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Atlantic Arts Federation
The Atlantic Arts Federation is a constituent organisation of the Ministry of Culture.
The Atlantic Arts Federation is a cultural federation and educational institution associated with the Ministry of Culture responsible for providing tertiary arts education, maintaining performance venues and promoting excellence in the fine arts throughout Vekllele. The Federation serves as both an educational institution and a cultural centre, and facilitates a variety of programs to benefit the arts. It is partially funded by the Ministry but otherwise autonomous from it, and the Ministry retains no editorial or administrative control.
Members of the federation include schools specialising in different artistic disciplines and professional arts and performance organisations. Through its constituents it arranges exchanges, education programmes, performances, exhibitions and festivals.
Constituents
- Commonwealth Conservatory of Music: Advanced musical education and performance training.
- Mayaguana Federal Conservatory: Major Kalina school of music at CUWI.
- Atlantic Theatre Professional training for actors, directors and theatre technicians.
- Atlantic School of Dance: Classical and contemporary dance education and company associated with the University of Karu in Karu.
- National Ballet School: Professional ballet education and company of the University of Karu in Karu.
- Caribbean Opera Company: Professional opera performances and vocal training.
- Federation Concert Hall: Primary performance venue for musical events.
- Commonwealth Artist Exchange: Exchange, placement and residence programmes for Vekllei artists.
- Commonwealth Art Commission: Government visual arts promotion programmes, including publication of the National Design Atlas.
Departments
- Council of Musical Arts: Oversees the development and promotion of musical education, composition and performance across Vekllei.
- Congress of Classical Performance
- Congress of Composition & Theory
- Congress of Contemporary Music
- Council of Dramatic Arts: Manages the training and professional practice of acting, directing and theatrical production.
- Congress of Acting & Performance
- Congress of Direction & Production
- Council of Visual Arts: Supports and promotes both traditional and contemporary visual arts and artists.
- Congress of Traditional Arts
- Congress of Contemporary Practice
- Council of Atlantic Dance: Governs the standards and promotion of classical ballet and contemporary dance.
- Congress of Classical Ballet
- Congress of Contemporary Dance