In order to stabilize and support a network of dance artists in residence across Ireland the Arts Council has launched The dance artist residency scheme, a specific work program open to professional dance artists, venues or local authorities. This scheme is aiming to offer opportunities to local authorities and venues to develop dance practice in their area, to consolidate both professional and community-based dance practice in a variety of regional contexts, to offer opportunities to dance artists around the country to engage in a program of artistic work relevant to their own practice and to encourage the development of long-term planning and sustainability of independent dance activities.See the link below for further details Dance artist residency scheme.

The volume “Pier Paolo Pasolini. Poesie-Bàsné” was published in Czech Republic. It represent the first and largest selection taken from Pasolini’s poetic work, which includes verses he wrote in the Friulian dialect, the language of his beloved mother, such as Poesie a Casarsa from 1942. The translation was edited by Alice Flemrová and Tomáš Matrast who was also responsible for choosing the poems and of writing the introduction to the volume. Of particular interest is the autobiographical poem entitled Il poeta delle ceneri / Básník popela, published in Italy only in 1980, after Pasolini’s death, where the poet reveals the secret truths about political and economic power and the well-founded danger of the decomposition of modern and postmodern society.

Selected poems:
Dedica /Ploja tai cunfíns /Il dì da la me muàrt /Il nini muàrt /O me donzel /Tornant al país /Ciant da li ciampanis / La diversità che mi fece stupendo / Alla mia nazione / Hymnus ad nocturnum / Splendore / La Guinea / Profezia / Io sono una forza del Passato / Supplica a mia madre / Ballata delle madri / Il sogno della ragione / Il poeta delle ceneri / Comunicato allˈAnsa (Un cane) / L´influenza del denaro sulla poesia/ Versi del testamento / Vedo / Navigate…/ Come se fossi / Versi sottili come righe di pioggia

About Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer, and intellectual, who also distinguished himself as an actor, journalist, novelist, playwright, and political figure. He remains a controversial personality in Italy due to his blunt style and the focus of some of his works on taboo sexual matters.

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Nine writers have been awarded with a $50,000 grant by the fourth annual Rabkin Prize for Arts Writers : Mary Abbe, Jerry Cullum, Neil Fauerso, Amanda Fortini, Sam Lefebvre, Steve Litt, Erin Nelson, Seph Rodney, and Elisa Turner.

The Rabkin Foundation, established in 1999 by Dorothea and New York–based artist and art collector Leo Rabkin, recognizes outstanding contributions by art critics who inform the public through their writing on contemporary art. “In this unprecedented and tragic time, the foundation released funding immediately and chose to forego the celebrations and formalities that made this moment so enjoyable and memorable in recent years,” said the Rabkin Foundation.

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“Artists are not only indispensable, but also vital, especially now,” says the country’s culture minister Monika Grütters.

The German federal government has announced that due to the emergency Covid 19 an aid package of €50 billion will be provided specifically to small businesses and freelancers, including those from the cultural, creative, and media sectors.“We know the hardships, we know the desperation,” said culture minister in a statement. “The cultural sector in particular is characterized by a high proportion of self-employed people who now have problems with their livelihoods.” The aid package funding will come in the form of grants designed to help with monthly costs like venue rentals and artist studios. In addition to arts-related individuals and organizations, the funding will support media enterprises, including newspapers. In addition to the stimulus money, the new initiative states that social security (including unemployment insurance) will be made available to freelancers—including artists—for a period of six months and expenses for housing will be recognized to ensure that “everyone can stay in their own home.” To this end, the government is injecting another €10 billion of support. “Our democratic society needs its unique and diverse cultural and media landscape in this historical situation, which was unimaginable until recently,” said Grütters. “The creative courage of creative people can help to overcome the crisis. We should seize every opportunity to create good things for the future. That is why the following applies: artists are not only indispensable, but also vital, especially now.”

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