Prince Claus Fund Network News
Annette de Bock works as the Network partners programme coordinator till the 29th of September 2008 on the following days: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.
Committee meeting programme 1st June – 8th June 2008 in Senegal
Concerning the travel arrangements: all the non-African members will have to pass by Paris in order to catch a direct flight to Dakar. We will gather in Paris and travel together to Dakar.
1st June – Arrivals
Schedule for the non-African partners:
Departure 16h30 with Air France AF 718
Arrival 20h15 at Dakar in Senegal
We will try to arrange the African partners’ arrrival around the same time in Senegal. Transport by bus to the Ecole des Sables in Toubab Dialaw
2nd June – Culture and the Human Body
Dance workshop with Germaine Acogny
Presentations by each committee member on the Prince Claus theme Culture and the Human Body
(app. 15 minutes per presentation in speech, dance etc.) The presentation is filmed
Discussion
Evening: possibility to show films or dvds
3rd June – Internal theme
Dance workshop with Germaine Acogny
Presentation and discussion on an internal theme concerning a specific aspect of a cultural organisation
Evening: possibility to show films or dvds
4th June – Excursion
Goree Island and the DAKAR Biennale for Art
5th June – Case studies
Dance workshop with Germaine Acogny
Case study on Jant Bi and UCAD about their internal organisation
Evening: possibility to show films or dvds
6th June – Potential Network Partners
Dance workshop with Germaine Acogny
Session about external communication by Ginger da Silva and Annette de Bock from the Prince Claus Fund
Proposals on potential network partners
Evaluation of the Network meeting
Evening: possibility to show films or dvds
7th June – Excursion
Into the nature of Senegal
8th June – Departure
Schedule for non-African partners:
Departure 22h55 with Air France AF 719 from Dakar to Paris
Arrival at Paris 06h20 (9th June)
Schengen visas and visas to Senegal
Travelers from Europe don’t need a visa for Senegal. All others must ask at the nearest Senegalese Embassy whether a visa is required.
Vaccinations for Senegal
It is advisable to be vaccinated against Yellow Fever
Per diems for Senegal
For your information, a per diem of 20 euros per day is sufficient in Senegal
The attendance of the meeting
Solange Farkas will not be able to be present, but Videobrasil will be represented by Ana Pato, director of Videobrasil and coordinator of the Videobrasil Residencies Programme.
Zeina Arida will not be able to join us because of her pregnancy, and AIF will be represented by the Collection manager Tamara Sawaya.
Peter Karanja from MYSA is not available for the meeting, but Henry Majale, director of sports, culture and community will be present.
Please send in the discussion theme concerning a specific aspect of the functioning of a cultural organisation that you wish to work on in Senegal
To date Annette has received three proposals for the discussion theme: ‘Sustainability of a cultural organisation’ (two times) and ‘Funding creative industries’. Please send Annette a.debock@princeclausfund.nl the themes that you would like to discuss in order to arrive at a consensus.
Second selection phase for the 2008 Network partners has started. The Prince Claus Fund now needs input from network partners.
The proposals will be sent to all the partners in the first week of May and they will be discussed during a working session in June at the Ecole des Sables.
2008 Prince Claus Awards Ceremony on 3 December 2008
On 3 December 2008 the annual Prince Claus Awards will be presented at the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ in Amsterdam. The Prince Claus Fund has selected Culture and the Human Body as an area of special interest and as the theme for the 2008 Prince Claus Awards. The Prince Claus Fund seeks to identify and celebrate individuals, groups and organisations that demonstrate ingenuity of human expression through or in relation to the body with positive impact on culture and development.
We hope this early announcement will allow you to take the Awards ceremony and the Network Committee meeting into account when planning your engagements.
Can You Help?
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
Worldpremiere at ZIFF
If you have a new film that could be given its world premiere at ZIFF you can still send information about it and we can discuss modalities. Last year Malooned (Kenya) got a French distributor at ZIFF! Please pass on the information and also send us more contact names for our database for contacting filmmakers around the region. Any particular issue you’d wish to have discussed at ZIFF?
What's new?
On the 17th of March the Ecole des Sables started a new Professional Workshop for dancers from all over Africa.
There are 40 dancers from 23 different countries who will benefit from this workshop for 10 weeks. The title of the workshop: Tradition = innovation. The emphasis is on working from the base of the great richness of traditional dances and how to use them and transform them into contemporary creation.
But there are also a number of teachers from Europe and United States teaching western dance techniques.
The company JANT-BI has successfully completed a big 12 week 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 URBAN BUSH WOMEN, a company from New York of all Afro-American women, choreographers Germaine Acogny and Jawole Zollar. The piece enjoyed enormous success and was enthusiastically received everywhere. read some reviews
25 years of Videobrasil at SP Arte
Videobrasil 1983-2007 – Prizewinners’ Retrospective sums up almost twenty-five years of the Festival at the SP Arte, which kicks off on April 24. From April 24 through 27, exhibition Videobrasil 1983-2007 – Prizewinners’ Retrospective will bring to the Lina Bo Bardi Auditorium, in the Museum of Modern Art, the twenty-eight works awarded from the 1st to the 16th edition of the International Electronic Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil. read more
VB on Tour 08-09 travels around São Paulo
Between May and August, Videobrasil on Tour 2008-2009 will feature at twenty units of SESC São Paulo in the capital and interior of the state. In the capital, the circuit will include the units of Pinheiros (May 2, 18, 22, and 25); Itaquera (May 7 through 31); Carmo (May 12 and 13); Santana (May 13 and 14); Ipiranga (May 18, 19, 25, and 26); Pompéia (May 22, 23, and 24), and Vila Mariana (May 24). In the interior, there will be screenings in the cities of Birigui, Catanduva, Araçatuba, Bauru, Santos, Ribeirão Preto, Santo André, Rio Preto, São Carlos, São José dos Campos, Piracicaba, Araraquara, and Taubaté. read more
Eustáquio Neves in The Netherlands
Artist awarded the Videobrasil WBK Vrije Academie Prize is in The Hague for a six-week residency. Newly arrived in The Hague, The Netherlands, artist Eustáquio Neves discusses the foundations to the project that he is going to develop over the course of a six-week residency at the WBK Vrije Academie. read more
The Muyehlekete Workshop, Mozambique
The Muyehlekete Workshop in Mozambique held its open day on Friday 4th April. 12 Mozambican and 10 international artists, from countries including Angola, Portugal, Brazil, Cuba, Japan and the UK, worked on the grounds of MozArt and the Contemporary Art Museum in the centre of Maputo. read more
The Hoy Workshop in Orkneys, Scotland
The second of the 3 Island series of workshops, based on the Triangle model took place from 28 March - 11 April 2008 on the Island of Hoy, the first taking place at Tanera Mor. Artists from China, Cuba, Jamaica, Jordan, Trinidad, Mauritius, Pakistan, Iceland, England and Scotland - including local artists – participated alongside the local community. One such artist was Joy Gregory, who currently has a studio at Gasworks. read more
Forthcoming: Hong Kong International Artists’ Workshop 2008
4 X 4 Developed from its pilot programme Re: Wanchai held in 2005 AiR has continued in its spirit, seeing these new workshops as both a cultural exchange projects as well as an experiment in community development. read more
ABRO Artists Workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
This workshop is the first Triangle arts Workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and takes place from the 16th to 29th April 2008 read more
News of the Africa Beyond Fellowships and Residencies at Gasworks and beyond
The first stage of Africa Beyond, a residency exchange project between Gasworks and Africa Beyond (an organisation for the promotion of African culture in the UK) is well under way with the three selected UK based artists completing their residencies. Katrin Lock at The Bag Factory, Johannesburg and Helen Barff at the Greatmore Studios, Cape Town. The third UK artist selected for the fellowship is Isa Suarez's however her residency at Kuona in Nairobi has had to be postponed to mid Spring/Summer due to the political unrest in the region. read more
The 11th Zanzibar International Film Festival takes place between 11th and 20th July 2008
Indeed we hope we can have a good contingent of East and Central African filmmakers at ZIFF 2008. This is following the network meetings held in Belgium supported by AFRICALIA supporting 6 Regional Film Festivals. The Deadline for all film Entries has passed. We have received a big number of films from East Africa, India, Europe, and the African Diaspora, and we shall inform all after the selection panels have sat.
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Prince Claus Fund/Mondriaan orientation trip to Bangladesh, India and Dubai
Each year, the Prince Claus Fund and the Mondriaan Foundation jointly organise an orientation trip for art professionals from the Netherlands and other countries. The Fund and the Mondriaan Foundation started the initiative in 2004 with a trip to Lebanon and Egypt. In 2005 another group travelled to China, in 2006 the trip was to Senegal and South Africa and in 2007 to Mexico and Curacao. read more
Tini Tinou International Circus Festival
The Prince Claus Fund supports the organisation Phare Ponleu Selpak based in Cambodia for the exchange between two social circus schools in Cambodia and Guinea which takes place in March, April and May 2008. The exchange includes 15 artists of the “Centre d’Art Acrobatique Keïta Fodéba” of Guinea, 40 artists of Phare Ponleu Selpak circus school, and 80 other artists from Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Palestine and Vietnam.
