New Arts Directories
* By CHRISTELLE MAZELLA
Visiting Arts has published two new comprehensive arts directories, The Vietnam Arts Directory and The Taiwan Arts Directory, to provide a series of invaluable tools for organizations or individuals researching or developing international arts activity at home and abroad. Extensively researched in each region and country, the directories provide extensive contacts in each of the key cultural sectors, information on venues and funding, guidelines on cultural exchange, and a detailed introduction to the arts of each region or country.
Each directory contains descriptions and contact details for organizations across the cultural sectors performing and visual arts, literature, film and broadcasting, heritage, arts festivals, cultural information centres, and arts training and research. Sections on performing arts venues and temporary exhibition spaces include technical information to enable overseas presenters and promoters to identify potential touring opportunities. Descriptions across a wide range of organizations festivals, performing arts groups, promoters and venues, galleries, studios, museums, support organizations for individual arts sectors, governmental organizations and other cultural agencies provide an invaluable starting point for sourcing artistic product, developing international arts programmes, or building new contacts in cultural industries overseas. Guidelines on exchange opportunities and a listing of funding sources are also included.
A section on arts training and research gives information on organizations teaching tertiary and non-tertiary arts-related courses. Cultural information centres including archives, libraries, resource centres, and web sites are also listed to help facilitate research. Each directory also contains an introduction which provides a background of the country or region, a survey of its arts scene covering wide-ranging traditional and contemporary art forms, and an overview of how culture is administered in the country.
The directories are based on extensive research in each region or country by Visiting Arts, a non-profit organization which promotes positive cultural relations between the UK and countries around the world through facilitating international arts and cultural activities. Additional directories are being prepared, among which will be the Visiting Arts Japan, Singapore, Cambodia, Thailand, and Brunei Arts Directories. *
For further information about these directories and other Visiting Arts publications, contact:
Christelle Mazella
Visiting Arts
11 Portland Place, London, W1B 1EJ, UK
Tel: +44-20-7389 3019 / 3061
Fax: +44-20-7389 3016