In 2011 the Prince Claus Fund supported 113 cultural initiatives in 66 countries, gave emergency aid to cultural heritage in 36 conflict and disaster situations and presented awards to 11 outstanding cultural achievers.
Here we provide a selection of our activities in all programmes.
From 2–14 March 2011 the Prince Claus Fund, Mondriaan Foundation and Premsela in collaboration with BAM- the Flemish institute for visual, audiovisual and media art, the Danish Arts Agency and Pro Helvetia organized the 8th orientation trip to Mali (Bamako and Segou), Senegal (Dakar) and Morocco (Casablanca).
The goal of this orientation trip was to extend international networks and contacts, and to stimulate the international dialogue between art and design professionals. With this initiative, the organizations want to contribute to a quality intercultural dialogue, stimulating future exchanges between cultural institutions and individuals in different countries. A select number of institutions, galleries and museums were visited in the cities mentioned above.
The trip also included visits to existing partners and contacts of the Prince Claus Fund, such as the National Museum of Mali and Centre de la Bande Dessinée in Bamako, Festival sur le Niger in Segou, Oumou Sy and Jant-Bi in Dakar and Zhor Raïs in Casablanca. A blog was written by various participants of the trip and is found here.
The group consisted of 18 Dutch and international art and design professionals. The Prince Claus Fund invited the following persons:
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