Culture and Art Network
An Important Division of N.I.C.E., but Why a Network?

The Culture and Arts Network (CAN) is a method to connect businesses, organizations and the general public to commerce, whose production has altruistic virtue. This collective approach has strategic advantages that provide long-term tourism enhancement for the network members. Just as a television network brings together a variety of diverse programs which often turns actors into celebrities of fantasy, CAN connects a number of organizations to make role models of those who have worked and are working to make the world a better place.

A goal of CAN is to promote and develop various programs of in the field of Culture and Art. These programs will represent networks that entertain and educate as well as help lesson ignorance within the individuals of our collective communities.

"Ignorance is a mindset which confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible" ...

It is anticipated that the network will consists of diverse outlets of performing arts, tours of historical buildings and points of interest, museums and other locations of cultural significance. This will also include the marketing, distributing and/or publishing of educational newsletters, pamphlets, books or other cultural network materials.

CAN Projects scheduled for January 2011 are:

1. The creation of monthly N.I.C.E. CAN tours of sites pertaining to long-hidden ethnic contributions to Los Angeles.
2. The support of an international tourism network, which provides for exchange of Artistic and Cultural goods between indigenous producers and international consumers. Beginning network members reside in Los Angeles, Linstead, Jamaica, Ghana, West Africa and New Orleans, Louisiana.