Interview

Graffiti offers structure for Brazilian youth

August 2009 -

Anouk Piket,  manager of the graffiti project during Brazil Rotterdam, explains why graffiti has a different and especially better image in Brazil than in the Netherlands.

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"Malians themselves need to know about the Bamako Photo Biennial"

August 2009 -

The Bamako Photo Biennial is enjoying increasing popularity. In Mali itself, however, little enthusiasm is shown for the event. Neither by the audience, nor by local photographers, says Amadou Sow.

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Punk rocker from Mongolia switches to folk music

August 2009 -

From punk musician to neo-traditional folksinger is a radical change. Especially when the musician is a young Chinese with Mongolian roots from Beijing.

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Odile Katese: "Rwanda needs art so that it can dream again"

July 2009 -

The Rwandan author, actress and director likes to think big. Her dream: creating a culture of hope and happiness in Rwanda.

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Brett Bailey: "I want to fire people up with stories"

July 2009 -

South African theatre-maker Brett Bailey sees himself as a storyteller who presents the great theatre classics against an African background. 

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Alienating and penetrating film experiments from India

May 2009 -

During the Indy India film programme, April 2009 in The Hague, rare movies, produced independently from Bollywood, were shown. Shai Heredia put the programme together.

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Daves Guzha: "Theatre is an excellent way to mobilise people"

May 2009 -

In his work Zimbabwese theatre maker Daves Guzha explains the gigantic chaos in his country, but also his hopes and convictions.

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Bisi Silva: "Artists from Africa and India have much in common"

May 2009 -

The Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Lagos, Nigeria is placing its bets on contact, exchange and cooperation in the southern hemisphere. Director Bisi Silva recently compiled an exhibition featuring seven African artists.

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Gastón Acurio: "Cooking is combined with moral principles"

March 2009 -

If Peru's top chef Gastón Acurio has anything to say about it, the international success of Peru's cuisine will have a positive effect on other sectors in his country.

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Gonzalo Carámbula: "No one doubts the social importance of culture"

February 2009 -

"After so many years, the cultural sector has still failed to place the discussion on culture policy in the spotlight of public debate", says Uruguay's Gonzalo Carámbula. Carámbula is a consultant in the field of culture policy and one of the authors of Agenda 21 for Culture (2004).

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