Encuentro Nacional de Gestores Culturales 2011

In the last three decades, there has been an accelerated process of professionalization of cultural workers. In Mexico, the federal government and the universities played an important role in the creation of spaces for reflection, discussion and training of cultural managers' that over time were fostered among managers, a self-recognition of their work not only in terms of occupation, but also of professional identity that needed some training and / or university education with ways to strengthen cultural management as a profession and an academic field.
The politics of policy driven
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In the last three decades, there has been an accelerated process of professionalization of cultural workers. In Mexico, the federal government and the universities played an important role in the creation of spaces for reflection, discussion and training of cultural managers' that over time were fostered among managers, a self-recognition of their work not only in terms of occupation, but also of professional identity that needed some training and / or university education with ways to strengthen cultural management as a profession and an academic field.
The politics of policy driven professional managers the National Council for Culture and the Arts in the previous administration, led to the multiplication of both training programs and university continuing education through the National Cultural Training and centralized controlled by the CONACULTA with avenues for professionalsionalización sector.
As part of the shares of this policy, we created some opportunities for dialogue among cultural managers at the regional, national and international, which led to the generation of diverse groups of managers who formed "professional associations", the vast majority of them failed to convene the active participation of the union for discussion and the search for better working with the state, much less, given their specific field, to be considered a legitimate and necessary agent for the generation of government cultural policies.
Currently, there is great diversity of university education offers undergraduate and graduate level in the field of cultural management, however, there is little exchange and collaborative work between the various educational institutions, an issue that has led each program to be itself an island apart from the attention and follow-upGuild demands for training and the work of academic peers with routes to the consolidation of cultural management as an academic field,
So, given the lack of space and Mexican cultural managers, we call cultural managers, institutions, universities, organizations, associations, networks, groups, companies and other groups to participate in creating a space for reflection, discussion and making agreements with respect to the professionalization of cultural management in Mexico: history, progress, problems and proposals for collaborative work for defining the direction of the actions of different stakeholders in the process of professionalization.