Gertrude Flentge

Microcredit for African art sector: opportunities and threats

June 2008 -

Does micro-financing hold golden promises for Africa's independent cultural sector, or are the two natural opposites? The DOEN Foundation in the Netherlands and Strømme Foundation in Norway are organising a pilot project in 2008 that will study concrete commonalities and test myths.

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Theatre producers from Central Asia to combine forces

July 2006 -

Theatre group Sakhna was one of the participants in the Central Asian Theatre Caravan Meeting that was held from 7 - 10 June 2006 in Bishkek. The goal of the meeting was to establish a Central Asian 'performance' network. Previous meetings have been held in Tadzhikistan and Uzbekistan.

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Orquesta de la Papaya puts on first pan-Central American concert tour

May 2005 -

After three years of appearances at popular and well-respected festivals in America and Europe, last month the Orquesta de la Papaya was finally able to fulfil its fondest wish: from 2 to 17 April the orchestra was able to put on a series of concerts in five Central American countries.

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Freedom Means Having to Compromise

January 2005 -

Visual artist Inti Hernandez (Cuba) came to the Netherlands one year ago. What is his perspective on the Netherlands and how does his situation, in between different cultures, influence his works of art?

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Asian art has moved beyond its heavy image in Tokyo

December 2004 -

The exposition ‘Have we met?’, to be held from 11 December 2004 through 30 January 2005 in the Japan Foundation in Tokyo, presents work that goes beyond the stereotype images that Asians have of one another and that others have about Asians.

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Arabian-Jewish journalistic project narrows gap between the different communities

November 2004 -

A team of Arabian and Jewish journalists have produced a bilingual newspaper supplement whose main topic is 'co-existence'. At the end of October, this project won a British Diversity Award.

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Brazilian law designed to promote its national film and TV industry

October 2004 -

In Brazil, the talk is of a new legislative proposal designed to promote the national audio-visual industry.

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Another view of contemporary African art

October 2004 -

Not the context but the work of art itself forms the basis for the Africa Remix exhibition of contemporary African art.

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Principles of the Sao Paulo and Gwangju biennial totally different

September 2004 -

The artist as autonomous dreamer or as the viewer's colleague. The biennials of visual arts in Sao Paulo and Gwangju, both of which open in September 2004, are based on completely opposite fundamental principles.

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Water the theme of the second round of Context

September 2004 -

In July and August 2004 the second round of Context, a relay project with artists from different countries, took place in Mexico City. This time the theme was water.

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