Prince Claus Fund Network News
Joumana’s maternity leave will be starting from the 20th of March till the 29th of September. Annette de Bock will be the Network partners programme coordinator during this period of time.
Next Network Committee meeting in Toubab Dialaw, 1st till the 8th of June 2008.
Jant-Bi will be welcoming us at the Ecole des Sables in Toubab Dialaw during the first week of June for the Network committee meeting. The agenda is stil in preparation and you will be informed of the details as soon as possible. Concerning the attendance, I am very happy to say that, apart from Solange Farkas who has not yet given me a final answer, all the members will be attending the meeting. Concerning the travel arrangements, things should be a bit less complicated than going to Bolivia. The only limitation is that all the non-African members will have to pass by Paris in order to catch a direct flight to Dakar. Concerning the elaboration of the agenda, we are still working on it but the week will include the following:
- Dancing classes with Germaine Acogny
- Presentations by each committee member on the Prince Claus Fund annual theme which should be decided upon in March
- Discussions on a theme agreed upon by all the members on a specific aspect of a cultural organisation’s functioning
- Case study of Jant-Bi and of the University Centre of Arts and Drama of Rwanda
- Advising the Prince Claus Fund on a selection of received proposals for the 2008 potential network partners
- Communication working session
- Excursions
Please send in the discussion theme concerning a specific aspect of the functioning of a cultural organisation that you wish to work on in June
During the December 2007 Network Committee meeting themes such as sustainability of a cultural organisation or the social aspect of a cultural organisation have been mentioned. Please send Joumana J.Elzein@princeclausfund.nl the themes that you would like to discuss in order to arrive to a consensus.
Second selection phase for the 2008 Network partners has started. The Prince Claus Fund now needs the network partner’s input.
After having sent out a closed call for proposal for the Network Partners Programme to 31 organisations, the second phase of the selection has now begun. This phase consists of two stages. The first one will be an internal selection of a short list of 10 or 15 proposals that the Prince Claus Fund feels would best fit into the programme. While the second stage would be sending these 10/15 proposals to the network partners who will then advise the Fund on which final two they feel should be the 2008 Network Partners.
The proposals will be sent to all the partners as soon as possible and they will be discussed during a working session in June at the Ecole des Sables.
Can you help?
Prince Claus Fund needs a list of organisations in your networks to which it would be useful to send out publications to.
Please contact J.Elzein@princeclausfund.nl
Call for Submissions for Chobi Mela V, Festival of Photography in Asia: Theme Freedom
We invite photographers working in the fields of photojournalism, fine art, conceptual or any other field of photography, to interpret the theme “Freedom” in the widest sense possible. Submissions may be made online from 1st March 2008 through to 31st May 2008. Selections will be made by 15th June 2008. Final work must be submitted by 31st July 2008. Festival opens 6th November 2008. Submission guidelines will be available online at www.chobimela.org from the 1st March 2008. http://shahidul.wordpress.com/2008/02/16/freedom/
What's new?
1st till the 30th of March, “Everyday is Not the Same”, a residency and exhibition at the BizArt Art Center, Shanghai, China
The exhibition “Everyday is Not the Same” in collaboration with BizArt Art Center in Shanghai, China is to introduce Korean young artists to the Chinese audience with the view of activating art interchange among Asian countries, and embody the unique culture of Shanghai with a motif of ‘daily life’. This exhibition is part of the project in which 24 Korean artists research into Shanghai, stay in the city, experience every day life, and express their experiences with their artistic sensibilities. Read more...
12-23rd of March, Prince Claus Fund/Mondriaan orientation trip to Bangladesh, India and Dubai
The Prince Claus Fund and the Mondriaan Foundation organise an orientation trip for art professionals from the Netherlands and from other countries.
From 12 till 23 March 2008, a travel to Bangladesh, India and Dubai is being organized with the participation of professionals from the Netherlands and countries the Fund is active in, representing institutions within the field of the visual arts, design and other cultural disciplines. Read more...
A moving article from MYSA
United We Stand
Kenya is a tense country right now, but those who have insight in the situation, know that it has always been that way. To many like me it’s a great disappointment to see our beautiful country burn to flames over misunderstandings and intolerance. Read more...
News from the Burj el Shemali Palestinian camp project, the Arab Image Foundation, Lebanon
Since we started gathering books and DVDs for our small media library installed in our atelier (the atelier is the workshop space in which the students gather) of Burj el Shemali camp, we decided to set up a weekly cinema-club. Read more...
Bangladesh 1971, a photographic exhibition and film season http://shahidul.wordpress.com/2008/02/22/
A photographic exhibition and film season that focuses on one of South Asia’s most significant political events: the foundation of Bangladesh as an independent state. Many of the photographs from the unique collection of the Drik archives will be shown in the UK for the first time. Read more...
29 March – 13 April (Open Day: 13th April), Hoy Workshop (Orkneys, Scotland)
This is the second of three artists' workshops in Scotland organised by a local group of artists in conjunction with local arts centers. Following the Triangle Model of workshops, Hoy is bringing artists from Cuba, Trinidad, India, China and Jordan to work alongside a group of local artists. Read more...
24 March – 6 April (open Day: 6th April), Muyehlekete Workshop (Maputo, Mozambique)
Mozambique has formed part of the Triangle Network for a number of years, starting with the first workshop in Mozambique in 1991 with artists including Malangatana, Victor Sousa, Shikhani, Fátima Fernandes, Govane, Berry Bickle, Conde, Ídasse, Muando, Naguib, Renata, Titos Mabota, Ndlozi as well as international artists. After several years of Muyehlekete, a Changana word meaning ‘the thinker', will renew the connections to the Triangle network. The workshop has invited a string of international artists from countries including India, Japan, Angola, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, South Africa and the Jordan to work alongside a group of local artists.
From the 24 of April till the 4 of May, 144 concerts by 40 groups from 21 countries in the VII "Misiones de Chiquitos" Baroque Music Festival in Santa Cruz- Bolivia
Organized by APAC, this Festival is the biggest Music Festival in all America. The concerts will take place in 22 towns covering 3000 km. Groups will be from Germany, Holland, France, Belgium, England, Switzerland, Norway, Spain, Poland, Croatia, Italy, Canada, USA, Mexico, Brasil, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Perú and Paraguay, and Israel. Bolivia will be represented by 19 groups from diferents parts of the country.
GIA and Eder Santos in Spain, Programmes by Solange Farkas brings actions by the Bahia-based collective and a video installation by the artist from Minas Gerais to Madrid in February
The Bahia-based collective GIA and artist Eder Santos from Minas Gerais participated in February in a programme that were held on the sidelines of the ARCO8 fair, in Madrid, by invitation of curator Solange Farkas, director of the Modern Art Museum of Bahia and Associação Cultural Videobrasil. Read more...
Dias & Riedweg in the Netherlands, Maurício Dias and Walter Riedweg show a new version of their work Funk Staden in the Netherlands until March
Maurício Dias (Brazil) and Walter Riedweg (Switzerland) will be showing at De Vleeshal, in Middelburg, the Netherlands, until March, a new version of their work Funk Staden, presented in the form of a tryptic at the Documenta 12, in Kassel (2007). Made in collaboration with funk dancers from Rio de Janeiro, the work establishes a connection between the Brazilian culture of the favelas and the account written by Dutch traveler Hans Staden about Brazil in the 16th century. In the work, funk dancers are invited to restage scenes of engravings from the account’s first edition, which depict interactions between the Dutch traveler and the Brazilian Indians. The exhibition is curated by Roland Groenenboom. Centered upon the work of Dias & Riedweg, the documentary film made with the support of the Prince Claus Fund, Mau Wal: Translated Encounters of the Videobrasil Authors Collection, integrated the programme of the Intermediae, in Madrid, during the ARCO8 fair, held in February.
NOLLYWOOD COMES TO ZIFF !!
ZIFF welcomes Nollywood!!. That notorious and gregarious African grown film/video production system will be discussed and given the once over at ZIFF. The Nigerian home-grown production system that began its journey as a market system in Onitsha, Nigeria, has now captured the video market in the whole of Africa. Read more...
