| 8/1/2008: Difficulties getting visa keeps world music at bay | |
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The age of internet and globalisation means that music and musical inspiration has ceased to respect national borders. But, as the Roskilde Festival can testify, this doesn't apply to the people behin...... Read Announcement... |
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| 7/21/2008: Four days of festival: Just a party or an improvement of qualifications? | |
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One of the major Danish cultural events is the Roskilde Festival, that since 1971 has taken place every summer on the fairgrounds in the outskirts of the city. The vast majority of the Danish public c...... Read Announcement... |
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| 7/18/2008: Design in the Danish province: How periphery can become a strength | |
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Designer Anders Nørgaard has just received the prestigious German Red Dot Award for a simple chair with four identical legs. It's weather resistant, weighs only four kilograms, can be stacked in numbe...... Read Announcement... |
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| 7/14/2008: Creative people to put life into new urban areas | |
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The building of a bridge between Denmark and Sweden has prompted the creation of a new Copenhagen suburb, Ørestad, named after the waterway that the bridge crosses. But smooth planning of infrastructu...... Read Announcement... |
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| 7/8/2008: Experience economy is good, but why, nobody knows | |
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Copenhagen Business School (CBS) has published the first reports coming out of the research project “Creativity, Competence and Competitiveness in the Danish experience economy”, and the first conclus...... Read Announcement... |
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| 7/4/2008: How to enter the world of design: a Danish model | |
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At Danmarks Designskole (Denmark's Design School) a little more than 100 new students are matriculated every year, meaning roughly one out of ten who have applied ends up being accepted. Preparing met...... Read Announcement... |
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| 6/27/2008: Design Special: Fashion to become the first Danish 'experience-zone' | |
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The experience economy, as mentioned here on January 21st 2008, has been slated by the Danish government to become a main ecomomic driver. A program, set to develop four socalled 'experience-zones' is...... Read Announcement... |
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| 6/20/2008: Design Special: IT giant establishes European design centre in Denmark. | |
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The American high tech leader, Cisco, wants to broaden its access to the European markets for its consumer-division, Linksys. Therefore, an international designcenter has been placed in Hørsholm, a su...... Read Announcement... |
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| 6/6/2008: Design Special: Danish design ambassador assists food-industry in becoming driver of regional development | |
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Bornholm, an island in the Baltic ocean with some 43,000 inhabitants, has begun using design as a weapon in the fight for creating viable, competitive production that can provide the jobs and income m...... Read Announcement... |
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| 3/18/2008: Film Special: Danish film festivals merger | |
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As a city with international aspirations in the cultural field, Danish capital Copenhagen has its share of film festivals. The two major events, NatFilm festivalen (The Nightfilm festival) and Copenha...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/21/2008: New Danish focus on culture- and experience-economy. | |
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The Danish government has launched a new initiative to boost the national culture- and experience-economy. 90 mil. Danish Kroner – app. € 12 mil. – have been allocated for the purpose of strengthening...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/14/2008: X-mas calendar take on immigrants. | |
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Danmarks Radio (DR), once the Danish monopoly in the airwaves and still a public service sender, has for 40 years been cultivating a very special TV-format: The Christmas-calendar for children, tellin...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/11/2008: Danish film industry in crisis. | |
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Danish film industry seems to have lost momentum, both artistically and economically. Though the Danish audience was only second to the French in preferring national productions to foreign, only 4 out...... Read Announcement... |
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| 10/25/2007: Culture set to enforce Danish diplomacy | |
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In a bid to present Denmark better in a globalized world, the Danish Foreign Ministry has established a socalled 'Public Diplomacy' department. Cultural activities of all kinds are poised to be at the...... Read Announcement... |
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| 10/4/2007: Danish actors pressured by low unemployment | |
| The current boom in Danish economy has developed into a threat against the countrys experience-culture, according to Henrik Petersen, chairman of 'Dansk Skuespiller Forbund', the Danish Actors Guild. ...... Read Announcement... |
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