FEATURES
FEATURES
Literature
Each year, between 20 and 35 poets, fiction writers, dramatists, journalists, screenwriters, and literary translators from around the world spend a semester in Iowa City exploring the creative process of writing.
Each year, between 20 and 35 poets, fiction writers, dramatists, journalists, screenwriters, and literary translators from around the world spend a semester in Iowa City exploring the creative process of writing.
Film
As one of four boys growing up in a gritty working-class neighborhood in Istanbul, Turkey, Hüseyin Karabey used to be upset that experiences he lived and witnessed were never represented in movies. With his latest acclaimed film, "My Marlon and Brando," the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) alumnus is seeing his boyhood dreams become reality on silver screens the world over.
As one of four boys growing up in a gritty working-class neighborhood in Istanbul, Turkey, Hüseyin Karabey used to be upset that experiences he lived and witnessed were never represented in movies. With his latest acclaimed film, "My Marlon and Brando," the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) alumnus is seeing his boyhood dreams become reality on silver screens the world over.
Music
In the traditions of Gillespie, Armstrong and Brubeck, the Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad program brings American culture through person-to-person exchanges to audiences around the globe. Rhythm Road artists are the new generation of musical ambassadors, reaching beyond concert halls to interact with other musicians and the general public.
In the traditions of Gillespie, Armstrong and Brubeck, the Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad program brings American culture through person-to-person exchanges to audiences around the globe. Rhythm Road artists are the new generation of musical ambassadors, reaching beyond concert halls to interact with other musicians and the general public.
Cultural Preservation
Traditional Malay dramatic art, music, dance and history may not be as popular as the movies, but “Bangsawan” still has a place in modern Malay culture. Documenting and preserving this art form has been the important work of the Penang Budayasari Troupe, a non-governmental organization in Penang, with the assistance of the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation.
Traditional Malay dramatic art, music, dance and history may not be as popular as the movies, but “Bangsawan” still has a place in modern Malay culture. Documenting and preserving this art form has been the important work of the Penang Budayasari Troupe, a non-governmental organization in Penang, with the assistance of the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation.
BLOGS
Katherine Good
Fulbright-mtvU Fellow Explores Mexican Music Styles
Katherine Good, a Fulbright-mtvU Fellow and graduate of Loyola University Chicago, was in Mexico to produce podcasts that anthropologically explored the Mexican youth renaissance of performing various pre-rock music styles. A folk musician and independent radio producer, Katherine worked with the School of Mexican Music in Mexico City and the danzón and son jarocho circles of Veracruz to document this growing cultural trend.
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