Full Coverage: Culture

29.06.2005 Noted Albanian poet and novelist Ismail Kadare has won the first-ever Man Booker International Prize, thus gaining recognition as one of the world's finest writers.

29.06.2005 UNESCO's Audio-visual e-platform provides a platform for the development communication practioners to exchange their multimedia content.

23.06.2005 La campagne Abolissons la pauvreté est heureuse d'apprendre que le Canada accueillera un concert Live 8 le 2 juillet. Cette date est stratégique puisque le concert aura lieu avant la rencontre du G8 en Écosse. « Plus d'un milliard de personnes vivent dans la pauvreté extrême. Chaque jour, 50 000 d'entre elles meurent de causes liées à la pauvreté. Les concerts Live 8 permettront d'inciter les dirigeants du G8 à respecter leurs engagements à abolir la pauvreté », affirme Gerry Barr, président-directeur général du Conseil canadien pour la coopération internationale et coprésident de la campagne au Canada Abolissons la pauvreté .

16.06.2005 Marking its 20th year, members of the Bike-Aid program set out from San Francisco Sunday for a ten-week journey to Washington, D.C. Along the way they will engage in cultural and educational exchanges, participate in community service projects, learn about issues facing Americans across the country, and spread awareness about fair trade and sustainability.

13.06.2005 India International Centre, New Delhi and UNESCO are going to hold the Transmissions and transformations: Learning through the Arts in Asia Symposium to discuss how arts can be integrated in education.

13.06.2005 India International Centre, New Delhi and UNESCO are going to hold the Transmissions and transformations: Learning through the Arts in Asia Symposium to discuss how arts can be integrated in education.

10.06.2005 In the organization of the ViaKult Office civic association, the second KidÂ’s Festival starts today in Sarajevo. The KidÂ’s Festival is the greatest event in B&H dedicated to children and youth from all parts of the country.

09.06.2005 For 200 years Latin America has been formulating projects that have universal underpinnings. The revolutionary wars fought for independence between 1808 and 1824 put forth a new Nation-State ideology expressed in the writings of Bolivar and others. At the end of that century, Jose Marti put forth a new set of ideas addressing social issues. In the mid XX Century the “Latino-americanists” strived with no avail towards industrial development trying to gear the continent’s future towards economic growth through import-substitution polices.

02.06.2005 On July 2, free concerts around the world will feature Madonna, Elton John, 50 Cent, Youssou N'Dour, and many more of the world's biggest music stars, performing simultaneously to kick-start actions by citizens of the worldÂ’s wealthiest nations calling on their leaders to make poverty history at the G8 summit six days later. With an expected viewership of over 1 billion, it could be the biggest coordinated music event ever.

02.06.2005 Today opens in Vienna, Austria, a two-day conference on “ICT and Creativity. Strategies for a Better Information Society”, focusing on the nexus between content, creativity, diversity and knowledge in the information society.

02.06.2005 Mali's "visual griots" program offers young villagers cameras, and a chance to bolster cross-cultural understanding and community cultural development. Take a look at the students' photographs and read the observations of Shawn Davis, coordinator of the inaugural workshop, to get a glimpse into Mali unhindered by language and distance barriers.

01.06.2005 Imagine a film festival that runs year round, is available free from the comfort of your computer screen, and will challenge your understanding of issues from race and military service to climate change, drug addiciton, youth violence and media ownership. These 16 short films--running 30 seconds to eight minutes long--prove the amazing potential of film to change how we see and interact with the world around us.