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Trust for Mutual Understanding Newsletter
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Greetings!
I am thrilled to introduce the
first ever TMUNEWS - a monthly update on select activities by
grantees of the Trust for Mutual Understanding!
We hope you enjoy this first
issue and are as inspired as we are by these organizations - men and women -
who are truly making a difference.
All the best,
Jennifer P. Goodale
Executive Director
Trust for Mutual Understanding
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 Likhachev Foundation Fellowships in Russia
The Likhachev Foundation (St. Petersburg,
Russia), together with the St. Petersburg Committee on External
Relations and the Fund of the First
Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin (Moscow, Russia), announces a competition for
2-week cultural fellowships in St. Petersburg from August 23 until
September 5, 2010, for American professionals in the field of arts and culture who are working on projects related to Russian
culture. Airfare and accommodation in St. Petersburg
will be covered by the organizers.
See www.tmuny.org for application details.
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 Unsound Festival, New York
Since its establishment in 2003, Unsound Festival
has brought a bold and uniquely modern program of music to Krakow.
With seven festivals in their native city under their belt (and outpost
events further east in cities like Minsk), Unsound is now hosting their first ever North American edition in New York. Taking place
over the course of ten days, Unsound New York's mission is to forge new
links between music genres, generations, and artistic practices.
Unsound has made a worldwide
reputation by breaking new ground while dealing with vibrant
electronic, experimental, independent, post-classical, and club music
scenes from around the world. In addition to performances and
screenings at venues throughout the city, an essential part of Unsound
New York's programming is a series of panels and workshops aimed at
creating a context of discussion of music and sound cultures.
One of the cornerstones of the festival is Eastern Promises, a
substantial undertaking in the New York program that features a wide
range of musicians from east of Berlin that have long been ignored in
North America. An exciting roster of artists from Belarus, Poland,
Romania, and Ukraine have been assembled to perform in the festival's
first New York edition. TMU support was awarded to help with travel
expenses of Unsound's Central and Eastern European participants.
Unsound Festival New York runs through February 14; please visit their website here for a full list of programming and additional information.Take a look at the great article on Unsound New York in the NYTimes!
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 Performing Revolution Festival
Marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, the Performing Revolution festival
is in full swing, with over 25 exhibitions, performances, concerts,
screenings, readings, and symposia being presented at a cross-section
of New York City cultural organizations through March 2010. The
festival explores the role the performing arts played in the 1989
revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe and is the brainchild of
Karen Burke, assistant chief in the Music Division of The New York
Public Library for the Performing Arts, and Jacqueline Davis, the
Library's executive director. Upcoming festival events include: *Quartet v4.0 (February 24-28) New
York-based theater company WaxFactory presents a multimedia sci-fi
production of Heiner Muller's work, with colleagues from Croatia,
Slovenia, and Poland (at Abrons Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement,
466 Grand Street, at Pitt Street)
*Revolution! (March 4-21) The Czech-American
Marionette Theatre presents an overview of revolutions through the ages
with guest artists from the Czech Republic (at Theater for the New
City, 155 First Avenue, between 9th and 10th Streets)
*The Gilded Red Cage, Parts 1 and 2 March 13-14 (at LaMaMa E.T.C., 74A East 4th Street) and March 17 & 21 (at
The Tank, 354 West 34th Street) Slovakia's BaPoDi (Banovce Underground
Theatre) brings Silvester Lavrik's original production to New York,
accompanied by an exhibition of Radek Jahudka's photographs
For additional information about the festival, click here.
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 Wojtek Doroszuk Artist Residency at Location One
Supported by TMU, Ministry of Culture, Poland, and the Polish Cultural Institute, New York, Wojtek Doroszuk is currently serving as an International Resident as part of Location One's 2009-2010 artist-in-residency program. Doroszuk was born in 1980 in Glogów, Poland, and currently resides in
Kraków where he received his MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2006.
His primary focus as a visual artist is in the realm of video and photography. In addition to critically acclaimed solo exhibition Special Features at
BWA Awangarda Gallery (2009, Wroclaw), and another at the Bunkier
Sztuki (2007, Kraków), he has participated in innumerable group
exhibitions throughout Europe since 2003. For more information on Doroszuk's work, Location One, and the International Residency Program, click here. Click here for information on Location One's current exhibition.
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 Project for Public Spaces
During an autumn conference at Nowa Huta -a former steel mill in Krakow, Poland- leaders in placemaking came together from Central Europe, Southeastern Europe, and the United States to share information about
alternatives to car-dependent communities. Placemaking addresses such
critical issues as climate change and air pollution, while also building civil
society through community participation. The main organizers
of the conference were long-time partners Project for Public Spaces (PPS),
based in New York, and the Environmental Partnership for Sustainable Development (EPSD), a consortium of Central European foundations supporting
local, grassroots initiatives. A TMU grant to PPS helped with
planning for the conference.
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