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Brave Festival: Wrocław stands up for endangered cultures

('Peter Robbins',) — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:10:18 -0000

Brave is a festival for courageous individuals sharing a common aim, to fight 'cultural expulsion'. Anna Zubrzycki, co-organiser of the festival in south-western Poland and its artistic director for 2012, discusses her reasons for wanting to preserve endangered cultures

What happens when you mix 20 European hip-hop artists up

('Danielle Farrell',) — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:30:00 -0000

Diversidad, diversité, diversity, diversità, pазноврсност, raznovrsnost, diversidade...all in the name of an urban culture project supported by the European institutions, no less! A Paris-based Bosnian journalist meets the raw talent of European hip-hop, who collaborated on an album in Brussels for release in February 2011

To be or to be in Berlin: poor but (creatively) rich

('Camelia Ivanova',) — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:22:59 -0000

Money and the crisis are not on the agenda for Berliners who can focus on different things, such as art. 'Being poor is not cool, but OK,' is the word on the street. It all looks very promising for someone from Bulgaria, the EU's officially poorest country, where a lack of money, unlike cheap glamour, can never be a virtue

Gaëtan Tarantino: ‘graffiti artists are normal people, not hooligans’

('Alison Frank',) — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:00:00 -0000

He escaped prison and fines, sleeps and breathes graffiti and his NGO holds Brussels’ annual graffiti event: how the 32-year-old from Marseille, who once worked in air-conditioning, cheers up gloomy Belgian neighbourhoods with art that emerges from concrete

Cuba: backstreet with an escape route

('Erin Woycik',) — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:00:00 -0000

In the first of our ‘rock and backpack’ series, we discover Havana - the cultural centre of a Cuba in which everyone has the ability to produce something, but few express themselves

Mister Cat graffiti: from Paris to Sarajevo

('Sarah Gray',) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:00:00 -0000

The Mister Cat phenomenon falls somewhere between anonymous marketing and ‘involuntary communication’. Spotted on rooftops from Geneva to New York, the feline seduced passers-by before moving on to museums

Eboy: Berlin's ‘godfathers of pixel’

('Kate Hollinshead',) — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:00:00 -0000

London, Cologne, Venice, Tokyo: the German design pixel group pixelate city visions and hail themselves as a jazz band. They are guilty of simply improvising the definitive concept of ‘urbanity’

Artists in arms

Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:00:00 -0000

Politics is not the only thing to have changed in Poland since the fall of communism. Maria Staszkiewicz investigates the underground artists trying to bring a little perspective to Polish lives.