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Prince Claus Laureates awarded for their work
Every year the Prince Claus Fund honours individuals, groups and organisations for their outstanding achievements in the field of culture and development through the Prince Claus Awards programme. This year, a number of the Fund’s laureates have been praised for their work elsewhere.
Kenneth Yeang
A team led by architect Kenneth Yeang of T R Hamzah & Yeang International was awarded with the Holcim Award (Bronze), an award presented to sustainable construction projects with visions from Asia Pacific region. The award-winning building brings together state-of-the-art technologies appropriate for high-quality use in two interconnected towers that use vegetation to actively reduce energy consumption, provide solar shading, and create comfortable spaces considering all requirements of utilization.
In 1999 Kenneth Yeang (1948, Malaysia) was honoured with the Prince Claus Award for his architecture in which he uses avant-garde technology in order to build an artificial environment within which he provides natural lighting and air circulation and in which he collects rainwater and generates solar energy. His buildings are to a large extent self-sufficient and thus present a new solution to modern-day ecological problems.
Ferreira Gullar
In December 2011 Ferreira Gullar was one of the winners of the 53rd Prêmio Jabuti. The Prêmio Jabuti, or the Jabuti Books of the Year Award, is perhaps the most prestigious and important award in the Brazilian publishing industry. Gullar took home Fiction Book of the Year for Em alguma parte alguma (publisher José Olympio).
In 2002 Ferreira Gullar (1930, Brazil) was honoured with the Prince Claus Award for his use of literary talents for the benefit of popular culture. In so doing he improved the quality of narrative on Brazilian television. Although Gullar is primarily a poet, he has also employed his sense of cultural and social commitment as an author, playwright, essayist, art critic and activist.
Mathare Youth Sports Association
The Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) was presented with the Beyond Sport Award 2011. On its 25th anniversary the MYSA was awarded for using sports to engender broad socio-economic development in Kenya, while also effecting positive social change by linking sports with social improvement and community development activities such as slum garbage cleanups, environmental improvement and HIV/AIDs prevention.
In 2003 the MYSA was honoured with the Prince Claus Award for using the universal language of football - combining the enthusiam, enjoyment, ethos and discipline of sporting skills - to empower youth from one of Africa’s largest and poorest slums. Since its start over 20 years ago, MYSA has over 14,000 boys and girls as members, participating in hundreds of teams that now play successfully in local and international leagues.
Yoani Sánchez and Mehrdad Oskouei
Two of the 2010 Prince Claus Laureates have received recognition for their work. Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has been named by the Washington-based Foreign Policy magazine as one of its “Top 100 Global Thinkers” for her posts on life on the island, “from Raúl Castro’s latest pronouncements to the taste of mangoes.” Click here for the full article.
Mehrdad Oskoui has received the Blackberry IDFA DOC U Award during the 24th edition of IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) 2011. His documentary, The Last Days of Winter, is a portrait of seven Iranian boys in a youth detention center, who talk candidly about their lives. Click here for the full article.
"Prince Claus Laureates are celebrated internationally"
Les Prix Prince Claus
view programmeLes Prix Prince Claus sont décernés chaque année à des personnes, des groupes et des organisations, plus particulièrement en Afrique, en Asie, en Amérique latine et dans les Caraïbes, pour leurs prestations exceptionnelles dans le domaine de la culture et du développement, et pour les effets positifs de leur travail sur leur environnement immédiat et sur la société dans son ensemble. La qualité du travail est une condition sine qua non pour recevoir un Prix. La Fondation Prince Claus décerne tous les ans un Grand Prix Prince Claus de 100 000 euros et dix Prix de 25 000 euros chacun. Le Grand Prix est remis au lauréat en présence des membres de la famille royale et devant un public important venu des Pays-Bas et de l’étranger. Les dix autres Prix sont remis aux lauréats par l’ambassadeur des Pays-Bas dans le pays où ils résident.
Kenneth Yeang
Kenneth Yeang conceived the 'green skyscraper'. In his architecture he uses avant-garde technology in order to build an artificial environment within which he provides natural lighting and air circulation and in which he collects rainwater and generates solar energy. His buildings are to a large extent self-sufficient and thus present a new solution to modern-day ecological problems.
Ferreira Gullar
Ferreira Gullar uses his literary talents for the benefit of popular culture: following his return to Brazil from exile in Argentina and Chile, he started writing for TV soap operas. Although Gullar is primarily a poet, he has also employed his sense of cultural and social commitment as an author, playwright, essayist, art critic and activist.
Mathare Youth Sports Association
Since 1987, MYSA has pioneered many innovations in youth sports, environmental improvement and community development. The MYSA football league, with over 1000 teams from Mathare and the engulfing slums of Nairobi, does more than simply keep the kids physically fit and off the street; every weekend, 25-30 teams from MYSA clear the garbage and ditches around their homes. In August 1997, the Shootback Photography Programme was introduced not only to strengthen co-operative relationships between MYSA youth as well as offer a vocational outlet for their creative energies but also to be a medium of expression on their likes and dislikes in the slums. In 2003 MYSA received a Prince Claus Award from which the relation developed. By connecting the MYSA Academy to the Prince Claus Fund’s network, both envisage a broadening of chances to reach out to similar projects in neighboring African countries and to make their knowledge and network available for cultural development. MYSA has already links with refugee camps and beyond having the capacity to extend its activities and links into zones of silence and crucial areas of migration. The reach of the MYSA network into these areas is of importance for the Prince Claus Fund. Just as football, a cultural activity in its own right, has been used as a tool for encouraging co-operation, raising self esteem and promoting physical and environmental health in the Mathare community, video productions and photography by and for the youth themselves has been a powerful developmental, educational and vocational tool. Cultural activities are planned to run parallel to the sporting activities. Period MYSA, Network Partner from 15 April 2005 to 14 April 2008. They receive an amount of 174.800 Euros for this period of three years.
Yoani Sánchez
2010 Prince Claus Laureate Yoani Sánchez (1975, Havana) is a leading figure in the use of social networking technologies to breach imposed frontiers. A graduate in philology, she is now dedicated to computer sciences and their capacity to alter perceptions and generate social change. She works as a webmaster, columnist and editor for Desde Cuba, an online news portal. Determined to promote freedom of information and to speak out regardless of danger, in 2007, Yoani Sánchez set up a blog, Generation Y. Her regular posts offer punchy accounts of the day-to-day environment. Avoiding direct criticism and global politics, her blog provides subjective insights into the practical difficulties people face. Emphasising the vital importance of material autonomy for any form of active citizenship, her subjects include unaffordable food, shortage of proteins and vegetables, the turgid proceedings of parliament and the lack of meaningful reforms. Sánchez operates in a context of strict control and censorship, working clandestinely, under threat of arrest. Local access to internet is limited and filters set up by the authorities slow and block connection to Generation Y. Local supporters circulate her writings in emails and USB memories, and volunteers translate her Spanish reports into 22 languages. Generation Y’s growth has been exponential. It is now one of the most-followed blogs in cyberspace, and a compilation has been published as Cuba Libre. Yoani Sánchez is awarded for raising global awareness of daily Cuban realities through her blog, for her inspiring and courageous example in giving a voice to the silenced, and for demonstrating the immense impact internet communications technologies can have as tools for social change and development.
Mehrdad Oskouei
2010 Prince Claus Laureate Independent filmmaker Mehrdad Oskouei (Tehran, 1969) penetrates subaltern segments of Iranian society to give voice to unknown perspectives, challenge preconceptions and offer unique readings of people’s lives and experiences. Graduating from Tehran’s University of Arts, he started in theatre and short fiction films before turning towards realistic reporting. He has developed a hybrid cinematic language that combines documentary, poetic and dramatic sensibilities, enabling him to convey the multiple layers of reality. Oskouei’s personal concern and commitment to the people he films creates trust, which is the vital spark in his works. In The Other Side of the Burka (2004), an investigation of high female suicide rates in a patriarchal enclave in southern Iran, he achieves an unprecedented degree of openness. The women tell their own stories, describe their suffering and discuss their situation with honesty and clarity in close-up face-to-face interviews; documentary facts ¬of the women’s rooms, work, routines and the community rituals enacted to deal with symptoms are interwoven with evocative metaphors and moments of psychological pain, the glimpse of a shoulder, the corpse beneath the burial cloth. His 24 films offer in-depth encounters with orphans, widowers and juvenile delinquents, and examine Iranian experience of broken homes, rhinoplasty and urban youth cultures. Passionate about the role of film in social development, Oskouei founded the Short Film Society and runs workshops to stimulate young filmmakers. Mehrdad Oskouei is honoured for his moving, informative and evocative films, for his honest engagement with his subjects and his commitment to accurately representing their concerns, and for working in difficult contexts to break down prejudice and generate social justice.
Prince Claus Laureates awarded for their worktitle
Every year the Prince Claus Fund honours individuals, groups and organisations for their outstanding achievements in the field of culture and development through the Prince Claus Awards programme. This year, a number of the Fund’s laureates have been praised for their work elsewhere.
Kenneth Yeang
A team led by architect Kenneth Yeang of T R Hamzah & Yeang International was awarded with the Holcim Award (Bronze), an award presented to sustainable construction projects with visions from Asia Pacific region. The award-winning building brings together state-of-the-art technologies appropriate for high-quality use in two interconnected towers that use vegetation to actively reduce energy consumption, provide solar shading, and create comfortable spaces considering all requirements of utilization.
In 1999 Kenneth Yeang (1948, Malaysia) was honoured with the Prince Claus Award for his architecture in which he uses avant-garde technology in order to build an artificial environment within which he provides natural lighting and air circulation and in which he collects rainwater and generates solar energy. His buildings are to a large extent self-sufficient and thus present a new solution to modern-day ecological problems.
Ferreira Gullar
In December 2011 Ferreira Gullar was one of the winners of the 53rd Prêmio Jabuti. The Prêmio Jabuti, or the Jabuti Books of the Year Award, is perhaps the most prestigious and important award in the Brazilian publishing industry. Gullar took home Fiction Book of the Year for Em alguma parte alguma (publisher José Olympio).
In 2002 Ferreira Gullar (1930, Brazil) was honoured with the Prince Claus Award for his use of literary talents for the benefit of popular culture. In so doing he improved the quality of narrative on Brazilian television. Although Gullar is primarily a poet, he has also employed his sense of cultural and social commitment as an author, playwright, essayist, art critic and activist.
Mathare Youth Sports Association
The Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) was presented with the Beyond Sport Award 2011. On its 25th anniversary the MYSA was awarded for using sports to engender broad socio-economic development in Kenya, while also effecting positive social change by linking sports with social improvement and community development activities such as slum garbage cleanups, environmental improvement and HIV/AIDs prevention.
In 2003 the MYSA was honoured with the Prince Claus Award for using the universal language of football - combining the enthusiam, enjoyment, ethos and discipline of sporting skills - to empower youth from one of Africa’s largest and poorest slums. Since its start over 20 years ago, MYSA has over 14,000 boys and girls as members, participating in hundreds of teams that now play successfully in local and international leagues.
Yoani Sánchez and Mehrdad Oskouei
Two of the 2010 Prince Claus Laureates have received recognition for their work. Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has been named by the Washington-based Foreign Policy magazine as one of its “Top 100 Global Thinkers” for her posts on life on the island, “from Raúl Castro’s latest pronouncements to the taste of mangoes.” Click here for the full article.
Mehrdad Oskoui has received the Blackberry IDFA DOC U Award during the 24th edition of IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) 2011. His documentary, The Last Days of Winter, is a portrait of seven Iranian boys in a youth detention center, who talk candidly about their lives. Click here for the full article.
Prince Claus Laureates awarded for their worktitle
Every year the Prince Claus Fund honours individuals, groups and organisations for their outstanding achievements in the field of culture and development through the Prince Claus Awards programme. This year, a number of the Fund’s laureates have been praised for their work elsewhere.
Kenneth Yeang
A team led by architect Kenneth Yeang of T R Hamzah & Yeang International was awarded with the Holcim Award (Bronze), an award presented to sustainable construction projects with visions from Asia Pacific region. The award-winning building brings together state-of-the-art technologies appropriate for high-quality use in two interconnected towers that use vegetation to actively reduce energy consumption, provide solar shading, and create comfortable spaces considering all requirements of utilization.
In 1999 Kenneth Yeang (1948, Malaysia) was honoured with the Prince Claus Award for his architecture in which he uses avant-garde technology in order to build an artificial environment within which he provides natural lighting and air circulation and in which he collects rainwater and generates solar energy. His buildings are to a large extent self-sufficient and thus present a new solution to modern-day ecological problems.
Ferreira Gullar
In December 2011 Ferreira Gullar was one of the winners of the 53rd Prêmio Jabuti. The Prêmio Jabuti, or the Jabuti Books of the Year Award, is perhaps the most prestigious and important award in the Brazilian publishing industry. Gullar took home Fiction Book of the Year for Em alguma parte alguma (publisher José Olympio).
In 2002 Ferreira Gullar (1930, Brazil) was honoured with the Prince Claus Award for his use of literary talents for the benefit of popular culture. In so doing he improved the quality of narrative on Brazilian television. Although Gullar is primarily a poet, he has also employed his sense of cultural and social commitment as an author, playwright, essayist, art critic and activist.
Mathare Youth Sports Association
The Mathare Youth Sports Association (MYSA) was presented with the Beyond Sport Award 2011. On its 25th anniversary the MYSA was awarded for using sports to engender broad socio-economic development in Kenya, while also effecting positive social change by linking sports with social improvement and community development activities such as slum garbage cleanups, environmental improvement and HIV/AIDs prevention.
In 2003 the MYSA was honoured with the Prince Claus Award for using the universal language of football - combining the enthusiam, enjoyment, ethos and discipline of sporting skills - to empower youth from one of Africa’s largest and poorest slums. Since its start over 20 years ago, MYSA has over 14,000 boys and girls as members, participating in hundreds of teams that now play successfully in local and international leagues.
Yoani Sánchez and Mehrdad Oskouei
Two of the 2010 Prince Claus Laureates have received recognition for their work. Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez has been named by the Washington-based Foreign Policy magazine as one of its “Top 100 Global Thinkers” for her posts on life on the island, “from Raúl Castro’s latest pronouncements to the taste of mangoes.” Click here for the full article.
Mehrdad Oskoui has received the Blackberry IDFA DOC U Award during the 24th edition of IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) 2011. His documentary, The Last Days of Winter, is a portrait of seven Iranian boys in a youth detention center, who talk candidly about their lives. Click here for the full article.
