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CASE STUDIES Wales Visiting Arts has worked with many arts organisations in Wales to develop their programmes on an international level. Our initiatives encourage new connections with international artists and enable arts organisations to deliver intercultural arts projects that engage young people and local communities as well as ensure a good distribution of international arts to audiences throughout Wales. We deliver a range of programmes to expand the knowledge, horizons and opportunities for exchange for artists and cultural professionals in Wales and to increase the profile of Welsh arts and culture internationally. Our online information and intelligence services and network events include:
Carnival Brazil is part of Visiting Arts ongoing programme of work to enable cultural professionals to experience and participate in unique cultural platforms and showcases in key overseas markets. Representatives from carnival organisations across the UK participated in a mentored development visit to Salvador de Bahia in April 07 to establish dialogue with artists and cultural organisations, share skills and develop plans for further intercultural exchange. Steve Fletcher and Lorraine Fisher (South Wales Intercultural Community Arts - SWICA) met with carnival organisations including Olodum, Didá, Bankoma and Pracatum, as well as attending specially scheduled performances by young people.
From left to right: Lorraine Fisher (SWICA), Steve Fletcher (SWICA), Paul Anderson (UK Centre for Carnival Arts), João Jorge Santos Rodrigues (President Olodum), Mark Stevenson Fuo (Project Coordinator), David Boyd (The Beat) and Mara Felipe (Coordinator, Olodum)
A special performance by the Pracatum School The Cultural Attachés programme is a series of talks, seminars and visits for the UK cultural diplomatic community which highlight specific initiatives, UK nations and regions and new developments in UK arts and culture. These opportunities make vital links between UK arts organisations and Cultural Ministries around the world helping to unlock resources, share information about emerging and established artists and develop partnerships for international exchange. In April 2006 a group of Cultural Attachés from across Europe, South America, Pacific and the Caribbean met with companies and arts organisations in Wales including representatives from the National Museum Wales and Wales Arts International. The visit included tours of the Wales Millennium Centre and the Senedd followed by a networking event. LAVAN (Latin American Visual Arts Network) is a professional development tool which sustains enthusiasm and increases knowledge of Latin American arts in the UK. The network currently has over 100 members and collates and disseminates information about artists, groups, festivals, and organisations to encourage relationships between artists, curators and cultural platforms throughout the region with their UK counterparts. The network holds regular meetings to foster collaborative working and discuss key issues or areas of country focus. In October 2007, LAVAN will hold its first meeting in Wales at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea during a major exhibition of contemporary Colombian visual arts entitled Displaced. The exhibition will curate the largest collection of contemporary arts from Colombia to be seen in the UK and has an accompanying education programme. As part of the LAVAN meeting, exhibiting artists will present their work to the group and it will be an opportunity for contemporary visual arts organisations and individuals across Wales to engage with emerging and established artists whose practice examines the themes of migration and notions of place.
Artificial plants herbarium, 2005
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