13 octobre 2006
12 octobre 2006
Dance & arts: David Hockney's portraits in London
The National Portrait Gallery (Wolfson and Ground Floor Galleries) exhibits a retrospective of David Hockney's (one of my favourite painters) portraits until 21 January 2007.
"Produced in close collaboration with the artist, this is the first exhibition devoted to David Hockney's portraits spanning over fifty years. This celebrated artist has been engaged with portraiture since his teenage years. Self-portraits and portraits of family, lovers, friends and well-known subjects represent an intimate visual diary of his life and artistic preoccupations."
Cinema: Brussels - Festival of new British cinema
"2005 saw the third image a nation festival take up residence in Brussels’ BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, where audiences were treated to eight new independent UK films never before screened in Belgium. Five of these were debut features, made by and featuring a new generation of UK trailblazers, while the likes of Yes, directed by Sally Potter, and festival opener Separate Lies, starring Emily Watson and Tom Wilkinson and directed by Oscar-winner Julian Fellowes, boasted the cream of established UK talent.
In 2006 the festival image a nation will continue to reside at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, who will work in partnership with the British Council on this year's festival.
In 2006 the festival image a nation will continue to reside at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, who will work in partnership with the British Council on this year's festival.
image a nation 06 will take place from 24 to 30 October at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, 23 rue Ravensteinstraat, 1000 Brussels.
Citizenship: violence against homosexuals
(EN)
A homosexual is murdered every two days in Latin America due to his sexual orientation, specially in Brazil, Mexico and Peru, according to a report presented in Barcelona by the director of the International Gays and Lesbians Association (IGLA), Stephens Barris, as reported by Spanish newspaper El Pais. Also, in 32 countries, artificial insemination is prohibited to lesbians or reserved to married women, with the permission of the husband. In addition to the social persecution which they suffer in some places, homosexuals continue being punished by their sexual orientation in 86 countries and capital punishment to homosexuals is still applied in Tchechnia, Sudan, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Iran and in some zones of Nigeria and Somalia.
(ES)
Segun informa El Pais, "Un homosexual es asesinado cada dos días en América Latina, según un informeAdemás, en 32 países la inseminación asistida está prohibida a las lesbianas o reservada a mujeres casadas con el permiso del marido."
A homosexual is murdered every two days in Latin America due to his sexual orientation, specially in Brazil, Mexico and Peru, according to a report presented in Barcelona by the director of the International Gays and Lesbians Association (IGLA), Stephens Barris, as reported by Spanish newspaper El Pais. Also, in 32 countries, artificial insemination is prohibited to lesbians or reserved to married women, with the permission of the husband. In addition to the social persecution which they suffer in some places, homosexuals continue being punished by their sexual orientation in 86 countries and capital punishment to homosexuals is still applied in Tchechnia, Sudan, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Iran and in some zones of Nigeria and Somalia.
(ES)
Segun informa El Pais, "Un homosexual es asesinado cada dos días en América Latina, según un informeAdemás, en 32 países la inseminación asistida está prohibida a las lesbianas o reservada a mujeres casadas con el permiso del marido."
Citizenship: the UN reports on violence against women
On 10 October 2006, painting a grim picture of the extent of violence against women in all parts of the world, senior United Nations officials urged everyone to fully support Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s recent in-depth study on the problem, which lays out legislative and other recommendations to combat the scourge.
One out of three women is a victim of violence at least once in their life, according to the UN's report published yesterday and which is a world-wide phenomenon. The surveys carried out in 71 countries indicate that an important % of women are victims of physical violence, psychological or sexual abus. The report says that physical violence is mostly inflicted by the sexual partner. It indicates that the death of women is many times marked by sexual violence. It is estimated thatbetween 40 and 70% of the women deceased in Australia, Canada, Israel, South Africa and the United States are murdered by the husband or friend. In Colombia, in average, every week a woman is killed by her husband or ex-husband. Hundreds of women have been kidnapped, raped and murdered in the city of Juarez, in the north of Mexico. The report equally makes reference to the genital mutilations suffered by some 130 million girls in the world, mainly in the African continent. Violence on women has sometimes a sexual character in times of armed conflicts and the UN estimates that during the genocide in Ruanda, in 1994, between 250,000 and 500,000 women were violated and between 20,000 and 50,000 other women suffered the same during the conflict in Bosnia, in the beginning of the nineties.
“Violence against women as the report says is not a characteristic of some countries… it’s really a global problem that has to be addressed. According to the quantitative estimates, which certainly underestimate the amount of violence that occurs, at least one out of three women experienced violence at some stage in their lives,” said Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs José Antonio Ocampo at a joint press conference in New York.
read further:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20205&Cr=women&Cr1=violence
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N06/419/74/PDF/N0641974.pdf?OpenElement
One out of three women is a victim of violence at least once in their life, according to the UN's report published yesterday and which is a world-wide phenomenon. The surveys carried out in 71 countries indicate that an important % of women are victims of physical violence, psychological or sexual abus. The report says that physical violence is mostly inflicted by the sexual partner. It indicates that the death of women is many times marked by sexual violence. It is estimated thatbetween 40 and 70% of the women deceased in Australia, Canada, Israel, South Africa and the United States are murdered by the husband or friend. In Colombia, in average, every week a woman is killed by her husband or ex-husband. Hundreds of women have been kidnapped, raped and murdered in the city of Juarez, in the north of Mexico. The report equally makes reference to the genital mutilations suffered by some 130 million girls in the world, mainly in the African continent. Violence on women has sometimes a sexual character in times of armed conflicts and the UN estimates that during the genocide in Ruanda, in 1994, between 250,000 and 500,000 women were violated and between 20,000 and 50,000 other women suffered the same during the conflict in Bosnia, in the beginning of the nineties.
“Violence against women as the report says is not a characteristic of some countries… it’s really a global problem that has to be addressed. According to the quantitative estimates, which certainly underestimate the amount of violence that occurs, at least one out of three women experienced violence at some stage in their lives,” said Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs José Antonio Ocampo at a joint press conference in New York.
read further:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20205&Cr=women&Cr1=violence
http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N06/419/74/PDF/N0641974.pdf?OpenElement
11 octobre 2006
Music: 8 years of Lux
Lisbon's best club will soon celebrate 8 years of nightlife & partying. As "Footprintguides" describes it, "Excruciatingly cool Lux is the epitome of Lisbon style". Lux is a bar-lounge-club, the brainchild of Lisbon's nightlife guru (and not only, he also owns restaurant Bica do Sapato) Manuel Reis. It is also said that it is partly owned by Hollywood actor John Malkovich. In any case, if you are able to make it past the selective but cool doormen (and women) you will enjoy Lisbon's hippest club and some say one of Europe's most fashionable, having attracted visiting stars like Cameron Diaz, Prince and Madonna. It has a spacious interior decorated with funky and retro furniture - the first lounge floor has funky 1960s and 1970s furniture and plays an eclectic rock and pop mix. Downstairs, from 0200 the young fashion crowd dance to excellent music ranging from house to electro, funk & hip hop delivered by top-class DJs like Rui Vargas, Yen Sung and DJ Vibe. Best of all is the cool balcony in the lounge floor overlooking the river and the breezy cocktail terrace with beautiful views. If you have the chance, don't miss the sunrise.Each year in November Lux throws its yearly anniversary party which is one of the best nightlife events in Lisbon, they say. Lux organises many great parties (such as New Year's party - I remember a great masks-party a couple of years ago) with great DJs and regular invites guest DJs and musicians for live sets, coming to perform from all over Europe (and beyond).
Lux
Avenida Infante D. Henrique - Santa Apolonia - Lisbon
Telephone: +351 218 820 890
opening hours: M- Sat 6pm-7am
http://www.luxfragil.com/index.php?l=pt
http://www.worldsbestbars.com/city/lisbon/lux-lisbon.htm
[PT]
Escreve Eduardo Prado Coelho no Publico:
"É um lugar já mítico da vida portuguesa, sobretudo lisboeta, mas mencionado com frequência nas revistas e guias internacionais. E é algo que se deve a essa personagem extraordinária que transformou as noites portuguesas, e estou-me a referir a Manuel Reis. Parece que John Malkovitch anda por dentro de algumas destas iniciativas, em particular a Bica do Sapato e o Lux - mas isso é sobretudo uma razão de frisson para as mulheres portuguesas. Por mim, trata-se fundamentalmente de um actor extraordinário, capaz de imensas transfigurações, e que se terá apaixonado por Portugal.O Lux festeja agora o 8.º aniversário, embora venha na linha directa de um Frágil que hoje se desossificou. O convite é um modelo de invenção, de realização algo complexa. Traz um DVD com uma montagem de imagens de filmes de Fellini e Almodóvar (tema da noite)." (...)
Development: Intermón Oxfam analyses 50 years of development and disparities in the world
According to the Spanish non-governmental organization Intermon Oxfam, the number of poor people in the planet has diminished during the last 50 years, yet it has increased by 140 million in sub-Saharan Africa. In the coming years, one out of three youth in black Africa will not have an employment. The NGO is organizing an international conference in Madrid to promote the fight against poverty.
Read further:
http://www.intermonoxfam.org/page.asp?id=2005&ui=7807
http://www.oxfam.org/en/
Read further:
http://www.intermonoxfam.org/page.asp?id=2005&ui=7807
http://www.oxfam.org/en/
Citizenship: 10 October International day against capital punishment
According to Amnisty International, in 2005, 94% of the world’s 2.148 executions (in 22 countries) took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the USA. More than 20,000 people are still condemned to death throughout the world. These figures are however only approximate which is due to the secrecy linked to the death penalty. Many governments, such as China’s, refuse to publish official data about executions, Vietnam has even declared such statistics a secret of state.
On 30 November 1786, the Great Duchy of Tuscany (Italy) was the first territory to abolish the death penalty. In 1849, the Roman Republic (which didn't last long) became the first country to ban the capital punishment in its constitution. Venezuela abolished the death penalty in 1863 and Portugal did so in 1867 - for all crimes except military - however the last execution in Portugal had taken place in 1846. The ban was extended to all crimes in 1976. Many western countries only abolished it some years ago, in the seventies and eighties. In the United States, the state of Michigan was the first state to ban the death penalty, in 1847. The 160-year ban on capital punishment has never been repealed. Currently, 12 states of the U.S. and the District of Columbia ban capital punishment.
Nowadays capital punishment is no longer applied in the majority of countries: 88 countries have abolished it for all crimes. Eleven others reserve the right to apply it for exceptional crimes such as war crimes. To those 99 States, we can add 30 countries, considered by Amnesty International as "de facto abolitionists", since they have not applied capital punishment for ten years at least, even if it is still foreseen in their laws. One of those countries is Morocco where abolitionists are putting pressure to the government to chance the law – no execution has taken place there for 13 years. Since 1990, the abolitionist cause has progressed significantly, 40 countries having banned capital punishment.
At the same time, the use of the death penalty against child offenders –under 18 at the time of the crime – is clearly prohibited under international law, yet a handful of countries persist with child executions. Since January 1990 Amnesty International has documented 46 executions of child offenders in eight countries– the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the USA, China and Yemen. The USA carried out 19 executions – more than any other country. During the same period, several countries raised to 18 the minimum age for application of the death penalty, in accordance with international law. Yemen and Zimbabwe raised the minimum age to 18 in 1994, as did China in 1997 and Pakistan in 2000. One sad example is that of Napoleon Beazley, a boy who was executed in 2002 in Texas for a murder committed eight years earlier when he was 17 years old. At the trial the white prosecutor described him as an “animal” in front of the all-white jury. Witnesses at the trial cited his potential for rehabilitation. He was a model prisoner.
Read further:
10 octobre 2006
News | Nouveautés | Novidades !!!
News:
Now it's easier to read my blog & go straight to the posts, grouped by category: music, cinema, politics, citizenship, dance & arts, development, travel... click in a category of your choice on the right side of the blog.
... and now you'll also be able to listen to selected music, thanks to Tunefeed (check the bar on the right side of the blog)!
Nouveautés:
Maintenant c'est + facile de consulter mon blog, vous pouvez aller directement au thème de votre choix: musique, cinema, politique, citoyenneté, dance & arts, développement, voyages... faites "click" sur un thème de votre choix dans la partie droite du blog.
... et vous pouvez aussi écouter des musiques choisies, grâce à Tunefeed (voyez le 'box' sur le coté droit du blog)!
Novidades:
Agora fica mais fácil ler o meu blog e consultar os "posts", agrupados por temas: música, cinema, política, cidadania, dança & artes, desenvolvimento, viagens... basta clicar num tema (categoria) da tua escolha, na parte direita do blog.
... e agora também podes ouvir música seleccionada, graças a Tunefeed (ver a caixa na parte direita do blog)!
Now it's easier to read my blog & go straight to the posts, grouped by category: music, cinema, politics, citizenship, dance & arts, development, travel... click in a category of your choice on the right side of the blog.
... and now you'll also be able to listen to selected music, thanks to Tunefeed (check the bar on the right side of the blog)!
Nouveautés:
Maintenant c'est + facile de consulter mon blog, vous pouvez aller directement au thème de votre choix: musique, cinema, politique, citoyenneté, dance & arts, développement, voyages... faites "click" sur un thème de votre choix dans la partie droite du blog.
... et vous pouvez aussi écouter des musiques choisies, grâce à Tunefeed (voyez le 'box' sur le coté droit du blog)!
Novidades:
Agora fica mais fácil ler o meu blog e consultar os "posts", agrupados por temas: música, cinema, política, cidadania, dança & artes, desenvolvimento, viagens... basta clicar num tema (categoria) da tua escolha, na parte direita do blog.
... e agora também podes ouvir música seleccionada, graças a Tunefeed (ver a caixa na parte direita do blog)!
09 octobre 2006
Cinema: Festival d'Attac de Bruxelles
L’automne est la saison des festivals de cinéma, et voilà le FESTIVAL de CINEMA d’ATTAC qui a lieu à Bruxelles, pour la septième fois. Du 4 au 14 octobre 2006, au Botanique, une semaine de cinéma alternatif, qui dérange et qui pose des questions, de débats pour échanger des idées et pour se rencontrer et découvrir des alternatives au monde d'aujourd'hui.
08 octobre 2006
Music: the tracklist issue August/Sept/October
Albums of the month:
Charlotte Gainsbourg (5:55) – understated class and bonheur auditif
Fuckpony (Children of love) – revival electro new wave gay trash
In Flagranti (Wronger than anyone else) – fresh - electroclash – house from NY
Scissor Sisters (Ta-Dah) – even better than 1st cd, fresh re-start, glamour disco-funk
The Presets (Beams) – “spazzzdancefagrock”, dancefloor rock from Australia via Gigolo Münich
The Rapture (Pieces of the People we love) – great funk-rock from NY, and they’re excellent on stage!
Track of the month: Danton Eeprom - Les amants robotiques
Other tracks of the months:
CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy) - Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above
Derrick L. Carter, Dixon, Henrik Schwarz & Âme - Where We At (Version 1)
Ferry Corsten & Simon Le Bon – Fire
Fuckpony - Ride The Pony
Gnarls Barkley - Crazy (Richard Vission Remix)
Heidi vs. Riton - Vejer (Jesse Rose Remix)
In Flagranti - Reputation Or Notoriety ?
Jimpster - A Love Like This (Hipp-e Remix)
Junior Boys - In the Morning
Kaskade - Be Still (Extended)
Kudu - Bar Star (In Flagranti's Sleek City Mix)
Ladytron - Destroy Everything You Touch (Catholic Version)
Lily Allen – Smile
Linus Loves – Night music
Lo-Fi-Fnk - Wake Up (Justus Köhncke Remix)
Maral Salmassi – Love Forever
Marc Romboy & Tommie Sunshine - Body Jack (DJ Delicious Remix)
Mekon feat. Alan Vega & Boby Gillespie - Blood On the Moon (In Flagranti Remix)
Michael Mayer - Lovefood
Michoacan - michoacan Galactic
Mike Monday – Zum Zum
Peace Division & Pleasant Gehman - Blacklight Sleaze (Featuring Pleasant Gehman)
Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks (Punks Jump Up - Special Disco Mix)
Robbie Williams - Rudebox (Soul Mekanik Extended Mix)
Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin' (Erol Alkan's Carnival of Light Rework)
Sissy - Can't Save You
Spirit Catcher - Galactik Flies
Teki Latex - Disco Dance With You (Para One Remix)
Track 72 – Monument
Vitalic featuring Linda Lamb – Bells
Wonderland Avenue - White Horse (Frank J - Radio Edit)
Other suggestions of new Cds:
Alexkid (Caracol), Alias & Tarsier (Plane That Draws A White Line), Beck (The information), Box Codax - aka Nick Mccarthy of Franz Ferdinand (Only an orchard away), Brightblack Morning Light (Everybody Daylight), Cirkus feat. Neneh Cherry (Laylow), Collectors series pt.2 (Danse, gravité zéro by Kaos & Sal P.), Compil by Innervisions (Where we at), Compil “Shapes” by Truthoughts & Zebra traffic, Dani Siciliano (Slappers), Darkel - one of Air's 2 – (Darkel), Girl Monster (Girl Monster –various), Gswing (Swing for modern clubbing – various), Hypnolove (Eurolove), Junior Boys (So this is goodbye), Justin Timberlake (Futuresex/Lovesounds), Justine Electra (Soft rock), Klanguage feat. Yuksek (Klanguage), LatenightTales (mixed by Air), Marsmobil (Minx), Maximilian Hecker (I'll be a virgin, I'll be a mountain), Minerale (Shrines), Mixed by Gorge ( Elektromat, various), Novatunes 1.4 (compil Nova 1.4), Stijn (The world is happy now), The DFA remixes (Chapter 2), The Isles (Perfumed lands), The whitest boy alive, aka Erlend Oye (Dreams).
Still in my plates:
Boogybytes (Vol. 2 mixed by Sascha Funke), Cassius (15 again), El Perro del Mar (El Perro del Mar), Exit Music: songs with Radio Heads (various play Radioheads), Fujiya Miyagi (Transparent things), Juan Trip (Consolation), Lawrence (The night will last forever), Lotterboys (Animalia), Louderbach (Enemy love), Markus Guentner (Lovely society), Maximilian Hecker (Rose), Min2Max, compil by Minus, Namosh (Moccatongue), Permanent Vacation, compil., Peter von Poehl (Going to where the tea trees are), Peter, Bjorn & John (Writer's block), Psapp (The only thing I ever wanted), R. Dorfmeister vs Madrid de los Austrias (Grand Slam), Scsi-9 (The line of 9), Thom Yorke (The Eraser), Thomas Dybdahl (One day you'll dance for me, New york City), Total 7 – Kompakt compil, Zero 7 (The garden).
06 octobre 2006
Citizenship: Hungary celebrates 50 years of the Revolution
"Je ne suis pas de ceux qui souhaitent que le peuple hongrois prenne à nouveau les armes dans une insurrection vouée à l’écrasement, sous les yeux d’une société interntionale qui ne lui ménagera ni applaudissements, ni larmes vertueuses, mais qui retournera ensuite à ses pantoufles comme font les sportifs de gradins, le dimanche soir, après un match de coupe. (...) La Hongrie vaincue et enchaînée a plus fait pour la liberté et la justice qu’aucun peuple depuis vingt ans. Mais, pour que cette leçon atteigne et persuade en Occident ceux qui se bouchaient les oreilles et les yeux, il a fallu et nous ne pourrons nous en consoler, que le peuple hongrois versât à flots un sang qui sèche delà dans les mémoires." Albert Camus, 1957Hungary celebrates this October 2006, 50 years of the revolution against the communist regime (a revolt from 23 October to 10 November 1956). But on November 4, Soviet forces invaded, unleashed both artillery and airstrikes on Budapest, killed thousands of civilians, and had crushed all organised resistance by 10 November. An estimated 200,000 Hungarians fled as refugees. By January 1957 the new Soviet-sponsored regime had suppressed all public opposition.
To celebrate the revolt, from 11 to 17 October an hungarian film festival will take place at the Cinema Arenberg, presenting seven hungarian films. In parallel a special celebration will take place in the Grand Place in Brussels, on 14 October, from 17.00, with music, animation etc. At the Institut Culturel de l'Ambassade d'Hongie (10, rue Treurenberg, 1000 Bruxelles), a photo exhibition will also be shown, between 18/10 and 17/11.
read further:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution,_1956
Music: The Rapture, concert in Brussels
Propelled to the front scene by Tim Goldsworthy and James Murphy of the label DFA (previous Death From Above), The Rapture brought out a first great album in 2003, "Echoes" with hits like "House of Jealous lovers" or "I need your love". Influenced by groups such as Radio 4 or LCD Sound System, these New Yorkers created a very personal style, a particular mix of rock, electro, punk post and funk… the whole blessed with Luke Jenner's unique voice. Today, they come to Brussels to present their new album at the Botanique, "Pieces of the people we love", which just came out and which I consider to be even better than the first one. The concert is part of their world tour, which does not include Lisbon.
Cinema: "An Inconvenient Truth", par Davis Guggenheim
Avec Une vérité qui dérange, Davis Guggenheim (qui a fait "Urgences" et "24 heures chrono") signe un documentaire engagé qui va peut être bouleverser notre conception de l'environnement. À travers la présentation de données obtenues scientifiquement et d'images choc sur le réchauffement climatique se dévoilent le parcours personnel de l'ancien Vice-président des Etats-Unis - Al Gore, qui vient en personne introduire ce film et poursuivre à Bruxelles son nouveau grand combat contre l'effet de serre. Si Guggenheim ne nous épargne rien des conséquences apocalyptiques de notre mode de vie, il ne s'en délecte pas. Une vérité qui dérange prouve qu'il nous appartient encore de sauver notre avenir. Le film sera précédé d'un entretien avec Al Gore. Malheureusement, il ne restent plus de places...
Lisez:
http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=6812&
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497116/
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