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/31/2007: Germany about to enforce video games industry
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(Published by Catherine Daraspe)
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The fifth Games Convention Fair took place in Leipzig from August 23rd to 26th and closes with a record attendance: 185.000 visitors, 2.000 more than last year, from most different age-groups and soci...... Read Announcement...
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8/27/2007: You and me commissioning artistic works
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(Published by Catherine Daraspe)
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The Fondation de France has been breaking new ground questioning the cultural need of the European citizens. Since 1969 the Foundation has been encouraging innovative actions, among others in the cult...... Read Announcement...
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8/23/2007: Ruhr 2010: symposium on music industry
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(Published by Catherine Daraspe)
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On August 24th the Ruhr 2010, head organisation of the European Capital of Culture Ruhr 2010, and POPplus invite to make an inventory of the Ruhr region’s music industries and to discuss the future: W...... Read Announcement...
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8/23/2007: Germany : support for video industry
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(Published by Catherine Daraspe)
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In a meeting in Berlin on August 20th 2007 the subcommittee video of the FFA (Filmförderungsanstalt – German Federal Film Board) has decided to allocate aids amounting to approx. 1.4 million euros. Am...... Read Announcement...
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8/22/2007: 10th Jubilee Jewish Summer Festival in Budapest
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(Published by Katalin Hegedüs)
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The Jewish Summer Festival is one of Hungary’s most important, most visited and most interesting cultural art events. Even strata of the population usually less interested all year round in cultural events are drawn to this event held on the last week of summer. Visitors may gain a glimpse into a culture they’re not really familiar with and can become part of it. The Jewish Tourism and Cultural Center held the first festival in 1998 thanks to the initiation of the Budapest Jewish Community, with Europe's largest and definitely one of the most spectacular Synag...... Read Announcement...
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8/10/2007: Louvre Abu Dhabi: promotion of the East-West dialogue?
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(Published by Catherine Daraspe)
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Last month a 10-strong French delegation has met the Tourism Development & Investment Company in Abu Dhabi to discuss the management strategy of the Louvre Abu Dhabi planned for 2012. The delegation i...... Read Announcement...
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8/10/2007: UNESCO provides information on German cultural industries
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(Published by Catherine Daraspe)
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With a gross value added amounting to 58 billion EUR in 2004 cultural and creative industries have become a significant economic factor for Germany – and Europe. They have also been gaining importance...... Read Announcement...
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8/6/2007: Saudi Arabia: Female writers boost book production
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(Published by Margrit Müller)
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Saudi Arabia has seen a literary explosion in the last two years after the success of Rajaa Alsanea's "Girls of Riyadh", a taboo-breaking novel that caused a stir in the conservative Wahhabite Saudi A...... Read Announcement...
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8/6/2007: Filmmakers besiege Berlin
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(Published by Catherine Daraspe)
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The Babelsberg Film Studios near Berlin are currently experiencing a proper production boom. Carl Woebcken, chairman of the Studio Babelsberg AG, speaks of a “unique situation in the studios’ history ...... Read Announcement...
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8/6/2007: The priority list of the French cultural policy
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(Published by Catherine Daraspe)
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On the first of August the French president Nicolas Sarkozy has addressed a mission letter to his culture minister Christine Albanel: her top mission consists in democratising culture. Consequently cu...... Read Announcement...
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8/3/2007: Swiss-German cultural dialogue in Berlin
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(Published by Catherine Daraspe)
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Switzerland does not run its own cultural centre in Berlin, it is nevertheless the country with the largest number of artists living there. This might explain why the Swiss Embassy is the only foreign...... Read Announcement...
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8/3/2007: British study brings evidence: film is profitable
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(Published by Catherine Daraspe)
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An independent report by Oxford Economics documents the important contribution of the UK film industry to the country’s global economy. According to « The Economic Impact of the UK Film Industry » the...... Read Announcement...
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8/3/2007: Women film directors: brilliant – but few and far between
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(Published by Margrit Müller)
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Today's film scene has more female directors than ever before, and they have moved beyond the traditional female arena of romantic comedies, but the struggle for equality, recognition and respect stil...... Read Announcement...
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