ELL: Cultural production

[deekonda narsingarao]

thanking you
deekonda


On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 Jokin Garatea wrote :
> Dear all, some thoughs about it
> In our opinion, with a view to undertaking the
> challenge of taking a more active
> and innovative approach to introduce and extend the
> culture of lesser used
> languages regions among people more effectively,
> prioritising actions, scaling
> the necessary resources and focusing on markets, it is
> necessary to begin with an
> initial phase of forming a strategy in which necessary
> data is collected, a first
> assessment of the internal development capacities is
> completed, and the combined
> commitment of the various organisations in the network
> are tested out.
> When speaking of regions with minority cultures,
> culture has been left out of
> regional development policy. And, yet, a basic issue is
> how to promote
> communication between cultural focuses and ambits
> beyond those hermetic spaces
> formed by states, in short, how to really integrate
> Europe.
> It would be desirable to opt for a concept of an
> inter-territorial cultural
> network in artistic, cultural and communicative
> training, for the horizontalised
> production of small and medium enterprises (SME) and
> for cultural research, all
> in contact with the regional Cultural Platforms which
> would be also networked.
> The challenges demand that the absurd competition
> between regions be abandoned in
> favour of a common strategy based co-financing
> initiatives, linked in to EU
> programmes for promotion of creativity. In this sense a
> network of resources of
> industries and cultural services could constitute a
> departure point which is
> coherent with a globalising and integrated concept.
> In this period of changes a reaction is more than ever
> needed which puts on the
> agenda all the problems by convening Clusters which
> bring together the various
> disciplines of culture, agents, generations,
 The idea
> would be to achieve a
> common position, a diagn

> strategy and sufficient consensus for a co-operative
> redeployment.
>
> Non Profit and private co-operation is needed.
> Opening up to the initiatives of civil society requires
> a model of intermediation
> between the Industries and cultural Promoters, mixed, a
> network of independent
> Clusters of Culture, integrating, global –over the
> different levels of culture-,
> representative, autonomous, decision-making, taxable,
> but not ruling out links
> with other administrations. The European public and
> private cultural industries
> are part of the social heritage. A policy of social and
> public service which
> influences both, can and must avoid both dirigisme and
> the mere transfer of
> public funds for private businesses. In addition,
> resolved support for private or
> mixed industrial initiatives should imply rigorous
> obligations for the
> beneficiaries, in keeping with the strategically
> defined lines of development,
> and their regular assessment. Assistance for creators
> and social institutions
> involved in cultural creation and diffusion must
> discriminate in favour of what
> experience points to in terms of quality and
> effectiveness.
>
> Another important point is the Commitment to Multimedia,
>  culture and networks of
> Clusters
> There is still a lack of awareness of the inherent
> economic potential of culture.
> The opportunity is there to construct European culture,
> at the same time as the
> economy diversifies into products with future. There is
> no other option than
> producing for beyond the imaginary Regional frontiers,
> with acceptable quality
> levels, specialising in culture based on the own
> identity. The cultural industry
> becomes a strategic sector from the cultural and
> economic perspective. It is not
> possible to generate culture solely from public funds.
> The latter must promote a cultural economic structure
> which is as
> self-sustainable as possible. However a small region is
> scarc
ltural
> industries and all their
> segments. Even dealing with all the industries and arts
> and cultivating integral
> preparation in all the specialities possible, some
> priorities seem necessary. For
> example considering the cluster for the Multimedia-IT
> ambit, as a ‘new industrial
> sector’ or a ‘emerging strategic sector’, particularly
> when the Multimedia sector
> is becoming integrated in the concept of applied
> information and high added value
> technology (creation, design of new uses and
> applications of programs
). This
> signifies that industrialised culture must be the
> subject of co-ordination
> between the various regions with minority cultures.
>
> Cultural strategy
> Although keeping in mind that strategically it is
> necessary to generate a
> structure of cultural industries and facilities which
> are as self-sustainable as
> possible, the cultural challenges of a small community
> can only be approached
> with an indispensable cultural strategy.
> Cultural dirigisme of most European States are directed
> towards the field of
> exposition, exhibition or services–and not cultural
> production or creation- and
> which have conditioned the budgets, and
> inter-institutional competition have been
> the deadly sins of the cultural strategies of the
> various European states.
> Despite the fact that a number of states have set out
> on other policies, reducing
> the previous arbitrariness and taking some decisions
> jointly with the social
> agents, the strategic aspects of cultural strategy
> needed for minority regions
> have not been considered.
>
> General objective of the Clusters
> To develop the own cultural production capacity means,
> first, fashioning products
> capable of crossing our borders attracting to young
> people and, second,
> artistically exploiting our own identities in both
> their universal and specific
> components. Moreover, approval abroad of minorities own
> production is the very
> conditio
ry educated in
> international quality standards.
> In any case a Strategic Programme for European Minority
> Cultures, drawn up on the
> basis of an exhaustive preliminary study of the
> structures, problems and
> challenges of culture, and debated socially, is an
> unavoidable current necessity.
>
> Best regards,
> Jokin Garatea
>
> Coelho wrote:
>
> > At 11:10 AM 11/20/01 +0800, Mauro Tosco wrote:
> > >Is English (everywhere), or a national language (in
> its respective country),
> > >an expression of "culture"? Certainly not - or not
> only; they are an
> > >expression of life.
> > >How long can you go on having a language for the
> expression of your culture,
> > >and another for the expression of your life? That's
> the question.
> >
> > I would expect that many stable (?) multilingual
> societies have just this.
> > Expect that, perhaps in stable areas with not so much
> language decline, the
> > minority language is the one used for 'expression of
> your life' and a
> > dominant one is used for 'cultural' stuff. But I'm
> not sure....
> >
> > Gail
> >
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