Cultural Journalism in the Arab World 2013

In autumn 2013 the Goethe-Institut is offering a two-month advanced training course in Germany for cultural journalists from the Arab world aged between 25 and 40 years, from the fields of print, online, radio, or television with initial experience in cultural reporting. Deadline : 15 May.

http://www.goethe.de/ges/prj/ken/qua/kum/nan/dre/en10579986.htm

Safirlab: Call for projects

The Institut Français (IF) and Canal France International (CFI), operators of The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, are implementing a programme for the young ‘players of change’, who are committed to new social dynamics, in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen. Deadline : 12 May.

English http://safirlab.com/index.php/fr/call-for-application

Arabic http://safirlab.com/index.php/fr/2013-04-02-21-14-34

The European Coalitions for cultural diversity support the petition European filmmakers launched in order to denounce the negotiating mandate of the European Commission drafted within the framework of the forthcoming trade negotiations between Europe and the United States.

Read the press release

With a single voice, European filmmakers are requesting that audiovisual and cinema services be excluded from the forthcoming trade negotiations between Europe and the United States.

The French Coalition fully supports this initiative and invites anyone who is attached to cultural diversity to sign this petition now opened to all.

Link to the petition :

https://www.lapetition.be/en-ligne/The-cultural-exception-is-non-negotiable-12826.html