Intercultural contacts theater, music, dance:







Arts Africa represents a foundation that started its early activities in September 2001. A group of theatre-artists and scholars visiting the Experimental Theatre festival in Cairo decided that more contact between East and West was necessary and urgent.









From that date projects were developed supporting these intercultural contacts
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A series of workshops for Egyptian and Dutch artists in Cairo supported by the Dutch Embassy in Cairo. Topics were: Arts –management , Acting-theories and practice, Music-theatre. After this, an exchange-program Egypt –The Netherlands was instituted between partners: Sawy Centre, Zamalek, Studio Emad Eldin, (Cairo) Frascati Theatre, Hogeschool Amsterdam Theater and Institute for Theatre Studies. This program ran from 2005-2007
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An Exchange-program between Sudan –The Netherlands starting after workshops and a conference in Khartoum Sudan, and now supported by the Dutch Embassy, Khartoum. The program started in March 2007 and is entering its second year. See below.
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An Exchange program between Uganda and The Netherlands using the same model as the other exchange-programs will start soon.





At the same time initiatives were taken for a series of Intercultural Conferences in the academic field: Philosophers, Arabists, Theatre-scholars.
1 Gent/Belgium, December 2003 :  Rereading Classics in East and West; Postcolonial Perspectives on the Tragic. (Proceedings published 2004)
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Tetouan, Morrocco, April 2005 : The Performance of the Comic in Arabic Theatre; Cultural Heritage, Western Models and Postcolonial Hybridity.
(Proceedings published in December 2005).
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Khartoum, Sudan, December 2005: Rituals and Ceremonies in Sudan; From Cultural Heritage to Theatre.
( Proceedings published in 2006)
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Khartoum, Sudan, December 2007: Performing Gender in Arabic/African Theatre
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A project on Comparative Drama-research in the Mediterranean Region will has started in October 2008 in Cairo, Egypt.
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