Cultural Co-operation
Encyclopedia
Cultural Co-operation is a London
-based arts
and education
charity
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It was formed in 1987 in order to promote intercultural contact, dialogue and understanding. It does this through a programme of not-for-profit public activities that encourage learning about and participation in the world’s diverse cultural heritage
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The programme comprises 5 activity strands:
A Festival showcase (FS): the Music Village Festival, a free admission summer event that creates a safe and welcoming public “contact zone” for learning and about and celebrating world cultures.
An Artist Network (AN): this encourages cross-community creative collaborations between creative practitioners of diverse national and faith origin now living in London; it additionally provides network members with professional support to connect them and other excluded artists to one another and to the mainstream.
A year-round Education & Training Programme (E&T): this offers immersive learning in arts, heritage and citizenship
skills in schools, museums & the workplace
Dialogue & Debate (D&D): seminars and conferences to generate understanding and trust between people of different national descent an/or religious belief through structured engagement with complex intercultural and interfaith issues.
Policy & Consultancy (P&C): that provides professional advice to official bodies, mainstream organisations and community groups in the form of analysis, reflection and insight into our diverse origins, distinctive world views and common values.
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
-based arts
ARts
aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
and education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
charity
Charitable organization
A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization . It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A charitable organization is a type of non-profit organization (NPO). It differs from other types of NPOs in that it centers on philanthropic goals A...
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It was formed in 1987 in order to promote intercultural contact, dialogue and understanding. It does this through a programme of not-for-profit public activities that encourage learning about and participation in the world’s diverse cultural heritage
Cultural heritage
Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations...
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The programme comprises 5 activity strands:
A Festival showcase (FS): the Music Village Festival, a free admission summer event that creates a safe and welcoming public “contact zone” for learning and about and celebrating world cultures.
An Artist Network (AN): this encourages cross-community creative collaborations between creative practitioners of diverse national and faith origin now living in London; it additionally provides network members with professional support to connect them and other excluded artists to one another and to the mainstream.
A year-round Education & Training Programme (E&T): this offers immersive learning in arts, heritage and citizenship
Citizenship
Citizenship is the state of being a citizen of a particular social, political, national, or human resource community. Citizenship status, under social contract theory, carries with it both rights and responsibilities...
skills in schools, museums & the workplace
Dialogue & Debate (D&D): seminars and conferences to generate understanding and trust between people of different national descent an/or religious belief through structured engagement with complex intercultural and interfaith issues.
Policy & Consultancy (P&C): that provides professional advice to official bodies, mainstream organisations and community groups in the form of analysis, reflection and insight into our diverse origins, distinctive world views and common values.