Track the latest arts and cultural events in and between Asia and Europe.
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The World Crafts Council is organising a major World Craft Summit ‘Kaivalam’ alongside the 17th General Assembly of the World Crafts Council to be held in Chennai from 7th… Read More
A conference on European Audiences: 2020 and beyond is organised by the European Commission in Brussels 16-17 October. It will provide inspirational examples of audience development by cultural organisations… Read More
The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) will attend the upcoming Fifth ASEM Culture Ministers’ Meeting (ASEM CMM) on 18-19 September 2012 in Yogjakarta, Indonesia. Read More
Imagining Europe is a 4-day event in Amsterdam, the initiative of the European Cultural Foundation to debate some of the questions confronting contemporary Europe. For nearly 60 years the… Read More
Korea is invited as the country of honor at the Beijing International Book Fair 2012 in celebration of twenty years of diplomatic ties between China and Korea. A Korean… Read More
Asia’s biggest Salsa Festival and India’s biggest dance event with over 6000 attendees from across the India and the world. The 7th India International Salsa Congress takes place in… Read More
Amrita Performing Arts from Cambodia announces the upcoming European tour of Crack – a work of contemporary dance by German choreographer Arco Renz produced in collaboration with Kobalt Works… Read More
Performing Arts Market in Seoul (PAMS) on the theme ‘Creative Cooperation: Conception to Circulation’ takes place 8-12 October, with a special Central and Eastern Europe Focus session and showcase…. Read More
Arts on Location announces a 5 Days Intensive Khon (Thai Mask Dance Drama) Workshop from 17-21 December, 2012 at The College of Dramatic Arts, Bangkok, aimed at international performing… Read More
Ireland’s Pan Pan Theatre is touring Do Di Zhu (Fight the Landlord) to Melbourne and Darwin in August, after its successful presentations in China during the Shanghai World Expo…. Read More
Artsonje Center is pleased to present WANDERLUST: A Never Ending Journey to the Other Side of the Hill from June 23 to August 12. WANDERLUST is an exhibition project… Read More
A unique festival of Chinese traditional arts and contemporary popular culture in Hackney, on the doorstep of the London 2012 Olympics, features music, dance and drama. On August 9th… Read More
The Seductions of the Palate presents Chinese culinary traditions through a hundred objects mainly from the National Museum of China’s permanent collection, and complemented by a selection of works from the musée des Arts asiatiques Guimet. Read More
Registration open for Worlds Together conference – a collaboration between Tate Modern, Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and British Museum. It looks at the place for Shakespeare and… Read More
The Substation proudly presents the third edition of the HAO Summit – a professional development, mentorship and networking ‘retreat’ programme for young arts and cultural workers in Southeast Asia. The brainchild of The Substation’s former Associate Artist Khairuddin Hori, the first edition of HAO was presented in 2008 and the second edition in 2010. Read More
The organisers of the Gdansk Dance Conference have invited the Asia-Europe Foundation to give a virtual presentation of its arts and culture programmes encouraging cultural exchanges between Asia and Europe in dance. Read More
This exhibit pays tribute to Toshusai Sharaku, one of Japan’s great masters of ukiyo-e woodblock printing. The participation of contemporary graphic designers and visual artists, including Takashi Murakami, show the avant-garde quality and appeal of this unusual ukiyo-e artist and demonstrate the striking resonance between ukiyo-e, graphic design, and contemporary art. Read More
The ENCATC (European network on Cultural Management and Cultural Policy education) Annual Conference on the theme of ‘Networked Culture’ features sessions on creative industries, cultural diplomacy and networks. Registration… Read More
The ASEM Language Diversity Forum (ASEM LDF) will be organised on the 4-5 September 2012 in Jakarta, Indonesia. This will be the first ASEM meeting to gather scholars, experts… Read More
The Chinese European Art Center in Xiamen City, China presents an exhibition entitled Undying Home by the Greek artist Vangelis Legakis collaborating with the Chinese artist Lin Xiuqing. Vangelis… Read More
The Rencontres d’Arles is a summer photography festival founded in 1970. Its policy of programming almost exclusively new work has earned it a world-wide reputation. Les Rencontres d’Arles 2012… Read More
Hong Kong Book Fair 2012 takes place 18-24 July at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre under the theme ‘Reading the World | We Read Therefore We Know’…. Read More
Every two years the Centre for Fine Arts organises the Summer of Photography, an international biennale that focuses on photography and related media. Not only does the festival provide the opportunity to discover modern-day photography, it also looks forward to the future of the image in our culture. Read More
Action Parties is the brainchild of artist-curator Khairuddin Hori and was first held at The Substation in 2007. It’s a multi-disciplinary project that gives creative people a space to actualize their ideas over a specified duration, allowing them to use time as their medium. Back in Singapore for its third installment, this select group of creative heavy-hitters has turned a notch up on quirky. Read More
Academics and civil society experts from Asia and Europe will gather in Yogyakarta, Indonesia from the 12th to the 14th of July 2012, to discuss the growing importance of public-private partnerships in the management of heritage cities and historic urban landscapes. Read More
Over the two days of ‘All That is Banned is Desired’ – A World Conference on Artistic Freedom of Expression, artists, journalists, activists, scholars, curators and others will respond… Read More
The Korean Culture Centre in London is holding a 100-day Korean culture summer festival, All Eyes on Korea, a festival of literature, food, fashion, craft, music and film at venues across London in celebration of 2012. Read More
This year’s Crossroads international Festival of Traditional Music in Krakow, Poland, with the theme of ‘The Eastern Wind’, includes performers from India, as well as Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and… Read More
Thousands of music lovers travel across the globe to Sarawak every year in mid July to attend a unique world music festival, Rainforest World Music Festival, with performers from… Read More
Design Research Society (DRS): Bangkok 2012 is open to a variety of global perspectives on the theory, education and practice of design. This year’s informal theme is Re:Search: uncertainty, contradiction and value. It was chosen to encourage a distinctly contemporary exploration of issues facing international design and craft communities. Read More