19.07.2010 Multinational Festival Project: Desert Bridges
The Multinational Festival-Project Desert Bridges proposes encounters between western trained improvisational musicians with folk musicians from India, Egypt and Morocco. The work and music will focus on common spiritual elements that all people share, universal love, praise and prayer, the multi-cultural music unit will combine the various elements into a fully integrated and cohesive whole that will be improvisational in nature, musically speaking, while retaining elements of all three cultures. The project will be documented by a music CD and a book with photographs (More information about project)
More than 300 international students competed in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg for three days to show their standard of excellence in different academic disciplines. In the evenings the participants of that Eurasian Youth Forum showed by songs and dances their different cultural background.
The event was prolonged by a 25 hours ride with the "Train of Friendship" to Astana/Kazakhstan, where students were allowed to take part in the Economic Forum and to organize their own half-day slot. Finally students of the EURASIA Youth Trail had the chance to meet three Nobel Prize Winners of Economics as Speakers: Prof. Dr. R. A. Mundell (1999), Prof. Dr. F. E. Kydland (2004) and Prof. Dr. R. Y. Aumann (2005) ( More)
31.05.2010 Art as a social dimension
In conjunction with the EU DG Education and Culture and with KUSCH
(Art in schools) the Alanus University in Bonn-Alfter/Germany has an international art project and symposium for culturally and social deprived children and adolescents together with schools from Romania, Hungary, Belgium and intercultural Waldorf-school in Mannheim/Germany.
Artistic activities such as music, painting, drawing and drama enhance both personal development and motivation by overcoming negative self-perception and breaking the vicious circle of discrimination.
28.04.2010 Restoring a Kasbah in Morocco
Inspired by a trip to Morocco in 1997 the clay-building expert Manfred Fahnert/Germany started a developing-aid-project to restore the ruins of the traditional Kasbah Caid Ali in the city of Asslim in the south of the Atlas mountain-range.
Based on experience of CERCAS, an Moroccan organization for the protection of historical monuments, 25 people interested in the idea travelled in 1998 to Asslim to study the chances to restore Caid Ali. In 1999 students from the German universities of Weimar, Dresden and Marburg joined as a travel/study group – since 2000 students get for it a certificate as a traineeship. Step by step the exchanges were build-up to become an intercultural program to study Morocco and European techniques to build with clay and to understand and design local art. The project got “branded” by the name “Lehm (clay) Express” ( more )
30.03.2010 Nature Art Exhibition
The 1st International Conference on Biodiversity organized in Larnaca/Cyprus by the Intercollege Larnaca and the Friends of Nature Cyprus stimulated the Art Studio Nicholas Panayi (Nicosia) and local artists to present a creative collection of paintings and innovative sculptures and installations made from recycled materials, all dedicated to Nature.
As part of its educational programs the Art studio organizes under the motto “Earth Art” trips to different parts of the world in search of the art and culture that identify the people they visit. Experiences with the local artists, museums and galleries, fine art schools and other art organizations, sketches, photographs and many more constitute strong stimuli for creating. After each trip participants work had to produce art work that each year is presented in the form of an exhibition were the views gets a taste of the culture of the place visited ( Web-Site )
