The siege is broken. The culture war in Romania is over. National politics won. The leaders of the cultural institution responsible for putting Romanian arts and culture on the world map are stepping down. Continue reading
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Press release | Nueva York se viste de fiesta por la Revolución Bolivariana (New York celebrates Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution)
Press release from Venezuelan Embassy to the U.S. / July 25, 2023 Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 1099 30th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20007 NEW YORK CITY, July 25, 2023 | At a gathering Tuesday night in New York City, more than 200 members of progressive social movements and groups in the … Continue reading
Burson-Marsteller “Twiplomacy” study reveals | Obama does not rule Twitterverse | World’s best connected world leaders are EU prexy @euHvR (Herman van Rompuy) and Aussie PM @JuliaGillard
Do world leaders tweet themselves, or they do they ask other minions do tweet for them? According to the Twiplomacy study, “30 heads of state and government actually do their own tweeting. The most conversational are the prime minister of Uganda, Amama Mbabazi, and Rwanda President Paul Kagame who frequently engage personally in tweets with their followers.” Continue reading
GPS | Romania: Acting workshops of Andrei Şerban Traveling Academy in Mogoşoaia
“Brancovan Palaces” Cultural Center in Mogoşoaia hosted the workshops of this traveling academy. The actors worked on Shakespeare and Romanian classic playwright Ion Luca Caragiale (the centenary of whose death is celebrated this year) Continue reading
In Colorado Springs, European puppet-style Dickens Festival showcases “Great Expectations” and “Oliver Twist” in repertoire
impich Showcase of Colorado Springs is joining in the international celebration of the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens by hosting a unique two-part festival. Continue reading
Festival d’Avignon | A playing area, an adventure, a French city-theater, a state of mind
Avignon is also a state of mind: the city is an open-air forum where festival-goers discuss the shows and share their experiences as spectators. For a month, everyone can have access to a contemporary and living culture Continue reading
Indigenous Peruvian culture fest | In D.C., 6-day Kaypi Peru Festival celebrates traditional music, dance, cuisine, alpacas
Kaypi Perú,which means “This is Peru” in the indigenous language of Quechua, includes an art market, music and dance performances, hands-on activities for kids, short films, photo exhibitions of Machu Picchu and the Inka Road, traditional plants, as well as Peruvian Paso horses and alpacas Continue reading
Currently in production | Play excerpt, models, design sketches for Pacific Beat Collective’s “Tala” at HERE Arts Center, July 28 to 31
“Tala” will perform in a workshop production July 28th to 31st at HERE Arts Center in downtown SoHo in New York City. The play, a work-in-progress, is a critique on the nature of political revolutions. Click here to read a play excerpt and see the work of the designers and actors as they prepare for the production. Continue reading
PUMA.Peace offers free short films to organize your own films4peace screenings
PUMA.Peace would love for you to screen this year’s films4peace and will do everything we can to assist you to accomplish this. You are invited to curate these films into an exhibition with the films screened individually on monitors or by projection Continue reading
Putin’s Pussy problem | Amnesty International demands that Russia release anti-Putin punk singers detained after church performance
Three young women are being detained by Russian authorities for allegedly performing a protest song in a cathedral as part of a feminist punk group Pussy Riot. If found guilty, they could be jailed for up to 7 years just for exercising their free speech. The three women are currently in pre-trial detention, which has been extended to January 2013. Continue reading
Romania’s gypsy brass music phenom, Fanfare Ciocarlia, tours North America in September
Everyone who has heard Fanfare Ciocarlia agrees on one thing: No brass band plays as fast. Their breakneck speed, technical chops, ripping rhythms and sweet’n sour horns are different from any other brass band on earth. Continue reading
Book release | “Marco Anelli: Portraits in the Presence of Marina Abramovic”
After becoming an internet sensation, Marco Anelli’s powerful portraits of sitters in the historic 2010 Marina Abramovic performance at the Museum of Modern Art, New York are now collected and available in their entirety in this volume Continue reading
Performance artist Marisa Prefer sets aside “Breathing Room” at Bushwick gallery
Signal is pleased to present Breathing Room, a temporary environment by artist Marisa Prefer. Viewers are invited to enter a large-scale inflatable sculpture installed within the gallery Continue reading
Press release | Policing practices put sex workers and HIV services at risk in Kenya, Namibia, Russia, South Africa, USA and Zimbabwe, says Open Society Foundations
The report, “Criminalizing Condoms,” surveyed sex workers in Kenya, Namibia, Russia, South Africa, the United States, and Zimbabwe and found that police practices made it more likely that sex workers would have unprotected sex with their clients. Condom possession is used by some prosecutors as evidence of criminal activity Continue reading
Japan Society awards $2.1M in earthquake relief grants
Grants were awarded to eight organizations — including seven first-time grantees — working in the areas of economic and community revitalization and mental health services Continue reading
Russian law seeks to label foreign-funded nonprofits “foreign agents”
Civil and human rights activists note that Russian donors are afraid to support nonprofit organizations that criticize the government, which leaves those nonprofits dependent on foreign funding. Continue reading
Polish oil tycoon gives $6M to Warsaw museum of Polish Jew history
20 million zlotys were donated by Dr. Jan Kulczyk’s investment house to the first and at once the only museum in the world entirely devoted to the history of Polish Jews Continue reading
Press release | PEN denounces sentencing of Ethiopian blogger Eskinder Nega
Eskinder, who received this year’s PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award, was one of 20 journalists and political activist to be sentenced to long prison terms on terrorism-related charges, accelerating a trend where vague anti-terrorism laws are used to silence peaceful dissenting voices in Ethiopia Continue reading
Native American News | Oneida Indian Nation awards $10M toward planned Museum of the American Revolution
WASHINGTON, D.C. and PHILADELPHIA | The American Revolution Center has announced a $10 million gift from the Oneida Indian Nation in support of the center’s planned Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. The gift is made in part to recognize the little known, but extraordinary role the Oneidas played in the Revolutionary War. With … Continue reading
