Project Overview - Launched in July 2004, this phase of the In Place of War project will research and create performance in sites of armed conflict as well as support and document performance work by artists and communities displaced by war. The project aims to generate information and resources about how performance is responding to war and this will be used to create dialogue with practitioners and researchers internationally.
The project has 4 overriding research questions:
1. How do more...
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The George Keyt Foundation is committed to honouring George Keyt through the following stated objectives. Promoting art and assisting Sri Lanka artists including painters, sculptors, musicians and writers, establishing a gallery of modern Sri Lanka art, restoring and preserving George Keyt's work in all media, publishing writings and reproducing works of art of George Keyt and others to enable more and more people to have access to them.
Drawing from the inspiration and contribution of George more...
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'When thus in the isle of Lanka the peerless thera, like unto the Master in the protection of Lanka, had preached the true doctrine in two places, in the speech of the island, he, the light of the island, thus, brought to pass the descent of the true faith.' The Mahavamsa, (The Great Chronicle), so describes the introduction of Buddhism to Sri Lanka by Mahinda Thera, the son of the Emperor Asoka of India, during the reign of King Devanampiyatissa (247-207 BC). This momentous event in the histo more...
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Sri Lanka is an island civilization with a long, rich and colourful history. Its pivotal position in the ancient Silk Road, that functioned as a cultural highway between the East and West, has given this island a cosmopolitan character since pre-Christian times. In the inscriptions of a Mauryan Emperor of India in the 3rd century BC, Sri Lanka was referred to as Tambapani. He names it as one of the countries to which he had extended his benevolent services. Onesicritus of Astipalacia who was more...
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After completing his training as part of the Nairobits ICT Training Project in Kenya, Mark Kamau was involved in various initiatives as a consultant. 'Recently, with a few partners, I established the Kilimanjaro Film Institute in Tanzania. We just successfully completed our first year with a pilot phase.' Kamau was one of the speakers at Surprising Africa, part of Picnic, the international congress for creative Internet entrepreneurs that was held in Amsterdam at the end of September 2008. Kamau more...
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While Twiga, a patchwork giraffe made of recycled toothbrushes and rubber tyres, makes her European tour hitting International Trade Center meetings and visiting the WTO headquarters, her designers back home in Kenya are busy collecting more non-biodegradable waste products and transforming them into beaded wine coolers, juggling balls and flipflop penguins.
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UniquEco is a non-profit organization started in northern Kenya by two local women, Julie Church and Tahreni Bwanaali. Since 2006 more...
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'Contemporary art in Bolivia is still primarily considered a matter for the white urban elite. That idea is actually a bit out-dated. In photography and street art in particular, new expressions can be seen that have little to do with the differences between city and country, for example, or white and Indian.' The speaker is Pedro Querejazu, Bolivian historian, curator and art critic, who was appointed by the Fundación EsArt in July 2007 to improve the foundation's sustainability as executive d more...
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