https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/welcome daily 1.0 2019-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565194706385-QL6AQM8S6O1B0J7CL2BZ/Synergize_BANNER_01.jpg Welcome https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/conference daily 0.75 2019-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565194826314-FMJ4NNILUS9E1YGODE0Y/Synergize_BANNER_02.jpg Conference https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/timetable daily 0.75 2019-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565274355201-U49HNQDAS6JCVJ3GTYOP/Synergize_BANNER_03.jpg Timetable https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/workshops daily 0.75 2019-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569251415276-I80VOQ19EZ8J2D0L9TTU/Elvira+Demerdzhy Workshops - Workshop 1: What about the Body? By Viktor Ruban (Choreographer, Ukraine) and Ben J. Riepe (Choreographer, Germany) Somatic Practice & Discussion Location: Big Stage, tanzhaus nrw / max 45 participants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569251802310-3C20MPVGCIJQXIWABKCF/Bildschirmfoto+2019-09-18+um+09.48.43.jpg Workshops - Workshop 2 : How Do We Share in the Context of a Global Solidarity Economy? By Natalia Ivanova Mount (Curator, US) and Martina Angelotti (Curator, Italy) Stone Soup & Roundtables Location: Artist Kitchen, tanzhaus nrw / max 18 participants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569409925126-TLVMPWEX2IHMDHWK3FSC/Uma_canstockphoto8169101.jpg Workshops - Workshop 3: The Gaze and the Global By Dr Uma Vangal (Filmmaker and Professor, India) Screening & Roundtables Location: Studio 8, tanzhaus nrw / max 30 participants https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569410512705-IUGLIRQJDEW36LIHKPMZ/you-x-ventures-Oalh2MojUuk-unsplash-1.jpg Workshops - Workshop 4: Why cooperate internationally? Impulse Presentations & Roundtables Location: Foyer, tanzhaus nrw / max 32 participants With AlarmTheater (Bielefeld, Germany) & Cia. Arthur-Arnaldo (São Paulo, Brazil) Kulturforum Alte Post (Neuss, Germany) & Helen Harris (Windhoek, Namibia) Videonale (Bonn, Germany) & ArtVilnius (Vilnius, Lithuania) kainkollektiv (Bochum, Germany) & Teatr Nowy (Krakow, Poland) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565274399462-UABYVBOK1MNQAL3VLD1D/Synergize_BANNER_04.jpg Workshops https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/keynote-speaker daily 0.75 2019-10-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569416438961-A8Q8UH5GZGWAP17OO5IP/mvg-home.jpg Keynote Speaker - Mike van Graan President of the African Cultural Policy Network Mike van Graan is the President of the African Cultural Policy Network and an award-winning playwright with thirty-two plays under his belt. He is currently an artist-in-residence at the University of Pretoria where he was conferred with an honorary doctorate in 2018 in recognition of his cultural activism and creative work. After South Africa’s first democratic elections, he was appointed as a Special Adviser to the minister responsible for arts and culture, where he played an influential role in shaping post-apartheid cultural policies. He has served in leadership roles in anti-apartheid and post-apartheid cultural formations, as well as in Pan-African organizations like Arterial Network, promoting the creative sector and its contribution to human rights, democracy and development. He currently also serves as the interim secretariat for the nascent Global South Arts and Culture Initiative (GLOSACI). Van Graan’s recent work in the international arena includes facilitating the Academy for Young Festival Managers (a project of the European Festival Association), producing the Toolkit on Fairer International Cultural Collaboration with IETM, Dutch Culture and On-The-Move and collaborating with the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture on a cultural entrepreneurship programme in Beirut. He is the 2018 recipient of the Sweden-based Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Award in recognition of his contribution to the fight against apartheid, to building a post-apartheid society and to the interface of peace and culture both in South Africa and across the African continent. photo©Ellen Elmendorp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565273488458-XKM2JW3VS1648LHQJJ6W/Synergize_BANNER_03.jpg Keynote Speaker https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/workshop-1 daily 0.75 2019-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565195032503-DOQ67FXBCA829044V1WX/Synergize_BANNER_02.jpg Workshop 1 https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/workshop-2 daily 0.75 2019-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565195047490-XY3VE4UHUXSU0C1UBEQ1/Synergize_BANNER_02.jpg Workshop 2 https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/workshop-3 daily 0.75 2019-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565195064378-RBJI2XQSFM33RGCH3IXN/Synergize_BANNER_02.jpg Workshop 3 https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/workshop-4 daily 0.75 2019-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565195086573-K9XXGZQXM9ZX981DZ1RB/Synergize_BANNER_02.jpg Workshop 4 https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/cooperation-projects daily 0.75 2019-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565274459152-A4801O3Q03UGCFEXDE3F/Synergize_BANNER_05.jpg Cooperation Projects https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/cooperation-project-1 daily 0.75 2019-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565191580443-0WETU4QKEBL7243WGJGA/Bild2.jpg Cooperation Project 1 © XXXXX https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565194953088-CT5JMVUD83J6SYTXDQKP/Synergize_BANNER_02.jpg Cooperation Project 1 https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/cooperation-project-2 daily 0.75 2019-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565191580443-0WETU4QKEBL7243WGJGA/Bild2.jpg Cooperation Project 2 © XXXXX https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565194971160-GBEL63T2VBGX7GB9HWG3/Synergize_BANNER_02.jpg Cooperation Project 2 https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/cooperation-project-3 daily 0.75 2019-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565191580443-0WETU4QKEBL7243WGJGA/Bild2.jpg Cooperation Project 3 © XXXXX https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565194987534-8QNG4WT9QXK5YXQWOWWO/Synergize_BANNER_02.jpg Cooperation Project 3 https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/cooperation-project-4 daily 0.75 2019-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565191580443-0WETU4QKEBL7243WGJGA/Bild2.jpg Cooperation Project 4 © XXXXX https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565195000497-55MB5V7VGLTCYLRQ3M60/Synergize_BANNER_02.jpg Cooperation Project 4 https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/disclaimer daily 0.75 2022-11-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565195105667-A2R2FWEGV2CEKL3447SW/Synergize_BANNER_02.jpg Disclaimer https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/privacy-policy daily 0.75 2019-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565195119220-DSOAOIQ78DDC5OD1TFFT/Synergize_BANNER_02.jpg Privacy Policy https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/panel-debater daily 0.75 2019-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1570004620766-ALS6K1F6M7NKVWWES6BU/2_Brigitta_Muntendorf_CR_Manfred_Daams_quadratisch-1.jpg Panel Debater - Brigitta Muntendorf Composer, Artistic Director of Ensemble Garage, Cologne, Germany The German-Austrian composer Brigitta Muntendorf creates music that exists at the intersection of various art forms and modes of expression, a web of multi-layered references and connections. A multimedia and interdisciplinary artist by default and steeped in the theatrical tradition, she aims to create a space for experimentation, both in her compositional work and as Artistic Director of Ensemble Garage. She treats music not as pure sound art, but as a social and aesthetic phenomenon in a society characterized by new digital media. Brigitta Muntendorf completed her composition studies with Younghi Paagh-Paan at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen, as well as with Krzysztof Meyer, Rebecca Saunders and Johannes Schöllhorn at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. She has received grants from the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris (2010), Ensemble Modern Akademie (2012), Villa Concordia Bamberg (2014/15) and Villa Kamogawa Kyoto (2017). In 2014 she received the Ernst von Siemens Composers Prize in connection with the release of her CD It may be all an illusion. Most recently, she was awarded the 2017 German Music Authors’ Prize by GEMA in the Young Talent category. Since 2017 Brigitta Muntendorf has been Professor of Composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. photo©Manfred Daams https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569493719400-5XODXCEYAU5FOJ89HKAN/Stefan%2BHilterhaus.jpg Panel Debater - Stefan Hilterhaus Artistic Director and Executive Director of PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany Stefan Hilterhaus is the artistic director and executive director of PACT Zollverein which he co-founded in 2002. PACT’s unique working model consolidates a wide range of interests in the performing arts and embraces international exchange platforms long and lasting collaborations with the fields of science, the fine arts and a variety of research areas. As international residence, stage and production house for art in its relation to society and environment, it also promotes the professional, transdisciplinary development and networking of artists, experts, activists and academics. Its aim to connect different methodologies and fields of knowledge implies the engagement in projects concerned with the role and impact of urban space on communities and connections between various forms of societies and its people. After studying history as well as dance and choreography, Hilterhaus worked internationally as a dancer, performer, curator and director. He is a member of various boards of trustees, advisory boards and juries. photo©Julia Reschucha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1568790848904-UZN96QEHVL2MVO099VID/IMG_2765_katharina+von+Ruckteschell-Katte.jpg Panel Debater - Dr Katharina von Ruckteschell-Katte Director of the Goethe-Institut London and regional director for North West Europe Since November 2018 Katharina von Ruckteschell-Katte is the director of the Goethe-Institut London and regional director for North West Europe, focusing on the development of the EU in the context of Brexit. She was born 1962 in Bonn/Germany and spent most of her childhood in Asia. She holds a PhD from the University of Bonn majoring in comparative literature, art history and Germanic studies. She joined the Goethe-Institut in 1990 and worked in various capacities, with her first posting abroad in Moscow in 1995 and after that in Bangkok. In 2008 she became regional director of the Goethe-Institut in Johannesburg/South Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. From November 2013 to October 2018 she worked in Sao Paulo/Brazil as regional director of the Goethe-Institut in South America. In both regions her focus was on the South-South relations, on the post-colonial and feminisms. photo©Goethe-Institut https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569422970373-1LRH3G33PL2EEA0UOP32/FERNANDO-43-1_klein.jpg Panel Debater - Fernando Zugno Director of the International Performing Arts Festival Porto Alegre em Cena, Porto Alegre, Brazil Since 2017 Fernando Zugno is the coordinator of the municipal sector of performing arts in the city of Porto Alegre and the director and general director and curator of the international performing arts festival, Porto Alegre em Cena. He Graduated in Performing Arts from the Teatro Escola de Porto Alegre – TEPA in November, 2005 and in journalism from Pontifícia Universidade Católica from Rio Grande do Sul – PUCRS in 2010. He has worked with artists and companies of Peter Brook, Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil, Patrice Chereau, Robert Wilson, Pina Bausch, Maguy Marin, Frank Castorf, Romeo Castelucci, Eimutas Nekrosius, Meredith Monk, Angelica Liddell and many others. Since 2012 he has worked as producer and creator of theatre plays and independent events organised by his company Artworks Produções, that takes charge of building new theatre, dance and music productions, tour with them and organise events that invite foreign productions e.g. Class enemy by Luciano Alabarse, Parole d’acteur, by Maurice Durozier, the Companhia Brasileira de Teatro directed by Marcio Abreu, Gonzagão, a lenda directed by João Falcão, Godspell directed by Zé Adão Barbosa, and a concert by Bibi Ferreira and artistic residencies with dancers of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and performers of Theater Rotterdam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565274728136-L5CTZ72A51NGRHDPJ628/Synergize_BANNER_06.jpg Panel Debater https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/workshop-hosts daily 0.75 2019-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569414056716-QYLVXOJG3JUT9SWCMLQR/Uma%2BVangal.jpg Workshop Hosts - Dr Uma Vangal Visiting Professor of Film and Adjunct Faculty, Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, India I am a filmmaker, curator, film professor and scholar who straddles the worlds of creating, ideating, presenting and disseminating knowledge on filmmaking in India and the US as a Visiting Professor of Film & Film Studies at Kenyon College, Ohio, and an adjunct faculty at the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai, India. I am interested in cross cultural exchanges, international co-productions and bridging cultural divides. I love meeting artists and filmmakers from across the world to facilitate better understanding of other peoples and cultures through art and film. My interests range from world cuisines to camping, writing fiction to film criticism, motherhood to movie going. I encourage and adopt indigenous practices as far as possible and advocate an inclusive, culturally rooted approach in all professional endeavours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569854031172-B4PP2HL540THEWUY4ZXY/Ben+J+Riepe_quadratisch.jpg Workshop Hosts - Ben J. Riepe Choreographer, Düsseldorf, Germany Ben J. Riepe is choreographer, stage-director, dancer, founder and artistic director of Ben J. Riepe Kompanie e. V. He studied dance and choreography at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. After graduation, he worked as a stage dancer ao. at the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch as well as at V. A. Wölfl/NEUER TANZ. Riepe, who has already won several awards, has been freelancing since 2006 and has been running his own production facility in Düsseldorf since 2010. He realized commissional works for the Goethe-Institute Malaysia in cooperation with DPAC DANCE COMPANY, the Korea National Contemporary Dance Company in cooperation with the Goethe-Institute Korea, the Folkwang Tanzstudio Essen and the theater festival FAVORITEN. His working processes, research topics and understanding of choreography as well as his idea of dealing with space and time are made accessible at several workshops. Since 2018 he has received the promotion of excellence from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, since 2009 the top-level promotion from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and since 2015 the top-level promotion from the state capital Düsseldorf. In October 2016 he was awarded the jury prize of the Theaterfestival FAVORITEN Dortmund for his work Livebox: Persona. In 2018 Ben J. Riepe was nominated for the George Tabori Prize of the Fonds Darstellende Künste, in 2019 he received the Tabori Award. Ben J. Riepe was Affiliated Artist at PACT Zollverein in Essen from 2013-2016 and received a scholarship for the residence program Vila Sul of the Goethe-Institute Salvador de Bahia in Brazil in spring 2017. (photo©Florian Boccia) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569846041802-7K970X41SM3SKN80Y09I/thumbnail_Natalia%2BMount1.jpg Workshop Hosts - Natalia Ivanova Mount Executive Director & Cultural Organizer, Pro Arts Gallery & COMMONS, Oakland, US Natalia Ivanova Mount is a dynamic cultural organizer and sociologist of art with extensive experience in nonprofit leadership, development and strategic partnerships. She has organized numerous exhibitions and site-specific projects, experimental theatre productions, sound-based performance, film, radio, and public programs and events. In the beginning of her career, Natalia worked at MoMA PS1 and the Clocktower, both located in NYC. Currently, she is the Executive Director of Pro Arts Gallery & COMMONS where she is actively engaged in the co-creation of the first art & culture commons model in Oakland. Her essay "Reframing the Value of Art and Fair Labor in the Context of a Sharing Economy" was published by the Journal for Aesthetics & Protest, Shareable.net and Project Kalahati Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569853286104-62377IMU79MSMCTBJXML/Viktor+Ruban_quadratisch.jpg Workshop Hosts - Viktor Ruban Choreographer, Kyiv, Ukraine Viktor Ruban is choreographer-researcher, stage-director, performer, educator, producer and coach, founder and director general of Ruban Production ITP Ltd., program director and co-founder of international dance platform “Impulse of Transformation”, program and artistic director of independent space #KyivDanceResidency - platform for international movement-based art and research, specialized on studies in dance, somatic and performative practices. In 2013 graduated practical master program in choreographic research and performance on the basis of National Choreographic Center and Paul-Valery University (Montpellier 3) (Montpellier, Languedoc- Roussillon, France). Over the last 10 years, mostly focused on dance and movement in transdisciplinary way, he participated and organized dozens of different projects in Belarus, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Georgia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, UK and USA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569416815012-X5F5KX0U9CINMZNNGRWA/Martina%2BAngelotti.jpg Workshop Hosts - Martina Angelotti Artistic director, careof, Milan, Italy Curator and art writer. She creates and produces curatorial projects through performance and exhibitions, including film screening, workshop, symposium, and publications. Since 2014 she is Artistic Director of Careof a non-profit organization born in Milan in 1987 that manages a huge archive of video art and experimental cinema. She is the founder and curator of the independent project ON (Bologna), that investigates the relationship between art and the public sphere. She also teaches History of Contemporary Art at Cattolica University in Milan also hold a seminar course on Radical Visual Pedagogy at Alpen Adria Universitat, in Klagenfurt (AU). She writes for DOMUS magazine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1565274700482-ZTX5AYZZDTZ4U0NYONAG/Synergize_BANNER_04.jpg Workshop Hosts https://synergize.nrw-kultur-international.de/alumni daily 0.75 2019-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569853628723-5ESKXGRAD0HN9CJ3KBXW/FERNANDO-43-1_klein_quadratisch.jpg Alumni IVP - Fernando Zugno Director of the International Performing Arts Festival Porto Alegre em Cena, Porto Alegre, Brazil https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569849880442-IXYGRTDV0TQSE8GW5IDP/Wang%2C+Chong_by+Zhou+Jing_quadratisch.jpg Alumni IVP - Chong Wang Artistic Director, Théâtre du Rêve Expérimental, Beijing, China Photo©Zhou Jing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1570005452758-O7SU57RNL6AA4TOKZX27/helen+harris_quadratisch.jpg Alumni IVP - Helen Harris Curator, Founder StArt Art Gallery, Windhoek, Namibia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1572537809920-V7SC0T5UWROSX1GNNQXW/Tomas_MOS_5420_quadratisch.jpg Alumni IVP - Tomasz Kireńczuk Programme Director, Teatr Nowy Proxima, Krakow, Poland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569849791510-JEBNI336OI74N8ZTNISE/Urushadze%2C+Vato_quadratisch.jpg Alumni IVP - Vato Urushadze International Project Manager and Curator, Creative Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569847096284-SMFT9FG67RCDQ4IJR5L7/Bild2.jpg Alumni IVP - Vasiliki Gramatikogianni Journalist at EfSyn, Athens Voice, Athens, Greece https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569853442682-MCCB9SEFVGD84LXTNZY2/Bildschirmfoto+2019-09-30+um+16.23.18.png Alumni IVP - Josien Pieterse Director, Framer Framed and Network Democracy, Amsterdam, Netherlands https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569848818558-UUZ78IRP5GJ5CFJQ0GZT/Martina+Angelotti_quadratisch.jpg Alumni IVP - Martina Angelotti Artistic Director, careof, Milan, Italy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569850302577-XI7C5DM3616LG1Y2T3PH/Masyialeti+Mbewe_quadratisch.jpg Alumni IVP - Masiyaleti Mbewe Independent Writer, Digital Artist and Curator, Windhoek, Namibia/Zambia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1570005716271-G6N2NW7Z89NEV2TX3TTS/Lulia+Pop_quadratisch.jpg Alumni IVP - Iulia Pop Co-Founder, PR & Media Relations Overground Music, Communication Manager, Music Business Conference, Bucharest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569846490725-EPV4KMOJ55K2GPG5606C/Balode+Inta_Photo+Ami+Sk%C3%A5nberg+Dahlstedt.jpg Alumni IVP - Inta Balode Writer and Curator; Chair of the Board of the Latvian Dance Information Center, Riga; Board Member of LAKKU, Lādezers, Latvia Photo©Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569852846860-59EJ7957MERKH7ITCPOG/Viktor+Ruban_quadratisch.jpg Alumni IVP - Viktor Ruban Choreographer, Kyiv, Ukraine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1570107374305-QJYEWS3WT4DD0X23LU4F/IoanaCiocan_Mindopoly.jpg Alumni IVP - Ioana Ciocan Curator; Director of ArtSafari, Bucharest; Vice-President of the Union of Fine Artists in Romania https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569849217140-T1TP99OLWKHFJTIBSZT5/Shauloff%2C+Nir+by+Kfir+Bolotin_quadratisch.jpg Alumni IVP - Nir Shauloff Theater Maker and Performance Artist, Tel Aviv, Israel Photo©Kfir Bolotin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569853512867-LQQJCNWFRZGITJFK98ZC/Uma+Vangal_quadratisch.jpg Alumni IVP - Dr Uma Vangal Filmmaker and Visiting Professor of Film and Adjunct Faculty, Asian College of Journalism, India https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569848646181-O7V7VPARL7G4XQZZ1SZ9/Natalia+Mount1_quadratisch.jpg Alumni IVP - Natalia Mount Executive Director and Cultural Organizer, Pro Arts Gallery and COMMONS, Oakland, US https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569850630560-1R8D7ET33IBXWTBYPLTF/Kricsfalusi%2C+Beatrix_by+Zolt%C3%A1n+Szarka_quadratisch.jpg Alumni IVP - Beatrix Kricsfalusi (PhD) Assistent Professor, University of Debrecen, Hungary Photo©Zoltán Szarka https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569848580303-LNPF9NRLBB0LIQ1YPXRU/Nozharova%2C+Vessela_quadratisch.jpg Alumni IVP - Vessela Nozharova Curator, Credo Bonum Foundation & Gallery Sofia, Bulgaria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1569847563332-GUNIQGVS7MGHJ4Z5W7DA/Arnab+Banerjee.jpg Alumni IVP - Arnab Banerjee Programme Manager Arts and Culture, Tata Trusts, Bengaluru Area, India https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d4accc27f06a500017bfd48/1570006293327-47MUUVTLBIBYSMAROIGW/Soledad_Yunge_02_quadratisch.jpg Alumni IVP - Soledad Yunge Director, Cia. 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