Full Coverage: Culture

27.06.2006 The informal coalition of several Bitola-based youth NGOs reacted on the decision of the Ministry of Culture to rent the space at the Bitola Cultural Centre and the “Army Club” for non-cultural purposes.

26.06.2006 On 28-29 July Mjaft!Fest will be held in Livadhi Beach, Himara, South Albania. MJAFT Fest is one of the first and biggest open air festivals of contemporary live music in the Balkans and will be held in the most beautiful beach of South Albania.

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.