Cultural exchange

Architects from the South exchange knowledge

September 2005 -

The Latin American architect Ana Rascovsky participated in the international Summer Session of the Asia Design Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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"Winternachten" literature festival in Indonesia

September 2005 -

"Seeing the bamboo swaying in the wind is very comforting," says Ellen Ombre, reporting from tropical Bandar Lampung on Sumatra. She is enchanted. The author is in the process of a literary tour of Indonesia together with three colleagues.

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Lunatics director Hogeweg: 'Everything is determined by the difference in culture'

June 2005 -

On the occasion of the tenth birthday of the Hivos Culture Fund, the Lunatics from the Netherlands will work together with the Indonesian theatrical group Payung Hitam to perform Black Moon. Lunatics director Koos Hogeweg talks about the creative process in Bandung.

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EU and Mediterranean countries work together for intercultural dialogue

June 2005 -

In the Discotheque Project, young people from the Euro Mediterranean region collect popular music that is then broadcast to a wide audience via Internet, MP3, CDs and cassettes. The Discotheque Project is one of the on-going projects of the Anna Lindh Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures. The inauguration of this foundation was held on 20 April 2005 in Alexandria, Egypt.

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Poetry festivals in Africa

May 2005 -

Six years ago on March 21, the first World Poetry Day was held. UNESCO hopes that this initiative will encourage ‘the reading and writing of poetry throughout the world’. Every year, this day is used to draw people’s attention to, and recognise the importance of, regional, national and international movements in the world of poetry.

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African artists about the Diaspora

March 2005 -

The exhibition Looking Both Ways brings work by twelve African artists from the Diaspora together in the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon. Three of the artists explain what it means to work outside of the African continent while simultaneously looking at 'home'.

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Latin-American artistic network aids social development

February 2005 -

Thirteen artistic organisations in five countries have joined forces in the Arte y Transformación Social network that presented itself during the World Social Forum held from 26 to 31 January 2005 in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre.

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Payung Hitam puts on co-production with The Lunatics

February 2005 -

To mark the 10 th anniversary of the setting-up of the Hivos Culture Fund, the Indonesian theatre company Payung Hitam is coming to the Netherlands in June to put on a production with the Dutch Lunatics that was produced up in Indonesia in May. Artistic director Rachman Sabur was in the Netherlands for a few days to prepare the production.

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European Cultural Foundation focuses on cultural integration

February 2005 -

In 2005 the grants programme of the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) will focus on various aspects of cultural integration. One of the key aspects is 'intercultural competence and collaboration across borders'. The ECF is looking for strategies that bring about mutual understanding and intercultural dialogue.

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Exchanging modern music and urban culture: the Marseille-Kinshasa project

February 2005 -

The CAURI project in Marseille and Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo) is bringing French and African musicians together, in order to collaborate in the fields of modern and electronic music and in new trends in the urban environment.

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