The Power of Culture

At the first Bayimba festival, poor attendance and failing sponsors inflicted huge financial losses on the organisation. But it managed to pull itself together and this year, against all expactations, it's back on its feet.

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SUSPECT is an evolving, international art collective that wants to uncover the subtle beauty in everyday objects. Recently it opened its first exhibition in Mumbai.

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Films by students are not normally played in the cinema or on television, and only seldom make it to a film festival. The Student Short programme of the Latin American Film Festival offers starting directors a chance to show their work.

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Children's Advocacy Production, a ngo in Freetown, Sierra Leone, firmly believes that every child should memorise the Child Rights Act. So they are composing an album of songs to encourage kids to not only learn the Act but also hum it.

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Slavery, revolution and isolation are the themes at the big Cuba exhibition in the Groninger Museum. The exhibition covers the period 1868 to the present day, but it focuses mainly on the years after Fidel Castro's assumption of power.

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Des cinémas pour l'Afrique officially started during the Cannes film festival with the symbolic sale of cinema seats.

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Three Rotterdam art institutions have joined forces to introduce to the general public Brazilian artists, architects, photographers and designers.

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Nowadays in Kenia, the climate for satire is not very welcoming. The brand-new XYZ-Show seems to suffer.

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