This project, leadered by ITD, financed by Spanish cooperation and lasting 18 months, will allow the development of a training process network looking for the sustainability of cultural entrepreneurship for local cultural projects in Chile, Peru and Bolivia.

Video containing main elements of the projet DAPHNE MUVI has been edited ready to be disseminated. Please, circulate the link:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8ZhNmvD4BE&feature=channel_page

From 14th of April till 19th of July an exhibition on video games called VIDA EXTRA will be held in the ESPAI CULTURAL CAJA MADRID. The exhibition has been conceptualized and produced by TRANSIT PROJECTES with the assessment of ITD.

 http://www.creacionjoven.com/fotografia/

18th of february was presented in Washington, in IADB (interAmerican Development Bank) the results of the study: Distributed Social Networks and Cultural Industries. Representatives of 12 countries assisted to the meeting:

Results of the project are available at: 

 http://www.iadb.org/mif/forum/culturalind.cfm?lang=es

Participation in the 3rd edition of Cultural Community Develpment studies in cooperation with Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Granollers Council.

 www.dccgranollers.info  

CROSSING PLACES" - Presentation workshop

Saturday 24^th May, h 5:00 Fiera del Levante - Bari

XIIIth Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean - Puglia 2008

This workshop is the follow-up of an initiative carried out by Arci National financed under the programme Culture 2000 - "In the dark. For those who can't see art". The "In the dark" project started from the idea that not being able to see is not a misfortune but can be an asset, in the sense that blindness is a different way of seeing and expressing things and the world. The new initiative "Crossing places" focus on the link between people and places, body and space, body and territory, giving voice to unpublished narrations of spaces. "The places" and the "local cultural circuits", the active participation of citizen are the main elements of our proposal and the activities will be developed on these two axis.

Activities: 27 artists from different countries (Italy, Spain, France, Malta, Poland, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Belgium) - belonging to different fields of performing arts: Music, Literature and Body Espression.

The overall objective of the project is to find a an innovative way to "tell the cities " from different points of view - different arts, cultures, perceptions - through performing arts and the work of different artists coming from different countries.

The artists  tell the non-visual "story" of Barcelona, Malta and Grasse to the inhabitants of Milano, Catania and Terni in other and different contexts, of the "places crossed".

The performances moved:  

Thessaloniki 24  - 30 April 2007

Barecelona-Milano 3 -15 June 2007

Malta-Catania 11 - 23 July 2007

Grasse-Terni 18 - 24 - 30 September  2007           

Arezzo  8-10 November 2007

Curators: Lider project-ARCI Nazionale

Anna Bucca (Italy), Anja Gunjak (Italy), Flavio Mongelli Responsible Culture of ARCI

Nazionale (Italy),

Coorganizators: Adrian Grima - INIZJAMED (Malta), Juan Pedregosa - TRANSIT(Spain), Latifa Madani - FTM Festival Trans, Méditerranée (France), Tina Sousourada - IRIS (Greece)

Artists: Renzo Spiteri (Malta) musician, Sandra Mifsud (Malta) performer-dancer, Simone Inguanez (Malta) writer, Adrian Grima (Malta) curator artist, Anibal Parada (Spain) video art, Pablo Marte (Spain) video-sound art, Tomas Guido (Spain) curator artist, Alexiou Spyridon (Greece) artist-assistant, Avgi Progidi (Greece) performer-dancer, Stefanos Efremidis (Greece) sound art, Tsakiridis Dimitrios (Greece) sound art, Mathieu Hours (France) sound art, Manon Avram (France) curator artist, Laurence Maillot (France) performer-dancer, Denes Krusovszky (Hungary) writer, Iztok Holc (Slovenly) plastic art, Urszula Zerek (Poland) performer-dancer, Wilfried Salomè (Belgium) writer, Perliakis Liakakis (Austria) composer, Benedetto Caldarella (Italy) writer, Davide Carnevali (Italy) video maker, Francesco Rossi (Italy) performer- visual art, Jan Polverini (Italy) photographer; video art, Patrizia Apuzzo (Italy) performer-dancer, Riccardo Giacconi (Italy) performer- sound art;

Local and International Partners

ARCI Arezzo (Italy), ARCI Catania (Italy), ARCI Milano (Italy), ARCI Terni

(Italy), Comune di Milano (Italy), Comune di Venezia (Italy), Provincia di Arezzo (Italy), Zone Attive Roma (Italy), Espace Culture Marseille (France)

Info: www.crossingplaces.eu

17th and 18th of April of 2008 is held an international meeting of the project  WIKIM (http:\\intranet.wikim.eu). ITD is one of the partners of the Steering Committee.

The main aim is the launching of a training method to learn national lenguages for migrants. There are representatives from France, Belgium, Germany and Spain.