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With the appearance of this Newsletter we are all in Senegal.
So next edition the report of the Senegal committee meeting.
Can You Help?
Help the group Women Initiatives to tour around the world
UCAD sent some video’s of the group Women Initiatives who were in Senegal from 25th april to 2nd of May for the 50th anniversary on stage of Doudou Ndiaye Rose. Now the group is trying to tour around the world and we hope that this link could help... www.myspace.com/lestamboursdurwanda
The Prince Claus Fund is looking for a Managing Editor for its Prince Claus Fund Library
The position of Managing Editor of the Prince Claus Fund Library is available as of June 2008. It is a part-time position (2 days per week) on a contract renewable on an annual basis. The Managing Editor has worked till now from his/her home country, preferably in Europe. The Managing Editor of the Prince Claus Fund Library oversees and organises all relevant aspects of book development in cooperation with authors, project networks, and leading international art book publishers.
Read more in the document with complete job description
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Prince Claus Fund needs a list of (cultural) organisations that would like to receive publications on culture and development.
The PCF Office will move to Amsterdam, tentatively in September 2008. Rather than take all our excess books and magazines with us, we would like to distribute them around the world to libraries and documentation centers that can use them. The publications are in French, English and Spanish and can be sent via Dutch Embassies. If you know of organisations in your network that would like a selection of them, please send us the details. Please contact Annette at a.debock@princeclausfund.nl
What's new?
Goethe Institute gathers curators from the South at the Dakar Biennial
Solange Farkas, director of the Museum of Modern Art of the state of Bahia and curator of Associação Cultural Videobrasil, attended the Dakar Biennial in May, by invitation of Peter Anders, of the Goethe Institute in Johannesburg. She is a member of the committee of curators established by the German institution to design the project for a worldwide exhibition of contemporary art from the South, to be held in 2009. The committee consists of African artists and curators Akinbode Akinbiyi (Nigeria), Fernando Alvim (Angola), Clive Kellner (South Africa), Jimmy Ogonga (Kenya), Koyo Kouoh (Senegal) and Orlando Britto (Canary Islands), as well as journalists and curators from Germany and France. During the first meeting, partnerships and formats for the exhibition project were discussed.
Videobrasil Programme’s residencies begin
Brazilian artist Danillo Barata, who won the Videobrasil WBK Vrije Academie Prize, has just arrived in The Hague for a six-week residency at the department of image in motion at the institution. His project is to do research on a group of African Muslims who were brought as slaves to the state of Bahia, in Brazil, in the 19th century, and on the rebels responsible for the Malê Revolt, an attempt to free black people in the state in 1835. "The study of documents and bibliography is going to provide the theoretical and conceptual foundation for the video, which will discuss experiences, contexts, and directions in which Africans moved across the Atlantic world," he explains.
An interdisciplinary center for postgraduate studies in art, the WBK is a partner with the recently launched Videobrasil Residency Programme, which is backed by the Prince Claus Fund. In 2007, the programme awarded eight artists from Brazil, Latin America, and Africa who participated in the 16th Videobrasil. Besides Danillo Barata, the Videobrasil WBK Vrije Academie Prize was granted to Jamsen Law (Hong Kong/China), Marcellvs L., and Eustáquio Neves, who undertook his residency in April and May.
The 11th Edition of ZIFF are in the pot. The ingredients are all there except for a few more spices – the few that are not found in Zanzibar- the spice Island! Please have a look and sample this year’s theme “Cultural Crossroads”
Festival Centre Buzzes with Top Talent and the Best International Films of 2008 Zanzibar, July 11-20, 2008: Preparation for the Eleventh edition of the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) is in full swing, with both industry delegates and cinema lovers riding a wave of excitement following the coming ten days’ activities, and looking forward to another ten days of local and international discussion panels, workshops; Ten days of screenings of the best local and international cinema and evenings of musical concerts including a Gala each evening.
Read more news about the programme of ZIFF 2008
The Foam Fotografie Museum Amsterdam organizes an exhibition of the Malinese fotographer Malick Sidibé in collaboration with the Prince Claus Fund from 13 June – 08 October 2008
This summer Foam presents a unique work by the celebrated Malinese photographer Malick Sidibé (b. 1935). Sidibé is the eminence grise of African photography and one of the first African photographers to win recognition in the West for his work. Centrepiece of the show is a series of original chemises, coloured sheets of card on which Sidibé pasted small prints of the photos he took at parties and events in Bamako, the capital of Mali. Partygoers were able to view and order copies of photos after the event. The chemises displayed here date from between 1962 and 1973. They are accompanied by numerous portraits taken by Sidibé in the 1970s at his studio in Bagadadji, a working-class area of Bamako. Together the displays offer a unique and often heart-warming insight into Malinese society in the early years following independence. Malick Sidibé received a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for his entire oeuvre at the Venice Biennale of 2007. This year Sidibé was also honoured by the International Centre for Photography (ICP) in New York with their 24th Lifetime Achievement Award.
Exhibition from the Arab Image Foundation on the visual memory of Burj-al-Shamli camp
'How beautiful is Panama!' is the first chapter of an ongoing project that is part research, part open-ended conversation on the visual memory of Burj al-Shamali camp. This exhibition presents images by seven young Palestinians. Since 2001 they collaborate in a photographic conversation with photographers Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh and Simon Lourié. During one week the young from Burj al-Shamali camp hanged their work in "the Hangar" in the south suburbs of Beirut to inaugurate the exhibition on 2nd of May. The exhibition was organised by, the Arab Image Foundation (Lebanon), the Prince Claus Fund (Holland) and Umam (Lebanon).
News from APAC-Bolivia
The 4th of May was the the last day of the VII Baroque Music Festival “Misiones de Chiquitos” and also was the referendum for the Autonomy Political Goverment in Santa Cruz Department. It was a happy coincidence, at last. In between we were worried of the political campaign and chaos we had all over the region and the country. A lot of tourists came for the Festival to the old Jesuits Missions in la Chiquitania. But at last, the Festival was a great event with 165 concerts in 22 towns. Also 22 were the number of participant countries with 52 groups, 26 from foreign countries and 26 from Bolivia. For 11 days we have full of public on churches were happened the concerts. We estimate 86.000 spectators. Everything programmed was done. And the people to say yes for the Autonomies was the 86 % of the population. At the end of that day, a big party on the streets and places took over. Another successful Festival from APAC had a happy ending. But Bolivia is in a big madness of politic polarization between the indigenous goverment of Evo Morales and the low lands asking for more autonomy legislation.
News from Drik Picture Library April/May 2008:
Making the Nation Laugh: Cartoon Exhibition 25 – 29 April
The five-day long cartoon exhibition was organised by the still unrivalled satire magazine Unmad. The exhibition marked the 30th anniversary of Unmad, the first cartoon based satire magazine in the country. www.thedailystar.net
The Kuakata Stories: Art Exhibition 24 April – 3 May
In aid of the cyclone Sidr affected children of Kuakata an art camp was held at Kuakata at the end of February 2008. Their works were exhibited at Alliance Francaise and Drik Gallery under the title "Resurrecting Kuakata". At the end of the exhibition an auction was held. The sale proceeds of which went to charity.
www.thedailystar.net
Partnership in Practice: Photo Exhibition 1 – 10 May
A Photographic Exhibition on People’s Participation in Water Management in Coastal Bangladesh, by Saiful Huq Omi. http://nation.ittefaq.com
Sixty Years of Illegitimate Occupation, Sixty Years of Sacred Resistance: Photo and Cartoon Exhibition 14 – 18 May
A joint exhibition by the Iranian Cultural Centre and Drik Picture Library On the 60th anniversary of the occupation of Palestine. www.somewhereindhaka.net
Website Bizart/Arthub
On the 1st june there will be a new arthub homepage www.arthub.org.cn
New jurymembers for the Prince Claus Awards
There are two new jurymembers for the Prince Claus Awards: N'Gone Fall, architect, curator cultural advisor from Dakar, Senegal andPatricia Tappatá de Valdez, Executive Director of Memoria Abierta (an alliance of several human rights organizations and a 2004 Prince Claus Laureate) from Argentina.
The Prince Claus Fund supports the exhibition of Titus Matiyane in the National Musee of Mali from 27th May – 30th July
Titus Matiyane lives and works in Atteridgeville, a township near Pretoria. The central theme of the exhibition is Dialogue. It shows us intercontinental urban landscapes through his African eyes. His panoramic drawings of cities and landscapes in South Africa and elsewhere in the world (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, even though he has been making panoramic drawings since the early 1980s, he did not fly in an aircraft for the first time until 1998, when his work was exhibited at the Netherlands Architecture institute. ‘Cities of the world’ presents his panoramas of London, New York, Hong Kong, and the South African cities of Durban, Pretoria and Petersburg (London Panorama (UK): 10m x 1.5m, Manhattan Panorama (USA): 12m x 1.5m, Hong Kong Panorama (China): 6m x 1.5m, Durban Panorama (SA): 6m x 1.5m and Pretoria Panorama (SA): 18m x 1.5m).
