Creative Industries Academy: Concert, Conference and Design Fair

I'll be heading to East Timor soon to speak and participate in the Creative Industries Academy Concert, Conference and Design fair.  I've just received the press release which includes a link to the event program, it looks big!

"Academy of Arts and Creative Industries
Between July 14 to 17 the Dili Cultural Centre – CCD (former Mercado Lama) will host a Concert, International Conference and Design Fair, with the main purpose of launching the future Academy of Arts and Creative Industries of Timor-Leste. The program will start on Thursday the 14th, at 6pm, with a Concert by national and international artists, and a special appearance by HE the Prime-minister, Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão. On the the 15th and 16th, an International Conference will take place, featuring sessions on visual arts, music, dance, cinema, television, architecture, design, publicity, crafts, literature, museums, galleries and many more. During these days and until Sunday the 17th, CCD will open to the public, who besides taking part in these events may also visit the Design Fair which will take place in CCD’s gardens. This event is a joint-organisation of the State Secretariat of Culture, the State Secretariat of the Counsell of Ministers, and the Queensland College of Arts, Griffith University, in Australia."

read the press release