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GLOBAL CULTURE
CALENDAR
BY VIVIANA MAZZA AND CHOIRE
SICHA
THE COLORS GUIDE TO
ESSENTIAL AND NONESSENTIAL
GLOBAL CULTURE
JUNE
JULY
AUGUST
To submit an event listing, please e-mail calendar@colorsmag.com |
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USA |
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11 – 24 JUNE
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL
NEW YORK CITY
WWW.HRW.ORG/IFF
It’s been called “the cinematic conscience of the world” (byThe New York Times) for good reason: the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival shows more than 15 fictional, documentary, and animated films and videos that take an unflinching look at human-rights issues around the globe. But that doesn’t mean the festival is all somber: in 2003, the top award—the Nestor Almendros prize for courage in filmmaking—went to the director of a romantic film (Hany Abu-Assad, whose Rana’s Wedding tells the story of a Palestinian woman |
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AUSTRALIA |
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11 – 26 JUNE
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL
SYDNEY
WWW.SYDNEYFILMFESTIVAL.ORG
Last year’s Sydney Film Festival was rocked when the US director Larry Clark’s controversial Ken Park was banned. (Sydney police confiscated a print of the film.) The local constabulary aside, this festival, now in its 50th year, is known for an adventurous mix of international documentary, short, and feature films. |
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SPAIN |
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11 JUNE – 30 SEPTEMBER
MANIFESTA 5
DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIÁN
WWW.MANIFESTA.ORG
The Basque Country spans Spain and France and comprises seven provinces; given the enormous cultural and political gulf that exists between the Basque Country and Spain, the location of the itinerant European art biennale Manifesta in the Basque Country’s Donostia-San Sebastián is a political statement in itself. The previous edition—Manifesta 4, in Frankfurt—featured video art and installations over traditional media like painting and sculpture. Expect the unexpected from this year’s show. |
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SWITZERLAND |
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16 – 21 JUNE
ART BASEL 35
LISTE AND BASEL
WWW.ARTBASEL.COM
WWW.LISTE.CH
Art Basel is the big daddy of contemporary art fairs. For six days, dealers from 270 international galleries colonize Basel, an otherwise sleepy city nestled near the borders of Germany and France. While a bit overwhelming because of its size, this fair is among the more elegant destinations on the international art scene, particularly in comparison to other large, trade-show-like international fairs such as Art Chicago. And the often lavish, eclectic parties in Basel— sponsored by gallerists, collectors, and other art-world impresarios—are exceptional.
Liste, an alternative fair, runs concurrently with Art Basel |
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FINLAND |
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16 – 20 JUNE
MIDNIGHT SUN FILM FESTIVAL
SODANKYLÄ
WWW.MSFILMFESTIVAL.FI
Sunglasses required: in Finnish Lapland, 120 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, the sun doesn’t bother to set during the month of June. The vodka is poured regardless of the hour, contributing nicely to the disorientation inherent to this festival’s somewhat scattered artistic agenda: special guests in 2003 included the French post–New Wave, narrative-loving director Pascal Thomas and Irvin Kershner, director of Robocop 2, which should give you a sense of the odd comminglings possible here. You can do the festival on the cheap—10 euros for a bed in the hostel—if you bring your own sleeping bag. |
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SPAIN |
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17 – 19 JUNE
SÓNAR
BARCELONA
WWW.SONAR.ES
Sónar, a tripped-out multimedia festival of “advanced music”—electronica and dance—brings nationally and internationally prominent DJs and musicians into town for more than 300 activities, including DJ sets, cinema exhibitions, and museum installations. |
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GREECE |
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23 – 30 JUNE
HELLAS DANCE COMPETITION
PIRAEUS
WWW.HELLASDANCE.CJB.NET
Just three years old, the Hellas Dance Competition is already a Greek cultural institution in part because of its stately venue, the historic Veakion Municipal Amphitheatre. With a focus on ballet, modern, folk, and
jazz dance, the competition is a forum for Greek dance schools to show off their finest, but it’s the amateur divisions and seminars (taught by competition judges) that give the event a charming, small-town feel.
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ITALY |
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10 MARCH – 27 JUNE
A CACCIA IN PARADISO, ARTE DI CORTE NELLA PERSIA DEL CINQUECENTO, 1501–1576
MILANO
WWW.MUSEOPOLDIPEZZOLI.IT
This spectacular exhibition at the Museo Poldi Pezzoli is the first comprehensive
international exhibition from the so-called Golden Age of Persian art, highlighting works—most notably miniature paintings, book arts, ceramics, textiles, and metalwork— produced in 16th-century Iran.
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ZANZIBAR |
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25 JUNE – 4 JULY
FESTIVAL OF THE DHOW COUNTRIES
STONE TOWN
WWW.ZANZIBAR.ORG/ZIFF/FESTIVAL/
FESTIVAL.HTM
The largest annual cultural event in East Africa, the Festival of the Dhow Countries celebrates the cultures and arts of the African Continent, the Gulf States, Iran, India, Pakistan, and islands of the Indian Ocean. Last year’s music festival component included Unguja MCs rapping in Swahili, the Indian classical musician Avijit Ghosh, and Zanzibar’s Culture Music Club, which is dedicated to preserving taarab music, a particularly exuberant form of indigenous drum-based music (“taarab” is derived from the word “tariba,” which means “to be moved or agitated”). |
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