Art Worldwide

Literary awards Casa de las Américas: impulse for neglected genres

February 2008 -

The Casa de las Américas Research Centre for Literature wants to express with its prizes mainly literary-artistic appreciation for books by Latin American authors.

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Author Ashur Etwebi: "Libya has a lively literary life"

February 2008 -

"An active world of literature and poetry has developed in Libya over the past thirty years. Little is known about this in Europe because to the West, Libya did not exist on the world map until recently."

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BizArt rejuvenates Chinese art

February 2008 -

Art centre BizArt in Shanghai has been stimulating explorative contemporary Chinese art since its establishment in 1998.

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Hassan Daoud: "The West wants us to be exotic"

january 2008 -

Lebanese author and journalist Hassan Daoud (1950) has noticed how interest in his work and that of his colleagues from the Islamic world has increased since 9/11. Arab literature received central focus during the Frankfurter Buchmesse in 2004 and will enjoy the same status during Winternachten in The Hague in January 2008. Daoud is pleased with all of the attention, but has a few critical comments.

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Theatre-maker Yaser Khaseb: "Theatre climate in Iran is blossoming"

january 2008 -

The Iranian dancer/mime performer and puppeteer is spreading his wings, in his own country as well as abroad. During the festival Dancing on the Edge he was introduced to a Dutch audience.

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English language literary festival in Galle, Sri Lanka

january 2008 -

After a careful start in 2007, centuries-old Galle Fort along Sri Lanka's south coast will once again be the focal point of a special cultural event in January 2008.

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Call Cutta: theatre by telephone

january 2008 -

You want a ticket to a theatrical performance, but instead you receive a telephone.

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Aditya Assarat: "The echo of the tsunami can still be heard"

january 2008 -

Independent Thai cineaste Aditya Assarat (Bangkok, 1972), shot his first full-length film Wonderful Town in the village of Takua Pa in southern Thailand, where the tsunami spread death and destruction. The effects of the disaster are still visible everywhere; both the population and the economy are still struggling to overcome the events.

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Choreographer Faustin Linyekula receives Prince Claus Award

december 2007 -

Thirty three year old Faustin Linyekula has won the €100,000 Prince Claus Award 2007 for his choreographic art in his war-ravaged home city of Kisangani in north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Mick Pearce: building on the energy watershed

december 2007 -

Mick Pearce is an architect from Zimbabwe and one of the speakers during the 'African Perspectives' event held in December 2007 in Delft in the Netherlands. Pearce delivered a lecture about the consequences of the upcoming energy crisis for the development of cities: 'From Eastgate to CH2: building on the energy watershed'.

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