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Theme : culture
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Stop the Press!
While we've been in China, a lot of people have made veiled references to the censorship of the press. Mostly, they either assume you know how the system works, or prefer not to get drawn on the subject. Once or twice, interviewees have clearly been worried that we are western press, so we've had to reassure them of our (lack of) credentials. Tonight, however, Sam and I finally got to sit down and have dinner with a journalist (who will remain nameless) who was very generous with her time and...
from : rachelbriggs
15th October 2006
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Life thru a lens
Shan Song is an underground film maker in Beijing. By day he writes scripts for government-produced TV dramas, by night he makes films through a collective he set up after film school called 22Film. Sam and I met him yesterday to talk about the ways in which independent film making is bringing about social change in China.The advent of digital cameras and the internet has enabled a generation of young people to make films about themselves, how they live and where they want China to go. They go...
from : rachelbriggs
13th October 2006
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Positioning the Arts at the Heart of Society
Following on from Charlie's comment below, I think that connects pretty strongly with a more general awareness amongst public, politicianas and companies that the arts and culture are more than just add ons and things that make life generally pretty.
from : samjones
27th September 2006
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Artist in Residence
Like many budding artists, Sophie is at a stage in her career when a studio is too expensive to rent and, while her art work is bought by people as far a way as Dubai, living is still pretty tough. But thanks to a novel agreement with a company based near Oxford Street, Sophie is able to have a room (admittedly stacked to the ceiling with boxes, files, and last year’s headed paper) and paint for free. The only catch
from : charlieedwards
25th September 2006
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Talk Us Into It
This report argues that people are not talking about public affairs less – the problem is that they are engaging less frequently in the means by which their conversation can become public. We need to reconnect these conversations with the public realm and bring back into discussion the interests that at the moment are so fragmented.
from : markfuller
14th September 2006
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Digital Art Galleries by British Artists
site specifically showing off the skills of British Artists. Interesting maybe from a cultural diplomacy type angle for the Olympics
from : charlietims
21st August 2006
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Transforming Tate Modern
A cubist-style glass extension of the Tate Modern building, aimed to be finished by 2012. Represents concept of ‘a museum for the twenty-first century’. New visual symbol for London?
from : charlietims
10th August 2006
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European Youth Video Project
This is put together by the European Cultural Foundation who are based in Helsinki. They have three key functions - organising the cultural sector in tricky parts of europe (eastern Europe, North Africs, Middle East, Former USSER, Balkans), lobbying the EU, developing their own projects and funding other organisations to do cultural projects accross borders. The one minuteJR is one of there's. These are one minute videos made by children with visual artists in workshops accross europe.
from : charlietims
3rd August 2006
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Culture Section of Olympic Candidate File
Culture Section of Olympic Candidate File
from : charlietims
3rd August 2006
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Cultureshock_summary_report.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Evaluation of Cultural Programme that accompanied Manchesters Commonwealth Games
from : charlietims
3rd August 2006
