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AND WATER BECAME ART
and water became art
Water. It is essential to life, water to drink, to clean, to play. It
won't come as a surprise to you that water is so essential for our existence,
it is even important for the arts. Water is a source of inspiration.
For us, water is taken for granted. Clean drinking water is always within
reach. Nevertheless, this is - as we all know but sometimes tend to forget
" not the case for everyone. Large parts of our world survive with insufficient
drinking water. Children can't go to school because they have to walk for
hours so as to fetch the daily supply of water. Crops can't grow because
there simply is no water - famine, poverty, despair
For UNESCO-IHE,
Institute for Water Education the water problem has the highest priority
and this problem is tackled at the source. UNESCO-IHE has adopted
the premise that by training students from over the whole world to become
water managers it is possible to eliminate our global water problems " from
lack of water to misuse of water.
Lucien den Arend is Cultural
Ambassador of the project '... and water became art' in which a group of
international artists focus the attention on water. We believe that solving
the world's water problems is the first step to a fairer and better world.
But of course this works only if we collectively back this project.
The Cultural Ambassador program for the UNESCO-IHE Fellowship Trust Fund
builds a pact between Culture and Science where the objective of raising
funds is supported by big cultural entities that are aware of their importance,
their responsibility, and their ability to send a powerful signal to a broader
public.
UNESCO-IHE cultural ambassadors' promote and support
the UNESCO-IHE Fellowship Trust Fund in a number of ways. Apart from organizing
or participating in benefit performances, UNESCO-IHE cultural ambassadors
may serve as cultural resource persons for discussions and presentations
at symposia and congress events, serve as hosts for presentations, dinners
and similar type of activities, provide information to visitors to their
performances and to participants to master classes, exhibitions, programs
and festivals.
UNESCO-IHE considers the cultural world as its
natural partner, as science, education and culture are united in UNESCO.
UNESCO-IHE feels privileged to present the following cultural ambassadors
:
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Catherine Massin - performance/visual art/writing -
Festival van Vlaanderen - OdeGand 2006 -
Gastprogrammering Het Muziektheater -
Handelsbeurs Concertzaal Gent -
Les Ballets C de la B -
Lucien den Arend - sculptor -
Marjorie Ryerson - Photographer and Orchestrator -
Rotterdam Philharmonisch Orkest -
Slagerij van Kampen -
Troubleyn | Jan Fabre - performing arts
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