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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 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.
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the full history of the Arterial Network
Breyten
Breytenbach's speech
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First Arterial Network Seminar Paper on Culture and Development
