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Hilda Chan, Yip Kai Chun and Orlean Lai on how to navigate the changing landscapes of curatorial expression. Fostering our own conversations they identify the new roles of curators in the 21st Century going beyond physical walls to a virtual world and seeking innovative ways to collaborate and empower audiences. Time to spark meaningful connections, revelations and unearth ourselves. Hilda Chan is an independent curator and gallery manager based in Hong Kong. She aims to foster across disciplines collaborations in her projects and is interested to explore issues related to identities, cu...

ITV Eyes Youth-Skewing Scripted, Factual ADVERTISEMENT ITV is looking to ramp up commissions of youth-skewing scripted and factual, with plans to premiere some content on-demand first on the ITV Hub. Paul Mortimer, ITV’s head of digital channels and acquisitions, revealed his strategy in an address at the Creative Cities Convention. Mortimer leads the commissioning strategy for ITV Hub and the younger-skewing brands ITV2, ITVBe and CITV. “The pandemic has fast-tracked the behavior of audiences, more people want content on their own terms and at their own convenience, and younger audiences...

New publication investigates digital developments on the African continent Digital Imaginaries. African Positions Beyond the Binary. KARLSRUHE .-ZKM launched a new publication called Digital Imaginaries. Digital Imaginaries. African Positions Beyond the Binary was published in German and English by Kerber Verlag Bielefeld/Berlin on March 23, 2021. The book presents the results of the three-year cooperative project Digital Imaginaries (2018-2021). The project partners were Kër Thiossane and Afropixel Festival in Dakar/Senegal, Wits Art Museum and Fak'ugesi Festival of African Digital Innovat...

Left to right; Waseem Butt, Chris Meril and Dr Andrea Edel at LLF, 2019. The UNESCO Cities of Literature is a network of hubs of independent publishing and cities that host large-scale literary festivals around the world. The network was established in 2004, with the primary goal of promoting cultural connectivity by bringing together writers, translators, poets, small regional publishers and booksellers. It now has creative cities as members in seven fields: crafts and folk art, design, film, gastronomy, media arts and music. The network comprises hundreds of creative cities across 28 countr...

Dasta community revenues gutted, equality making gains published : 17 Feb 2021 at 04:00 Gp Capt Athikun Kongmee, Dasta's newly-appointed director-general (centre) at a Dasta press conference held yesterday. The pandemic derailed community-based tourism (CBT) revenue last year by 46.5%, according to the Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration (Dasta). Gp Capt Athikun Kongmee, the Dasta's newly-appointed director-general, said tourism revenue in 20 communities under the supervision of Dasta declined to 814,755 baht per househ...