The Sixth Malraux Seminar on Cultural Management organized by the Council for Cultural Affairs (CCA) will be held in Taipei in a symposium format on March 20 and March 21 and a post-symposium discussion on March 22. Under the name of Andre Malraux, the first minister of culture in France in the 1960s, the seminar aims to look at different approaches taken to deal with performing arts-related policies, management and administration as a complex set of social and cultural phenomena.
The Malraux Seminar features different themes each year, and it has taken up issues about "cultural heritage preservation," "library management," "current measures of Taiwan's film industry," "archaeological excavations" and "local society and cultural development" over the past five years. The seminar this year will feature three French guest speakers appointed by the French government's Ministry of Culture and Information: Marie-Christine Lorang, official representative of the ministry's Department of the Development of International Relations, Didier Thibaut, director of the Lille National Theater's La Rose des Vents program and the Scene Etreangeres international arts festival, and Frederic Franck, director of the private-funded Madeleine Theater in Paris. Through analyzing a series of case studies drawn from recent French experiences, the three specialists will focus their efforts on introducing the French way of cultural management.
The post-symposium discussion on the third day will be carried out between the three French speakers and CCA officials and Taiwan-based arts-related specialists, Dance Forum Taipei founder and artistic director Ping Heng (平珩), Cloud Gate Dance Theater executive director Yeh Wen-wen (葉芠芠), Trees Music & Art founder and director Chung She-fong (鍾適芳), the Taipei Arts International Association director Serina Chen (陳琪), National Theater and Concert Hall public relations manager Liu Jia-yu (劉家渝), and others.
The seminar is free to the public, but it is limited in the size of 120 participants to retain intimacy. For registration and more information, please visit the Web site at www.infine-art.com/malraux or call (02) 2742-3595.
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