From now until 16 May you can rewrite how Europe should tackle cultural diversity. Help shape the future by going online and responding to a paper produced by the ‘Rainbow Platform’ (Civil Society Platform for Intercultural Dialogue, an initiative of the ECF and Culture Action Europe (EFAH), facilitated by LabforCulture.

You can comment on the recommendations in the paper and even add your own submissions! Just go to the site http://rainbowplatform.labforculture.org, read Rainbow Paper II and contribute your comments/changes.

This paper brings many issues of intercultural dialogue to the fore. Should there be a system of monitoring and reporting on the practice of intercultural dialogue, and if so, who should do this? Is it right that the EU should ‘mainstream’ diversity policies in its various programmes? Can there be an agreed ‘European standard’ for supporting culture?

The set of recommendations is very much a work-in-progress. Your constructive feedback is absolutely vital. The results […]

I am celebrating my 10-day anniversary in Cairo. There’s much to celebrate because till now I haven’t been run over by insane traffic (yet), did not succumb to traveller’s illnesses, heat stroke, or to inner city pollution (yet), and have managed to remain (moderately) sane. Cairo, the City Victorious perhaps because she stubbornly refuses to become completely defeated, is a multiple assault on the senses. Noise, smells (not all that good), flashy colours, crowds, dust, dirt, traffic…it is at times a bit too overwhelming, especially if you live in the midst of it all: Downtown. Downtown (or Wust el Balad) is full of beautiful late 19th Century architecture if you can look past the grime and decay. It used to be a bourgeois Parisian-modelled neighbourhood, but now is haunted by tourists visiting the Egyptian Museum, frequenting the many travel agencies, and the area is plagued by far too many cars, […]

How do we train future cultural managers to deal efficiently with transnational cultural cooperation projects? Do cultural education programmes in Europe lead, or responding to important changes in our societies such as: internationalisation of cultural policies, globalisation of trade in cultural goods and services, the enlargement of the European Union?

The result of Vania project – a joined research project of Fondation Marcel Hicter,. CUPORE, International Intelligence on Culture, EVREMATHIA A.E. and ENCATC, responds to these and many more questions related to the validation and certification of training in the field of European cultural cooperation project management.

We all know that cultural cooperation is a very complex field, difficult to put into a frame, to define and to study. But the research shows that there are some elements that are considered essential to include in a curriculum when teaching international/transnational cultural co-operation, like: “knowledge and understanding of other cultures, knowledge of cultural […]

The concepts and the representative practices of the ‘Socialist Modernism’ as the main principle of culture of the Yugoslav Socialist state is one of the important chapters of the project Political Practices of [post-] Yugoslav Art. I already tackled some problems in historical and new understanding of the term through the texts Brave New World of Modernism and In the Search for Socialist City, dedicated to the concept of New Belgrade and project "Differentiated Neighborhood" which traces the changes and deviations of this concept in the recent transitional times.

Curatorial collective WHW from Zagreb have organized the documentary exhibition under the title "Bakić and New Tendencies" which, with the potent political decisiveness, presents the ideological constellation in which this socialist-modernist public sphere have been destroyed together with its inherent social values.

"Bakić and New Tendencies" is a documentary-archival show that includes various educational and debate-oriented programs related to the notion of Socialist […]

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Nous sommes à la recherche de groupe de DANSE BUTOH

La seconde année internationale « Monde du Cirque Genève 2010 » est en préparation pour 2010.

http://www.mondeducirque.ch

Un jury de professionnels de danse Butoh, choisira les compagnies qui seront présentes au Festival internationale «Monde du Cirque Genève 2010».

Nous recherchons aussi des spectacles Butoh en avant-première.

Un dossier complet avec DVD doit être envoyé au siège central à l’adresse suivante:

Monde du Cirque Genève 2010
P.O. Box 7688
CH.-1002 LausanneSuisse

Les dossiers devront nous parvenir avant le 30 août 2008 (tampon postal).

Questionnaire à remplir et à transmettre avec le dossier, se trouve en Pdf sur notre site internet.

Au-delà de cette date, les dossiers seront refusés.Les dossiers sans DVD seront également refusés.

( Nous demandons des DVD de bonne qualité et un dossier complet de la manifestation proposée). Les dossiers ne seront pas retournés à leur expéditeur. Aucune correspondance ne sera échangée entre les groupes pendant la sélection.

Les groupes qui pourront […]

We are in search of group of DANCE BUTOH

The second international year “ World Circus Geneva 2010 ” is in preparation for 2010. A jury of professionals of Dance, Butoh, will choose the companies which will be present at the international Festival “ World Circus Geneva 2010”.

Visit us :http://www.worldcircus.org

We seek also Butoh dance in First preview. A complete file with DVD must be sent to the central seat with the following address:

World Circus Geneva 2010
Po.Box 7688
CH. - 1002 Lausanne Switzerland

Fill out the questionnaire and send with your files, you will find on our webside on Pdf.
the files will have to reach us before August 30, 2008 (postal plug).
Beyond this date, the files will be refused.
The files without DVD will be also refused. (We ask DVD of good quality and for a complete file of the demonstration suggested). The files will not be turned over to their shipper.

No […]

The Home Works IV Festival, organised by Ashkal Alwan – the Lebanese Association for Plastic Arts - in Beirut was still in full swing at the time of writing. For the past few days I have been running from exhibition to screening, from panel to performance. The exhibitions and screening programs definitely deserve separate posts, but American artist Michael Rakowitz’ excellent talk really was a breeze of fresh air amongst otherwise rather static and highly academic lectures. Talks, panels and lectures have become standard fare at art festivals. While I concur with the premise that critical discourse and exchange of ideas is seminal, the format and packaging of the latter is as important as the arguments it intends to convey. There is little more exhausting and torturous for an audience than listening for hours on end to dry academic papers being read, with little or no audience engagement, eye contact […]

somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond
any experience, your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens(touching skilfully, mysteriously) her first rose

or if your wish be to close me, i and
my life will shut very beautifully, suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imaginesthe snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
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