Exhibition
Starting point of the exhibition is a research project of the Meertens Institute (Research and Documentation Centre for Dutch language and Culture) and NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) into the living rooms of migrants and their descendents. Inspired by the research results Imagine IC and Edwin Jacobs (cultural intendant Tilburg) invited guest curator Michael McMillan (artist & playwright) to develop a participative project on migrant families and their home interiors. McMillan designed a living room (built by Remco Swart) inhabited by a fictional family from a mixed Moroccan, Indo-European and Surinamese background. McMillan’s installation is also the setting for ten life-size family portraits of migrant families in their living room, shot by photographer Ting Chan. Graphic designer and photographer Michiel Huijsman created a set of manipulated shop interiors or collages. Van huis / My Living Room uit also includes home video’s made by six families from different cultural backgrounds and a multiplayer game, Inpaccen, designed by MA-students of the Utrecht School of the Arts
Dates: 27 januari – 30 april 2007
Location: Imagine IC, Amsterdam
Theatre dinner by Ali Zaidi from Moti Roti
Cooking with love is the second part of a "live art" trilogy on the culture of cooking specially created for LiteSide Festival. Cooking with love is a culinary feast during which food-art artist Ali Zaidi will cook for sixty people using ingredients that have a personal meaning for him. Stories, projections and performances will take the audience on a culinary journey through the personal life of Zaidi.
Dates: 20 April 2007
Location: De Balie, Amsterdam
Reading lives: the literature of life and the life of literature in intercultural education
The conference will comprise a distinctive blend of author readings and conversations, round-table discussions, workshops and reading groups. With its emphasis on dialogue and participation, the event offers a lively and informal environment for exploration of these urgent and demanding questions.
The conference is designed primarily to meet the professional needs of teachers of literature at upper secondary and university levels. It is also of interest for curriculum designers, teacher trainers, textbook writers, head teachers and other educational managers working on the development of literature syllabuses.
Dates: 30 March - 5 April 2007
Location: Oxford
Registration and information: www.britishcouncil.org/seminars-arts-0702.htm or e-mail britishcouncil.seminars@britishcouncil.org
The first meeting of the NGS Wageningen-Durham link was hosted by Wageningen University on 12-14 October 2006 with senior academics and young researchers contributing to a three-day programme. Young science students on track for higher education (17 years old) and their science teachers have been selected from schools in the Wageningen and Durham areas.
In March 2007 the same schools from the Wageningen and Durham areas will pay a return visit to the University of Durham. The theme of the programme is ‘Understanding the Universe’.
Dates: 28 -30 March 2007
Location: Durham University
Présences is the biggest Contemporary Music Festival in France and is organised by the French National Radio. Most concerts are proposed free of charge and there are broadcasting agreements with at least 20 countries. Every year the programme is organised around a major musical figure. In 2007 this will be the British Composer/Conductor/Pianist/Artistic Director/Wunderkind Thomas Adès. Adès is the youngest composer (at only 35) to receive such an honour. This will be the most comprehensive retrospective to date of Adès’ work to date. Beyond the celebration of Adès’ work, the festival will also be featuring major British artists and orchestras amongst which the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and even Sir Simon Rattle who will be closing the festival with his Berliner Philharmonic.
The British Council organises a special showcase / networking event during the festival for European music promoters/producers.
Dates: 24 - 25 February 2007
Location: Maison de la Radio, Paris
Script & project development workshop during the International Film Festival Rotterdam
BABYLON is a feature film development initiative and cultural forum, produced by Scenario Films (UK) in co-production with Ciné-Sud Promotion (France). It is aimed at Europe’s culturally diverse filmmakers and mixed creative teams seeking to broaden their international reach by working creatively together in a European context. The programme taking place during the International Film Festival Rotterdam is an intensive three-day script and project development workshop. The British Council is one of the partners of Babylon and is co-hosting a welcoming and networking reception for the workshop participants and other experts.
Dates: 28-31 January 2007
Location: Goethe-Institut Rotterdam
More information: www.babylon-film.eu
Public conference
In many European countries, the development of a national cultural canon is a topical subject of debate. But how does this fit into the larger context? This public conference aims to provide better insight into this specific area of one of the unifying elements in European culture: the idea of a Cultural Canon. The programme of this meeting exists of presentations and workshops.
With contributions of Simon Mundy (British poet, festival director, broadcaster and advisor cultural policy), Leonidas Donskis (Lithuanian philosopher), Peter Duelund (University of Copenhagen), Michael Werner (advisor on French and German history), Han van der Horst (historian, NUFFIC), Herman Beliën (University of Amsterdam), Gabriela Sittová (Czech Cermat Commission), Leonoor Broeder (NLPVF), Margot Dijkgraaf (Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad), Jan Nuchelmans (musicologist), Eveline Nikkels (Mozart & Mahler Foundation), Cas Smithuysen (Boekman Foundation), Johan Thielemans (publicist), Jan Simons (film specialist, University of Amsterdam) and Silvia Terribili (Istituto Italiano di Cultura per i Paesi Bassi).
This conference is organized in collaboration with EUNIC, the European National Institutions of Culture and The Netherlands.
Date: Saturday 10 February 2007
Location: Felix Meritis, Amsterdam
Information: www.dare2connect.nl
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