| 6/20/2008: Design Special: call for Austrian creative industries in the design and innovative media sectors | |
| The “Impulsprogramm creativwirtschaft” run by the Austrian economic service (Austria wirtschaftsservice) is the first countrywide support program for Austrian creative industries. Aiming at promoting ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 6/20/2008: Design Special: Vienna’s designforumMQ on the road to success | |
| In May 2005 designforumMQ opened its doors in the Vienna Museumsquartier [museum quarter] to support and promote Austrian design. Design Austria, the professional association of Austrian designers, an...... Read Announcement... |
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| 6/16/2008: Design Special: Austria presenting design at Expo 2008 in Spain | |
| On June 14th the Austrian pavilion opened its doors at the International Exposition 2008 in Zaragoza. Besides the main attraction, the multimedia exhibition “Wintersonne” [winter sun], the “Pura Austr...... Read Announcement... |
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| 5/26/2008: Vienna: one million euros for innovative architecture projects | |
| The departure wirtschaft, kunst und kultur gmbh, main support organisation for the Vienna creative industries, has launched a new thematic call for projects. With these calls the organisation wishes t...... Read Announcement... |
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| 5/26/2008: Austria: festival key dates for spring/summer 2008 | |
| Every year Austria hosts 70 festivals with all in all 2.000 events attracting an average of 1.6 million visitors. Most of the festivals take place during summer; top events are the Festivals of Salzbu...... Read Announcement... |
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| 5/26/2008: 8 festival for fashion & photography in Vienna | |
| This year’s festival for fashion & photography, Vienna’s international fashion hub, initiated and organized by Unit F büro für mode, will take place from 28 May to 6 June 2008. For the past eight year...... Read Announcement... |
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| 5/26/2008: Austria – creating and promoting fashion | |
| The fashion and textile design sector represents approximately 3% of the total Austrian design enterprises and therewith constitutes the smallest design sector. Half of the fashion design enterprises ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/28/2008: Arts and art market in Austria | |
| Austria counts around 420 museums, 32 exhibition halls, 92 galleries for contemporary art, 70 festivals and 19 art and antiquity fairs. This dense network of cultural and artistic events and instituti...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/28/2008: PECHA KUCHA in Vienna | |
| What is Pecha Kucha? Pecha Kucha is Japanese and means „gossip“. In 2003 the Tokyo-based architects Astrid Klein and Marky Dytham had the idea to launch a platform for the creative players of all sect...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/15/2008: VIENNAFAIR for the 4th time in Vienna | |
| From April 24th to 27th the Austrian capital will be hosting the 4th edition of VIENNAFAIR, the country’s most important international contemporary art fair. Besides the famous Austrian and internatio...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/4/2008: „vlow!08“ – Bregenz hosting congress on communication, architecture and design | |
| In 2007 the Bregenz Festival Hall in Austria and the Friedrichshafen Fair in Germany entered uncharted territory by taking interest in Creative Industries. After the successful cooperation for the Cre...... Read Announcement... |
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| 3/28/2008: Film Special: Austria’s Film Festival DIAGONALE | |
| From April 1st to 6th the city of Graz will be hosting the DIAGONALE 2008, the annual Austrian Film Festival. During one week spectators and visitors will be able to immerse in the Austrian world of f...... Read Announcement... |
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| 3/10/2008: Film Special: Austrian Film Archives commemorate Nazi annexation | |
| 70 years ago, on March 12th 1938, Austria was annexed to the German Reich by the Nazis. A series of cultural activities is taking place during this month of March in order to commemorate the historic ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 3/10/2008: Film Special: The Austrian Film | |
| Since the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Picture was awarded to the Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky in February, the Austrian film industry, which has known a rather turbulent past, has sudde...... Read Announcement... |
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| 3/3/2008: Film Special: An Oscar for Austria | |
| The Austrian film director Stefan Ruzowitzky was awarded the Oscar for the Best Foreign Language Picture for his work “The Counterfeiters” during the 80th Oscars Edition on February 24th. The film rel...... Read Announcement... |
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