Local administrators are scarcely assigned a role in strategies for obtaining the Millennium Goals. Culture has also failed to be included as a permanent point on the development agenda. A recently-published report – Culture, Local Governments and theMillennium Development Goals – by the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) advocates changes and provides city governments and cities with relevant instruments.
Writer, translator, and campaigner Abe Barreto Soares is determined to put his country's literature on the map, using all available technical supplies.
What do you do if you suddenly wake up after sleeping in a cave for 309 years? That is what happens to the characters in Walid Al Alphy's stage play People of the cave, performed on 25 September 2009 in the Rotterdam theatre.
Swedish development agency Sida dissolves the Department of Culture and Media. A White Paper, to be presented in December 2009, can perhaps turn the tide.
Art students from Kirgizia and artists from Dutch Cascoland presented their 'interventions in public space' during Boom-Boom, the fourth International Contemporary Art Exhibition in Bishkek, August 2009.
More than half of the world's population now lives in large cities, and most of those cities' inhabitants struggle to survive in slums. A challenge for many architects is finding original and sustainable solutions that will improve living conditions in these areas.
The Nairobi music scene evolved in recent years thanks to the arrival of the Penya label and its recording studio in one of Nairobi's poorer districts. The result can soon be heard in The Netherlands.
