[artinfo] Arts & Civil Society Program of Erste Bank in Central Europe

[newsletter at kontakt.erstebankgroup.net]

Newsletter 01 / 2004
http://www.kontakt.erstebankgroup.net

Kontakt.
The Arts and Civil Society Program of Erste Bank Group in Central Europe.

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This is the monthly newsletter of "Kontakt. The Arts and Civil 
Society Program of Erste Bank Group in Central Europe." With this 
newsletter we want to inform you on arts, sciences and social issues 
in Central Europe. We sent it to you because we hope you will enjoy
being in Kontakt with us. If you do not want to be receive this 
newsletter list please .....

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On April 23rd Erste Bank presented "Kontakt. The Arts and Civil 
Society Program of Erste Bank Group in Central Europe" in the venues 
of its partner-institution Secession in Vienna.
Kontakt seeks to give fresh impetus for new strategies in 
cross-border cooperation and invites individuals, institutions and 
organizations to work in joint independent initiatives. In this way a 
socio-cultural network alongside the business network of the Erste 
Bank Group is established which contributes much to mutual success 
and to mutual understanding in the region.

With Kontakt, Erste Bank Group is pursuing the following substantive 
priorities:
- Making Transformation Socially Compatible
- Support for Education and Research
- Promotion of Cultural Infrastructure and Cooperation
- Enabling Independent Creative Strategies

The central communications tool for and operated by Kontakt is the 
website www.kontakt.erstebankgroup.net. Along with a database 
covering the cultural, educational and social projects of the entire 
Erste Bank Group, an electronic magazine and a calendar of events 
provide constantly updated and relevant information from and on 
Central Europe. In our workshops, we illuminate issues of work, and 
life in general, of long-term concern to us from different 
standpoints employing a variety of esthetic strategies.

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Get in kontakt and read the first edition of our Magazine!

Top Story
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"An Eclipsed People"
Not all Roma pillage supermarkets, are illiterates and vegetate in slums.

http://www.kontakt.erstebankgroup.net/magazines/issue1/stories/die_unsichtbaren/?language=en


Interview
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"We and the others"
Europeanization and the search for identity - an interview with the 
ethnologist Bernhard Tschofen.

http://www.kontakt.erstebankgroup.net/magazines/issue1/stories/tschofen/?language=en


Talk
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"We're currently in a very decisive phase for private sector arts sponsorship."
Boris Marte (Erste Bank) in conversation with Matthias Herrmann (Secession)

http://www.kontakt.erstebankgroup.net/magazines/issue1/stories/marte_hermann/?language=en


Interview
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Pointing the camera eastwards: Tracking down cutting-edge cinema 
Alexander Horwath, Director of the Vienna Film Museum, on 
discrepancies between the mandate on documentation and the general 
hype on Eastern Europe.

http://www.kontakt.erstebankgroup.net/magazines/issue1/stories/horwath_interview/?language=en


And read more about film, music, art and artists in central Europe.
Get in Kontakt!

http://www.kontakt.erstebankgroup.net

Kontakt.
The Arts and Civil Society Program of Erste Bank Group in Central Europe.