Tuesday, 31 January 2012

HERBIE HANCOCK TEAMS WITH UN TO BOOST CULTURE

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Herbie Hancock at UNESCO PARIS - Herbie Hancock is a musician on a mission. The jazz legend, who was appointed a UNESCO Goodwill Ambass...
Thursday, 12 January 2012

COMIC BOOK GIVES HAITI’S VIEW OF THE QUAKE

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"Tents Beyond Tents" by P. Jerome and C. Pierre  Two years after the earthquake in Haiti, journalists and cartoonists have ...
Monday, 19 December 2011

REMEMBERING CAPE VERDE’S BAREFOOT DIVA

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We first met Cesaria Evora in June, 1997. The article below was published that same year by Inter Press Service (IPS) . Cesaria Evora ©...
Wednesday, 30 November 2011

‘I WAS IN TEARS’: LUC BESSON TALKS ABOUT THE LADY

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Director Luc Besson with Michelle Yeoh. Photo Magali Bragard  © 2011 EuropaCorp – Left Bank Pictures – France 2 Cinéma A poignant film ...
Tuesday, 29 November 2011

TOP DESIGNERS MAKE DOLLS TO FUND VACCINATIONS

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Designer Tilmann Grawe with his doll Despite the global economic crisis, top fashion designers such as Giorgio Armani, Prada and Sonia ...
Monday, 7 November 2011

NIGERIAN SOPRANO SOARS IN EUROPE

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Nigerian soprano Omo Bello on stage “Someone like her comes along every 20 years.” That’s what one of Omo Bello’s singing teacher...
Sunday, 6 November 2011

ASIAN-CANADIAN WRITERS AND RACE

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Transnational Poetics: Asian Canadian Women’s Fiction of the 1990s is a scholarly work that aims to determine to what extent the new genera...
Thursday, 3 November 2011

U.S. CUTS TO UNESCO FUNDING COULD HURT ARTS

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PARIS - Certain international education and arts programmes will be hurt by the United States' decision to cut funding for the United...
Thursday, 6 October 2011

MAJOR EXPO OF MAORI ART, CULTURE OPENS IN PARIS

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Wood panel by Maori sculptor Tene Waitere  Objects at the Quai Branly Museum in Paris tend to provoke unease and even anger in some ...