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 The Indonesian filmmaker Lulu Ratna is in the Netherlands for the exhibition Indonesia under Construction, which will run from 29 June to 22 August 2004 in Witte de With, Rotterdam. She will be describing the state of affairs in the Indonesian film world and her film promotion company Boemboe. >>>
 The Brazilian development project RODA, which organises cultural activities for problem youth, has recently acquired a Dutch sister organisation with the same name. The financiers are ICCO and Solidaridad. They launched their collective initiative during the Festival Mundial, on Saturday 19 June. >>>
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Starting at the end of July, Harare will be the site of the Zimbabwe International Book Fair (ZIBF). The book fair, whose 2004 theme is Voices: Dialogue Across Nations, has evolved to become the most important platform for African literature. >>>
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On 20 June 2004 the world premiere of Preto e Blanco / Black and White, a documentary by the Brazilian multimedia/video artist Carlos Nader (Sao Paolo 1964), was presented at the World Wide Video Festival. >>> |
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France likes to cherish, protect and promote its own culture. No fewer than 367 French cultural institutes in 145 countries, including 219 offices of Alliance Française, try to offer a counterbalance to the dominant Anglo-Saxon culture in the world. >>>
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The Informal European Theatre Meeting (IETM) wants to use a meeting at the end of August in South Africa to build a bridge between the European and African modern dance world. At the same time, it is hoped that the meeting will provide an impulse for a network for contemporary dance in Africa.
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Work of fourteen contemporary Bolivian artists will be on display from 26 June through 18 July 2004 in Pulchri Studio in Den Haag. Fundación esART from Bolivia, a partner of Hivos, hopes the exhibition will show that contemporary Bolivian art includes more than just the more internationally familiar crafts and paintings from the colonial period. >>>
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Surinam is receiving almost 112,000 euros from the Dutch HGIS Culture Budget to restore the only wooden officers quarter in the Fort Zeelandia complex in Paramaribo that still needed restoration. This means not only that an important historical monument from the 17th century is being preserved, but also that the Nola Hatterman Institute is getting a new lease on life. >>>
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