Institute for Cultural and Arts Management

What is ICAM?

You are an officer or a manager in one of our local arts organization or cultural information. Imagine all the potential problems that you could be faced with day in and day out. Like: Where do I get the funding for my next production or exhibition? Towards what directions will I steer my organization? How will I mobilize my staff for this big festival? How will I market and promote my forthcoming event? These are but some of the numerous concerns that all of us are faced with as culture and arts managers.

Answering to the growing need for professional managers in arts and culture who can steer their organizations successfully toward the attainment of organizational goals, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) established the Institute for Cultural and Arts Management (ICAM) as a pioneering program through which culture and arts managers can develop skills and be trained to meet the challenges of the profession.

Vision

The Institute of Cultural and Arts Management envisions a professionally managed cultural and arts sector with a strong national network that promotes sustainable cultural development.

Mission

• ICAM shall be a catalyst for he empowerment of cultural and arts managers as effective agents of social transformation and integration.
  
  
• ICAM aims to professionalize the cultural and arts management sector grounded on a unified vision of sustainable cultural development.

What can ICAM offer you?

Because you are practitioners who are busy with your work, ICAM has devised an educational program that will be least disruptive of our current duties and responsibilities with the organizations you are affiliated with. Special five (5) day intensive courses on various aspects of arts and cultural  management will be offered in the venue of the requesting party. The non-degree courses will be taught by experienced and distinguished faculty members who are themselves practitioners in the field of arts and cultural management.

ICAM Courses Offered in the Regions

ICAM offers one (1) satellite course for 40 hours per month to interested groups in the regions. An ICAM team of five (5) people is sent to handle the week-long course. ICAM can offer any one of the following courses in the region with a minimum of 30 participants who are practitioners in the fields of arts and cultural management.

COURSES

• Cultural Festival Management
A course that every cultural worker must take. This looks at all the aspects of planning a festival–from the concept, through all details of planning, logistics, marketing and budget management. It will teach a wholistic and integrative approach that will bring together the disciplines of art, aspects of cultural tourism and industry. Case studies will be used to enhance the course.

• Project Management in Arts Organizations
A general overview course that will help develop skills in planning, organizing and implementing arts and culture projects, as well as discuss the various aspects of arts and culture project management in the Philippine context. 

• Cultural Heritage Management
An introductory course on management of cultural heritage programs, organizations and institutions. The course will tackle laws and policies on cultural heritage conservation, development of heritage sites, survey of cultural heritage programs by the government, cultural heritage mapping and strategies for cultural heritage promotion. Target participants are museum directors and officers, local government officials involved in heritage conservation, local tourism officials and officials of heritage organizations.

ICAM’s responsibilities

• Airfare of ICAM team (course c o o r d i n a t o r, faculty and staff)
  
• Honoraria of course coordinator and faculty
  
• Accommodation of the ICAM team
  
• Course Kit (one master copy)
  
• Certificates of Participation of the participants

Regional partner’s responsibilities

• Marketing, logistics (venue & equipment), mobilization of participants, & coordination of the event
• List of participants
• Recommendation for the ICAM t e a m ’ s accommodation (3 quotations)
  
• Local transportation (pick-up and send-off to airports) and food of the ICAM team
  
• Preparation of registration materials and course kits
  
• Submission of a terminal report
  

HOW MAY OUR GROUP APPLY?

Requests must be addressed to:
The Executive Director
National Commission for the Culture and the Arts
633 Gen. Luna St., Intramuros, Manila

For further details please contact the ICAM Secretariat at 5272192 Loc 302/303
Fax: 5272191/94
Email: info@ncca.gov.ph

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