Australia's major museums hold large collections of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ancestral remains and objects of secret and/or sacred significance. Many of these items were collected without the consent of family members or the traditional owners. The repatriation of Australian Indigenous ancestral remains and secret sacred objects has been an ongoing and evolving process over the past 20 years. This process has occurred in large part because of the efforts of Indigenous communities an more...
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The Indigenous Culture Support program (ICS—formerly the Regional Arts and Culture Support program) supports the maintenance of cultural practice within Indigenous communities and the promotion of Indigenous cultures as dynamic and integral elements of Australian culture and identity. ICS funds activities that encourage culturally vibrant Indigenous communities. These activities are developed in a creative environment and contribute to the cultural identity and well being of Indigenous individ more...
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Meutia F. Swasono. Many countries have different population compositions. In some countries, newcomers go beyond indigenous people, both in numbers as well as in social-economic advantages. In others the composition is balanced, while in still other countries, the indigenous people represent the majority.
Indonesia with its five large islands, Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan (Borneo), Sulawesi (Celebes), Irian Jaya (west of Papua Nugini) and thousands of medium-sized and small islands, is a country more...
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Author(s) : Gavan Titley and Alana Lentin. Published by the Council of Europe. Synopsis:
“Diversity” has become a key term in contemporary social politics, and is often used as both a description of complex social realities and a normative prescription for how those realities should be valued, influenced by the politics of multiculturalism and by social movements asserting 'the right to be different' diversity has emerged as an open, fluid discourse that challenges reductive visions of legi more...
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Author : Silvia Volpi. Published by the Council of Europe. Synopsis: Intercultural dialogue is one of the key missions of the Council of Europe, along with fostering democracy, human rights and the rule of law. Young people are crucial actors in that process as the main stakeholders of societies who are freer from the prejudice, discrimination and segregation that have characterized most of Europe for the past decades.
The Symposium “Intercultural and interreligious dialogue in youth work p more...
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Catherine Filloux's recent plays include: Lemkin’s House (McGinn-Cazale Theatre, 78th Street Theatre Lab, NYC & Kamerni Theatre, Sarajevo); The Beauty Inside (New Georges/InterAct); Eyes of the Heart (NAATCO); Silence of God (Contemporary American Theater Festival); Mary and Myra (CATF & Todd Mountain); Photographs From S-21 (shown around the world). Filloux has received awards from the O’Neill, Kennedy Center, Omni Center for Peace and New Dramatists. Her libretti include: The Floating Box more...
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Carol Mack's plays have been produced Off-Broadway, in Scotland and at many regional theaters across the U.S.A. A recipient in 2005 of a grant from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, she has just completed THE VISITOR. Premieres include: THE ACCIDENT, American Repertory Theatre; IN HER SIGHT and AFTER, Actors Theatre of Louisville. Awards include the Stanley Drama Award, Julie Harris/Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Award, Playwright Forum Award and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. Her p more...
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