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=ATANA Program=

ATANA is a combination of training, matching and network. They are active in scouting new board members, committee members and advisors for the cultural sector. ATANA focuses on people with a double cultural identity or experience. People who are comfortable in the Netherlands and are also at ease with one of the many cultures in the Netherlands. To enlist, quality is pre-eminent. An intensive and personal selection precedes admittance to the training program. It started in the year 2000 and it is financed by the Dutch Government. The focus lies on the cultural sector. From 2004 until 2006 there was an ATANA Civil Society program financed by Oranjefonds.

=Training program=

ATANA offers a training program that gives access to the recent insights, techniques and networks in the cultural field. This program entails a module “facts and backgrounds” an individual program of working visits to the Parliament, Culture Council Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. The complete ATANA training program consists of three modules.
 * 1) Facts and backgrounds to cultural institutions.
 * 2) * The main points are: the social fabric of cultural institutions, juridical and financial matters, funding models, international relations.
 * 3) Cases
 * 4) * Teams of 10 participants work on field-tested cases. The meetings are presided by managing directors of cultural institutions who also bring in the case material.
 * 5) Working visits
 * 6) * Participants visit a number of cultural institutions with which they are likely to do business as board members. Such institutions are the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, The Culture Council, The Dutch Lower House, various foundations and cultural institutions.

=Matching= Making assessments of positions as board or committee members or advisors at Dutch cultural institutions, approaching those institutions to take advantage of the ATANA network. In this respect the Scouting teams play an important role. They are specialized in the cultural board landscape and the teams know the qualities of the ATANA participants. If cultural institutions have a vacancy in their (advisory) board, they can announce it by ATANA so they can search for a match. ATANA succeeded the past 12 years to place more than 500 people at advisory board or supervisory board. Examples of organizations with ATANA boardmembers are Nederlands Dans Theater, Boekman Stichting, ViAfrica, Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam and Science Center NEMO.

=Network= The ATANA participants form an active and vivid platform of board members. Participants, scouts, board members and a number of people from the cultural sector meet during network meetings in Amsterdam. This is to network and to meet ATANA participants. The evenings take place every quarter of a year, every third Tuesday of that month. Every network meeting starts with a special guest with a introduction of a guest with a discussion panel. The main topic during this network meetings is Cutural Diversity seen from many angles. In 12 years ATANA had about 70 speakers. Amongst them are the former minister of integration and housing, Ella Vogelaar, former director of The Cultural Leadership Program in England Naseem Khan, the writers Adriaan van Dis and Abdelkader Benali and the director of Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Ivo van Hove.

= Advisory Board = ATANA has a advisory board with persons who represent different sectors in Dutch civil and professional Society. Their function is to promote and support ATANA in their networks. Members of the board are international lawyer Phon van den Biesen, PvdA politician and theatre director John Leerdam, former minister of Health, Welfare and Sport Hedy d’Ancona and founder of former director of the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Jan Herman Meerdink.

=Night of Nights= The Night of Nights took place in the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam on the 15th of January 2011. It was the 11th anniversary for ATANA. Motto of the night was: Diversity in the spotlight.
 * There were debates about the sense and nonsense of diversity in politics, culture and economy.
 * You could speed date about the debate and discus about your future.
 * There were several workshops and acts, you could buy New Dutch things on the Nightmarket.
 * Entrepreneurs of the new Dutch generation with pitches about their work.
 * The launch of the book ‘Een olievloek bij heldere hemel’ written by ATANA director Richtje Sybesma and founder of ATANA Rob Boonzajer Flaes.
 * Closing act by stand up comedian Jörgen Rayman.

=Results 2000 - 2011=

=References=

=External links= binoq atana

Night of Nights (translated)

Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds

Oranjefonds

Naseem Khan

Cultural Leadership Program

Description Cultural Diversity by UNESCO