Full Coverage: Culture

22.06.2006 The World Social Forum (WSF) invites people to its seminar on Are Other Worlds Possible: Focus on Media and Communication at the Indian Women's Press Corps (IWPC) in New Delhi on July 1, 2006. The seminar is an interaction between media persons and the people behind the WSF and will seek to look at the state of Indian media critically.

21.06.2006 The I love you [rev.eng = reverse engineering] exhibition will open officially on June 22, at the Novi Sad Museum of Contemporary Arts, at 20:00 hours.

21.06.2006 from Ecofriend:
World Cup organisers are attempting to offset some of the carbon produced by millions of fans and players by paying to replace coal-fired boilers with woodchip-fuelled boilers at a South African farm.

20.06.2006 Media initiatives, training events and seminars in the Balkans are eligible for a grant from the Balkan Incentive Fund for Culture. The European Cultural Foundation, The Dutch Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries, and the Open Society Institute are sponsoring the initiativeDeadline: July 1, 2006.

19.06.2006 The Pravo LjudskiHuman Rights Film Festival, a project developed with the intention to raise public awareness and spread human rights culture through film, started last Saturday, June 17, in Sarajevo.

15.06.2006 from Ecologist:
You can watch the football and also behave in an ecologically sound manner, thanks to a new website called ‘Who should I cheer for?’
* Who should I cheer for?

13.06.2006 On Sunday, June 11, the students Department of Product Design at the Academy of Fine Arts (AFA), in cooperation with visiting artists fom Germany and Canada and the Sarajevo Centre for Contemporary Arts, raised a big DOSTA! logo (5X5 metres), made of black and white balloons. The logo, created in a seven-day workshop held in Sarajevo.

29.05.2006 University of Arts, Belgrade, Serbia (UNESCO Chair in Cultural policy and Management) and L'Université Lyon - Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Grenoble (Université Pierre Mendès-France) announce the start of the Masters Programme in Cultural Policy and Management (Interculturalism and Mediation in the Balkans)

29.05.2006 What does a Bosnian do when he, or she, wants to see a good film? Just go out and make it!! All the visitors of the third in a row Bosnia and Herzegovina Film Festival BHFF, held at the end of May of this year at the Antology Film Archives in New York, could testify that every joke has at least a trace of truth in it. The common denominator of the eight documentaries, two long features, seven short features and seven animated films presented at the BHFF was to be found in the subjects of identity, survival and justice in war-time and post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina.

26.05.2006 The Forum Syd non-governmental organization will mark, on Sunday, May 28, the International Day of Different Cultures at the City Park in Skooje. The motto of the celebration, which the organization also celebrates as the “Forum Syd Day”, is The Rainbow is a Multitude of Colours.

18.05.2006 After the successful lecture by professor Dragan Klaic, back in April, AKCIJA Sarajevo – Cultural Development Agency continues with its "New Cultural Policies" programme of lectures and presentations at the Sarajevo Media Centre, with a lecture by Violeta Simjanovska, Macedonian cultural manager and director of the prominent Multimedia Performing Arts Centre from Skopje. The lecture, How to Turn the Enemy into a Partner? – Macedonian Experiences in the Process of Democratization of Cultural System.

10.05.2006 The Ars Aevi Centre for Contemporary Arts from Sarajevo and the International Commission on Missing Persons (ICMP) presented, last Monday, May 8, the series of appeal poster “Identify!” (Srebrenica: Podrinje Identification Project) in Dubrovnik, at the facilities of the Otok Gallery, ran by the Lazareti Art Workshop. The posters were created by the Ideology Creative Team from Sarajevo.

28.04.2006 Copyright means, above all, the right of the author to define the terms and conditions for use of his/her work, while the license is a legal document used by the author to express those terms and conditions in a legally acceptable form. Therefore, each author can, in principle, decide that his/her work can be freely distributed or even used as public domain good. On the other hand, the contemporary practice is such that, unless the author explicitly defines the terms and conditions for use of his/her work, it is assumed that the terms would be: “All unauthorized copying, reproduction and public performance is strictly forbidden. All rights reserved”.

Creative Commons is an all-encompassing solution for licensing of works as publicly accessible and open contents. It simplifies the procedure for the author to legally define greater freedoms for the users, different from those restrictive invoked authomatically if the author doesnÂ’t explicitly declare his will, having in mind taht such expression of will by the author, if done on oneÂ’s own, would demand a legally complicated procedure. The website creativecommons.org offers the authors possibility to chose which rights he/she wants to transfer and get a legally valid license that expresses the chosen terms and conditions in legally appropriate manner. It is also possible to enter the work into a registry or store it in a public archive on the internet, which makes it more accessible to users searching for free contents.

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23.04.2006 Devastating storms? Harsh droughts? More diseases? Polluted air and waterways? Contaminated food? Some of the key causes are global warming and a loss of biodiversity caused by humans' excessive use and abuse of the Earth and its resources. Complex global problems all, so what's an individual to do?

20.04.2006 Another brick in the wall: A critical review of cultural management education in Europe, the new book by Corina Suteu, was launched today in New York, U.S., at the Columbia University - New York.

20.04.2006 Residents of Lhasa in Tibet have stopped displaying animal skins after they found that monks were burning animal skins. Yeshi Dorje, a resident of Lhasa has said that thousands of people turned up for the skin-burning event but the Chinese authorities are preventing people from destroying the skins.

18.04.2006 OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) and Vanavil Trust launched the Tamil Community Radio on Tamil New YearÂ’s Day, Friday 14, April 2006 with a view to building the capacity of Tamil minorities in Delhi by producing and exchanging information of local importance in the Tamil language.

18.04.2006 The European Cultural Foundation, Hivos and the Open Society Institute started a new fund for financing of NGOs in the cultural sector in Western Balkans.

18.04.2006 Change Initiatives organized a workshop on the scope for ICT-based Enterprises for Women on 2nd and 3rd March 2006 in Kolkata. Dr G.D. Gautam, Special Secretary, Department of IT, Government of West Bengal inaugurated this workshop. Also present at the occasion were President of Change Initiatives Mr Sibaji Roy, Vice President Dr Mukul Mukherjee & Workshop Convener Ms. Alokananda Rao. The entire session was presided by Director of Change Initiatives, Ms Jhumpa Ghosh Ray.

17.04.2006 The debate over the limits of freedom speech and religious dictums has re-ignited among a new demographic--viewers of the irreverent comedy South Park.