Our Mission
The International Council for Cultural Centers is the global network of national networks/associations of community cultural centers (3c-s), currently connecting more than 50 countries on 6 continents. I3C hopes to link these houses in a family of shared ideals and practices, weaving a larger, living and flexible global net embodying the analogy of the African shekere instrument net and way of producing sound: a net not only virtual but also very real and physically present through the actual house buildings enlivening communities on all continents.
I3C is currently the only international non-governmental organization representing internationally community cultural centers with their rights, responsibilities, and needs for favourable conditions for the activities of voluntary/non-paid artists and community animators around the world.
II International Congress on Culture and Social Transformation, Mar del Plata, Argentina, March 17-19, 2011
Sat, 03/12/2011 - 03:49 — Editor
The II International Congress on Culture and Social Transformation, Mar del Plata, Argentina, March 17-19, 2011 is organized by the Latin American Network of Arts for Social Transformation, RLATS, www.artestransformador.net, an I3C assocaited network, together with the Municipality of Buenos Aires.
Bread-making at the Glove Factory as follow-up to the EU Culture 2020 Conference
Sat, 03/12/2011 - 02:30 — Editor
The Culture 2020 Strategy Conference strenghtened an already forming partnership between I3C and the Budapest Observatory of Cultural Policies (www.budobs.org) with President Peter Inkei. Emerging is a potential future international research and cooperation and capacity-building partnership aiming the revitalization of the national networks of publicly-funded community cultural centers in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia as the first countries that would later include more from the region. In relation to this project, Nadezhda Savova explored with Budobs experts community cultural centers around Budapest. The first one was Marczibányi Cultural Center ( Marczibányi Téri Muvelodési Központ), http://www.marczi.hu, specializing in theater in education techniques for all ages and home to the Kava Creative Group that has worked on various international theater and drama in education programs.
