Triangle Arts Trust
Associação Cultural VideoBrasil
Caribbean Contemporary Arts
Komunitas Utan Kayu
Jant-Bi
ZIFF
APAC
Drik Picture Library
Mysa
SuperSudaca
REYUM Institute of Arts and Culture
UCAD
BizArt/Arthub Arab Image Foundation
About the Network Partnerships
The company JANT-BI has successfully completed a big 12 weeks tour all over the United States with a new piece called "Les écailles de la mémoire - scales of memory". It was created in collaboration with the all Afro-American women company THE URBAN BUSHWOMEN from New York, choreographers Germaine Acogny and Jawole Zollar. The piece had an enormous success and created much enthousiasm everywhere.
Read the review Washington Post
Read the Review of the Chicago Sunday Times
After four years training in basic drawing and painting skills the artists have acquired a solid knowledge of two-dimensional representation. To offer them the opportunity to further explore their creative practice, Reyum Art School established a creative workshop called: Creative Lab in 2007. The year long workshop introduced the students to other contemporary art practices such as installations, video art, and performance art. Through collaborations with visiting artists and residencies abroad, the students also experienced new ways of making art. This exposure gave them a glimpse of a more experimental art practice than what their training had provided thus far. It is through the Creative Lab workshops that the idea for this exhibition emerged. During a period of ten weeks, the fifteen artists gathered in the Reyum gallery to research, discuss and share ideas about their work. Slide shows, group discussions and curatorial guidance provided the structure for this experimental process. The work presented here is the result of this creative process. Open March 31 – May 2008. Curator: Ly Daravuth www.reyum.org
This week, Supersudaca, a Prince Claus Fund network partner, announced the winning submissions for Endless (S)trips, a competition of ideas and scenarios for the urbanisation of mass tourism areas along the Caribbean coastlines. The competition Endless (S)trips called on architects and other professionals to reflect on the relation between local factors, tourists and the tourist industry, the government, infrastructure and landscape. Read more.
We are proud to announce our two new Network Partners:
The Arab Image Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon and BizArt Art / Arthub, Shanghai, the Popular Republic of China.
Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) have started a new project focusing on persons with disabilities, the project by the name of Kids with disability project will be offering sport and recreational opportunities to the physically and mentally challenged. Read More
Artists Dan Halter (Zimbabwe), Jamsen Law (Hong Kong/China), Federico Lamas and Nicolás Testoni (Argentina), and Eustáquio Neves, Marcellvs L., Danillo Barata, and Caetano Dias (Brazil) are the first winners of the Videobrasil Residency Programme. Read More
The first event of Artissima Cinema, devoted this year to the city of Shanghai with a review of videos by a group of international artists, will take place at Mirafiori Motor Village, on November 9: preview of the project and conference “The OFF story of the contemporary art revolution in Shanghai.” ARTISSIMA CINEMA, curated by Davide Quadrio, BizArt/Arthub, Shanghai. Shanghype! portrait of the city from dawn to dusk. Read more
Hashem El Madani: Itinerary consists of 41 photographs in 33 locations in Saida, the old city, in Lebanon. This is an ongoing project by Akram Zaatari. Starting 3 November 2007. Read More
One of this year's prestigious Bessie's (dance and performance award ) was given to Germaine Acogny and Kota Yamazaki, for their choreography Fagaala (genocide) with the company Jant-Bi. The Award was presented by 651 Arts at the BAM Harvey Theater.
In 2003, Germaine Acogny, strongly touched by the genocide of Rwanda, created a new work, to raise awareness of what happened in Rwanda in the hope that such atrocities would never be committed again. In a collaboration with Kota Yamazaki (Japan), they combined elements of Butoh and Traditional and Contemporary African Dances to find a symbolic language of pain and hope. Fagaala has already met a great success during its tours in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Luxemburg, Netherlands, Italy, Senegal, South Africa and in Australia. read more about the Bessie Awards
From October to Mid December 2007a Women’s Initiatives residancy is held at UCAD. Women's Initiatives is a company created by UCAD and it involves women actively participating in the cultural development of Rwanda. The company has existed for more than two years and it had initially gathered 15 women (young girls, unmarried mothers, married women) from all walks of life converging around drums (an exclusively male-dominated area) in order to invent other possibilities and enable drumming craft to blossom locally and in the sub-region through women as well.
In October Women's Initiatives will be meeting and creating with Burundi men drummers and Senegalese women drummers in order to prepare the arrival of the notorious Senegalese percussionist Doudou Ndiaye Rose. Read more about UCAD
The Prince Claus Fund asked Kangni Alem to represent the Prince Claus Fund at the Utan Kayu Literary Biennale in Indonesia. He writes about his experiences on a special blog. read more
The launch of the book took place in Timezone 8, a bookshop in Beijing. Els van der Plas wrote the introduction 'From Kalashnikovs to art: why workshops are important' for the publication 'Triangle Variety of Experience Around Artists' Workshops and Residencies'. read more
From 29 June to 8 July 2007 the 9th ZIFF Festival of the Dhow Countries took place on Zanzibar. This year’s theme was Celebration of Waters & Dreams
The theme proposes to reflect on the rituals of celebration recognising the many ways in which all cultures value water and creativity symbolised in the nature of dreams.
ZIFF is a networkpartner of the Prince Claus Fund.
www.ziff.or.tz
Jant Bi dancers performing Scales of Memory
The opening of the exhibition 'In Transition' at the Reyum Institute of Arts
The Prince Claus Fund has an extensive international network of individuals and organisations. With a select number of organisations that are active in various cultural fields around the world, the Fund has forged formal long term agreements to work together. Read more about the Network Partnerships
Each year two network partners are chosen by the Prince Claus Fund. The selection is made by the Prince Claus Fund and its international board of advisors. No open applications are accepted for this programme.
For information on the Network programme please contact Joumana El Zein J.elzein@princeclausfund.nl
The links here refer to the website of the Network Partner and the links above refere to the information on the Network Partner on this site
Network Partners
Solange Farkas, director of VideoBrasil, São Paulo, Brazil
Robert Loder, chairman of the Board of the Triangle Arts Trust, London, England
Nirwan Dewanto, director Utan Kayu, Jakarta, Indonesia
Germaine Acogny and Helmut Vogt, Jant-Bi, Toubab Dialow, Senegal
Martin Mhando, Zanzibar International Film Festival, Zanzibar
Shahidul Alam, founder and director of DRIK Picture Library, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Peter Karanja, director Mathare Youth Sports Association Nairobi, Kenya
Cecilia Kenning, chairperson Asociación Pro Arte y Cultura, St. Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Felix Madrazo, Supersudaca, Latin-America
Odile Gakire Katese, co -director Centre Universitaire des Arts, Butare Rwanda
Ly Daravuth, director Reyum Institute, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
David Quadrio, director of BizArt Art Centre, Shanghai , China
Zeina Arida, director of Arab Image Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon