International Council for Cultural Centers (I3C)

 Between 28th and 31st of October, 2015, in the capital of El Salvador, San Salvador, will be held the 2nd Latin American Congress on Cultural Policies and Cultura Viva Network. With the support of the president of El Salvador and various Latin American Ministries of Culture, this important gathering of active non-governmental organizations in the rising Latin American field of “arts for social transformation” will discuss and further develop programs and projects.

• African Arterial Network (http://www.arterialnetwork.org)
• Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa (OCPA)
• UNESCO Network of Community Multimedia Centers (CMC) across African countries (http://www.unesco.org/webworld/cmc)

• Arts Network Asia - www.artsnetworkasia.org
• Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, The Regional Arts and Culture Programme (RACP) of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) supported multiple community arts project with the potential to form a network of organizations and revive the socialist-built “houses of culture” community cultural centers - www.swiss-cooperation.admin.ch/centralasia/en/Home/Activities_in_Kyrgyzstan/Public_Institutions_and_Services/Arts_and_Culture, Contact persons: mouattara.bashirova@sdc.net; kanykei.mukhtarova@sdc.net; emilia.salieva@sdc.net)
• Vietnam: Houses of Culture
• CECArtsLink (http://www.cecartslink.org), Arts Partnerships in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia, and the Caucasus

• Japan, Shizuoka National Cultural Festival (of Community Arts and Heritage Groups) - www.city.numazu.shizuoka.jp/living_in/english/pdf/e091001-1.pdf
• Japan, Tokyo Wonder Site - www.tokyo-ws.org - Institute for Contemporary Arts and International Cultural Exchange, contact person Yasuku Imamura, imamura@tokyo-ws.org and Power Point Project: developing “points of culture”/cultural centers, where “points create lines, lines create surface and surfaces house people and relations” to promote sustainable development through local culture and arts.
• South Korea, Sarangbang Culture Club Network (Contact persons, Mr. Ryu, Seongnam Foundation Project Coordinator, zoasis@naver.com, http://www.sncf.or.kr, and Dr. Yunju Kang, Professor in Arts & Cultural Management, Kyunghee Cyber University Seoul, artkang@khcu.ac.kr)
• South-East Asia Community Learning Centers (CLCs) Network,initiated by UNESCO in 1998 in Thailand (UNESCO Bangkok): set up in both village and urban areas in 24 countries in the Asia and Pacific region with definition: “Local educational institutions outside the formal education system, for villages and urban areas usually set up and managed by local people to provide various learning opportunities for community development and improvement of people quality of life” (UNESCO Bangkok Appeal Training materials for Educational Personnel: ALP-CE, 1995)

Read more in Manual for the Implementation of CLCs, published by UNESCO Bangkok (available at http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001211/121155eo.pdf),
The Ban Nai Soi Community Learning Center pilot model - www.naisoi.org/about.html

• Vietnam: Houses of Culture
• India: Khoj Workshops, International Artists’ Association - www.khojworkshop.org
• Indonesia, Jakarta Arts Council (contact Marco Kusumawijaya, marco.kusumawijaya@dkj.or.id), National Green Map Project

• Australian Arts Council (IFACCA member)
• Australian Network for Arts and Technology (ANAT)
• Pacific Arts Alliance, coordinated by Fiji Center for the Arts, contact person Letila Mitchel: letila@pacificartsalliance.com); Vanuatu Cultural Center
• New Zealand, Maori cultural centers network

• European Network of Cultural Centers - ENCC - www.encc.eu
• Amateo: European Network for Active Participation in Cultural Activities - www.amateo.info

National Networks:

• France

1. FAMDT: Federation des Associations de Musiques et Dances Traditionnelles (http://www.famdt.com)
2. Federation Francaise des Maisons des Jeunes et de la Culture (http://www.ffmjc.org)
3. Fedurok (http://www.la-fedurok.org) of 77 structures for modern non-professional music, including the Federation des Scenes de Jazz; l'UFISC (http://www.ufisc.org) and the Spanish network of centers for live music, Asociacion Cultural Coordnadora Estatal de Salas de Musica en Directo, ACCES (http://www.salasdeconciertos.com) with 195 venues; contact person Philippe Berthelot (berthelot@la-fedurok.org)

• Holland, Community Arts Database (http://www.communityartdatabase.hl)
• Bulgaria, National Network of Chitalishte, community cultural centers and public libraries (http://www.chitalishte.bg); AGORA, National Platform of Chitalishte (http://www.agora-bg.org)
• Spain, Catalunya: Network of Civic Centers, Centres Civics

• Latin-American Network of Arts for Social Change (http://www.artetransformador.net/eng/inicio_eng.html)
• Portal of Culture of Latin America and the Caribbean (http://www.lacult.org/home/indice.php?lg=2)
• Mercosur Cultural Network (http://www.redculturalmercosur.org/)

• USA Community Arts Network - CAN (http://www.communityarts.net/canabout.php)
• Canada Arts Council, Inter-Arts: Artists and Community Collaboration for Integrated Arts Program (http://www.canadacouncil.ca/interarts/)
• Canadian National Network of Creative Cities (http://www.creativecity.ca)

These centers are often more oriented toward professional arts showcasing, performances, and professional artists residencies, but their overall mission and community outreach programs intersect on many levels with the mission and work of the smaller, more voluntary arts oriented community cultural centers I3C represents.