Practics Infotools on On the Move website!
Find at a glance all you need to know about taxation, visas, social security, funding, contracts... and other "mobility issues": visit the brand new Practics Infotools section on On the Move website.
ArtLab11 at Lecce: a place where you can x-change perspectives
On September 23rd and 24th we'll go south, to Lecce, where Fondazione Fitzcarraldo is organizing the 6th edition of its annual meeting ArtLab11 - Dialogues about Cultural Management. The cultural community gathers here to discuss issues like mobility, funding opportunities, accessibility, among many other.
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Budapest, 19th May 2011
On the Move and PRACTICS, two major European key players in supporting the trans-border mobility of artists and cultural operators, organise a joint press conference in Budapest on May 19th to ask for less restrictive visa rules for non EU artists and culture operators and for sufficient funding for culture mobility. The conference takes place the same day when EU Ministers of Culture meet in Brussels to adopt an EU recommendation on supporting information to mobile artists.
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Fitzcarraldo moved
Fondazione Fitzcarraldo moved. The new address is Via Aosta 8, 10152 Torino, Italy. Update your mailing lists!
We are in a new office, which was bought by the founders and through a 20 year loan, nearby the city center, in the area where the most important urban changes of the next ten years will take place.
And we will be next to FITZLAB, the new challenge for the future of arts & culture.
Edinburgh, 26-27 May 2011
Fitzcarraldo is partner of Museum Next conference 2011, the pretigious meeting gathering professionals from all over the world to share best practice and offer practical advice. The 2011 focuses on how we can build active communities around our museums and how museums can use the internet effectively to raise money.
Find out more @ Museum Next
Fitzcarraldo issues a new challenge: FITZLAB
FITZLAB is born. It is a new space that will open in a few months in Turin.
FITZLAB is a laboratory where the knowledge of associations, enterprises and citizens will converge. Here the creative community will co-inhabit. Here the future managers of cultural projects will be trained. Here we will discuss how culture and art can change the face of a city and people's life.
FITZLAB is the new challenge issued by Fitzcarraldo Foundation for the professional development and the civic commitment of those who make art and culture now and in theyears to come.
You can contribute to this project. Find out how!
Benchmarking and Communication Plan of the Lavazza Museum's building site
A benchmarking study done with the purpose of comparing several museums created by national and international companies in order to build a specific positioning for the future Museo Lavazza. It was conceived as being part of the project for the new Lavazza Headquarter in Turin's Borgo Dora neighbourhood.
Mentoring the development of the Juventus museum
Mentoring of the development process of a museum dedicated to Juventus Football Club's history and implementation of a ad hoc training programme for the staff of the future museum.
Marketing and development plan for the improvement of Hennebique's building in Genoa
Fitzcarraldo is working in partnership with Reer and 5+1 Architetti Associati in the development and future management strategy of the important Hennebique's building, located at the heart of Genoa's harbor. The purpose is to transform the building in a future pole of cultural and scientific development.
Communication Plan for the Archaeological Park of Saint-Martin-De-Corlèans' Megalithic Area in Aosta
Fitzcarraldo worked in partnership with N!studio in designing a communication strategy for the Park of Saint-Martin-De-Corlèans' Megalithic Area in Aosta, from its building site to it's opening.
Global Handbook for Measuring Cultural Participation
Fitzcarraldo has been commissioned by UNESCO to produce a "Handbook on Measuring Cultural Participation" which should help cultural organisations and the operators to undertake evaluation process of cultural participation. The Handbook will include some cases from Latin America, Africa, South-East Asia and the Arab region.
Mobility Infopoint Mapping in Italy
Fitzcarraldo has published the study "Mobility Infopoint Mapping in Italy", carried out as a part of the PRACTICS project and now available in English and Italian. The study, launched during ArtLab10, maps the current provision of cultrual mobility related information in Italy; it also defines a set of quality criteria for a possible Mobility Infopoint to set up in Italy.
Report
Summary
International conference "Surfing and walking: the museums and the 2.0 challanges"
Turin, 2 October 2010
What are the opportunities that new technologies and the Internet in particular offer to museums? In the 2.0 web era, Fondazione Fitzcarraldo in cooperation with the Exibition DNA Italia presented and shared national and international cases and practices.
Listen to the the speeches
Paper on museums and the 2.0 challenges
Fitzcarraldo's Annual Report 2009
2009 marked the 10th anniversary of Fitzcarraldo Foundation. On this occasion we published the first annual report which was presented in Torino on 24th May 2010.
Annual report (in Italian)
Summary (in English)
Evaluation of the "Cultural Exchange Department" of the Asia-Europe Foundation
We have finalised the evaluation of the activity of the "Cultural Exchange Department" of ASEF - Asia-Europe Foundation we carried out together with the India Foundation for the Arts. Interviews and online questionnaires were adressed to diplomats, cultural network leaders, directors of cultural centres, artists, participants in the activity of the Cultural Exchange dpt., the staff of the Department. Out of the collected comments, we provided some recommendations for the future to better accomplish the mission of the department.
Advanced Training Course for Cultural Project Managers
Turin - Lecce - Salzburg - Munich - Berlin, November 2009 - October 2010
CRPC XIV - Advanced Course for Arts Managers is addressed to the cultural operators whose aim is to make their organisations grow and to develop cultural project at their best, or to those who wish to become professionals in arts and culture and seek for a project to invest in...
From 14 years CRPC supports cultural operators to carry out their project by providing training sessions held by the best trainers of the sector and mentoring activities all the year long. 13 scholarships are going to be awarded to the best projects to be developed during the course.
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