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June 2008

June 30 - July 6, 2008
AFI Project 20/20 in Peru
American AFI Project 20/20 filmmaker Chris Bowman and Venezuelan filmmaker Alberto Arvelo will screen AFI 20/20 films at Film Institute of the Catholic University-Filmopteca PUCP in Lima and conduct workshops and master classes. They also will visit Binational Centers in Peru.

June 14 - July 7, 2008
AFI Project 20/20 in South Africa
American AFI Project 20/20 filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz and Pakistani filmmaker Mohammed Naqvi will visit Johannesburg and Capetown to screen their films at the Encounters Documentary Film Festival. They also will host festival master classes and workshops.

June 8 - 24, 2008
Cultural Envoys
Cultural Envoy Dr. Gene Aitken, a jazz education and computer technology visionary, was awarded DownBeat Magazine’s 2007 Jazz Educator of the Year and inducted into DownBeat's Hall of Fame. Dr. Aitken will work with faculty and students at the newly opened Kathmandu Jazz Conservatory (KJC), conducting workshops, lectures and classes, leading student ensembles and performing. Dr. Aitken will teach Jazz and explain how Jazz relates to U.S. culture and history. The average Nepali cannot afford a music education, but with the help of local and international donations, the KJC is able to offer subsidized tuition and scholarships to Nepali musicians. KJC is also n ardent supporter of the Nepal women’s empowerment movement and offers special scholarships to Nepali women involved in music education.

June 5 - 7, 2008
AFI Project 20/20 in Tunisia
American AFI Project 20/20 filmmaker Amie Williams will screen various 20/20 films and conduct workshops and master classes at a number of schools in Tunis.

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May 2008

May 31 - June 30, 2008
Documentary Film Fellowships
Ten emerging and mid-career documentary filmmakers are in the second week of the Documentary Film Fellowships at George Washington University Documentary Center that will train them in the use of new media technologies, provide opportunities for production of new films, expose them to documentary resources in both Washington and New York, and result in a final public presentation of collaborative documentaries. The filmmakers are from Lebanon, Jordan, Uzbekistan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia. 

May 31 - June 7, 2008
AFI Project 20/20 in Israel
American AFI Project 20/20 filmmakers Jay Craven and Amie Williams and Venezuelan filmmaker Alberto Arvelo will screen their films and conduct workshops and master classes at the 12th International Student Film Festival in Tel Aviv. Screenings also will be held in Jerusalem and Ashdod, and Craven will serve on the festival jury.

May 17 - June 1, 2008
Cultural Envoys
Cultural Envoys, Maida Withers and Wendall Cooper, a modern dance choreographer/educator and a hip-hop dance instructor, respectively, will present  workshops, master classes, and collaborative performances with youth and young professional dancers in partnership with the GoDown Arts Center in Nairobi.  This program comes as a follow on program to the ECA/ Kennedy Center Fellows Mentoring program during which an arts manager from the GoDown Arts Center participated in a professional development program.  

May 16 - 20, 2008
International Writing Program
International Writing Program (IWP) alumni from Ghana, Cyprus, China, Indonesia, Jamaica, India and Greece will join five U.S. writers in this historic birthplace of lyrical poet Archilocus.  IWP, with support from the Mayor of Paros and the Fulbright Foundation of Greece, will organize public debates, discussions and presentations centered on the writers' essays about the topic of "Home."  The presentations will be filmed and developed into a documentary, and the writer's work will be complied into an on-line collection.      

May 16 - June 8, 2008
Cultural Envoys
Cultural Envoys and hip-hop dancer-choreographers, Isaac Barron and Rosie Bichon will conduct a three-week program of workshops and master classes on Hip-Hop dance for at-risk youth and others from economically disadvantaged communities, and will also conduct a train-the-trainer programs for youth influencers in the cities of Copenhagen, Odense and Aarhus in Denmark.  This program is part of an annual program on hip-hop, break dancing and basketball.

May 15 - June 4, 2008
Cultural Exchanges
Eleven performing artists and arts managers from South Africa will take part in a three-week intensive training program at the Institute for Training and Development in Amherst.  The artists and managers will be individually matched with their American counterparts who work with marginalized youth. The counterpart pairs will share original and innovative theater, dance, music, written and spoken word approaches and methods to build self-esteem, teamwork, leadership, and peacemaking shills.

May 8 - 13, 2008
Global Voices
Global Voices, an outreach program that uses theater to transform language classes into a global stage, will bring together students in Chicago with students from both Morocco and Jordan to perform plays written in each other’s native languages via teleconferencing. The purpose of this exchange is to promote literacy and provide a forum for self-expression across languages and cultures.

May 4 - 10, 2008
AFI Project 20/20
AFI Project 20/20 filmmaker Hubbel Palmer will introduce his and others' AFI 20/20 films and conduct workshops and master classe in South Korea.

May 1 - 9, 2008
AFI Project 20/20 in South Korea
American AFI Project 20/20 filmmaker Chris Bowman will screen his film "American Fork" and other 20/20 films at universities in Seoul and Jeonju.

May 1 - 4, 2008
Performing Arts Initiative
Philadelphia Brass, a musical group participating in the Performing Arts Initiative, will travel to Bolivia and Mexico and take part in workshops, master classes, jam sessions, and concerts.

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April 2008

April 27 – May 1, 2008
American Association of Museums
Grantee organization - The American Association of Museums - will have its annual meeting and MuseumExpo in Denver, Colorado. The AAM is currently involved in an ECA-funded program entitled "Museums and Communities Collaborations Abroad" (MCCA), whose projects focus on the development of partnerships that enhance foreign and U.S. museums' outreach to their host communities and build upon the museums' ability to engage underserved local audiences to effect positive change. Representatives from foreign museum participants will travel to the US to take part in the annual meeting in Denver.

April 21 - 25, 2008
AFI Project 20/20 in Lithuania
American AFI Project 20/20 filmmaker Doug Prey and Pakistani filmmaker Mohammed Naqvi will visit Vilnius with the 20/20 film collection for screenings, workshops and other events. Screenings will be held for film students, film professionals and others at the Lithuania Music & Theater Academy Film Dept., Lithuania Union of Filmmakers and the Skalvija Film Center.

April 20 - May 4, 2008
Cultural Envoys
ECA Cultural Envoys and choreographers, Colleen Cintron and Marie Morrow will present a program of master classes, and workshops in modern dance for young dancers, choreographers, and traditional dancers in the cities of Pristina, Gjakova, and Strpce in Kosovo. This will be the first Cultural Envoy program ever to occur in Kosovo. The program aspires to forge new ties between dancers from communities who do not have the opportunity to collaborate, or experience modern dance.

April 17, 2008
Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad
The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad concerts
National Geographic Society-Grosvenor Auditorium
6:00p.m. Devin Philips & New Orleans Straight Ahead
7:15p.m. The Dana Leong Band

April 6 - 19, 2008
Cultural Envoys
ECA Cultural Envoys and hip-hop dancers/ choreographers/ educators, Ana Garcia, A.K.A., Rokafella and Gabriel Dionisio, A.K.A Kwikstep will present a two-week intensive program of workshops and master classes introducing the art of the breakdance movement in public schools for at-risk youth ages 13-19 in the cities of Caracas, Coro and Cumana in Venezuela. The envoys will also judge a break-dance competition. Ana Garcia and Gabriel Dionisio are New York-based hip-hop dance pioneers. This program will engage participants from a previous Cultural Visitor professional development program.

April 5 - 13, 2008
ECA Big Read Egypt/U.S.
A delegation of eight U.S. participants from South Dakota, Alabama, Florida and New York will travel to Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt, as part of the Big Read Egypt/ U.S. project. The visit will provide an overview for the U.S. partners in the Big Read Egypt/U.S. Project of Egyptian literature, culture and society, and encourage the Americans to develop programming ideas to introduce their home communities to The Thief and the Dogs by Naguib Mahfouz. In particular, the delegation will participate in panel discussions and meet with experts on Egyptian literature at the Alexandria Library and the American University of Cairo.

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March 2008

March 2008 - October 2008
Landmarks of New York
Landmarks of New York, a traveling exhibition of 81 black and white photos with accompanying text panels illustrating the importance of cultural and architectural preservation, will be presented in India at locations to be determined.

March 29, 2008
Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad
The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad concerts
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, New York City
Maya Azucena: Starts at 1:00p.m.
The Sound Merchants: Starts at 3:00p.m.

March 27, 2008
Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad
The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad concerts
National Geographic Society-Grosvenor Auditorium
The Sound Merchants: Starts at 6:00p.m.
Maya Azucena: Starts at 7:15p.m.

March 28 - April 10, 2008
Cultural Envoys
ECA Cultural Envoys and the Artistic Director of the American Pianist Association and the 2007 American Pianist Association Jazz Fellow, Joel Harrison and Daniel Tepfer, respectively, will present a ten-day program of master classes, workshops and performances in Georgia in the cities of Tbilisi, Batumi and Kutaisi, along with a three-day program of performances and master classes in Azerbaijan, including a performance at an orphanage in Azerbaijan.

March 23 - April 6, 2008
Cultural Envoys
ECA Cultural Envoys and jazz musicians/ educators, Alejandro Aviles and Luis Raul Romero will present a two-week intensive jazz course for 30 students along with a program of master classes, lectures and performances for young musicians, public school students, and the general public in Nicaragua that will reach over 1,000 people. Alejandro Aviles is a New York-based jazz instructor at Hofstra University and participated in the Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad program in the Western Hemisphere region. Luis Raul Romero is a Puerto Rico-based jazz composer and instructor.

March 16 - 30, 2008
ECA/ Kennedy Center Cultural Visitor Program: Technical Theatre
As part of the Global Cultural Initiative, the Kennedy Center will program eight young technical theatre professionals from (3) Egypt, (3) Jordan, and (1) Malaysia as Cultural Visitors. This two-week professional development program will take place in DC and Houston, Texas.

March 10 - 24, 2008
ECA/ Kennedy Center Cultural Visitor Program: Actors and Directors
As part of the Global Cultural Initiative, the Kennedy Center will program six young theatre professionals from (4) Egypt, (1) Jordan, (1) Pakistan and (1) Morocco as Cultural Visitors from March 10-24, 2008. This two-week professional development program will take place in DC and Kentucky.

March 8 - 16, 2008
Big Read Egypt/U.S.
As part of the Global Cultural Initiative, Big Read Egypt/U.S begins its orientation program for 8 Egyptian arts managers/ literary arts experts from Egyptian partner organizations in Washington, D.C., New York and Boston.

March 3 - 25, 2008
ECA/ Kennedy Center Fellows Mentoring Program
As part of the Global Cultural Initiative, the Kennedy Center will program 16 international emerging performing arts professionals in a Fellows Mentoring program. This three-week professional development program will take place in DC and NY.

March 3 - 25, 2008
ECA Open Competition FY2007 Grantee the Institute for Training and Development
As part of the ECA grant to the Institute of Training and Development, eleven South African performance artists/activists and arts managers will travel to Amherst, Massachusetts to work with their counterparts at the Institute for Training and Development in planning upcoming program for performing artists working with underserved youth. Their visit will include site visits in Holyoke, MA, Springfield, MA and Hartford, CT.

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February 2008

February 17 - March 1 2008
Cultural Envoys
Cultural Envoy Rafael Velez, a New York painter and Muralist travels to Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua cities to develop mural projects with non-governmental organizations active in underserved neighborhoods targeting teenagers and training university students to work with the program.

February 16 - March 14, 2008
Cultural Envoys
Cultural Envoy Helen Marie Zughaib, a Washington, DC painter conducts painting workshops for professional women artists in Ramallah and lecture at a number of universities and schools in the West Bank and Jerusalem. The "Women's Art, Women's Vision” workshop participants will exhibit their paintings at the Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah in March, Women’s History month.

February 15 -18, 2008
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History presents “Jazz on the Nile,” with concerts performed by the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra Feb. 15-18 in Egypt. These concerts, featuring music and songs by jazz greats Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Quincy Jones, will be held at the Great Pyramids of Giza and both the Cairo and Alexandria Opera Houses. They are sponsored by the U.S. Embassy, the Cairo Opera House, and the Cultural Programs Division of ECA.

February - March 2008
Landmarks of New York
Landmarks of New York, a traveling exhibition of 81 black and white photos with accompanying text panels illustrating the importance of cultural and architectural preservation, will be presented in Argentina at a location to be determined.

January 2008

January – February, 2008
Landmarks of New York
Landmarks of New York, a traveling exhibition of 81 black and white photos with accompanying text panels illustrating the importance of cultural and architectural preservation, will be presented in Australia at locations to be determined.

January 29 - February 6, 2008
ECA Big Read Egypt/U.S.
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Professional Exchanges, Alina L Romanowski will travel to Cairo for the launch of the Big Read Egypt/ U.S. that will take place at the Cairo Book Fair. National Endowment for the Arts Chairman, Dana Gioia will also participate in launching program activities.

January 26 - Feb. 24, 2008
Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad
The Rhythm Road-American Music Abroad: UNIVERSES Universes is an ensemble company of multi-disciplined writers and performers who fuse poetry, theater, jazz, hip-hop, down-home blues and Spanish boleros to create challenging and entertaining theatrical works. Varying in age range, ethnic backgrounds and experiences, the core members each bring a different element of style to the group. Committed to their roots in the New York City poetry scene, the group has performed in venues all over the five boroughs, including Nuyorican Poets Café, Joe's Pub, Aaron Davis Hall and The Bronx Academy of Art & Dance, among others. They also present their work in schools and colleges across the U.S. and recently completed a tour to Chile. On this tour, Universes will perform in Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Kenya and the United Kingdom.

January 26, 2008
Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad
The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad concerts
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, New York City
Exegesis Jazz Quartet: Starts at 1:00p.m.
Ryan Cohan Quartet: Starts at 3:00p.m.

January 24, 2008
Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad
The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad concerts
National Geographic Society-Grosvenor Auditorium
Exegesis Jazz Quartet: Starts at 6:00p.m.
Ryan Cohan Jazz Quartet: Starts at 7:15p.m.

January 24 - Feb. 24, 2008
Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad
The Rhythm Road- American Music Abroad: The Kelley Johnson Quartet The quartet draws from the Great American Songbook and modern jazz repertoire, reworking standards in a creative and energetic way, to feature the solo work of each member of the band. They have recorded three albums in New York City, including Live at Birdland and the critically acclaimed Music is the Magic and performed throughout the world, including a U.S. State Department sponsored tour to Russia and Central Asia in 2004. On this tour the quartet will perform in Panama, Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago, and Honduras.

January 24, 2008 - February 7, 2008
Cultural Envoys: Gina Loring and Daniel Beaty in Kuwait
Cultural Envoys and Spoken Word Theatre Artists Gina Loring and Daniel will present a theatre program of workshops and master classes for high-school aged students in Kuwait.

January 20 - March 3, 2008
Landmarks of New York
Landmarks of New York, a traveling exhibition of 81 black and white photos with accompanying text panels illustrating the importance of cultural and architectural preservation, will be presented in Bosnia at the Sarajevo Winter Festival and in to be determined locations in Banja Luka and Mostar.

January 19, 2008
Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad
The Rhythm Road: American Concerts Abroad concerts
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, New York City
Kelley Johnson Jazz Quartet: Starts at 1:00p.m.
Universes Urban Music Quartet: Starts at 3:00p.m.

January 17, 2008
Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad
The Rhythm Road: American Concerts Abroad concerts
WASHINGTON DC: NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY-GROSVENOR AUDITORIUM
Kelley Johnson Jazz Quartet: Starts at 6:00p.m.
Universes urban music quartet: Starts at 7:15p.m.

January 15 – March, 2008
Landmarks of New York
Landmarks of New York, a traveling exhibition of 81 black and white photos with accompanying text panels illustrating the importance of cultural and architectural preservation, will be presented in Mali at the National Museum of Mali.

January 18 - 24, 2008
Cultural Envoy Jeremy Beaudry
'Place In Place Of: Alexandria' is a work in progress by Cultural Envoy Jeremy Beaudry that manifests itself as a set of site-specific interventions, performances, and documents based in Alexandria, Egypt. Equally important and essential, this project will be co-created as a collaboration with local art and architecture university students and recent graduates.

Lectures by Jeremy Beaudry
As part of 'Place In Place Of: Alexandria' Jeremy Beaudry will be delivering 3 interconnected lectures on 18, 22, 24 of January the details of which are as follows:

18 January (Friday): Starts at 7:00p.m.
Artist-Run Culture and Initiatives Today in the North-East US,

22 January (Tuesday): Starts at 7:00p.m.
Artist talk by Jeremy Beaudry about his work and artistic/research processes

January 14 - 28, 2008
Grants: Quest: Arts for Everyone
As part of the ECA grant to the Quest: Arts for Everyone, twelve Chinese theatre performance artists from the Theatre of Silence in Hong Kong will travel to Maryland to participate in the 2008 Quest Fest, a festival that brings high quality theatre arts to the hearing impaired. The group will be presenting workshops and master classes, along with a performance of their play entitled, "Creation." There will be a showing of the play "Creation" in Silver Spring, Maryland on January 18, 2008.

January 10 - 24, 2008
ECA/ Kennedy Center Cultural Visitor Program: Arts Presenters
As part of the Global Cultural Initiative, the Kennedy Center will program six young arts presenters from (1) Morocco, (2) Malaysia and (3) South Africa as Cultural Visitors. This two-week professional development program will take place in DC and New York City.

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