{"id":8445,"date":"2025-02-14T05:40:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T05:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/?p=8445"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:18:33","slug":"world-summit-on-arts-and-culture-in-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/world-summit-on-arts-and-culture-in-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"World Summit on Arts and Culture in Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Malta&#039;s cultural landscape: a glimpse\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uYP6xvNbDnE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The theme chosen for this edition is:&nbsp;<strong><em>At the Crossroads? Cultural Leadership in the 21st Century<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Previous World Summits have been held in Canada, Singapore, England, South Africa, Australia and Chile, and have proven their potential for stimulating international cooperation, learning and information exchange for arts support agencies, artists, arts managers and policy makers worldwide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The summit will see more than 400 arts policy makers, government representatives, arts managers and cultural practitioners from around the world get together in Malta to take part in a rich programme of debate, learning and information exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The World Summit will be jointly hosted by the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) and Arts Council Malta, the Maltese Government\u2019s national agency for development and investment in the cultural and creative sectors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Nina Obuljen, an expert in the field of cultural and media policies with special focus on cultural diversity and international cultural relations and co-operation, has been appointed programme director for the 7th edition of the summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IFACCA Board, chaired by Stephen Wainwright, Chief Executive of Creative New Zealand, is meeting in Malta between the 18th and 19th November to discuss plans for the Summit.&nbsp; Information on the IFACCA Board can be found here:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ifacca.org\/board\/\">http:\/\/ifacca.org\/board\/<\/a>. The Executive Director \u2013 Sarah Gardner, and Deputy Director \u2013 Magdalena Moreno, of IFACCA\u2019s headquarters in Sydney, will also be present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information on the World Summit on Arts and Culture can be found on the summit website \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsummit.org\/\">www.artsummit.org<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 which is being launched&nbsp;<strong>today, 18th November<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional notes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>World Summit on Arts and Culture:<\/strong>&nbsp;The World Summit on Arts and Culture is intended to provide national arts councils, ministries of culture and other agencies with an opportunity to discuss key issues affecting public support for the arts and creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Arts Council<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;Malta<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong>&nbsp;The Arts Council Malta is the national agency for development and investment in the cultural and creative sectors. Its mission is to promote Malta\u2019s culture through all forms of creative expression, increase the accessibility of the public to the arts and enhance Malta\u2019s cultural heritage locally and abroa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>IFACCA:<\/strong>&nbsp; The International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) is the global network of national arts councils&nbsp;and culture ministries with members in over 80 countries. Created in December 2000, its purpose is to&nbsp;support&nbsp;members to succeed and be a global voice advocating for arts and culture.&nbsp;IFACCA delivers its services through four core functions in which are embedded its values as an organisation: Networking,&nbsp;Knowledge and Analysis,&nbsp;Capacity Building, and&nbsp;Advocacy. IFACCA&nbsp;initiated the World Summit on Arts and Culture to&nbsp;provide&nbsp;national arts councils, ministries of culture and other agencies, to meet every two to three years to&nbsp;discuss key issues of public support for the arts and creativity. More information can be found at&nbsp;ifacca.org.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nina Obuljen:<\/strong>&nbsp;Dr Obuljen is a research fellow at the Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO), Croatia, and was the former State Secretary for Culture (2008-2011) and former Assistant Minister (2006-2008) at the Croatian Ministry of Culture. &nbsp;In 2004 she received the European Cultural Policy Research Award for her research on the impact of the EU enlargement on cultural policies which was published in the book \u2018Why We Need European Cultural Policies: Impact of EU enlargement on countries in transition\u2019.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As State Secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Dr Obuljen was responsible for the sectors of arts, culture and media. She was a member of the negotiating team for the EU accession responsible for the fields of culture and education as well as information society and media. She was head of the Croatian delegation for negotiations during the UNESCO Convention on Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2004-2005) and Chairperson of the Intergovernmental Committee of the Convention (2010). &nbsp;In 2013 she received the Order of Arts and Letters from the French \u00adMinistry of Culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mediterranean Conference Centre:<\/strong>&nbsp;The Mediterranean Conference Centre is one of Valletta&#8217;s most remarkable landmarks. Located towards the tip of Valletta peninsula, the MCC has magnificent views across the Grand Harbour. Previously known as the Sacra Infermeria, or the \u2018Holy Infirmary\u2019, for more than two centuries the building was used by the Order of the Knights of Malta as a hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 7th World Summit on Arts and Culture is being held at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta between October 18 and October 21, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-il-kunsill"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8454,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8445\/revisions\/8454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}