/ARTS WEEKLY/PLAY-KENYA: Winds of Change

"There aren't many times in my life when I feel proud to be Kenyan. All we see is corruption, poverty, politics . But this play makes me proud to say, 'Yes, this is who I am'," enthuses Angeline Ngugi, smiling at her tearful companion.

FILM-ARGENTINA: Solanas Returns to Politics with Camera in Hand

Argentine filmmaker Fernando "Pino" Solanas, best known for his 1986 film "Tango: The Exile of Gardel", has begun a documentary of testimonies about the crisis that erupted in December, and which he intends as "a portrait of the devastating effect of applying the neo-liberal economic model."

/ARTS WEEKLY/ART-UGANDA: Artistic Talent Runs in the Family

They say artistic talent runs in the family. It is certainly true for sisters Mary Naita and Barbara Lwanga and their younger brother Kigezi David. These three Ugandan siblings are among Uganda's best-recognised young painters and sculptures.

FILM-ROMANIA: Hollywood Takes Over

Potigrafu was a small and scenic village till the other day, set amid 90 hectares of forest and stunning landscape. Now it is a set for a Hollywood film.

/ARTS WEEKLY/INDIA: Film Bends It for the Box Office

If the British blockbuster 'Bend it Like Beckham' is also running to packed houses in India, no one is surprised. It has all the romantic ingredients of a standard, crowd-pulling 'Mumbai Masala' production that makes the Indian cinema industry the world's biggest, though not the best.

ART-COLOMBIA: Exhibition (Nearly) Impossible

The travelling exhibition of 106 paintings from the Rau Collection arrived for the first time in the Americas at the Colombian capital's Casa de Moneda representing six centuries of universal art and a complicated paper trail.

/ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-BELGIUM: Village Festival Embraces the World

The Sfinks festival began as a little local event in the small Belgian town Boechout near Antwerp 27 years ago. It is now one of Europe's biggest summer festivals, bringing together music from around the world.

BOOKS-U.S.: Best-selling Evangelical Series Gives Reading of Bush

If you have been curious about why the George W Bush administration, one of whose most important constituencies is the Christian Right, seems to hate the United Nations, despise peacekeeping, love Ariel Sharon, and want desperately to bomb Baghdad to "kingdom come", you might choose as your holiday reading the book that has been number one on the New York Times best-seller list since its release in early July.

MUSIC-SWAZILAND: Orphan Choir Makes a Name for Itself

Orphaned or abandoned boys from the Manzini Youth Care Centre have just secured an international reputation after performing last month in Barcelona, Spain before dignitaries at the 14th International AIDS Conference.

/ARTS WEEKLY/MUSIC-JAMAICA: Deejay Beenie Man Takes Aim at U.S. Charts

Each time deejay Beenie Man steps into a recording studio, pressure mounts on him to deliver an album that will finally give him a foothold in the massive American pop market.

MUSIC-CHILE: First Dictionary of Spanish and Latin American Music

Seventy musicologists, composers, and artists are working on the Chilean section of the first comprehensive Dictionary of Spanish and Latin American Music, a monumental 10-volume work, eight of which are already complete.

/ARTS WEEKLY/MUSIC-CENTRAL AMERICA: Regional ‘Papaya’ Band Meets World

La Orquesta de la Papaya, the first and only regional band from Central America, which performs contemporary and folk music, is embarking for Canada, Europe and South America -- with its first album in hand.

/ARTS WEEKLY/ASIA-EUROPE: Puppetry Crosses Boundaries

Five hands moving behind a partition in a performance called 'The Secret of Number Five', by a Philippine puppet troupe, enthralled audiences and drew giggles from the audience - children and adults alike.

//REPEAT///ARTS WEEKLY/CULTURE-CHINA: Ancient Ruins May Prompt History Rewrite

There should have been a residential complex in this site in the western outskirts of Chengdu. Instead, there is a huge hole in the ground whose contents have experts now scrambling to rewrite ancient Chinese history.

/ARTS WEEKLY/SPORTS-U.S.: Black Athletes a Growing Presence in ‘White’ Sports

Long seen as the private enclaves of middle-class Whites, sports like tennis, golf, hockey, and now soccer are slowly admitting Black athletes and fans alike.

/ARTS WEEKLY/MUSIC-U.S.: Roots Music Pioneer Alan Lomax Dies

Perhaps the world's most influential explorer and collector of what is today called "roots music" and a long-time political radical, Alan Lomax, died Friday at his home in Florida, at the age of 87.

/ARTS WEEKLY/LITERATURE-LATAM: Images Drowning Out Words, Warns Author

The educational disaster spreading throughout Latin America, where the written word is losing ground to an image-based universe, is the greatest threat to the region's literature, says Mexican intellectual and author Carlos Monsiváis.

/ARTS WEEKLY/CULTURE-CHINA: Ancient Ruins May Prompt History Rewrite

There should have been a residential complex in this site in the western outskirts of Chengdu. Instead, there is a huge hole in the ground whose contents have experts now scrambling to rewrite ancient Chinese history.

/ARTS WEEKLY/DANCE-ARGENTINA: Marathon Event in Tango Capital of the World

The Argentine capital will be the venue for the first World Tango Festival, which will include a dance competition, a congress of tango experts, debate and workshops about this musical genre born in the River Plate region.

//REPEAT// /ARTS WEEKLY/DANCE-ARGENTINA: Marathon Event in Tango Capital of the World

The Argentine capital will be the venue for the first World Tango Festival, which will include a dance competition, a congress of tango experts, debate and workshops about this musical genre born in the River Plate region.

/ARTS WEEKLY/VIETNAM: Decades Later, Local War Photos in Demand

Since British war photographer Tim Page published a book of photos by photojournalists on both sides of the Vietnam War four years ago, international acclaim and interest in the work of Vietnam's war photographers has been growing - more than three decades after the conflict ended.