European and Chilean musicians meet in first EUNIC Jazz Festival in Santiago
The lively and ever-growing Chilean jazz scene will get a chance to feature European musicians in the first European Jazz Festival that EUNIC in Chile will be organizing from 22 to 26 September 2010. In addition to concerts in various emblematic jazz clubs throughout Santiago, the European musicians will meet their Chilean counterparts in workshops and jam sessions.
Memory studies and the Identity problem: an international panel to encompass Canadian and European experiences
EUNIC in Canada is inaugurating its activities with an international panel on: Memory Studies and the Identity problem: a Cross Reading of European and Canadian Cultural Traditions, held on Tuesday 7 September at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.
Thousand years of European Way in a photo exhibition
EUNIC in Brazil celebrates The European Way with a photo exhibition on the Way of St. James (from 9 August to 3 December at Goethe-Zentrum Brasilia). The pictures were taken by amateur and professional photographers in various places along the routes in Austria, Germany, Great Britain, Poland and Spain.
All Aboard the Multilingual Bus on European Language Day!
Celebrate European Language Day on Friday September 24 and get a taste of French, German, Italian and Spanish language and culture. Step on board the multilingual bus and enter Europe. The bus will stop at a variety of Sydney’s hotspots where a range of activities highlighting European culture and languages will take place.
Armenia: exploring national identity by collaborative European fashion design
Fashion Road: Dialogue across Borders is a 2-year collaborative project starting in November 2010 through which ten fashion designers from Armenia, UK, Germany, Romania, Denmark and Czech Republic will explore how aspects of national identity are incorporated into contemporary designs. The designers will study traditional costumes in the six countries, explore the role of those costumes in contemporary society, how people associate memories with clothing and how they preserve these memories.
Making the Military into Arts: proof by Sevastopol festival
EUNIC in Ukraine is spanning its activities well beyond the capital, contributing to the international outreach of the country’s largest summer arts festival. Sevastopol War and Peace International Art Festival (May-September 2010) brings together different genres of arts: military music and cinema, photography, modern dances, performance and media-art.
Road to Lviv: European writers at Ukraine's leading bookfair
EUNIC in Ukraine will promote European values and literature at the Lviv Book Forum (September 16-19) and the International Literary Festival (15-19 September). The western city of Lviv has been a major cultural center for centuries and the Forum is the biggest book related event in Ukraine, reaching in 2010 its 17th edition.
European Memory by cartoons
A touring exhibition introducing the European Union and its member states to teachers and their pupils, parents and their children in an original and playful form. The next project of EUNIC in Austria originates into Czech cartoon TV-series European Memory, created in 2009 to mark the Czech Republic’s presidency of the EU. All episodes are available here.
London debates the Virtues of European Public Diplomacy in 21st century Cultural Diplomacy
The EUNIC cluster in UK London, in cooperation with the University of Westminster, organised a two part exploration of cultural diplomacy. The first day was for members of the London cluster and was based around a research questionnaire prepared by Abdel Ilah Bennis (University of Westminster). It drew out some surprising information about cultural institutes which were debated and reviewed by cluster members.
Architecture Studios: answers to the housing problems in South Africa
From 22nd – 26th November 2010 EUNIC South Africa will run the third edition of the EUNIC Architecture Studio, an annual event which brings European architects to Johannesburg to work together with local architects and students and staff from South African Universities, and to involve local government and the public in the results of their collaborations.