Agency for the Development of Kanak Culture
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The Agency for the Development of Kanak Culture (ADCK) is an administrative agency, established in 1989, to preserve and promote Kanak and Pacific Islands culture, art and heritage. It was formed on the first anniversary of the signature Matignon-Oudinot Ageement
's to recognise and promote the values of kanak culture..
Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre
is ADCK's headquarters. It is the place of identity's affirmation and the recognition of cultural creations
Matignon Agreements (1988)
Matignon Agreements refers to agreements signed in the Hotel Matignon by Jean-Marie Tjibaou and Jacques Lafleur on June 26, 1988, between loyalists, who wanted to keep New Caledonia as a part of the French Fifth Republic, and separatists, who did not...
's to recognise and promote the values of kanak culture..
Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre
Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre
The Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre, on the narrow Tinu Peninsula, approximately northeast of the historic centre of Nouméa, the capital of New Caledonia, celebrates the vernacular Kanak culture, the indigenous culture of New Caledonia, amidst much political controversy over the independent...
is ADCK's headquarters. It is the place of identity's affirmation and the recognition of cultural creations