Culture and conflict

Art and Revolution: The Life and Death of Thami Mnyele, South African Artist

November 2008 -

A literary biography reveals the struggles inside and around a gentle South African artist who remade himself into a revolutionary soldier.

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Open doors: Sangeeta Thapa on art and dialogue in times of war

November 2008 -

Sangeeta Thapa talks about the part artists play in the enormous changes taking place in Nepal and about the importance of the new Kathmandu Arts Centre.

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Nuruddin Farah keeps Somalia alive with his pen

November 2008 -

Somali author Nuruddin Farah is considered by many to be the most important African candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. The oeuvre with which Farah established his reputation primarily has one theme: his homeland Somalia, from which he fled in 1974 during the reign of dictator Siad Barre.

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Even Nkunda could not hinder the SKIFF festival in Goma

November 2008 -

The words of Petna Ndaliko have become almost prophetic. Just before the SKIFF film festival in Goma, he announced the festival would go on whether there were rebels approaching or not. And indeed: the rebels advanced, but for the festival it was 'business as usual'.

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Film festival defies war in Eastern Congo

October 2008 -

Film maker Petna Ndaliko is one of the founders of the Salaam Kivu International Film Festival which will be held in Goma, Eastern Congo in October 2008.

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Video artist Fernando Arias on his project Humanos Derechos

September 2008 -

The main figures in an armed conflict literally strip to the skin in a video project by the Columbian artist.

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Perihan Magden: 'Luckily, no one knows my face'

September 2008 -

Perihan Magden is both loved and feared in Turkey. Every morning she shakes her readers awake every morning with dead-sharp analyses and witty remarks. However, she must also pay the price.

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Special Culture & Conflict

July 2008 -

The Culture & Conflict special investigates how art is practically helping in times of war, conflict and violence in five countries.

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Conference about violence and censorship in Harare

July 2008 -

Just before the presidential elections in Zimbabwe, Hivos organized a conference about art and artists in times of censorship and violence.

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Los Desaparacidos: exposition on disappearances in Latin America

June 2008 -

Twenty-five Latin American artists have used their photography, mechanical works, illustrations and sculptures to illustrate the theme of 'missing persons and forced disappearances'.

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