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	DFG To Set Up 21 New Collaborative Research Centres
		Two cultural science research units and four collaborative research centres will be set up in the humanities and social sciences, while nine new collaborative research centres will be established in biology and medicine and three each in the natural sciences and engineering sciences.
		The collaborative research centre to be established at the Free University of Berlin to deal with the "Cultures of the performative" will study the function and significance of performative processes and their relation to textuality at times of major changes in communication (in the Middle Ages, early modern age and modernity).
		The aim of the newly established collaborative research centre at the Free University of Berlin is to study the "Structure and function of membrane-bound receptors".
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/1998-12/DF-DTSU-181298.php (2511 words)

	Culturelink Network - Culturelink Review
		The notion of culture and the cultural centre
		Cultural centres are institutions that emerged in the seventies as new cultural organizations in almost all developed countries of the world (Fache, 1992: 145), but there was always a huge difference between the Western and the Eastern model of cultural centres.
		Analyzing the position of cultural centres in new cultural and political circumstances, which is a relatively small and limited problem, we have managed, we believe, to reveal the full complexity of the process of restructuring and transformation of cultural policies in the post-socialist European countries.
	www.culturelink.org /review/s95/s95malesevic.html (2723 words)

	Culturelink Network - Culturelink Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cultural history was made in October 1996 with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding by representatives from performing arts centres in the Asia Pacific region who gathered at the Victorian Arts Centre, Australia, for the inaugural meeting of the Association of Asia Pacific Performing Arts Centres (AAPPAC).
		The Centre is place for workshops to study writing for specific dramatic forms: opera, radio, cinema, television, puppet show, children's theatre, etc., as well as for courses on heritage and culture, where the students and their teachers become familiar with the Chartreuse, its architecture and its cultural project.
		The Institute of Culture Education is responsible for the performing arts programmes and cultural exhibitions, promoting Thai cultural activities and transmission of culture, promoting and preserving folk culture, cultural education, research and development, and public relations.
	www.unesco.org /culturelink/review/22/cl22net.html (4961 words)

	Cultural/Educational Centres Program - Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Cultural/Educational Centres Program (CECP) was established under Cabinet authority in 1971 and was consolidated under the memorandum of understanding with the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND) and Treasury Board respecting Increased Ministerial Authority and Accountability (IMAA).
		This is accomplished through the funding of established centres, which develop and operate cultural/educational programs for First Nations/Inuit people to participate in, and for the general public to experience.
		The remaining First Nation centres are administered through DIAND regional offices, with the Inuit cultural centres managed from DIAND headquarters.
	www.ainc-inac.gc.ca /ps/edu/cecp_e.html (428 words)

	NEZCC - North East Zone Cultural Centre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		With the diversity of cultures that exist in the country, there are various regional forms and styles but there are also some common characteristics that run through the cultures of the people living in that area although they may speak different languages and may have different historical experiences.
		Emphasizing the importance of the ‘Cultural Unity’ that characterises the heritage and its identification at the regional level Seven Zonal Cultural Centres were established in the country in different regions as follows.
		One of the major functions of the Centre is to encourage documentation of the various forms of the folk and tribal music and dances and establish support mechanism for the art forms that are disappearing.
	www.nezccindia.org /introduction.asp (608 words)

	Promoting cultural ties amongst people - Fiji Government Online
		Programmes undertaken by these centres are aimed at rekindling cultural stigma amongst the communities, passing the arts of dance for instance or the preservation of language and culture to the younger generation.
		The cultural centres cater all sections of the community and its programmes are designed in such a manner that suits the people in all walks of life.
		The Centres however are expected to remain fully competent at their focal role of promoting excellence in the broad diversity of Indian performing arts, through training for individual trainees as well as professional support to various cultural groups.
	www.fiji.gov.fj /publish/page_5608.shtml (1322 words)

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		A group of school children were just leaving after spending three hours exploring the cultural history of the area and it's surrounds, judging by their excited comments and questions to their indigenous guides they had a ball.
		Also learn the fascinating history of how the traditional lifestyle and culture of the Tweed Aborigines were influenced by the influx of Pacific Islander (Kanaka) refugees from the infamous Queenslander "fl-birding" days of the early 19th century.
		Brambuk National Park and cultural Centre is open from 9 - 5 daily and admission is free.
	www.makingtracks.com.au /pages/default.cfm?page_id=36236 (701 words)

	Faculty and Research - Research Centres - Cross Cultural Management
		In particular, contributions are encouraged which examine the ways in which culture influences management theory and practice rather than purely comparative studies for their own sake.
		Culturally diverse approaches, some of which may be overlooked in international journals are encouraged as long as their internal logic and external validity is sufficiently established.
		Single culture work is acceptable provided it informs and advances knowledge in cross-cultural management practice should also be transparent.
	www.escp-eap.net /faculty_research/crosscul.html (314 words)

	EUROPEAN NETWORK OF CULTURAL CENTERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Members of ENCC are those national associations and confederations, which represent the cultural centres of their country.
		Many social and cultural developments are not limited to one region or one country and should be discussed only with a European and even global perspective.
		Culture should receive the rating that it deserves as bearing element of a functioning with each other not only in Europe.
	www.encc.net /intro.htm (710 words)

	City of Toronto, Arts Heritage & Culture - Museums & Arts Centres - Zion Church
		The Zion Primitive Methodist Church was built in 1873 by the Methodists of L'Amaroux, the Finch community between Victoria Park and Warden, on land donated by early settler Henry Scrace.
		The Church and adjacent cemetery was acquired by the borough of North York in 1971, and in 1977 "designated" under the Ontario Heritage Act as an example of a typical rural church.
		In 1997 a cultural facility was envisioned for the building and City of North York Council endorsed a proposal for the Church's restoration and the building of a new addition to house mechanical and support space.
	www.toronto.ca /culture/zion_church.htm (583 words)

	Artfactories - resources dedicated to art and cultural centres
		Artfactories is an international resource platform dedicated to art and cultural centres born from citizen artistic initiatives and based on involvement within communities.
		The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) announces its SOIMA 2007 course on Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and São Paulo on 6-31 August 2007.
		The city of Warsaw hosted the lasted EUROCITIES Culture Forum meeting in two of the major cultural facilities of the capital: the rising Museum and the Palace of Science and Culture.
	www.artfactories.net /uk_index.php3 (1385 words)

	cbcinews1310 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The meeting held under the auspices of the Pontifical Council for Culture and hosted by the Society of St. Francis Xavier was attended by Catholic cultural centres from different parts of India, involved in a variety of activities.
		Some of the factors being, that the Catholic centres proclaim Christ through museums, art galleries etc; the centres involved in inter-religious dialogue promote harmony through shared conversation of ideas, ideals and practices; educational institutions promote cultural exchange between the different types of students that enter their fold.
		The first one being that culture is a complex dynamic reality and that we as Church bodies need to be alive to this reality, to read the signs of the times and respond to the cry of the people accordingly.
	www.cbcisite.com /cbcinews1314.htm (564 words)

	Muslims of the West and the Islamic World
		- To coordinate between Islamic associations and cultural centres in the West to bring views closer together and unify their methodology in the educational, cultural and social fields as well as in terms of the media and Daawa.
		In support of the painstaking efforts made by the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in implementing the Strategy of Islamic Cultural Action in the West, it convenes annual meetings of the heads of Islamic associations and cultural centres in the West.
		Thus, channels of contact and cooperation between Muslims in the West have increased in number, establishing a network of associations, unions and institutions endeavouring for the consolidation of cooperation and for the defence of the common interests of Islamic societies in the West.
	www.isesco.org.ma /pub/Eng/Musofwest/P5.htm (575 words)

	Social Capital and Civil Society - Francis Fukuyama - Prepared for delivery at the IMF Conference on Second Generation ...
		It constitutes the cultural component of modern societies, which in other respects have been organized since the Enlightenment on the basis of formal institutions, the rule of law, and rationality.
		This is testimony to a number of Japanese cultural characteristics: the respect given bureaucrats, their high level of training and professionalism, the general deference to authority in Japanese society, etc., and it suggests that some institutions cannot be readily transferred to other societies lacking social capital.
		Max Weber stood Marx on his head by arguing that the cultural "superstructure" actually produced the economic "substructure": it was the moral values inculcated by Puritanism, and particularly the fact that virtues like honesty and reciprocity now had to be practiced beyond the family, that made the modern capitalist world possible in the first place.
	www.imf.org /external/pubs/ft/seminar/1999/reforms/fukuyama.htm (6855 words)

	Informal European Theatre Meeting (IETM) - Cultural Commons
		They are engaged in innovative, contemporary work, and tend to be, as we say "independent-in statute or in spirit", rather than being official institutions or national theatres.
		Whether festival directors, theatre, cultural or arts centre managers, independent producers, event organisers, cultural documentation centres, writers or thinkers, they are all committed to international performance exchange and networking as a means to generate synergies greater than individual input.
		The spirit of IETM membership comes from a belief in the cultural diversity of Europe, the thousands of opportunities for co-operation within it, and a desire to voice the needs and importance of the artist in our changing international societies.
	www.culturalcommons.org /directorydetail.cfm?ID=5199 (163 words)

	All About Jewish Theatre - Jewish Cultural Centres in Nazi Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The danger in looking at organised Jewish cultural life in Nazi Germany is that it might seem to confirm the Nazis' assertion that Jews were granted, at least for a while, both a freedom of action and the status of a protected minority.
		Plans for the cultural centre were supported by the leading representatives of Jewish cultural life, and the board of honorary chairmen included Leo Baeck, Martin Buber, Arthur Eloesser, Leonid Kreutzer, Max Liebermann, Max Osborn, Franz Oppenheimer, and Jakob Wassermann.
		At the exhibition of the Jewish cultural centres in Berlin in May 1936, at which Jewish artists from all over the country were represented, Rheinish painters such as Flora Joehlinger, Lisel Wetzlar, Lotte Prechner, Hans Eltzbacher, and Otto Schloss had considerable success.
	www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=736 (5445 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Cultural Affairs Division of the Human Resources Development, Education and Cultural Affairs Ministry has set up 93 cultural centres countrywide at a cost of Rs.
		Three more cultural centres set up under the same programme will be opened in Rambukkana, Balangoda and Ayagama Divisional Secretariat divisions soon, a Cultural Affairs Division spokesman said.
		The cultural centres also function as research and preservation centres for cultural traditions.
	www.dailynews.lk /2002/12/07/new19.html (180 words)

	Accr : Accueil
		Cultural encounter centres are places where people can meet together, visit, stay, produce intellectually and artistically.
		The residency is supported by the Ministry for Education, Science and Culture in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
		It includes most of the cases of cultural or artistic re-use of European built or natural spaces.
	www.accr-europe.org (603 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The sources said that 95 cultural centres have already been set up by the ministry so far and the main objective of this program is providing one cultural centre for each Divisional secretariat division.
		These cultural centres offer different training courses for the general public including dancing training courses, music training classes, drama courses, seminars and workshops on photography, painting and sculpture.
		The cultural centres also function as research and preservation centres for cultural characteristics such as folk dancing, folk songs and folk games that are peculiar to the relevant areas.
	www.dailynews.lk /2003/04/01/new20.html (294 words)

	Uganda National Cultural Centre - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This Committee listed among other reasons for Cultural Centre that would Encourage the growth of indigenous drama in Uganda and the preservation of traditional songs and dance.
		The Centre has met so many challenges and gone through many developments but most remarkable amongst them all is the challenge from almost hundred percent white dramatists and audience to hundred percent indigenous Ugandan performers, writers, productions and Audience.
		Those groups that are enable to use the National Theatre facilities for one reason or the other have, to use halls, community centres, e.t.c this shows the great potential of the performing arts in the country.
	www.culturalcentre.or.ug /about/history.aspx (794 words)

	Delhi to have nine cultural centres
		Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit inaugurated a district cultural centre in west Delhi Saturday and announced similar centres would be opened in the other eight districts of the city.
		Constructed at a cost of Rs.20 million, the new centre is a joint initiative of Sahitya Kala Parishad and Delhi Public Library.
		The centre will train and provide a platform to upcoming artistes and help decentralise cultural activities in Delhi.
	news.webindia123.com /news/articles/India/20061001/466799.html (111 words)

	Village Post Office Cultural Centers
		These centres, with the investment of VND70 million for each and equipped with communications and postal media, have helped improve people's knowledge and satisfied the communications demand of local people.
		Over the past five years, Village Post Office Cultural Centres in the highland province of Dak lak have become familiar places for cultural and information exchange for local residents and school children in remote and far-away areas of the province.
		The chairman of the People's Committee of the Yen Ninh commune in the Y Yen district of northern Nam Dinh province affirmed that the construction of Village Post Office Cultural Centres is the duty of the Post Office but all other society levels should contribute their efforts as this programme is beneficial for the community.
	vietnamgateway.org /vanhoaxa/english/village.htm (513 words)

	Libraries & Cultural Centres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the centre of the Medieval City, on the ground floor of the 'Castellania', which was used during the period of the Knights as the Chamber of Commerce, the Public Library of Rodos is located.
		The Municipal Cultural Centre 'Rodiaki Epavli', the former 'Royal Pavilion', is situated in the middle of a beautiful garden in the city centre and houses the Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Rodos, which is active in many fields such as the organisation of workshops for traditional music, photography, art, as well as children's theatre.
		At the Cultural Centre of the Catholic Church, right in the centre of the tourist area of the new town, a wide range of cultural activities are organised by the Associations of foreign nationals who live in Rodos.
	www.helios.gr /exr/manual/libraries.htm (445 words)

	Jordan Cultural centers
		GAM established Al Hussein Cultural Center to be a cultural landmark for the City of Amman.
		GAM Public Libraries Department works hard to provide cultural and educational services through public libraries in all Municipality regions, so that there will be a public library in each region.
		Considered one of the major cultural attractions of Amman, and situated on Jabal al Qal'ah overlooking the Roman Amphitheatre, the House of Poetry occupies one of Amman’s oldest houses: the former residence of Prince Ali bin Nayif.
	www.layyous.com /jordan/jordan_cultural_centers.htm (474 words)

	Cultural Centres and Libraries in Khartoum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Its objectives are the dissemination of culture, knowledge and scientific information, by means of the holding of fairs, symposiums and lectures on the arts, folklore and culture in general.
		The Centre offers French language study courses, a library, a video club, film shows, seminars, art exhibitions and various cultural activities.
		The Centre was established in 1944 and offers the following facilities; libraries, a theatre, computers, video room and art exhibition gallery.
	www.sudan-embassy.co.uk /infobook/cultural.php (361 words)

	Raid by police on NGO’s and Cultural Centres in Istanbul (KurdishMedia.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Istanbul, Turkey 18 associations, and cultural centres were raided on 28 November 2001 by police teams connected to Istanbul Police Headquarters.
		During the raid many association, newspaper, magazine employees and cultural centre members were taken into custody, while archives of the offices, organisations and institutions were confiscated.
		According to information given by Mesopotamia Cultural Centre the raid was carried out with the decision of the State Security Court (SSC).
	www.kurdmedia.com /articles.asp?id=2202 (515 words)

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