The international conference ARSUM25 “Cultural Development and the Future of Cultural Policy” will be held on April 15th and 16th in Kotor, at the Creative Hub, in the Old Town of Kotor. Plenary sessions, book promotions, a student exhibition, as well as numerous guests from Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Poland, France, Albania, Italy, Great Britain, Ukraine, Armenia... have been announced.
"The ARSUM25 conference has also been included in UNESCO's list of events marking 20 years since the adoption of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions," the statement said.
The conference topics are cultural policy transfer, international cultural cooperation, cultural diplomacy and exchange, the role of values in policymaking, organizational culture, managerial ideology and the dominance of instrumental values, experiencing globalization through politics, cultural democracy and social justice, power, public governance, development of cultural institutions and cultural management, subsidies for artistic products and alternatives to public financing, the status of artists and many others.
As part of the Conference, the exhibition "A Million Million Little Loves" by students of the Faculty of Visual Arts of the University "Mediterranean" in Podgorica will be opened on April 16th at 20 pm in the Glass Gallery of the Cultural Center "Nikola Đurković".
"The exhibition was created during the 2023/24 academic year, and the exhibition will be opened by professors from the Faculty of Visual Arts and curators of the exhibition, M.Sc. Marija Džoganović and M.Sc Balša Gobović. '"'A Million Million Little Loves' is an exhibition that the Podgorica audience had the opportunity to see in June 2024 at the 'Art' gallery," the statement said.
As part of the opening of the student exhibition, a jazz concert will be held at the same time and place, and artists will perform. Marija Božović (vocals) i Stefan Bjeletić (trumpet).
The conference is organized by the University "Mediterranean" Podgorica, in partnership with the magazine Cultural Trends from Great Britain, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Media and the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation.
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