Meeting of the Board of the UBC Commission on
Culture
Visby, 14-16 of April 2005
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Visby, 14-16 of April 2005
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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! Ms
Marlena Chybowska
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