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Worüber lohnt es zu diskutieren?Eurasische Magazin - 1. Jan. 2009Außerdem leitet Kai Ehlers den Verein für Ost-West- Dialog, Selbstorganisation und gegenseitige Transformation im interkulturellen Austausch „Nowostroika eV“ ... |
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Suche in der HomepageOEW - 1. Jan. 2009... darüber wird in diesen Beiträgen geschrieben und auch in diesem Jahr wieder diskutiert. Interkultureller Dialog, die Zweite. Ton ab! Kamera ab! Action! |
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Interkulturellen Dialog im Alltag verankernSalzburg.at - 30. Dez. 2008In zwei Tagen geht das "Europäische Jahr des interkulturellen Dialogs 2008" zu Ende. Das Frauenbüro der Stadt Salzburg und das Büro für Frauenfragen und ... |
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Kulturelle Toleranz Ady RichardLuxemburger Wort - 28. Dez. 2008Trotz des zu Ende gehenden Jahres des interkulturellen Dialogs werden kulturelle und nationale Identitäten immer noch oft falsch, weil gegen andere Menschen ... |
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Vatican cardinal assesses dialogue with Muslims, Hindus, othersCatholic Culture - 8 hours agoIntercultural dialogue is possible, though, as well as about religious topics such “creation, life, family, prayer, fasting, eternal life,” and thus, ... |
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Iraqi delegation to visit NI schoolsIrish Times, Ireland - 13 hours agoThis type of intercultural dialogue within education is an essential part of our programme.” The visiting delegation of senior Ministry of Education ... |
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Slovenia to Preside Council of Europe in 2009STA - Slovenska Tiskovna Agencija, Slovenia - Jan 4, 2009Pending approval by the government, Slovenia's priorities would include intercultural dialogue, promotion of human rights, minorities, the Roma, ... |
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The Fethullah Gulen MovementGlobal Politician, NY - Jan 3, 2009It brings together a range of other dialogue platforms, such as the Abant Platform of the Journalists and Writers Foundations, the Intercultural Dialogue ... |
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Radio Bulgaria Programme, January 3, 2009BNR - Radio Bulgaria, Bulgaria - Jan 2, 2009Next we’ll tell you about Bulgaria’s participation in the intercultural dialogue initiative, under whose motto the last year passed. ... |
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And This Year.. 2009MidEastYouth.com - Dec 31, 2008European Year of Intercultural Dialogue, International Year of Sanitation and The Year of the Rat (by the Chinese calendar). I am not going to analyse any ... |
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Wole Soyinka - Africa's first literary laureatepenki.lt, Lithuania - Dec 29, 2008Wole Soyinka, on Thursday you were on the panel for the closing session on intercultural dialogue. What issues should people be talking about concerning ... |
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Ever wondered what European Capitals of Culture really attain? Why all the competition to get the title and what is the lasting impact? LabforCulture and Trans Europe Halles have been thinking through these questions and as a result bring to you a collection of resources exploring the European Capitals of Culture and the communities around the cities.
Our specific interest was to discover what impact is made on the local community: the artist, the shopper and the man walking his dog. The results are available in the new Research in focus, “Capitalising on Culture: The impact of the European Capitals of Culture on the local independent cultural sector.
The Research in focus comprises of a series of interviews with Trans Europe Halles members who have often been directly involved in the process of application or producing European Capitals of Culture. Additionally alongside the interviews, research mapping has been carried out on existing resources and revealing key information on European Capitals of Culture.
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The Adriatic Euroregion is the focal point for the next two editions of LabforCulture’s Region in focus. The Adriatic Euroregion Part I starts with Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia. Part II will cover Albania, Italy and Montenegro and will be posted early next year on LabforCulture.
The region has a stunning collection of histories, languages, geography and cultural achievements. LabforCulture undertakes to explore and map the various independent cultural and artistic organisations and projects operating in the region. In this process an extremely vibrant picture of energy and diversity in the arts and cultural sector emerges, as well as the common values and concrete interactions across the region, the whole Europe and beyond.
The Region in focus, Adriatic Euroregion Part I uses various personal viewpoints with videos, texts and images contributed by a wide ranging group including: artists, cultural managers, intellectuals, writers, poets, social activists and young people. The first viewpoint presents video interviews carried out by Manja Ristić in various locations across Croatia.
Adriatic Euroregion Part I of the mapping undertakes to highlight organisations working across borders in Bosnia-Herzegovina (by Aida Kalender), Croatia (by UIII/Sonja Lebos) and Slovenia (by Marko Brumen). The Region in focus, Adriatic Euroregion is co-ordinated by Ruggero Lala.
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LabforCulture has gone Italian! Two years after launching LabforCulture we are now adding a Italian language version to the site. This will make the site more accessible to a wider part of the Italian community and expands the site to 6 languages.
To celebrate the Italian launch, we will be launching the site at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin kindly hosted by Compagnia di San Paolo, coinciding with T2 Turin Triennial, showcasing over 50 international young artists and Artissimia, the international fair of contemporary art in Turin, today.
So have a look at the new Italian version of the site and send us a comment on the LabforCulture blog. Got any Italian friends, well let them know!
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Following the online consultation earlier this year, organised by Culture Action Europe (EFAH) and the European Cultural Foundation, and facilitated by LabforCulture, the results are now out on what you had to say about how Europe should tackle diversity.
The main recommendations that came from hundreds of views from varying sectors centre on: educating and building institutional capacity for Intercultural Dialogue, monitoring for sustained policies, mobilising across boundaries and the resourcing of Intercultural Dialogue.
Now you can endorse the results of the process by visiting http://rainbowplatform.labforculture.org and sign up to the recommendations. By giving the Rainbow Platform your support, you will increase the impact of the recommendations and you or your organisation will become eligible for formal membership of the Platform.
LabforCulture has designed an easy endorsement process so give it a go!
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We have been working away to create a new and improved platform and here it is! The new design improves the display of edited information on the site, making it easier for you navigate through the thousands of resources on the site in 5 languages.
The community section also is easier to use, improving how to upload information about yourself, your event or a subject you want to blog about. The editors of the site will regularly be updating their sections of the site, and bringing you what’s hot and what’s not in the cultural scene across Europe.
So use the site, and let us know what you think: hopefully you are as happy as we are!
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We recommend you to have a look at our refreshed funding section - 14 new references might help you expand the horizons of your cultural or artistic project.
In many cases a good contact, a non-conventional idea, an inspiring partnership could be more valuable than cash. In the Alternative financing section of LabforCulture website, we stress on the non-monetary support, looking at asset transfer and “in-kind” help, from the Finance Hub and other resources. A model organization, investing on arts to promote social awareness, is Mamacash foundation - contributing to improve women rights worldwide and supporting taboo-breaking art projects. In our popular Tips section you can consult the Festival Toolkit, a practical guide from Arts Derbyshire. As for the international culture and training programmes: Fundaçao Oriente and the Japan Foundation make bridges of understanding between cultures by exchange and learning. An approach to the Swiss philanthropy is given through the network of Swiss foundations. And, if your professional field is in the Arts and Humanities you should not miss the Gerda Henkel Stiftung in Germany.
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The new Region in focus online today, looks at France's independent cultural sector through the viewpoint of the two cities, Nantes and Lille. Banlieues d'Europe collected different perspectives through interviews, images and reflections by various cultural individuals. Added to this, l'Observatoire des Politiques Culturelles undertook a mapping of key French organisations that facilitate cultural cooperation. Both contributions make up an interesting commentary on intercultural delivery in France.
The two cities, Nantes and Lille both share a similar industrial past and have in recent years linked to cultural regeneration as a mechanism to improve and raise profile. Read about the dynamic communities from the two cities and the steps taken to create great events, cultural facilities for the metropolitan areas and thriving networks. There is also an insight into approximately seventy artistic and cultural facilities involved in European, international cross-border exchanges and intercultural projects in France.
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LabforCulture is delighted to congratulate Pieter van Kemenade (aka Pike) for his nomination for the “Contribution of the Year Award" by the eZ Awards/ Nordic Open.
The awards are a major part of the Nordic Open in Skien, Norway. In 2007 it was the largest open source conference in Europe and they hope it will continue in 2008.
Pike has been working with LabforCulture as our technical developer for the last two years and his work has largely centred on development using the Ez open software.
Pike will be visiting the conference in Skien this week and we wish him luck on Thursday the 19th!
The conference is looking at the fast developing scene of open source software and mobile phone technologies, which was also the focus of the LabforCulture Assembly in November 2007. For further information on the conference go here and to see all the nominations go here.
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The on-line consultation on Rainbow Paper II with its recommendations on Intercultural Dialogue has been extended until 13th June. You can rewrite how Europe should tackle cultural diversity.
Help shape the future by going online and responding to a paper produced by the 'Rainbow Platform' - Civil Society Platform for Intercultural Dialogue, an initiative of the ECF and Culture Action Europe (EFAH) - facilitated by LabforCulture.
Thanks to all of you who have posted comments or edited the text so far. We are sure that there are many more of you with thoughts to share. Just go to the site http://rainbowplatform.labforculture.org read Rainbow Paper II and contribute your comments/changes.
One participant wrote: “If (as policy-makers believe), a good part of Europe’s economic future lies in its creative industries, then growth will be driven by a multi-lingual, multi-cultural workforce interacting with our centuries-old cannon of culture – and changing it.”
Do you agree? Comment here: http://rainbowplatform.labforculture.org
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Join participants from the Victims' Symptom project online today at 18:00 (GMT+2) for a debate around the theme "Good News, No News!" This afternoon's session features the participation of Ana Peraica, Mauricio Arango, Tina Peraica, Peter Fuchs and others.
If you missed any of the last online sessions, transcripts can be found on the Victims' Symptom website at: http://victims.labforculture.org/site/debate/schedule
The Victims' Symptom online debate runs every day until May 23, 2008. We invite you to login to the debate at: http://victims.labforculture.org/site/debate/debate
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Victims’ Symptom, commissioned by LabforCulture and curated by Ana Peraica (Croatia/The Netherlands), invites you to participate in an online debate from May 17-23, 2008 at http://victims.labforculture.org. This open, public debate, conceptualised and moderated by Ana Peraica and co-moderated by art theorist, critic and performance artist Peter Fuchs (Hungary), brings together participating artists and theorists in a series of online discussions around the concept and image of 'the victim' as it is used in contemporary society.
Join the debate via a special online chat interface accessible from May 17-23 at http://victims.labforculture.org/site/debate/debate and read the full debate schedule at http://victims.labforculture.org/site/debate/schedule
In preparation for the discussions, visit the Victims’ Symptom website, which features texts by: Sezgin Boynik (Kosovo), Adila Laidi-Hanieh (Palestine), Geert Lovink (The Netherlands) and Stevan Vukovic (Serbia). Victims’ Symptom also presents a series of online artworks specifically commissioned for this project by: Mauricio Arango (Colombia/USA), Alejandro Duque (Colombia/Switzerland), Andreja Kuluncic (Croatia), Marko Peljhan (Slovenia) and Martha Rosler (USA). A number of interviews, an online glossary, and links to a number of related texts and projects selected through an open call, round off the project.
You are also invited to leave your comments and impressions on all of the texts, interviews and artworks on the Victims’ Symptom website throughout the duration of the project.
Victims’ Symptom was commissioned in the summer of 2007 to mark LabforCulture’s first anniversary. The convergence of ideas, artistic perspectives and technologies is a key element of the work of LabforCulture in stimulating cultural collaboration and facilitating intercultural dialogue across Europe.
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From now until 16 May you can rewrite how Europe should tackle cultural diversity. Help shape the future by going online and responding to a paper produced by the 'Rainbow Platform' (Civil Society Platform for Intercultural Dialogue, an initiative of the ECF and Culture Action Europe (EFAH), facilitated by LabforCulture.
You can comment on the recommendations in the paper and even add your own submissions! Just go to the site http://rainbowplatform.labforculture.org, read Rainbow Paper II and contribute your comments/changes.
This paper brings many issues of intercultural dialogue to the fore. Should there be a system of monitoring and reporting on the practice of intercultural dialogue, and if so, who should do this? Is it right that the EU should 'mainstream' diversity policies in its various programmes? Can there be an agreed 'European standard' for supporting culture?
The set of recommendations is very much a work-in-progress. Your constructive feedback is absolutely vital. The results will be discussed at a plenary meeting of the Rainbow Platform in Brussels on June 4th 2008 - the same date on which the Platform becomes an officially recognised discussion partner with the EU institutions.
The Rainbow Paper process started in January 2008 at the launch of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue and the start of the Slovenian EU Presidency.
Let the platform know your thoughts. The Platform intends to present a set of standard-setting recommendations at the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008 closing colloquium.
To read the paper and contribute: http://rainbowplatform.labforculture.org
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Victims’ Symptom, commissioned by LabforCulture and curated by Ana Peraica (Croatia/The Netherlands), is live at http://victims.labforculture.org. The project explores the concept and image of ‘the victim’ as it is used in contemporary society.
Is the cultural production of victims preventing us from seeing the actual victims? Why does the mass media prefer to talk in terms of numbers? Are we losing our capacity for empathy? These are just some of the questions explored in the Victims’ Symptom project through critical texts, commissioned artworks, interviews and reflections by the curator and a number of renowned theorists and artists.
The new Victims’ Symptom online space features texts by: Sezgin Boynik (Kosovo), Adila Laidi-Hanieh (Palestine), Geert Lovink (The Netherlands) and Stevan Vukovic (Serbia). Victims’ Symptom also presents a series of online artworks specifically commissioned for this project by: Mauricio Arango (Colombia/USA), Alejandro Duque (Colombia/Switzerland), Andreja Kuluncic (Croatia), Marko Peljhan (Slovenia) and Martha Rosler (USA). The texts and artworks provide the framework for an open online debate from 17 - 23 May 2008 in which the public is invited to participate alongside the Victims’ Symptom artists and theorists.
Victims’ Symptom was commissioned in the summer of 2007 to mark LabforCulture’s first anniversary. Katherine Watson (Canada/Finland), Director of LabforCulture said, “it is an online experiment that set out to bring critical thinkers, artists and a wider public together and to encourage reflection, open dialogue and debate on a compelling global issue.”
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LabforCulture launches an online participatory project which invites people from around the world to share their personal interpretations of intercultural dialogue, Open Lines to Intercultural Dialogue.
The project looks at visualising language and exploring the variations and similarities of people’s interpretations of intercultural dialogue. Everyone is invited to contribute in their original language and in English and even to add an audio interpretation. The site is designed to intuitively navigate through the submissions by following recurring words that appear in the individual submissions.
A Dutch student, living in Utrecht says, “according to me, intercultural dialogue is about being open to and having genuine respect for and interest in an unknown culture.” This submission links to all others that use the words: genuine, respect, culture or unknown.
LabforCulture produced Open Lines to Intercultural Dialogue to contribute to the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue and to experiment with using online tools to encourage debate and discourse across the cultural sector. The convergence of ideas, artistic perspectives and technologies is a key element of the work of LabforCulture in stimulating cultural collaboration and facilitating intercultural dialogue across Europe.
Go to: http://openlines.labforculture.org
To read more about culture and the web see our last newsletter.
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The latest LabforCulture newsletter focuses on how cultural institutions and audiences can collaboratively engage with each other with the help of new online practices.
Peter Mechant, a researcher at the Research Group for Media and ICT, Ghent University, recently published a text in the Virtueel Platform's Cultuur 2.0 publication that presents a particular perspective on developing these new relationships. LabforCulture asked two individuals working in the field - Marko Brumen (Pekarna magdalenske mreže cultural centre, Slovenia) and Annet Dekker (Virtueel Platform, NL) - to respond to Mechant's text with their own viewpoints and experiences.
Read their contributions here.
Be sure not to miss the next edition of the newsletter - subscribe now!
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Victims’ Symptom, curated by Ana Peraica (Croatia/The Netherlands) and specially commissioned by LabforCulture to celebrate its first year anniversary in the summer of 2007, invites the public to join in the preparation for the Victims’ Symptom online debate to take place in April 2008.
Victims’ Symptom focuses on the concept of the victim as it is practically used in politics and journalism, but also as it is explored theoretically in victimology and in psychiatry and psychotherapy, as well as in the field of cultural studies. The project features critical texts, documentation, commissioned artworks and reflections by the curator and a number of other theorists and artists throughout the project.
The project focuses on the following questions:
Why does the mass media prefer to talk in terms of numbers of corpses, calculating them morbidly, with apparent disregard for the victims’ status? Do numbers matter? Or is each loss a single one? Does the number of victims reported by the media’s “truth speaking” make any real difference or is it perpetuating the media myth that cannot report on few?
Who profits from death? Is there a bureaucracy of death? What is the dominant exchange rate between civilians and soldiers, our victims and their victims?
Is the cultural production of victims preventing us from seeing the actual victims? Are we able to see what happened only after a sufficient number of movies, novels and theses published on massacres? Is earning a degree on a massacre ethical? Furthermore, how can denying a massacre lead to no consequences? Are we losing our capacity for empathy? Are we victimised ourselves? Is there a therapy for such a world?
We are inviting the public to send in their responses (artworks, comments, texts and debates) to these questions in the following ways:
1. Links to existing projects to be reviewed
Links should be accompanied by a short description (100 words max) explaining which particular curatorial question or questions they address. This description will subsequently accompany the selected links on the Victims’ Symptom website.
2. Full, published texts or interviews (html, blog, wiki…)
Texts should be summarised in a short description (200 words max) outlining the specific issues and questions they address. Texts that require users to login for access will not be considered.
3. Separate discussions on mailing lists, message boards and forums with public access
Moderators with proposals for discussions should send an email outlining the concept along with the names of the proposed participants. If the discussion is to take place on external mailing lists, message boards or discussion forums, the forums should be open access and, optionally, have an RSS feed. A one-line description of the location of the discussion should be provided, stating the URL, focus of the group / forum, year it was founded, number of members, etc.
Send an e-mail to victims_symptom@yahoo.com with your proposal for participation by 21 March 2008.
All contributions will be reviewed by Victims’ Symptom curator Ana Peraica and assistant Marko Stamenkovic. Selected material will be included in the online space and debate in April 2008.
More information on Victims’ Symptom.
More about the participating artists and theorists in the Victims’ Symptom project.
Victims' Symptom blog
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LabforCulture.org's new Research in focus is dedicated to the use of online tools in the cultural sector. How do different cultural organisations collaborate online? Which tools do we use?
LabforCulture commissioned the Digital Methods Initiative to prepare a research mapping of the existing and ongoing research related to the use of tools for collaboration in culture as a first step in identifying what areas could benefit from more in-depth research and analysis. Specifically, LabforCulture also asked the Digital Methods Initiative to map out the actual use of tools in the sector, starting with LabforCulture.org’s online directory containing organisations working in the cultural sector in Europe.
Read the results of the mapping and literature search here.
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LabforCulture is currently looking for two freelancers: a Freelance Editor and a Freelance Project Manager. Deadline for both applications: February 29, 2008.
1 - LabforCulture is seeking a Freelance Editor to join our Editorial Group and develop and maintain the Funding section of LabforCulture.org
2 - LabforCulture is seeking a Freelance Project Manager for its 2008 Region in focus: Adriatic Euroregion
Read more detailed information on both opportunities here.
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Du 13 au 20 février 2007 se tiendra à Vesoul, la 13ème édition du Festival International du film asiatique
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Tout a commencé un 17 janvier, il y a un million d'années. Le 17 janvier 1973, Robert Filliou fêtait à Aix-la-Chapelle ce « Un million et dixième anniversaire de l'art ». Le 17 janvier 2007, une quara...
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Du 19 au 25 août 2007, la ville de Lussas en Ardèche accueille la
19e édition des états généraux du documentaire.
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Rencontres et échanges avec les architectes en charge de projets de
reconversion, visites des chantiers et découverte des projets
architecturaux, conférences, etc.
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Lever de rideau, mercredi 16 mai, sur la soixantième édition du
Festival de Cannes, plus que jamais tourné vers l'avenir. Retour
sur soixante ans d'amour du cinéma sur le site de l'INA, et visite
des ...
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Dans le cadre de l'opération « La France c'est renversant ! »
qui se déroule du 12 septembre au 6 octobre 2007, des œuvres des
collections des Fonds régionaux d'art contemporain sont présentées
pour l...
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Pour la Fête de la Musique, l’INA lance le site « Place
aux chansons – 50 ans de chansons françaises », qui propose
plus de 3000 documents audiovisuels. Les extraits vidéo, référencés
et ...
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L'action éducative et culturelle des Archives vient de
paraître à la Documentation française. Ouvrage de réflexion, il se
veut également, par la richesse et la diversité des expériences
partagées au s...
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Le stand du ministère de la culture et de la communication présentera une évocation théâtralisée du patrimoine du spectacle dont le fil conducteur sera cette année Sarah Bernhardt . Présente par sa "...
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100 machines de spectacle construites par 15 compagnies des arts de la rue font leur numéro sur l'esplanade des docks de Marseille jusqu'au 21 mai. Cette exposition imaginée par le génial machiniste ...
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La prestigieuse salle du Théâtre national de l'Odéon, entièrement rénovée, rouvre ses portes après quatre années de travaux sur la première représentation d' Un Songe , variations sur Hamlet mises en ...
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Première édition d'une triennale consacrée à la création contemporaine en France, l'exposition plurielle "la Force de l'art" présente à Paris, du 10 mai au 25 juin, la diversité et la vitalité de la s...
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Au terme de près de 6 ans de travaux qui privèrent le public du grandiose cycle de Monet et de la collection Jean Walter et Paul Guillaume, le musée de l'orangerie rouvre ses portes le 17 mai sur une ...
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Noctambules, nyctalopes ou simples visiteurs, tous les publics sont invités à prendre part à la seconde édition de la Nuit des musées, une initiative lancée par le ministère de la culture français et ...
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Jusqu'au 25 juin, sous la nef du Grand Palais, Bastien Gallet et Patrick Javault programment 28 concerts en contrepoint du nouveau rendez-vous international de l'art contemporain en France, La Force d...
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Du 2 au 5 juin les rendez-vous au jardins ouvrent les portes de plus de 1 700 parcs et jardins et vous invitent à rencontrer ceux qui les créent, les entretiennent et les mettent en valeur. Patrice Ga...
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Architecte, comédien, styliste, musicien, conservateur, restaurateur, animateur culturel font partie de la centaine de métiers et formations auxquels préparent les écoles et filières d'enseignement pl...
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Un mois après l'immense succès rencontré par le lancement du site Ina.fr, qui met un pan entier de notre histoire télévisuelle en libre accès, Emmanuel Hoog, à la tête de l'Institut national de l'audi...
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Succès international, phénomène de société, la Fête de la musique est l'expression des métissages musicaux et culturels et des envies de fusion mêlant musiques classiques, contemporaines et actuelles....
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Le musée du Quai Branly ouvre ses portes au public le 23 juin. Il s'appuie sur un fonds considérable de 300 000 objets venus d'Afrique, d'Asie, d'Océanie et des Amériques constituant son cœur pour réa...