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Arterial Network Second Conference

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The Arterial Network is an informal, dynamic network of individuals, institutions and funding partners working to support the effectiveness and growth of African arts and culture in civil society and to enhance the sustainability of creative industries in Africa. After our launch on Gorée Island in Senegal in March 2007, we hosted our second Biannual Conference at the Goethe Institute in Johannesburg from 19-21 September 2009. 114 delegates from 28 African countries as well as a further 17 participants from mainly European countries attended the two-day event, more than double the number of delegates and countries that attended the founding conference.

Korkor Amarteifio, Associate Director of the Institute for Music Development in Ghana set the tone for the conference with her keynote address: The African creative sector: acting locally to be globally assertive. As a model of a continental civil society movement in the creative sector, Ilona Kish outlined the structure and activities of Culture Action Europe.
The Arterial Network Conference Report                 Korkor Amarteifio's Speech
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The First Arterial Network Conference

The Arterial Network was launched at a conference on Goiree Island, Senegal in March 2007, with the theme Vitalising African Cultural Assets.  The Conference took place against the backdrop of the adoption of UNESCO’s Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions; the challenge was to position African artists, creative practice and cultural industries so that they could benefit from the recommendations of the Convention and assert their place on the global stage and in the global creative economy.  

Breyten Breytenbach delivered the keynote address on the theme Imagine Africa, an inspiring call to imagine an Africa beyond the television images of poverty, brutality, war, corruption, disease and the like.
Read the full history of the Arterial Network       Breyten Breytenbach's speech


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