German Arts
European Capital of Culture: the Ruhr Celebrates
Smoking chimneys and mines, coal and steel: for many decades these were the symbols of the Ruhr, Germany's largest industrial belt. With 53 cities and around 5.3 million inhabitants, the third largest conurbation in Europe will be showing its new face as European Capital of Culture in 2010.
Amazonas Music Theatre: the sound of the climate
May 8-12, 2010, "Amazonas Music Theatre" was performed at the 12th Munich Biennale, the international festival for new music theatre. The show focused on a threatened environment - the Amazon Rainforest. Music theatre, media art, technology and science: the multimedia project has been developed together with the Yanomami people, one of Brazil's last great indigenous tribes.
Cultural and Creative Industries in Germany
The cultural and creative industries have evolved into a forward-looking sector with high growth and employment potential. Germany's creative economy now achieves almost the same gross domestic product as the car industry!
60th Berlin International Film Festival
The 60th birthday of the festival, which first saw the light of the film world in 1951, celebrates with 400 films.
German Digital Library
The German Digital Library (Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek or DDB) is planning a kind of Google Books of its own. Its ambitious goal is to make millions of books, films, images and audio recordings from every German museum and library accessible to online users.
- September 2010 to February 2011
YOUNG LEADERS FOR FUTURE CITIES - June to November 2010
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