LET'S DANCE

Dancing in Jaffa is a creative cultural collaboration which bridges the gap between Jewish and Palestinian children in Israel.  The project which was turned into a film, tells the story of champion ballroom dancer Pierre Dulaine’s trip to his birthplace of Jaffa, Israel, to set up a multicultural dance program. “When a human being dances with another person. you get to know that person in a way you can’t describe,” he says — “what I’m asking them to do is dance with the enemy”.

AFROCUBISM

A great example of a creative collaboration is the idea behind the Cuban and Malian project called AfroCubism, which was the original concept for the Buena Vista Social Club album of 1997, before travel restrictions at the time prevented the Malians and Cubans from coming together.

When trying to describe his approach to the collaboration process, Diabaté of the Malians explains : "When I meet musicians, I don't play their music, and they don't play my music. We do our own music, and it becomes a fusion."

CULTURAL EXPLORERS

Silk Road Project, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization, initiated by the cellist Yo-Yo Ma in 1998, promoting collaboration among artists and institutions, promoting multicultural artistic exchange, and studying the ebb and flow of ideas inspired by the cultural traditions of the historical Silk Road.

MORE HUMAN

RAZZA UMANA is a sociopolitical, cultural and anthropological study. "We portray the morphology of the human race in order to observe our peculiarities and our characteristics, to understand the differences. We collect somatic marks, we capture the face of humanity."
- Oliviero Toscani

CREATIVE TIME

CREATIVE STUDIES

POETRY DAY

CREATIVE STORYTELLING

FABRICA

 

The Fabrica Communication Research Centre in Italy was conceived in 1991 with the aim of exploring the arts as a catalyst for social change.

Created by United Colors of Benetton the studio produces a wide variety of global projects as well as work for commercial clients, governments, NGOs and the cultural sector. Working as a group-based studio, Fabrica is part mentoring program, part production studio, and part think tank, drawing talented designers from across the globe to successfully mix different cultures, talents and issues into projects.

Originally created by photographer Oliviero Toscani and art director Tibor Kalman to show the world to the world, the message has remained the same: diversity is good.