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Profiles: Kazakhstan
CAICAM - Central Asian International Centre of Art
Management
Gagarin av., bl.#100 - 69
Kazakhstan
Director: Mrs Saule Tanekeyeva
Phone: +7 3272 779223
Fax: +7 3272 778883
Background, orientation and purpose
KAZAKHSTAN
The Central Asian International Centre of Art Management was established in 2000. Its vision is to
create a healthy, pro-active and co-operative cultural community throughout Central Asia with the
goal of raising global awareness of Central Asia’s rich history, traditions and cultural treasures.
Project Central Asian Management School (Winter 2002), in conjunction with the second 'International
Roundtable Discussions on Cultural Life and Cultural Policy Issues', attempts to provide arts managers
with the skills and tools they need to work effectively and efficiently in their own environments and
further afield, and to take an active role - through education and practice on an ongoing basis - in the
research, analysis and formulation of a new cultural policy for Central Asia.
CAICAM’s short term objectives:
To create for Central Asia a systematic and ongoing base for professional education in international
standards of cultural management - including organisational management, production, and
representation - through an annual programme of intensive study and interaction with international
trainers and activists;
To give participants the pre-requisite(s) necessary for continued study in international programmes
and to broaden their view of the world marketplace;
To provide arts managers with a strong theoretical and practical base of strategic management skills
relevant to the arts market of today, that take into account the prevailing political and economic
structures;
to persuade arts managers, cultural and scientific practitioners, governmental and non-governmental
representatives, and privately-funded organisations and foundations concerned with cultural
development to become actively involved in the development of new cultural policy; and
To begin the process of building new networks throughout Central Asia which can, in both the short
and long term, become a voice and lobbying force for cultural development.
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