Newsletter Pro Helvetia New Delhi 0310

As the winner of the ART India, and the Visual Arts Gallery, India Habitat Centre’s Promising Artist Award 2008, Ashish Ghosh was awarded an opportunity to avail a residency in Switzerland, to commemorate 60 years of Indo-Swiss friendship by Pro Helvetia- Swiss Arts Council. Pro Helvetia takes this opportunity to congratulate Ashish who is currently at iaab, Basel on his residency.

To continue in its work in the field of literature and sustain previously developed networks with writers and publishers from the region, Pro Helvetia is participating in Jumpstart 2010 being organised by the German Book Office.

Through partnerships and collaborations Pro Helvetia helps create conditions that allow arts professionals and cultural practitioners to explore and address other cultures and to achieve creative development.

Pro Helvetia New Delhi

Swiss illustrator Pierre Thomé to conduct workshops in Delhi and Ahmedabad
Swiss illustrator Pierre Thomé, Head, Illustration, Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst will be visiting India to represent Switzerland at Jumpstart 2010 as well as to conduct workshops at Jamia Millia Islamia and National Institute of Design. More

Martial Knaebel invited to participate in Imaging Asia
Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (NETPAC) is holding Imaging Asia which includes an International conference, a thirty film festival, pre cinema performances and story tellers' art coupled with an exhibition brought to life by the Asian Heritage Foundation. NETPAC has invited Martial Knaebel who was the Director of the Fribourg International Film Festival, to paticipate. More

An adaptation of 'The Visit' by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt to be staged at The Hindu Theatre Festival 2010
Pro Helvetia New Delhi and The Hindu, along with other partners present an adaptation of the tragicomedy 'The Visit' by Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Miss Meena is directed by Rajiv Krishnan and will be staged at The Hindu Metroplus Festival, 2010 on Saturday, 7 August 2010. More

NOW ONLINE - New Media Journal
India Habitat Centre's Arts Journal 2009 on New Media, with essays by Swiss and Indian leading theorists on New Media and co-edited by Dr Alka Pande, Consultant Art Advisor and Curator at the Visual Arts Gallery and media theorist Dr. Nils Roeller, Professor for Media and Cultural Theory at the University of the Arts, Zürich, can now be accessed online. More

City Scribes
Foreign eyes, personal impressions. Swiss and Argentinean writers swap cities. From May to October 2010 each one reports individually from the other’s country for a period of four weeks. More

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Editorial: Pro Helvetia New Delhi, Communications / Sangeeta Rana srana@prohelvetia.in

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