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/ARTS WEEKLY/ CHILE: Theatre a Santiago Symbol – and a National Problem
The Santiago Municipal Theatre, Chile's leading cultural venue and a jewel of the capital, was about to close its doors due to financial troubles, but has gotten a second chance with the national government's decision to intervene./ARTS WEEKLY/CULTURE: Guerrilla Admakers Try to Buy U.S. TV Airtime
Independent film producer Steve Garfield says there are two reasons he is planning to enter MoveOn.org's 'Bush in 30 Seconds' commercial competition./ARTS WEEKLY/ INDIA: Hard-Hitting Documentary Reveals Hidden Apartheid
Minutes into 'Behind The Open Door' we see a woman, a ragged broom in one hand and a small metal board in the other, reaching across into a filthy dark recess at the foot of a brick house. From it, she is scraping out into a bin a slurry formed from human faeces./ARTS WEEKLY/ BRAZIL: Ageing Newcomer Melds Classical into Pop Music
Music is the area of the cultural industry in which Brazil remains dominant on the domestic market, even in these times of globalisation. Three-quarters of music sales are nationally-produced albums, including those of the multifaceted but little-known José Miguel Wisnik./ARTS WEEKLY/FILM: Documentary Highlights Human Side of North Korea
Few Americans know that no army won the Korean War - it ended in a truce. But most are familiar with U.S. charges that North Korea has weapons of mass destruction, and they might also be used to thinking of the communist nation as a serious threat./ARTS WEEKLY/ MEXICO: Museum Tells Children, ‘Do Touch’
Seeing through the eyes of a dolphin, acting on television, travelling through space or crawling inside an anthill are just some of the experiences that more than 12 million people have taken away from the Papalote Children's Museum in Mexico over the past decade./ARTS WEEKLY/MUSIC-JAMAICA: Marley Son Seeks Own Sound
It has been six years since Julian Marley's debut album, 'Lion In The Morning', was released. But the singer-songwriter says the songs on his new album, 'A Time and Place', are so timeless it is unlikely fans will notice that he has been away./ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-AUSTRALIA: Street Youth Come to Reel Life
The first feature film produced on a shoestring budget by a Vietnamese-born Australian filmmaker has taken the arts film scene here by storm, given its poignant and powerful depiction of the often depressing lives of Australian youngsters who live on the streets./ARTS WEEKLY/ETHIOPIA: Rastafarians Promoting Alternative Farming Method
For decades the Rastafarian community, in their spiritual home here, had not been taken seriously and Ethiopians have even termed them as ludicrous./ARTS WEEKLY/ CUBA: Spectre of Censorship Haunts Biennial
The pluralistic nature of the Havana Arts Biennial is being called into question in its eighth edition since emerging in 1984 as a space for artists of the developing South./ARTS WEEKLY/ VENEZUELA: A Native Musical Treasure-Trove
The largest collection of native Latin America musical instruments is found in Venezuela, where a group of musicologists and anthropologists have maintained an orchestra dedicated to disseminating and teaching the region's ethnic music - and to keeping it alive./ARTS WEEKLY/CULTURE: Musician to Sing the Links Between Trade, U.S.’ Big Media
Disgusted that "the media is no longer reporting the stories that really matter", British folk-rocker Billy Bragg is taking his message directly to the people with a 'Tell Us The Truth' U.S. tour that brims with outrage over corporate swashbucklers and talking head tele-zombies./ARTS WEEKLY-UGANDA: Children Use Pictures to Convey a Message of Peace
The pictures of flying bullets, burning houses, dead bodies and fleeing villagers, show just how Uganda's 17-year-old conflict has become part of the children in the north of the country.CULTURE-SOUTH AFRICA: Protestors Build Global Solidarity
The T-shirt, the poster, the billboard. Traditionally the weapons of protest and of solidarity are remarkable for their ability to cross oceans with similar messages, as displayed in an exhibition at the Johannesburg Art gallery.ARGENTINA: Book Distribution in Stadiums – a ‘Novel’ Project
Fans in Argentina's football stadiums will now have a new activity during half-time: reading short stories by local writers, handed out as part of an innovative initiative aimed at calming tempers, which often flare up during games, while boosting the reading habit./ARTS WEEKLY/CULTURE-BALKANS: Romans Rise from the Waters
After 15 years of pause, archaeological excavations have been resumed in Serbia, an area rich with remains of ancient Roman sites along the Danube and Sava rivers./ARTS WEEKLY/ THEATRE-CHILE: Transvestites Trade Streets for Footlights
The "First Transgender Theatre Company" in Chile has become a reality, providing an opportunity for its members to make a living in the arts of the stage instead of the sex industry, often the only means of subsistence in a society that discriminates against sexual minorities./ARTS WEEKLY/ BRAZIL: Buarque’s Pen as Mighty as His Microphone
Chico Buarque de Hollanda, a Brazilian singer-songwriter of international fame, added literature to his artistic endeavours in 1991, and his third novel, "Budapest", has been on the national best-seller list for the past three weeks./ARTS WEEKLY/THEATRE-PAKISTAN: No Stage Is Too Far For This Group
In a ward at Qatar General Hospital, midwives and staff nurses jostled for space on the floor matting, watching the theatre group team arrange the few props they had brought with them. Others, curious about this activity in the hospital lobby, gathered on the staircase.CULTURE-ETHIOPIA: Documentary Captures Audiences Amidst ‘War’ Tensions
A documentary on seven ethnic groups making peace in the southern Ethiopian Rift Valley is capturing audiences in the capital Addis Ababa, as the peace process between Ethiopia and Eritrea teeters on the brink of collapse./ARTS WEEKLY/ MEXICO: Cervantes Festival Basks in Long History
The central Mexican city of Guanajuato is abuzz until Nov. 2 with 2,500 artists from 36 countries gathered for theatre, dance, opera, music, painting and photo exhibitions - all under the auspices of the International Cervantes Festival.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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