international community cultural centre destination
Welcome to community.culture.info – listing cultural networks members and building a database of community cultural centers in association with the International Council for Cultural Centers (I3C) (www.international3c.org)
International Council for Cultural Centers (I3C) Mission Statement:
International Council for Cultural Centers (I3C)
Imagine the world as a network of "living houses", vital points of human creativity and living cultural traditions: community cultural centers in city neighborhoods, small towns, and villages, connected through Internet, telephone, national and international meetings, and various forms of face-to-face cultural exchanges. The International Council for Cultural Centers (I3C) (or in Bulgarian, the country of I3C's headquarters, "Международен Съвет на Самодейните Средища" is the global network of national networks/associations of community cultural centers (3c-s), which are community buildings dedicated to social revitalization through local (often amateur) arts, safeguarding local intangible heritage, and promoting inter-ethnic and inter-religious dialogue. A working definition we have given to a "community cultural center" is:
community-based, physically built, multi-functional space, which are dedicated to overall community development through the medium of creative activities linked to modern and folk arts, the preservation of local intangible cultural heritage, as well as hosting performances and exhibitions of professional and non-professional artists with the mission to enhance social cooperation and cohesion beyond ethnic, religious, generational, and socio-economic devides, thus nurturing human creative and spiritual development and quality of life.
I3C works closely with its first continental network member, the European Network of Cultural Centers (http://www.encc.eu) to help other national and continental networks be formed to foster around the world an understanding of art and local intangible heritage as key forces for a better quality of life. I3C, as the global voice for advocacy and support for 3c-s around the world.
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