A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR MORE POLICIES…

The Arterial Network, with the support of the Commonwealth Foundation and the Doen Foundation, has developed a cultural policy framework that may be used by civil society organisations as well as governments to develop cultural policies for their own countries based on international and African cultural policy instruments. They have also produced introductory papers on various cultural policy themes in order to develop and project African perspectives on these themes into regional and global debates about these. Both the cultural policy framework and introductory policy papers will be published by the end of 2010. In order to ensure that African creative practitioners remain on top of the debates around these themes and that in fact, they provide leadership in some of them, and that more African experts on these issues a re identified and nurtured, the Arterial Network isinviting interested individuals to participate in continental working/reading groups on various cultural policy themes.