Prince Claus Fund Network News
No newsletter in August
As summer is coming up Annette will be on holidays from the 7th of July till the 27th of July. Therefore there will unfortunately not be a newsletter in August. The next issue will be in September, hope you will be able to wait for that long!
Report of the Senegal network committee meeting
From June 1st till the 8th 2008 the Prince Claus Fund Network Partners Committee met at Jant-Bi in Senegal.
Evaluation: In general everybody was very satisfied with the quality of this meeting. They stressed the positive fact that the meeting was not related to an event, like the festival in Bolivia, which gave much more time for exchange and discussion. They were inspired by the format of this meeting and the dance classes of Germaine gave them much inspiration and a feeling of solidarity.
They thought the discussions about sustainability and the theme were very fruitful. Most of the partners are critical about the theme for next year, Culture and Nature. Everybody stressed the importance of having enough time for individual meetings. There was no time planned for it in the agenda this year, so this should be taken into account for the next meeting. This should also create time to finalize ideas. In addition to extra time for individual meetings, there was a desire for one free day in the programme. All the partners, except Martin, were pleased with the 7 day length of the meeting. Martin would have preferred 6 days, given the time pressures of his other activities. Concerning the appraisal of the nominations of new partners everybody agreed that it is essential to have more information about the nominees in order to make a fair judgement. Helmut thought that it was very important that there was one extra day during the meeting in Amsterdam last December. It gave the opportunity to deepen the discussion. We should keep this in mind for the next meeting in December.
We agreed on DRIK in Bangladesh as the venue for the next Network Partnership Meeting in 2009. Shahidul warned us to arrange visas as soon as possible, to avoid the problems we had this year. He suggested holding the meeting on a boat, but he is going to discuss the possibilities first with Annette. The timing of the meeting has to take into account the monsoon which will usually starts at the beginning of June.
Read the minutes of the meeting in the following documents:
Culture and the Human Body
Sutainability
Themes
Communications
Reserve your dates for the Prince Claus Awards ceremony and the Network Committee meeting
This year the Prince Claus Awards ceremony is scheduled for the 3rd of December 2008. The idea is to schedule the Network Committee between 1st and 4th December. Please reserve your dates.
Can you help?
Message from Davide from Bizart
PLEASE SEND ON, it is very important. This is a very good institution that has been working in Milan for over a century. Thanks for the support.
Dear Friends,
The website to support the Italian Institute for Africa and the Orient (IsIAO - former IsMEO) in the struggle against cancellation by the new Government of Italy has been open this morning:
www.giuseppetucci.isiao.it
Please do act as soon as possible and do your best to involve as many people as possible from your network, not only colleagues and archaeologists but also ordinary people, since the IsIAO is influential over a very broad social environment.
Best regards,
Maurizio Tosi
What's new?
Exhibition at Reyum with artwork of Kim Hak
RELAX is an exhibition of over 100 hand-painted, pressed and mounted Banyan leaves whose detail and small scale are both intimate and ethereal. For the artist, Kim Hak, Banyan tree leaves are not only the subject of his work, but also the canvas on which he creates his work. The leaves represent the path his life's journey has taken; each leaf coming from a specific location he has traveled to within Southeast Asia.
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Videobrasil On Tour 2008-2009 travels across Australia
Solange Farkas, curator of Associação Cultural Videobrasil and director of the Museum of Modern Art - Bahia, will travel to Australia and New Zealand in June to present Videobrasil On Tour 2008-2009 at festivals and media centres, and to participate in roundtable Art/Cinema, along with David Cranswick, director of d/Lux/MediaArts, and Australian curators and critics. read more
Dossier profiles award-winners at 16th Videobrasil
From June onwards, online publication FF Dossier, which features exclusive content on Southern artists, will be published on a monthly basis again, starting with a series of editions focused on artists awarded at the 16th Videobrasil (São Paulo, 2007). read more
Ibero-American Video Art Festival
With a curated programme by Solange Farkas, Videobrasil will participate in the Ibero-American Video Art Festival, to be held in Lima from July 14th to 18th. The Emerging Narratives programme will feature seven works by Brazilian artists selected for the 16th Videobrasil: José Vicente, by Marco Del Fiol; Várzea, by Estúdio Bijari & Ricardo Iazzetta; ...Feito Poeira ao Vento..., by Dirceu Maués; Copérnico I: Paisagem com Figura, by Daniel Augusto & Eduardo Climachauska; Abismo Virtual, by Eustáquio Neves; Filme de Foda, by Wagner Morales; and Antonio Pode, by Ivan Morales Jr. Together, the videos provide an overview of different genres in experimental narrative.
A New Jewel in Bangladesh's Crown
The Nobel Peace Prize won by the celebrated economist Muhammad Yunus in 2006 has been a great source of pride for Bangladesh. It has gone some way in countering the negative perception of the country in international media. The award will be officially unveiled to the nation in a ceremony on the 17th July 2008. The event will be launched by Mr. Fakhruddin Ahmed, the Chief Adviser of Bangladesh (the head of government). It will also be attended by Professor Ole Danbolt Mjøs, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Ms. Støfring Ingebjørg, the Ambassador of Norway in Bangladesh and many other dignitaries.
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Workshops Supersudaca
Supersudaca has launched the workshop inscriptions for Sin Embago...Con Embargo, the workshop will take place at the IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalunya) from 1st to 14th of September. The workshop is a follow up of the ongoing research of Supersudaca in tourism in the Caribbean. The workshop will focus on how tourism can drastically change the Cuban economy if the American embargo would fall. Nevertheless it also explores the alternatives that hardening the embargo on the island could cause. More info at www.supersudaca.org and www.iaac.net
IND [Inter National Design], the local branch of Supersudaca in Holland will lead a summer workshop at the faculty of architecture of Venice. The workshop theme is Mosque in Venice and is a reflection on how the word mosque has been massively associated with terrorism and the fact that more and more Muslim immigrants arrive to democratic Europe to realize that there is literally little space for their beliefs.
More info at www.internationaldesign.nl and http://www.iuav.it/
Read more about projects supported by the Prince Claus Fund in July and August 2008
