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Connected to Culture LIVE: Online Creativity and Safety with Young People
2021-03-31 - 2021-04-01
Engagement in arts and culture supports young people’s social development and wellbeing, but for many organisations responding to the pandemic has meant quickly adapting offline activities to online, creating new digital programmes and engaging and communicating with young people digitally. This new digital landscape presents many opportunities for young people to express themselves and engage creatively, but also presents challenges around safety and protection. In this session we will explore lessons learnt and how in a new digital climate we can find balance between protection, safety and participation.
We will discuss challenges around supporting expression and meaningful engagement while also keeping young people safe online, particularly at a time when they continue to be physically isolated from teachers, peers and mentors. We will touch on ways to connect with young people based on where and how they want to engage and hear from organisations that are successfully working with and empowering our future digital leaders and changemakers.
Join us for this conversation where we will explore:

Risks and safety online – balancing protection and participation
Engaging and empowering young people through digital
Lessons learned in 2020 and informing future online spaces

Cultural inclusion x Covid: How to Deal with it? (Part 1/3)
2021-04-01 - 2021-04-02
How far has the domain of the possible in terms of inclusion in museums extended? One year later… what are the obstacles? What successes?
We are offering a cycle of three international webinars to share inclusive initiatives and collectively move forward on the challenges facing cultural places: care for the public and teams, extension of the mediation offer, proximity to the local public.
This initiative, supported by the Ministry of Culture, is carried by L’École de Design Nantes-Atlantique and Tactile Studio.
Among the speakers who will join us:
– Manuela Joguet – MUCEM France – Responsible for the public of the social field and the handicap Department of the public.
– Marie Clapot, MET New York – Museum Educator for Accessibility.
– Kasia Basta – MNBAQ Canada – Department of Mediation and Visitor Experience, at the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec.

MuseWeb 2021
2021-04-05 - 2021-04-10
MW21 features advanced research and exemplary applications of digital practice for cultural, natural and scientific heritage. It also recognises the best in cultural heritage innovation through the annual GLAMi awards. MW21 offers a range of professional learning opportunities, from plenary sessions to museum project demonstrations to lightning talks. Prior to the conference, there are half-day workshops and pre-conference tours, as well as plenty of time for networking.

Art Speaks: Virtual Event
2021-04-05 - 2021-04-06
ART SPEAKS is an ongoing series, led by Arnold Lehman, Phillips’ Senior Advisor and Director Emeritus, The Brooklyn Museum, where issues critical to museums, artists, and collector communities, are discussed.
Join us for our latest edition with panelists Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Anne Pasternak, Franklin Sirmans, and Rod Bigelow.

Art Fair in VR: Art Gate International 2021
2021-04-15 - 2021-04-19
Exhibitors from North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Australia are curating their galleries and hosting social art events in virtual reality during Art Gate International 2021. Erin Loree, Dr. Piloto Obdulio, Jai Mitchell are among the contemporary artists on exhibition. Masters such as Cindy Sherman, Pablo Picasso, Louise Nevelson, Andy Warhol, and many other artists in between can be found during Art Gate International 2021.
All the exhibitions are open to the public for free. In its second year, Art Gate International has established itself as a one-of-a-kind destination for the best in modern and contemporary art, highlighting a vibrant international arts community, and bringing together the world’s collector base and thousands of international VR visitors. Visitors from around the world join the social events hosted by Art Gate through their VR headsets, phones, and laptops. Since Art Gate was founded in 2019, over 35,000 people from across 6 continents have visited the galleries exhibiting on the platform.
Today, Art Gate has the fastest-growing arts community in virtual reality. The first edition of the art fair in VR took place in 2020 and saw record-breaking visitors during the Covid-19 pandemic. This second edition of Art Gate International is sure to surpass the attendance of the 2020 art fair.

Greenloop: Sustainability in Attractions
2021-04-20 - 2021-04-22
Greenloop is Blooloop’s new conference focussing on sustainability in visitor attractions. Learn from leaders sharing their sustainability experiences at the first conference specifically for the industry.
Showcasing the latest trends and developments, the conference will aim to share best practices and inspire us all to become more sustainable in our businesses and protect the planet.

Find out from our speakers how leading international brands are innovating to tackle the world’s biggest problem.
There will be superb networking opportunities to meet like-minded individuals.
Be part of the solution for the planet – join the conversation at Greenloop and help future proof your business and the industry.
Blooloop is the world’s most-read website for visitor attractions professionals, backed by powerful social media, with a proven track record in delivering successful online events.

NFTs and Art Galleries
2021-04-20 - 2021-04-21
In this installment of Caravan Art Ops’s “Art of Digital: Selling High-Value Art Online”, attendees will learn how to adopt and accelerate NFT art sales for their gallery. Our guest for this timely discussion is Georg Bak, a globally renowned cryptoart advisor based in Switzerland. Mr. Bak is an early adopter and thought-leader in the NFT movement, and will share insights on how NFTs can be applied to fine and classical art, in addition to contemporary and digital works. This session is geared towards galleries who are curious about the sales possibilities of NFTs as well as galleries who are already engaged in digital/cryptoart sales.

3 Years After the Art + Tech Summit: Was the Art World Ready for Consensus?
2021-04-20 - 2021-04-21
Three years after the first Art + Tech Summit at Christie’s in London exploring blockchain, what has happened? A non-fungible token artwork by American digital artist Beeple sold for $69m, two days after Vastari hosted a webinar on NFT’s and digital art. The panel will look at how the 2018 summit impacted the market and the subsequent expansions. What has happened to the three use cases presented at the summit: registration, digital art and tokenization?
The panel will explore whether the landscape is different in Asia, North America and Europe. Given this talk is happening two days before Earth Day – our panel will also discuss the environmental impact of blockchain technology, and how the industry is correcting it.

Brunswick Arts: Culture on a Mission
2021-04-21 - 2021-04-22
The challenges faced by the cultural sector today are many and varied. Join us for a conversation about how arts organizations can chart their future and accommodate opposing points of view in an era of great social upheaval.
We will be asking:
-How much of a responsibility do the arts have to reflect the society in which they are embedded?
-Can an arts organization really represent a plurality of views, and how do you work this within the inevitable restraints of funders?
-Can individual artists’ views fit within the current call to represent a broader perspective, and do artist collectives ever work?

MUŻE.X Shaping Museum Features, Spring Webinar Series: Francois Matarasso
2021-04-22 - 2021-04-23
We are delighted to bring you the second series of pre-conference webinar events in the run-up to the conference MUŻE.X – Shaping Museum Futures. Three international voices from the museum world shall be in conversation with the conference convenors Prof Carmel Borg and Dr. Sandro Debono. The one-hour conversations shall revolve around participatory practices, creativity in museums, and collections-development practices in response to the new realities imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
François Matarasso is a freelance community artist, writer and researcher. He has worked in about 40 countries and held honorary professorships in the UK and Australia. His latest book, A Restless Art–How participation won and why it matters, combines a nuanced, careful study of participatory art with a detectable passion, born out of experience.

The Lab Launching Event: Making Sense of Immersion in 2021 - The Handbook
2021-04-22 - 2021-04-23
“The Lab: Making Sense of Immersion in 2021” has been a series of online collective problem-solving and panel discussions gathering key professionals from the XR and museum industries for game-changing conversations.
From these sessions, key learnings and insights have been compiled and transformed into a precious handbook for museum practitioners and immersive experiences producers.
To announce the publication of this collaborative handbook, we are organizing a special event with all previous participants, during the second week of Les Ailleurs Festival, and matching the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the US ’ Digital Thursdays program.

EuropeanaTech x AI Webinar Series: Introduction and the Saint George on a Bike Project
2021-04-23 - 2021-04-24
How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) help us to enrich and research cultural heritage collections? How can ML models be adapted to the complexities of historical and cultural material it has not been trained for? Which biases can we reveal in historical collections? How can we gain new perspectives by using AI in researching cultural heritage data? Our new webinar series will discuss these questions with you and present projects and people who are reflecting on exactly these matters.
The EuropeanaTech x AI webinars will kick off on Friday 23 April with an introduction to the series and the Saint George on a Bike Project, which aims to use machine learning to improve the quality and quantity of open metadata associated with European cultural heritage. Project partners will present its objectives and achievements, as well as the obstacles it faces, especially with respect to available data sources. You will learn about making Machine Learning work (better) for improving the quality and quantity of open metadata associated with European cultural heritage imagery, and have the opportunity to discuss the challenges of data gathering for AI projects in cultural heritage and how to possibly circumvent them.

Luxury’s NFT Obsession: Determining Legality and Longevity
2021-04-27 - 2021-04-28
Few could have predicted the recent, dramatic rise of NFTs around the world. As exclusive symbols of digital ownership, their value is set by market demand which has increased their appeal to luxury. As these virtual tokens fetch increasingly high prices, Jing Daily explores the long term impact of the craze and navigates the legal framework for producers and consumers.
Join Jing Daily for “Luxury’s NFT Obsession: Determining Legality and Longevity” to hear more on the topic from The Fashion Law’s Julie Zerbo as well as international digital disruptors in the market and digital luxury brand RTFKT.
During the webinar on Tuesday, April 27 at 10 a.m. EST, we’ll also discuss the underpinnings of the metaverse, who is driving demand for NFTs, and how the sector will play out with Chinese audiences.
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Affirming the Social Value of Museums
2021-04-29 - 2021-04-30
For years, museums have talked about their indispensability to society. Yet during the pandemic, most were closed for extended periods of time. Why is it that museums were not considered essential enough to keep open during the pandemic? And now that Covid-19 may be drawing to a close, how can museums make a stronger case for their indispensability? What are the best arguments for keeping museums open and operational?
On the heels of CIMAM’s recent survey titled Why should museums remain open and operational? and Szántó’s latest book, The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues, New York-based author and cultural strategy adviser András Szántó moderates a discussion between four prominent members of CIMAM, all of whom are featured in the book.

Rhana Devenport, Director, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia.
Mami Kataoka, Director, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries, London, United Kingdom.
Philip Tinari, Director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing, China.

DSI Webinar: Museums Going Digital - Why Invest on Quality Digital Content?
2021-04-29 - 2021-04-30
The NEMO report “Follow-up survey on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on museums in Europe” issued in January 2021 highlighted the increased importance of digital museum offers in a changing world. Many institutions received financial support for new investments in digital infrastructures and/or digital programmes but they also claimed lack of skills in digital literacy. It’s now time for the museums to (re)think their digital strategy to supply their visitors with quality services. This webinar will address the evolution of the digital approach of museums in a post-pandemic world and illustrates the Europeana frameworks and resources that the European museums may apply to create, share and reuse quality digital content.
The webinar is targeted to Museum professionals interested in joining Europeana.

EuropeanaTech x AI Webinar Series: Cultural AI
2021-05-07 - 2021-05-08
How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) help us to enrich and research cultural heritage collections? How can ML models be adapted to the complexities of historical and cultural material it has not been trained for? Which biases can we reveal in historical collections? How can we gain new perspectives by using AI in researching cultural heritage data? Our new webinar series will discuss these questions with you and present projects and people who are reflecting on exactly these matters.
On Friday 7 May, we will explore Cultural AI, a new lab for culturally valued AI in the Netherlands. The vision of Cultural AI is to accelerate excellent research on the intersection of humanities and artificial intelligence. Core lab themes revolve around public values, like diversity and inclusivity, investigating how technology can deal with biases in data, account for multiple perspectives and subjective interpretations, and bridge cultural differences.

Research and Digital Cultural Heritage: New Impact Horizons
2021-05-11 - 2021-05-13
The programme has been designed by the symposium scientific committee, which considered a range of the implications that building digital collections and their reuse have: from the choices made by cultural heritage professionals in directing their efforts and resources, to the opening up of research practices for community participation and non-specialist contributions; from the obstacles to creating impact through cultural heritage resources (such as lack of digital literacy or inequalities) to the need for including the perspectives of digital audiences in the cultural heritage discourse.
We tried to strike a balance in offering an ambitious, full, and diverse programme, while using an agile structure that reflects the potential and limits of digital events. It will cover topics such as policy and innovation; practices of digitisation and re-contextualisation; participatory practices and methods in engagement and impact assessment; digital audiences and new socio-political perspectives. 20 speakers will share their insights and diverse experiences across four 90 minute sessions, two in the morning and two in the afternoon. This will allow the participation of professionals from different time zones.
Our aim for this symposium is to develop an understanding of how the Europeana Impact Framework can help build capacity in research contexts and so, more broadly, what value thinking about impact can bring to them. The event is the start of a wider conversation looking at three longer-term objectives: to scope potential areas of impact and identify audiences; to find a shared language for impact and grow an evidence basis; to explore how Europeana and research infrastructures can structurally collaborate to develop an impact-oriented approach.

Fountain House Virtual Symposium: The Creative Mind & Mental Illness, Honoring Agnes Gund
2021-05-13 - 2021-05-14
The Symposium will explore the connection between creativity and mental illness, showcase original work by the artists of Fountain House Gallery in an online art auction, and feature an interview between Agnes Gund, Founder of Art for Justice Fund, and Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation.

InterActivity 2021
2021-05-13 - 2021-05-29
The world changed for everyone in 2020. Our personal and professional lives have been disrupted by everything from the COVID-19 pandemic to environmental disasters to the everyday changes that happen in life. During this time, our global community called on our foundations as a caring, connected community to not just endure, but also to plant seeds for future growth—exemplifying what resilience looks like, both in our field and for our communities.
Our resilience journey is not over, and InterActivity 2021 will be a critical time for continued care and connection. Through carefully curated, skills-based training workshops, we are making investments in rebuilding resilient organizations. Critical networking and social events will feed the connections we know are so necessary for meeting our mental and emotional needs as we continue to navigate these trying times.

19th ICOM-CC Triennial Conference in Beijing, China
2021-05-17 - 2021-05-22
Theme: Transcending Boundaries: Integrated Approaches to Conservation
In ICOM-CC we are excited and full of enthusiastic expectations for our next Triennial Conference. This will be the first time ICOM-CC goes to “zhōng guó”, 中国 (the Middle Country) for a conference on conservation. The theme of the conference is: “Transcending Boundaries: Integrated Approaches to Conservation”. The conference will serve as an eye-opener as well as an outstanding forum for dialogue amongst conservation professionals from all over the world. Our aim is to bring together, exchange, and discuss knowledge, traditions, and skills with conservation professionals from both East and West and in this way learn from each other’s practices, philosophies, and materials.

EuropeanaTech x AI Webinar Series: Qurator-ai, Curation Technologies
2021-05-21 - 2021-05-22
How can Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) help us to enrich and research cultural heritage collections? How can ML models be adapted to the complexities of historical and cultural material it has not been trained for? Which biases can we reveal in historical collections? How can we gain new perspectives by using AI in researching cultural heritage data? Our new webinar series will discuss these questions with you and present projects and people who are reflecting on exactly these matters.
On Friday 21 May we will present Qurator.ai – Curation Technologies, a project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This project is developing an innovative technology platform that supports knowledge workers in various industries to address the challenges they face when curating digital content. In this session, Georg Rehm, DFKI, will introduce Qurator, and we will explore three use cases for AI in cultural heritage curation, including Semantic Storytelling (Stefan Grill, 3pc/Xinnovations); Image Garden (Joachim Quantz, ART+COM); and Qurator in the Library (Clemens Neudecker, Berlin State Library). A panel discussion on AI and digital transformation will conclude the session.

2021 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo
2021-05-24 - 2021-05-25, 2021-06-07 - 2021-06-10
The AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo is the only event of its scope and scale. It brings together museums of all types and sizes—from art and history museums to zoos and botanic gardens—to share ideas and make connections that are transformative. It’s a place where all museum professionals learn from one another, create partnerships, and leave inspired to make an impact on their museums, communities, and the world.
The 2021 AAM Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo (#AAM2021) is taking place virtually May 24 and June 7-9.

Cultural Enterprises Conference – The Association For Cultural Enterprises
2021-05-24 - 2021-05-28
The Cultural Enterprises Conference 2021 is now open for booking. Bringing the sector together again, this time with our dynamic and intuitive digital platform on 24 – 27 May 2021.
Programme Highlights:
–Connect: A full day to explore the Trade Show, engage with exhibitors and start networking with fellow delegates and speakers.
–Consolidate: A full day of seminars focussed on helping you make the most of your existing business.
–Create: Today’s seminars will look at new and creative ways of generating sustainable income.
–Renew: A final day of seminars designed to help you build a business fit for the future.
We’re working with Swapcard, a world-class conference and exhibition platform bringing you the very best in digital engagement. Watch this video to see how to:

Explore all the sessions and create your own agenda
Use live chat to connect with delegates, exhibitors and speakers from around the world
Set up your own profile to meet like-minded colleagues across the sector

MUŻE.X Shaping Museum Features, Spring Webinar Series: Linda Norris
2021-05-27 - 2021-05-28
We are delighted to bring you the second series of pre-conference webinar events in the run-up to the conference MUŻE.X – Shaping Museum Futures. Three international voices from the museum world shall be in conversation with the conference convenors Prof Carmel Borg and Dr. Sandro Debono. The one-hour conversations shall revolve around participatory practices, creativity in museums, and collections-development practices in response to the new realities imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Linda Norris is Senior Specialist, Methodology and Practice at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC). As the co-author of Creativity in Museum Practice, Linda is an international thought leader in facilitating conversation and action surrounding the ways creativity can transform museums, shape more compelling narratives and create deeper, more inclusive community connections.

Americans for the Arts 2021 Annual Convention: Building an Equitable Arts, Culture, and Creative Economy Together
2021-06-08 - 2021-06-12
As the country reemerges and rebuilds from the pandemic, 2021 can be a moment of hope for everyone and a chance to share our art in all the ways we have missed. For the arts and culture sector, it will also be a year of navigating reopening challenges and continuing momentum in the fight for racial equity. The 2021 Annual Convention is our opportunity to gather and reimagine our creative field and communities.

Join us for a week of inspiring keynotes, breakout sessions, and networking opportunities focused on the pressing questions ahead:

Centering Equity in Creative Recovery
Putting Creative Workers and Cultural Organizations to Work
Improving Policies and Practices for the Creative Economy
Envisioning Tomorrow’s Creative Engines

This year, we are thrilled to offer a number of scholarship opportunities for those unable to access resources for a paid registration to attend the 2021 Annual Convention. We strongly encourage those that identify as, reside in, and/or directly serve communities of color, rural populations, audiences with disabilities, LGBTQIA+, and/or marginalized audiences to submit a request for a scholarship. Learn more and submit your request here by May 3, 2021.

Axiell Virtual User Conference
2021-06-08 - 2021-06-19
The Virtual User Conference will take learnings from last year to craft a program of value-driven sessions and networking opportunities to help you get the most out of our user community and your partnership with Axiell. The conference will run June 8-18 and feature product roadmaps, tips & tricks, user stories and interactive discussions.

Ecsite Online Conference 2021
2021-06-09 - 2021-06-12
The Ecsite Online Conference will be a unique professional development opportunity, offering an intense mix of intellectual stimulation, purposeful and creative sessions, business opportunities, and unparalleled networking …. all true to the spirit of the Ecsite community – creative, engaging, open and professional.
The virtual conference will be hosted on Hopin, allowing participants to access interactive areas and to easily network with their peers. Attendees can jump into speed meetings, search for other participants and book one-to-one or small group meetings. In addition, participants can enjoy the Business Buzz, the conference’s trade fair, where exhibitors will showcase the latest products and services with live sessions, demonstrations and promotional videos. The Ecsite Online Conference will also feature social events, such as the annual party and a ‘not-so-Nocturne’.
To register for the event and to find more information, please click here. The cheapest rate ends on 29 June 2021. This year, Ecsite is also introducing its new Solidarity scheme, where participants can gift a conference ticket to those who might be new to the event or who might not be able to afford a ticket.
Over 1200 science engagement professionals from 60 countries are expected to attend, alongside more than 60 exhibitors. Last year’s Ecsite virtual conference brought its members together to connect, learn and share knowledge through #EcsiteOnline.

Storytelling with Digital Culture
2021-06-09 - 2021-06-10
Humans have always told, retold, and listened to stories. They allow us to make sense of the world, to learn, and to empathise with and connect with each other. Cultural heritage institutions are increasingly using digital media to share the stories of their collections online.
In this webinar, we hear from members of a Europeana Task Force that has been collecting and analysing examples of online digital storytelling from the cultural heritage sector. Discover some of the examples we loved and find out how we approached the task of analysing our emotional reactions to them.
We are also delighted to welcome some of the people behind the examples the Task Force used as case studies.

MUŻE.X Shaping Museum Features, Spring Webinar Series: Danielle Kuijten
2021-06-11 - 2021-06-12
We are delighted to bring you the second series of pre-conference webinar events in the run-up to the conference MUŻE.X – Shaping Museum Futures. Three international voices from the museum world shall be in conversation with the conference convenors Prof Carmel Borg and Dr. Sandro Debono. The one-hour conversations shall revolve around participatory practices, creativity in museums, and collections-development practices in response to the new realities imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Danielle Kuijten is acting director and co-curator at Imagine IC, a pioneer in the field of contemporary heritage practices. Her main focus is on participatory collecting methods, contemporary collecting, action curating and reflective practice. Danielle has been an active member of COMCOL ICOM’s international committee for collecting, and since 2019 in the role of chair.
