Intercultural contacts theater, music, dance:







Arts Africa represents a foundation that started its early activities in September 2001. A group of theatre-artists and scholars visiting the Experimental Theatre festival in Cairo decided that more contact between East and West was necessary and urgent.









From that date projects were developed supporting these intercultural contacts
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A series of workshops for Egyptian and Dutch artists in Cairo supported by the Dutch Embassy in Cairo. Topics were: Arts –management , Acting-theories and practice, Music-theatre. After this, an exchange-program Egypt –The Netherlands was instituted between partners: Sawy Centre, Zamalek, Studio Emad Eldin, (Cairo) Frascati Theatre, Hogeschool Amsterdam Theater and Institute for Theatre Studies. This program ran from 2005-2007
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An Exchange-program between Sudan –The Netherlands starting after workshops and a conference in Khartoum Sudan, and now supported by the Dutch Embassy, Khartoum. The program started in March 2007 and was ended in 2009. See below under "Mission Arts Sudan", Exchange program 2008-2009 and Exchange program 2007-2008.
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A new program between The Netherlands and Sudan will start in 2011. Khartoum Arts Lab (KAL) will concentrate on artist in residencies in connection with exhibitions, workshops ad other presentations in arts at large (visual and conceptual arts, performing arts, new media and time based arts).





At the same time initiatives were taken for a series of Intercultural Conferences in the academic field: Philosophers, Arabists, Theatre-scholars.
1 Gent/Belgium, December 2003 :  Rereading Classics in East and West; Postcolonial Perspectives on the Tragic. (Proceedings published 2004)
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Tetouan, Morrocco, April 2005 : The Performance of the Comic in Arabic Theatre; Cultural Heritage, Western Models and Postcolonial Hybridity.
(Proceedings published in December 2005).
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Khartoum, Sudan, December 2005: Rituals and Ceremonies in Sudan; From Cultural Heritage to Theatre.
(Proceedings published in 2006)
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Khartoum, Sudan, December 2007: Performing Gender in Arabic/African Theatre.
(Proceedings published in 2009)

All pubications all available for free in the Archive section.
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