Jeroen van der Zalm

LOT project about sustainable landscape development in Peru

November 2009 -

Under the title City Landscapes in Lima in October 2009 an extensive interdisciplinary project took place about landscape architecture and public space.

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Simón Veléz: revolution in bamboo

November 2009 -

The Colombian architect became world famous with his fourteen-metre bamboo structure for the World Fair in Germany in 2000. He was awarded the Prince Clause Award in September 2009.

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Ilán Lieberman's arresting images of missing children

October 2009 -

Since his early childhood the Mexican artist is fascinated by the theme of missing children. With his meticulously made pen and ink drawings - based on actual appeals - he tries to evoke a moment of identification between the observer and the lost child.

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Mauricio Delfín: "Peru is ready for in-depth investments in culture"

September 2009 -

Mauricio Delfín about culture and processes of change in Peru.

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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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New stage for Latin American film by students

July 2009 -

Films by students are not normally played in the cinema or on television, and only seldom make it to a film festival. The Student Short programme of the Latin American Film Festival offers starting directors a chance to show their work.

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Surprising Brazilian art in Rotterdam

June 2009 -

Three Rotterdam art institutions have joined forces to introduce to the general public Brazilian artists, architects, photographers and designers.

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Baroque music in the Amazon

June 2009 -

Since the 90's, children and youngsters from the Indian communities in the Bolivian province of Santa Cruz enthusiastically assemble Baroque choirs and orchestras. This is an indirect result of the discovery in the '70 of thousands of scores with Latin American Baroque music.

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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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An electric chair made of plastic bottles in the Venice of the jungle

April 2009 -

The cultural organisation La Restinga has been working  since 2007 on its project Crea Belén in the Peruvian Amazon city Iquitos. Children learn how to deal creatively with complex social issues.

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