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Independent dance is gaining ground in Ecuador

September 2007 -

Wilson Pico (Ecuador, 1949) is considered one of the most important pioneers of contemporary dance in Ecuador. A conversation about experimental dance and the national cultural policies of Ecuador.

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Folklore in Peru: diversity as a great strength

September 2007 -

Anthropologist Zoila Mendosa criticizes the use of cultural stereotypes for promoting tourism in Peru.

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Wonder selection threatens Machu Picchu

August 2007 -

On Friday 13 July 2007, the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains of south-eastern Peru was voted one of the seven wonders of the modern world. There is concern that the rising visitor numbers could irreparably damage the site.

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Chilean youth circus strengthens community involvement

August 2007 -

Training at Circo del Mundo ('Circus of the World') gives Chilean youth a better perspective.

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Landscape as cultural heritage

July 2007 -

'Cultural landscape' was a term that figured prominently in the international Cultural Heritage and Landscape Congress, held in Lima (Peru) at the end of June 2007.

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The innovative talent of Latin-American video artists

July 2007 -

Videografías Invisibles is an itinerant exhibition of recent Latin-American video art. It visited Lima (Peru) in June 2007 where one of the curators, José-Carlos Mariátegui, took part in an interview.

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Radio in Ecuador: participation and pluriformity

June 2007 -

Local radio stations in Latin America play a stimulating part in Indian emancipation processes. ALER, the Latin American Association for Radio Education in Quito, uses a network of correspondents and local radio stations to compile cultural radio programmes that are transmitted by satellite to some one hundred radio stations throughout Latin America.

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Symposium Art and Social Change during APAC Theatre Festival Santa Cruz

June 2007 -

During the sixth Theatre Festival in Santa Cruz, Bolivia in April 2007, Red LA para la Transformación Social, the Latin American network for social change, organised a symposium on the strategies cultural institutions can use in order to gain more influence on social developments.

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The Audiovisual Universe of Indian Peoples

May 2007 -

Those who believe that the Indians in Latin America still believe that a photo will steal their soul or flee to escape video cameras are wrong. Since the first anthropological and artistic experiments in the 1970s and 1980s, this continent has developed its own film and video production sector.

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Development policy in the Netherlands: more of the same

April 2007 -

On 1 March 2007, Marianne Bhalotra passed her position as coordinator of the Hubert Bals Fund to Bianca Taal. She looks back on twelve years Hubert Bals Fund and views its future from the perspective of the new co-funding program Medefinancierings-systeem 2009-2012 (MFS).

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