At the end of July the Enlace Hiphop School was officially presented to the public in the centre of Bogotá. Workshops offer Colombian young people a way out of poverty and social problems.
Reading materials must appear in indigenous languages. That is the conclusion of the Annual Congress of the International Association of School Librarianship in Durban, South Africa.
Five international culture projects have received subsidies from the HGIS culture budget (Homogeneous Group for International Collaboration). Over three hundred thousand euros will go to the Elmina Cultural Heritage and Management Program.
Even though after ten months of war the Ivory Coast has its hands full disarming the combatants, the country’s cultural life is beginning to bounce back.
The Commission for World heritage held its 27th meeting this month. Azerbaijan, Ivory Coast and Nepal were all reprimanded for failing to properly care for world heritage sites in their countries.
During the Poetry International festival at the end of June Hivos began its coffee poems offensive. The Objective: to improve conditions for labourers on coffee plantations.
Dreams & Conflicts is the theme of the 2003 Venice Biennial. The Forum for African Arts invited fourteen African artists to express their respective visions.
