ACT UJ Conference Brochure 2013

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REGISTRATIONINFORMATION

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SCHEDULE P.4

CONTENTCOMMITTEEP.5

ATTENDANCE:WHO AND WHY

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PROGRAMMEOVERVIEW

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DAY 1CULTURALENTREPRENEUR-SHIP AND

CoNTINENTALPERSPECTIvES //The three-day conerence, will kick-owith an exciting presentation by UKCultural Strategist, John Newbigin.During his keynote address the historyo data collection and measuremento the creative industries will beunpacked as well as how this has beensuccessully used in various countries.Representatives who will alsointerrogate cultural entrepreneurshipwill present continental perspectives.A panel comprising government

ofcials will discuss the interactionswith the creative sector.

During the course o the last decadethe export o South Arican creativeand cultural services to the EuropeanUnion has more than doubled. Ourexport o creative goods has howeverremained largely stagnant and weimport substantially more creativegoods and creative services thanwe export. These and other insightsorm part o an EU-unded researchproject coordinated by the Visual ArtsNetwork o South Arica, the British

Council and Arterial Network South

Arica, which will also be presentedon the frst day. Breakaway sessionswill conclude day one. Ownershipo content (copyright and the dividebetween developed nations and thirdworld countries), how useul the

South Arican creative industries are(as part o public policy) and the roleand regulation o stimulating localcontent development will be debated.Delegates will then be invited to acocktail networking event, whichwill coincide with the Johann Louwexhibition preview.

DAY 2ExPLoRINg PLACESAND SPACES //On day two, presenters will embarkon exploring places and spaces.Synergies between cities and arts andculture as well as the role o estivalsand trade airs and their economicdynamics will be interrogated. Thepresentations will ocus on trends andopportunities or cultural practitioners.During the aternoon, practicalexamples o advertising and marketingwill be under the spotlight lookingat, especially, how to improve marketpenetration and growing clients andaudiences. Delegates will then havean opportunity to attend breakawaysessions, which aims to share

inormation regarding residencies,curating across borders (geographicaland sectoral). One o the breakawaysessions will oer development inthe areas o cultural entrepreneurshipand business acumen. Day two willconclude, setting the scene or anexciting last day, ocusing on digitalpossibilities.

DAY 3DIgITAL ANDoNLINETECHNoLogIES //The fnal day o the conerence willoer extensive inormation regardingdigital and online technologies andhow these are breaking boundariesin an ever increasing, globalised, andinter-connected world. The digitalcreation o content, and delivery,as well as how relationships andaudiences could be expanded byutlising the vast range o onlineopportunities will be interrogated.Finally, presenters will explore how theInternet and digital spaces could beutlised or income generation.

PROGRAMMEOVERVIEW

REGISTRATIONINFORMATION

PRICEr750 p dgt.Includes access to all presentations,

entertainment, rereshments and lunches.

DATESRegistration closes 26 Ju 2013.

REGISTERHERE
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DAY 108:00 09:00 Registration

09:00 09:40 Opening

09:40 10:40 Keynote Address: What is the Creative Economy?

10:40 11:00 Break

11:00 12:00 Models o Cultural Entrepreneurship on the Continent

12:00 13:30 The Creative Economy in the South Arican Context

13:30 14:40 Lunch

14:40 15:30 Trade and exchange o South Arican cultural and creative goods and services

15:30 16:00 Break

16:00 17:40 Breakaway sessions

opt 1: 'You Chuse' Screening and Copyright Versus Open Source Debate

opt 2: Creative Industries Debate: A Public Policy Mirage?

opt 3: Challenges and Prospects o Stimulating Local Content Development

opt 4: Can the position o Public Museums and Theaters be transormed?

opt 5: Entrepreneurship Game

17:40 19:00 Networking Cocktail Event and Johann Louw Exhibition Preview

DAY 209:00 10:30 Cities and Creative Capitals

10:30 11:00 Break

11:00 13:15 Festivals and Trade Events

13:15 14:00 Lunch

14:00 15:00 Audience Development and Market Penetration

15:00 15:15 Break

15:15 16:30 Breakaway sessions

opt 1: Crat Sector and Crossover

opt 2: Business Acumen or Artists: From Artist to Entrepreneur

opt 3: Residencies and Exchanges

opt 4: Curating Across Borders

16:30 17:50 Digital Marketing on a Bootstrap

18:30 UJ Showcase Perormance

DAY 309:00 10:00 Imagining the Future

10:00 11:00 Digital Experiences within the Arts

11:00 11:30 Break

11:30 12:45 Digital Space as an Income Opportunity

12:45 13:30 Conerence closure by Mike van Graan

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CONTENT COMMITTEE

WHO SHOULDATTEND

DELEGATESWILL

TRISH DowNINg(CHAIRPERSoN)Trishs career spans an unusual combination

o an in-depth background in the arts

and high-level corporate communications

and marketing experience. Ater studying

drama at UKZN and obtaining a Drama

teaching qualifcation rom Trinity College,

London, Trish pursued a career as an

actress and voice artist, working extensively

in theatre, flm, TV and radio. Trish runs

her own Marketing & CommunicationsConsultancy, is a Council Member o the

National Film & Video Foundation and is

also a Trustee o the Arts & Culture Trust.

BEv gILLESPIE(CoNTENT MANAgER)Bev Gillespie has worked with and in a

variety o organisations: mainly (but not

exclusively) with non-profts, including

under and research organisations at a

managerial level. She has also served in

various governance positions. Recently,

as a reelancer, she oers research,

organisation development, acilitating

change and mentoring services, mainly tonon-proft and civil society organisations.

ANNALI DEMPSEYAnnali Cabano-Dempsey has been the

arts curator or the UJ Art Gallery at the

University o Johannesburg or the past

fteen years. As an arts curator she is

in charge o temporary art exhibitions as

well as the UJ Art Collection. Annali is a

practising artist with art works incorporated

in public and private collections. She holds

a Masters degree in Communications rom

the North West University and is the Vice

CEO or the Rendezvous Art project.

JoSEPH gAYLARDJoseph Gaylard is a researcher, writerand arts manager, and currently serves

as Director o the Visual Arts Network o

South Arica (www.vansa.co.za). During the

course o the past ten years he has led or

provided technical assistance to a range

o industry research and policy/strategy

development projects across the creative

industries, and has been an occasional

lecturer at the WITS School o Arts.

ANDR LE RoUxAndr le Roux is an Arts Administrator

involved in cultural policy-making, lobbying

and advocacy. He is currently the Managing

Director o the SAMRO Foundation. He

has ocused on institutional development,

governance, strategy and policy development

within arts broadly. Andr le Roux spent

several years working in the arts at National,

Provincial and local government level.

vALMoNT LAYNEValmont Layne is a musician, curator, activist

and arts administrator rom Cape Town

South Arica. He completed a Masters

Degree (MA) in History at the University

o Cape Town ocusing on jazz, social

dance and vernacular music in the Western

Cape. He spent ten years at the District Six

Museum in Cape Town where he established

the Audio-visual Research Archives and

its collections o music and oral histories

rom the Cape. More recently he hasworked as a reelancer and is the Secretary

General o Arterial Network South Arica.

LISA PHASHALisa Phasha has been working in the arts or

15 years. Starting out in flm and television

with the British Film Institute, in 2000 she

moved over to the British Council working

on the development o international music

programmes, based rom their ofces in

London. Whilst there she developed a

number o major programmes including the

multi-award winning Selector radio show

and pan-Arican event marking the 200th

anniversary o the abolition o the slave trade.

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It has been said that Insanityis defned as repeating the

same action and expectinga dierent result!In some respects te arts are guity otis kind o insanity. I woud oweverargue tat tis is norma umanbeavior and tat at some point wea question our position on te sidingscae between sanity and insanity.Tis enabes us to ook at our positionobjectivey and decide wic directionwe ead in net. Coectivey we avereaced a crossroads were we arecaenged to cange our tinking andmore importanty, cange our actions!

It as become vitay important or testakeoders o te artistic and cutura

sectors to debate matters o mutuaconcern in an unbiased, independentand structured environment. I amproud to represent an organisationtat strives to provide suc a patorm.Te inaugura conerence ostedast year, set out to make an impacton te eve o engagement aroundand witin te sector. Te secondACT | UJ Arts & Cuture Conerencewi be presented wit te opeo urter improving diaogue anddebate around and interrogation intoaspects tat ave an undeniabeimpact on arts, cuture and eritage.

Te Arts & Cuture Trust, in

partnersip wit UJ Arts & Cuture,is deigted to present te CreativeCurrencies: Accessing Opportunities inan Epanding Marketpace conerencein August tis year. We announcewit great ecitement some o tekeynote speakers, presentations andresearc tat wi be presented at teconerence. Tis year, te ocus wi beon commercia and trade aspects ocutura and artistic endeavour in SoutArica, on te continent and gobay.

Sponsorsip and unding o arts,cuture and eritage is a we-debated

matter, wic remains a burning issue.We at te Arts & Cuture Trust aveinterrogated and considered te stateo oca sponsorsip and undingnumerous times and, especiay,weter it soud be discussed at teconerence. Atoug we acknowedge

te great importance o its roe wetake cognizance o te reaity tat arts,cuture and eritage organisationsand institutions cannot soey dependon sponsorsip and unding toensure teir sustainabiity. For tisreason te conerence migt incudeaspects o sponsorsip and undingbut it wi not take centre-stage.

To tis end, te conerence aimsto epose deegates to content tatis concerned wit te inuenceand opportunities o tecnoogicaadvancements on cutura and artisticendeavours, an interrogation o teinvovement o cities and precincts inenabing te arts, ow trade eventsand estivas unction as patormsor trade and ecange, watopportunities or cutura ecangeeist as we as providing insigt intowat te cutura economy entaisrom a oistic point o view.

Our approac to content wi aso notony be rom an economic point o view,but we wi epore trade and ecangerom a muti-dimensiona perspective,wic incudes te intercange oideas, knowedge and researc.

We etend a eartet tanks to UJArts & Cuture, Santam, Business andArts Sout Arica and te SAMROFoundation wo ave renewed teirconerence partnersips wit te Trust.We are aso onored to wecomenew partners, te Britis Counci, te

European Union (EU), EUNIC, te VisuaArts Network o Sout Arica and ArteriaNetwork Sout Arica. Teir supportwi enabe eciting presentations byinternationa and continenta speakersas we as aciitate te attendance ocreative enterprises, arts and cuturepractitioners, government ofciasand civi society organisations activein te creative industries in te EUas we as on te Arican continent.

Te Trust aso vaues te support omedia partners Mai & Guardian, SAFM,Cassicee Magazine and Pink RoomProductions. Finay, we ook orward toepanding te conerence wit an epocomponent, wic wi be impementedby te Cutura Deveopment Trust.

We are ecited to engage witdeegates rom ar and wide. To tisend te content team is preparingte programme wit great care in teope tat it wi inspire new tinkingand stimuate positive cange. Weurge our deegates to caenge andinterrogate te content and to takeome new strategies and systemsin order to advance teir careers,organisations and businesses.

Melissa Goba

ChAIRPERSON OF ThE TRUST

The notion o Creative Currenciesboth echoes the theme o theinaugural ACT | UJ Arts & CultureConerence and is also an evolutiono that theme.

Seeking to dri down deeper beyondideas o te arts as an economic driverin purey fnancia terms, tis yearsconerence seeks to epore, interrogateand opeuy advocate or te intrinsicvaue o artistic endeavour especiay inte arena o cutura ecange. In viewo te rapidy epanding network oopportunities or suc ecange we ookorward to osting oca and internationadeegates rom a broad spectrum o tecreative industries.

Wen ACT Ambassador, Brenda Devar,frst brokered tis project wit myseand te Arts team, se passionateyarticuated ow or er, te rea vaueo an arts conerence o tis natureay in te opportunities it presents ornetworking and engagement wistecanging inormation, knowedgeand views on te sector. And indeedte conerence entited Te Art o teCreative Economy jointy presentedby ACT and UJ Arts & Cuture in 2012proved to be just suc a patorm orcoective diaogue wit te event eventrending on Twitter!

Tis year we ave created space ordisseminating researc resuts wist

simutaneousy oering deegatesinsigts into te atest deveopmentsand opportunities in teir cosen feds.But dont epect taking eads Doepect interactive patorms, novenetworking opportunities, an a-newepo component as we as visua art,music and a sowcase o perormances.So dont eave it ti te ast minute,register now!

KeRRY sWiFT

ExECUTIVE DIRECTOR: DIVISION

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