|
International
Art Treasures Web Magazine February 2005 |
|
North America's Culture Capital for 2006 is ?North America deserves to have at least one city honored as the year's cultural capital and IATWM is determined to see it happens. In an earlier Editor's Note, IATWM lamented the lack of activity and promotion by the cities selected by the OAS as culture capital in prior years. North America is rich with artistic heritage and should showcase this to the world. We were disappointed to learn that the cities who received the honor, after paying an admission fee for consideration, were presented with a substantial bill to pay for the honor. That is unfair, especially from what should be a non-profit government agency. It excludes, based on financial considerations, cities who have much to offer the art traveler from receiving the honor. While we cannot argue an entrance fee, that should only cover the review process on a break-even calculation. Our European neighbors do a much better job of promoting their cities as cultural capitals helped through the European Union's decision to designate at least one city as the European Culture Capital, often years in advance, for example
Our readers love our features on the European Union's Capital of Culture. Genoa and Lille, both featured in our 2003 editions are among our most popular articles ever. Cork, 2005's EU culture capital is yet another popular article. Knowing that our readers enjoy these city-based features. IATWM decided to include a city feature every edition and have our next 6 cities predetermined. The question, which city should be honored as North American City of Culture 2006, without a substantial entrance fee for consideration and whopping payment for the designation, remains. It is a question IATWM is prepared to answer. Our September 2005 edition city feature will be IATWM's selection as the North American City of Culture for 2006. We will accept applications from any North American city's Convention and Visitor's Board or similar official tourism agency for the city. The application is simple, one representative from the CVB needs to send an email to Application. In the email we want to know the following information
The representative will be our primary point of contact for the article for the city we select. Entry is restricted to one representative from the city's official tourism board / CVB. There is not a cost to apply, nor is there a fee for the city who will be featured in our September 2005 edition as IATWM's North American City of Culture for 2006. We do ask that the email come without attachments (otherwise our virus software will delete it unread). Our readers are free to contact their own cities CVB and ask that they apply. We believe in our city and think it is a fabulous place to live and to visit. We hope that our readers are fortunate and feel the same way about their city. Two cities will not be considered for the 2006 honor, Toronto and Boston. Toronto is featured in each edition and this edition Boston is our city feature. The deadline for application is April 30, 2005. On May 1st we will delete the email address so any future emails won't be received by us. We will contact the winning city's representative once our selection is made and begin our work on our feature article. For those that apply and do not earn the 2006 honor, keep in mind, you've provided advance notice to IATWM of some fabulous art events in 2006. We have a lot of pages to fill! |