{"id":8627,"date":"2025-02-14T07:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T07:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artscouncilmalta.gov.mt\/?p=8627"},"modified":"2025-08-29T03:18:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T01:18:29","slug":"7th-world-summit-on-arts-and-culture-brings-arts-leaders-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/7th-world-summit-on-arts-and-culture-brings-arts-leaders-together\/","title":{"rendered":"7th World Summit on Arts and Culture brings arts leaders together"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the theme,&nbsp;<em>At&nbsp;the crossroads? Cultural Leadership&nbsp;in the 21st&nbsp;Century<\/em>,&nbsp;the World Summit focussed on the aspirations of artists, government leaders and cultural operators against a backdrop of new technologies, global security concerns, new patterns of migration and changing national contexts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As&nbsp;IFACCA&nbsp;gathers&nbsp;and analyses the reports from each of the sessions, which will be posted online,&nbsp;some&nbsp;recurring themes arose. In particular, the urgent call for action on global issues affecting our societies and how leadership from the culture sector can play a more critical role than ever.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World Summit delegates agreed that by working together at regional and global levels, much&nbsp;could be achieved. Delegates were particularly inspired by keynote&nbsp;Arn&nbsp;Chorn-Pond&nbsp;(Cambodia)&nbsp;on the&nbsp;role of arts and&nbsp;culture in transforming lives and by the final session, moderated by Robert Palmer, on where to next.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Summit&#8217;s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsummit.org\/programme\/full-programme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">12 Parallel sessions&nbsp;<\/a>enabled delegates to drill down on the details of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an extraordinary set of circumstances, that illuminated the Summit theme, the&nbsp;Programme Director, Nina&nbsp;Obuljen, had to return to her home in Croatia during the Summit as she was called upon by the Prime Minister to take on the role of Minister of Culture.&nbsp;Ms&nbsp;Obuljen,&nbsp;able to return to the World Summit on the final day in her new role, was warmly congratulated by&nbsp;World Summit delegates and partners on such a&nbsp;prestigious&nbsp;recognition of her work.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u2018The World Summit has&nbsp;demonstrated&nbsp;global leaders\u2019 roles in shaping and leading the cultural sector,&nbsp;as well as providing an&nbsp;understanding&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;diversity of&nbsp;contexts in which we all work.&nbsp;The World Summit was an exciting opportunity to share&nbsp;inspiring new ideas,&nbsp;form&nbsp;international relationships and collaborations.&nbsp;It also&nbsp;reinforced&nbsp;that we are stronger&nbsp;when we have a collective voice\u2019&nbsp;<\/em>said Stephen Wainwright, Chair of IFACCA and Chief Executive, Creative New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 7th&nbsp;World Summit&nbsp;was staged in the Mediterranean Conference Centre, Valletta, Malta. As IFACCA\u2019s&nbsp;flagship&nbsp;networking&nbsp;event,&nbsp;it&nbsp;brought&nbsp;together key figures from the global arts and culture community.&nbsp;The World Summit provides a vital and unique space for international peers to connect, collaborate and collectively strengthen the sector and it is a direct&nbsp;response&nbsp;to needs expressed by&nbsp;IFACCA&nbsp;members and the wider arts and culture community.&nbsp;For European members, the Summit provided a unique opportunity to create meaningful connections with ministries of culture and arts councils attending from the Pacific,&nbsp;North America,&nbsp;Asia, Africa and Latin America.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Source:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsummit.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.artsummit.org\/en\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For more information visit:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsummit.org\/programme\/preliminary-conclusions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.artsummit.org\/programme\/preliminary-conclusions\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo Credit: Therese Debono<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Summit brought together over 380 delegates from nearly 90 countries to debate new approaches to cultural leadership<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized-mt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8640,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8627\/revisions\/8640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artscouncil.abcnow.xyz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}