Triangle Arts Trust
Associação Cultural VideoBrasil
Caribbean Contemporary Arts
Komunitas Utan Kayu
Jant-Bi
ZIFF
APAC
Drik Picture Library
Mysa
REYUM Institute of Arts and Culture
UCADSuperSudacaBizArt/ Arthub
Arab Image Foundation Over het Netwerk Partnerschap
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Supersudaca announces the opening for inscriptions for the workshop CON EMBARGO SIN EMBARGO organized by Supersudaca, hosted by IAAC (Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalunya) and supported by the Prince Claus Fund. The workshop will explore with architects, urbanist and landscape architects the potential shift in tourism in Cuba in a post embargo context. For more information check www.sinembargo.org
Prince Claus Fund Network Partners travelled from all parts of the world to Senegal, the first week of June, to share their experiences, concerns and ideas at L'Ecole des Sables, home of the dance troop Jant-Bi. The Network Partners didn’t just talk: they moved and shared in various ways. Read more
With support of the Prince Claus Fund and the Arab Image Foundation the exhibition 'How Beautiful is Panama!' can be seen at UMAM in Lebanon in May 2008. When Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh initiated small summer-workshops in six refugee camps in 2001 together with photographer Simon Lourié, she never imagined that she would be going back and forth to the camps for four years until deciding to finally live in one of them, Burj al-Shamali. She says she was aware that entering the camps and handing out cameras to children was a loaded act. Still, the youth she met and collaborated with somehow urged her to continue the project. Now the results are presented in an exhibition that takes place from 2 May till 18 may 2008. '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. They now have an atelier and a project of archiving family and studio photographs is in progress, as is the production of a documentary film on the youth. read more
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
We zijn trots op de twee nieuwe netwerkpartners van het Prins Claus Fonds. De Arab Image Foundation, Beirut, Libanon en BizArt / Arthub, Shanghai, 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
Supersudaca, a network partner of the Prince Claus Fund, has launched a new competition called Sudapan endless (s)trips. The competition tries to put forward key territorial issues of Latin America and the Carribbean for their inclusion in the contemporary global agenda. Endless(s)trips is a competition of ideas about the urbanism potential of the massive beach tourism in the Carribbean. Endless(s)trips is a space of reflection and proposals for rethinking the relation between the local elements, the tourists, the environment, tourism managers, the State, the infrastructure and the landscape. It is an opportunity to imagine other cities, other territories and other ways of tourism management. Due to its site, dynamisn and complexity, the Mayan Riviera is an intense and urgent case of great potential, an urbanism laboratory in the Carribbean coast.
Read more about the competition at www.sudapan.org.
Read more about Supersudaca at www.supersudaca.org.
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
Een jongens- en meisjesteam van onder de zestien jaar uit de sloppenwijk Mathare Valley in Niarobi wonnen goud op een tournooi in Delft en Woudenberg. In de Norway Cup die pasgeleden in Oslo werd gehouden wonnen Mysa-jeugdteams ook al twee keer goud. MYSA is een netwerkpartner van het Prins Claus Fonds. lees meer
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
Vergadering van de netwerkpartners in Senegal
Jant-Bi dansers in het stuk "Les écailles de la mémoire - scales of memory"
De opening van 'In Transition' in het Reyum Institute of Arts
Het Prins Claus Fonds heeft een uitgebreid internationaal netwerk van
personen en organisaties. Met een klein aantal van deze culturele organisaties
over de hele wereld heeft het Fonds samenwerkingsovereenkomsten voor de
lange termijn gesloten.
Het Prins Claus Fonds kiest jaarlijks twee nieuwe netwerk partners. De selectie wordt gemaakt door het Prins Claus Fonds en de Internationale Raad van Advies. Er kunnen geen aanvragen ingediend worden voor dit programma
Voor meer informatie over het netwerkprogramma kunt u contact opnemen met Joumana el Zein J.elzein@princeclausfund.nl
De links hier leiden naar de website van de Netwerkpartner, de links boven verwijzen naar de informatie over de partner op deze site
Netwerk 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