Category Archives: Dispatches | Europe
LANGUAGE DIPLOMACY | Do Turkey’s summer schools drive cultural diplomacy?
Turkish cultural centers that teach native languages now play a role in carrying Turkey’s cultural diplomacy.
LANGUAGE DIPLOMACY | Do Turkey’s summer schools drive cultural diplomacy?
Turkish cultural centers that teach native languages now play a role in carrying Turkey’s cultural diplomacy.
MOVIES INTO THEATER | I can’t believe it’s not Ingmar Bergman’s film (part 1)
So what happened to change the Bergmanian tide? Money and the swift canonization of a once reluctant Swedish dramatist-turned-film-icon are the quick answers.
MOVIES INTO THEATER | I can’t believe it’s not Ingmar Bergman’s film (part 1)
So what happened to change the Bergmanian tide? Money and the swift canonization of a once reluctant Swedish dramatist-turned-film-icon are the quick answers.
LITERACY STRATEGY | EU pledges €2.5 billion to fight literacy problems
At least €1.5 billion will go to the future Erasmus for All programme (an academic exchange programme between EU and overseas universities, which has helped pupils improve their education by gaining experience of studying abroad).
LITERACY STRATEGY | EU pledges €2.5 billion to fight literacy problems
At least €1.5 billion will go to the future Erasmus for All programme (an academic exchange programme between EU and overseas universities, which has helped pupils improve their education by gaining experience of studying abroad).
Slide show | Alan Cumming, Rivka S. Katvan, Tom Viola, Randy Gener talk fine-art photography and Broadway behind the curtain
Please join Gallery 138 and Soho Photo Gallery on Wednesday Sept 12, 6-8 pm at Soho Photo Gallery,15 White Street, in NYC for: BROADWAY BEHIND THE CURTAIN Conversations on Photography and Broadway with Alan Cumming, Rivka S. Katvan & Tom
Slide show | Alan Cumming, Rivka S. Katvan, Tom Viola, Randy Gener talk fine-art photography and Broadway behind the curtain
Please join Gallery 138 and Soho Photo Gallery on Wednesday Sept 12, 6-8 pm at Soho Photo Gallery,15 White Street, in NYC for: BROADWAY BEHIND THE CURTAIN Conversations on Photography and Broadway with Alan Cumming, Rivka S. Katvan & Tom
Slideshow | German director Wim Wenders (“Pina” and “Wings of Desire”) exhibits his landscape photography
For those who are curious to glimpse the personal photography of filmmaker Wim Wenders exhibited in “Places, strange and quiet,” click here to view a slideshow.
Slideshow | German director Wim Wenders (“Pina” and “Wings of Desire”) exhibits his landscape photography
For those who are curious to glimpse the personal photography of filmmaker Wim Wenders exhibited in “Places, strange and quiet,” click here to view a slideshow.
Dramatic photographs of North Korea, Greece, Afghanistan exhibited at France’s international festival of photojournalism
This festival is a unique event for those who share a love and passion for photography. For one week each year, the Palais des Congrès in Perpignan becomes the centre of the photojournalism community. The Festival exhibits the greatest photojournalist work from around the world in exhibitions across the city.
Dramatic photographs of North Korea, Greece, Afghanistan exhibited at France’s international festival of photojournalism
This festival is a unique event for those who share a love and passion for photography. For one week each year, the Palais des Congrès in Perpignan becomes the centre of the photojournalism community. The Festival exhibits the greatest photojournalist work from around the world in exhibitions across the city.
GPS | ROMANIA: Horia-Roman Patapievici, curajos erou, a declarat că va demisiona de la conducerea Institutului Cultural Român”
A gallery exhibition at the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York displayed the Cărtureşti spirit. Cărtureşti is a cultural venue that functions as a bookshop, tea studio, and project space, taking direct action towards revitalizing the Romanian artistic life, urban pleasures and social responsibilities.
GPS | ROMANIA: Horia-Roman Patapievici, curajos erou, a declarat că va demisiona de la conducerea Institutului Cultural Român”
A gallery exhibition at the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York displayed the Cărtureşti spirit. Cărtureşti is a cultural venue that functions as a bookshop, tea studio, and project space, taking direct action towards revitalizing the Romanian artistic life, urban pleasures and social responsibilities.
Romania’s Cultural Institute under siege | Politics won. Leaders of Romanian Cultural Institute resign from their posts
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.
Romania’s Cultural Institute under siege | Politics won. Leaders of Romanian Cultural Institute resign from their posts
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.
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)
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)
Romania’s Cultural Institute under siege | Ponta’s online minions attack character and integrity of ICR leadership
A new communiqué, sent via email from Ponta’s online team and dated June 28, 2012, is accusing ICR of “financial and legal irregularities” as well as “dysfunctional aspects,” without actually offering any tangible evidence. In quick reaction, ICR’s executive board members have drafted a point-by-point response that calls this communiqué full of “disinformation and blatant lies.” At issue: 10 million euros, the annual budget of ICR.
Romania’s Cultural Institute under siege | Ponta’s online minions attack character and integrity of ICR leadership
A new communiqué, sent via email from Ponta’s online team and dated June 28, 2012, is accusing ICR of “financial and legal irregularities” as well as “dysfunctional aspects,” without actually offering any tangible evidence. In quick reaction, ICR’s executive board members have drafted a point-by-point response that calls this communiqué full of “disinformation and blatant lies.” At issue: 10 million euros, the annual budget of ICR.
Performance review | Is “Pâquerette” penetrating, or merely a dance with penetrating elements?
Pâquerette is a duet between a man and a woman who re-discover their childlike innocence through the intensities of penetration.
Performance review | Is “Pâquerette” penetrating, or merely a dance with penetrating elements?
Pâquerette is a duet between a man and a woman who re-discover their childlike innocence through the intensities of penetration.
Performance review (NSFW) | Italy’s Ricci/Forte serves up queer fantasia in “Macadamia Nut Brittle”
Macadamia Nut Brittle is excoriating, sexy, hallucinatory, viciously funny. The plot steals from the mode of a reality-TV show, but its stance is subversive and punk. As the noisy evening unfolds, Ricci/Forte detonates, again and again and again, the illusory logic of this TV genre
Performance review (NSFW) | Italy’s Ricci/Forte serves up queer fantasia in “Macadamia Nut Brittle”
Macadamia Nut Brittle is excoriating, sexy, hallucinatory, viciously funny. The plot steals from the mode of a reality-TV show, but its stance is subversive and punk. As the noisy evening unfolds, Ricci/Forte detonates, again and again and again, the illusory logic of this TV genre
Play excerpt: Jeton Neziraj’s “Yue Madeleine Yue,” a tragicomedy about anti-Roma discrimination
The play tells the story of a Roma family that was forcedly expelled from Germany to Kosovo. In their new reality, this family confronts the challenges of living in a recently newborn state. One day, a Roma girl named Madeleine falls in a hole that was created by a construction company. The girl falls in a coma. As she fights for her life, her father strives to pursue justice. He faces bureaucratic officers, businessmen, policemen and embassy workers.
Play excerpt: Jeton Neziraj’s “Yue Madeleine Yue,” a tragicomedy about anti-Roma discrimination
The play tells the story of a Roma family that was forcedly expelled from Germany to Kosovo. In their new reality, this family confronts the challenges of living in a recently newborn state. One day, a Roma girl named Madeleine falls in a hole that was created by a construction company. The girl falls in a coma. As she fights for her life, her father strives to pursue justice. He faces bureaucratic officers, businessmen, policemen and embassy workers.
Because it Cannes: Agence France Presse wraps French city with glamorous photos of movie stars
The selected photos in Cannes have a lot of pointing and waving in them: Alfred Hitchcock fingering the viewer directly, Michael Douglas waving in the air, Tony Curtis also pointing a finger, Quentin Tarantino with two palms up in the air, and Sophia Loren also with her arms up
Because it Cannes: Agence France Presse wraps French city with glamorous photos of movie stars
The selected photos in Cannes have a lot of pointing and waving in them: Alfred Hitchcock fingering the viewer directly, Michael Douglas waving in the air, Tony Curtis also pointing a finger, Quentin Tarantino with two palms up in the air, and Sophia Loren also with her arms up
