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| Podcast title | Al Jazeera Arts World - Video
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| Description | As the world struggles with financial difficulties Artsworld, Al Jazeera's unique culture show, returns for a second series to add a splash of colour to the grey economic background. Presented by special local personalities who reveal their local culture and stories often overlooked elsewhere in the mainstream media. | |
| Updated | Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:46:11 +0000 | |
| Category | Arts |
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1. Amsterdam’s Arabic design network http://blip.tv/al-jazeera-arts... download (video/x-m4v, 133.65Mb) Description: Arstworld visits Amsterdam and meets members of an online network of designers working on collaborations between the Arab world and Europe. Plus we meet Jordan’s first professional dancer now teaching the next generation, visit a Spanish Flamenco enclave in Buenos Aires and meet up with New York’s “Poster Boy”, the city’s most prominent razorblade artist. |
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2. Kenya's Taxi Art http://blip.tv/al-jazeera-arts... download (video/x-m4v, 134.65Mb) Description: This week Artsworld comes from the Kenyan capital Nairobi where the city’s colourful “matatusâ€, or taxis, are central to the city’s culture. We explore the Portuguese fascination with Fado, meet a homeless yet talented cartoonist in Chicago and follow Colombia’s “biblioburro†as he and his donkeys take books to the country’s rural children |
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3. Homage to Beirut http://blip.tv/al-jazeera-arts... download (video/x-m4v, 125.09Mb) Description: In this week’s show from Beirut: We find out how one artist is expressing her love for this unique city, discover monks behaving badly in Thailand; learn how Portugal’s historic ceramic heritage is being stolen and see how a traditional tribal street dance contest is boosting tourism in the Philippines |
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4. Liberia's Flourishing Post-War Art Scene http://blip.tv/al-jazeera-arts... download (video/x-m4v, 129.40Mb) Description: Artsworld is in Liberia where the establishment of the country’s first post war art gallery is a sign of better things to come. We travel to Peru to get an insiders view of an ancient warrior dance and in Norway meet a woman whose friendship with a man on death row led to a unique collaboration. While in South Africa high fashion is turning up in unexpected places. |
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5. Colombia's Body School http://blip.tv/al-jazeera-arts... download (video/x-m4v, 129.53Mb) Description: Artsworld visits Colombia to get an insider's perspective on the country's art scene. Plus we meet the sculptor trying to beautify his hometown in Madgascar, find out how artists are painting against the odds in Gaza and how one tightrope walker in China is fighting for equality. |
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6. Guerilla Gardeners http://blip.tv/al-jazeera-arts... download (video/x-m4v, 129.19Mb) Description: This week Artsworld comes from London and finds out how a group of green-fingered revolutionaries are attempting to transform the city’s decaying urban spaces. Plus we hear the amazing story of one Sudanese refugee, meet innovative Lebanese artists who use tiny clay sculptures to convey a political message and hear some slam poetry – the latest street art to make waves in the US. |
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7. Episode 1 http://blip.tv/al-jazeera-arts... download (video/x-m4v, 135.64Mb) Description: Colour pervades every facet of Ghanaian art, culture and society - even in funerals. Plus we look at how traditional tattooing has been given a modern makeover in New Zealand. We take a look at many of the 5 million trucks that criss-cross India. They are not simply vital means of transport - they are increasingly works of art. Lastly Artsworld discovers how one youth centre, set-up to help immigrant communitites in Belgium, has unearthed so much musical talent it has become an international sensation. |
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