Drumming for Peace, Pamoja Kungoma Ya Amani (together around the drum of peace, in Swahili) in 2008 consists of a tour of three drumming groups from DRC, Rwanda and Burundi in their respective countries as well as neighbouring countries to celebrate their heroes and to promote peace. Iranian film maker Maziar Bahari is filming the events and making a doumentary of this unique tour that celebrates peace. read more
Writer from the Comores participates in Festival de Poésie Itinérant en Afrique (FIPIA). Read his report in French
The Sokan Theatre organised a workshop in the Ivory Coast to provide a platform for exchange, training and expression of professional women in theatre. Read more
Writer from Nepal participates in a Poetry Festival in Colombia. Read about his experiences
ArchiAfrika organises the manifestation African Perspectives in cooperation with Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture from 6 to 8 December 2007. The Prince Claus Fund supported the centerpiece of the event, which will be an exhibition of the work of Titus Matiyane entitled ‘Cities of the World’. Matiyane lives and works a township close to Pretoria. His panoramic drawings (1.5 metres high and from 6 to 46 metres long) give the impression that the artist has studied cities and landscapes from the air. However, his first panoramas date from the early 1990s but he did not fly for the first time until 1998. Stephen Hobbs and Annemieke de Kler have curated the exhibition which can be seen from 6 December 2007 - 25 January 2008 at TU Delft, Berlageweg 1, Delft. During opening hours of the Technical University Delft it's free to visit. Read more on ww.archiafrika.com
Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent features the work of more than 80 artists from 25 countries on the African continent and the diaspora. It is considered to be the largest exhibition of contemporary African art ever seen in Europe, it includes painting, sculpture, installation, video, drawing, photography and design. Prince Claus Fund supported the travel of the exhibition to Johannesburg. Read more
The Prince Claus Fund and the Mondriaan Foundation, both cultural organizations based in the Netherlands, organised for the fourth consecutive year an orientation travel for Dutch and foreign art professionals, this time they visited Mexico and Curacao. Read more
The Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, New York (USA) hosted the symposium 'Imaging Ethiopia, Monarchy and Modernity' to generate research and papers related to the photographic archive of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies. The symposium aims to promote a dialog between African and African Diaspora specialists through an exploration of Ethiopia’s influential history ranging from its era of monarchs through to the contemporary modern. The results of the symposium and research will be used as input for the publication Research on Ethiopian Photography that will be published as a Prince Claus Fund Library book. read more
Drumming for Peace in Burundi. Photo: David Shem-Tov
Artwork by South African artist Jane Alexander, part of Africa Remix
Victorian Philantropist's Parlour by Yinka Shonibare, part of Africa Remix
With the aim of encouraging worldwide cultural debate, the Prince Claus Fund organises and supports events around the world to facilitate intercultural exchange. These events include conferences, lectures, meetings and exhibitions.
The results of these exchange events are presented to a wider, international audience in the form of articles, books and websites.
These exchange events provide a creative environment in which new approaches can be presented and new contributors can become engaged in the debate. The events also serve as a guide to the Prince Claus Fund in its endeavours in the field of culture and development.
