information. Now the recent developments in technology will have the same impact. We have to realize that publishing will never be the same. News travels faster online than ever before and putting a photo or video online has never been easier before. On top of that the way people ‘consume’ news has also changed. The audience is in control, they decide what they want to read/see/hear and they want to interact.
All aspects that challenge traditional press and media today.Two days long these challenges where at the centre of the debates, and what struck me was that most of the time not the ‘consumer’ but the newspaper/newsagency stayed in control. I loved the GNN (Guerilla News Network) where the user is in control. And I followed with interest the links between ‘news’ and ‘online social networks’… but I realised that still the contentproviders want to be in control, although a lot was going on on the web during the conference. lot has been twittered, blogged on the spot about DNA2008.
Combine the twitters of those days (e.g. skolgen, cybersoc, bnox) and the photo’s on flickr, with the links you find if you search for DNA2008 (on for instance Technorati.com) to blogs like Cybersoc , doubt don’t hesitate, online media and marketing, no longer at ease, Christoph Schmitz etc…and you get quiet a good idea of the content and the concept of the conference. It all happened on the spot with the writers in control … News and online social networks in action !
van departement der directe belastingen voor bloggers. Een presentje tijdens de bwards. De omslag leek anders erg ‘echt’ en daarom een beetje spannend om te open 
… Toch een fijne actie van proximity bbdo richting bloggers. Benieuwd wie 7 maart met de twee tickets naar de Kaaimaneilanden gaat lopen…
De filmpjes van de bwards staan nu op garagetv, en verder heel wat commentaar, suggesties en foto’s op blogs, twitter en flickr.
ok, it took a little while, but now you’ll find here a pdf-version of the PhD when you go to publications. As said earlier, I will take time to make a publication out of this work concentrating on the casestudies and the findings with a focus on the aspect of cultural diversity and a changing society, but for those who want to read the whole thesis, go ahead.
Comments/suggestions always welcome!
De eerste sessie op 20 februari leverde alvast heel wat materiaal op, met dank aan de deelnemende organisaties (De Krijtkring, Daarkom, HETPALEIS, Victoria Deluxe, Moussem, Fiëbre, Kif Kif, Vooruit, CultuurNet Vlaanderen, Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen, BAM en VAF) en experten. De output van de sessies willen we echter delen met alle geïnteresseerden. Op de webstek e-cultuur van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap vind je een pagina waar gedurende het traject verslagen, presentaties, nuttige links en nuttige literatuur verzameld worden … en beschikbaar zullen blijven ook na het traject.
