The Power of Culture

Once an exhibition space for art teachers, Reyum in Phnom Penh developed itself into a renowned forum for research, documentation, management and promotion of both traditional and contemporary Cambodian art and culture.

In Loreto, an isolated area in the Amazon, Peru's Runa organization is developing an interactive culture policy.

Ten years after the genocide, Rwanda is working hard to rebuild. The Centre Universitaire des Arts is making a modest, but extraordinary contribution, with recently renewed financial support from the Prince Claus Fund.

Work of fourteen contemporary Bolivian artists will be on display from 26 June through 18 July 2004 in Pulchri Studio in Den Haag. Fundación esART from Bolivia, a partner of Hivos, hopes the exhibition will show that contemporary Bolivian art includes more than just the more internationally familiar crafts and paintings from the colonial period.

'Exploring the Currents, Feeling the Winds.' With these poetic words as its theme, the ten-day Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) of the Dhow Countries will commence on 25 June 2004. The ZIFF is one of the network partners of the Prince Claus Fund.

In September 2003, Tropenmuseum Junior opened Paradise and Co. about Iran. Continuing along this theme, the museum initiated Kids-at-Iran.nl: thirty Dutch and thirty Iranian children learn about one another's cultures via Internet, video letters, photography, animation and art. The Iranian partner for this project is Kanoon.

The fourth edition of Strictly Mundial will be in Istanbul, Turkey on 21 April. The four-day world music fair is an initiative of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, partner of various Dutch organisations.

Trama is an organisation that brings together Argentinean artists. The network was established in 2000.

 Sithengi is an international film and television market in Cape Town, South Africa. It strives to offer an international platform in an African context for the trade in film and television productions.

Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) strives in Nairobi, Kenya to improve the lives of the youth in the shanty towns.