Events/News

  • LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN: Evening of Time – Señores Naturales Yanomami 26 November, 2011 – 27 May, 2012 at the Folkwank Museum, Germany. 
  • Christmas Market in Vienna: When: Dec. 17-24. Arte Amazonia is teaming up again with Menschen Leben this Christmas at the Vienna Christmas Market at the Town hall to help support people in transition, especially women and children, who are refuges to Austria from other parts of the globe. 
  • EVOLVER VIENNA: SPORE SHAMANISM, Novemeber 19th @ WUK from 4 -8 pm. This event offers a varied program that gives you a chance to get a deep insight into various facets of shamanism from a variety of perspectives.... Join us for our team of highly experienced speakers, including Heiko Dittmer of ARTE AMAZONIA, that will fill both your soul and your mind with wonderful inspiration.
  • International Scientific Symposium @ SEM: Indigenous Cultures as a reminder of environmental protection and heritage conservation in contemporary society on October 26th, 2011.
  • Evolver Online Lecture: Starting October 9th, join Jeremy Narby and a group visionary experts in an intimate online intensive series discussing the personal, communal and global healing powers of the Amazonian plant medicine - Ayahuasca.
  • ARTE AMAZONIA @ SEM, Slovene Ethnographic Museum: On the occasion of the exhibition ORINOCO, Indians of the Amazon Rainforest, by the Cisneros Foundation. ARTE AMAZONIA at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum
    with the live art installation of the Cosmic Anaconda, a Yanomami basket sculpture symbolic of indigenous knowledge, by Leah & Heiko Dittmer of ARTE AMAZONIA. The program includes films, sounds, tastes, children programs, rainforest shop and and it is the pre-launch of the global art project, AMAZONIA-R-EVOLUTION.
  • THE COSMIC ANACONDA: Installation made by THE INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE presented live cam: See the THE COSMIC ANACONDA manifested at the Slovene Ethnographic Museum on September 25th. The 125+ authentic Yanamami Basket sculpture depicts the Amazonian mythical being of  'ancient knowledge' which has sustained indigenous cultures for thousands of years.
  • Orinoco Exhibition: 20 Apr 2011 - 28 Apr 2012, Slovenski etnografski muzej / Slovene Ethnographic Museum, Metelkova ulica 2. This extensive exhibition of over 800 artefacts shows the ever more endangered way of life of the Hiwi, Hoti, Panare and other Indian peoples who have lived in the rainforest of the Orinoco River region of southern Venezuela for thousands of years.

 

 

  • The Rainforest World Music Festival is an annual 3-day music festival held in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, that features local musicians and live musical performances from around the world such as Scotland, Madagascar, New Zealand, Mongolia and Zimbabwe.

 

 

  • Film Competion: The Native Spirit Foundation is pleased to invite filmmakers, organisations and individuals to submit their film to the 5th Native Spirit Festival of Indigenous people to be held in London and Spain during October 2011.

 

  • Film Competion: What’s your vision of a positive future? We see negative and depressing visions of the probable future all the time. What we don’t see enough of are visions of a positive future. This contest is about sharing your inspiring vision with the world.

 

  •  The Doc Shop on-site Festival market at Hot Docs Toronto, Canada, 28 April - 8 May 2011

 

  • Dam Protests in Europe: Join Us in Support of Amazonian indigenous leaders NOW in Europe discussing the impact of large dams on the local communities. The delegation will engage European governments and dam builders and put pressure on one of the main financier of these projects – the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) – to refrain or withdraw their support. The delegation will help to advance the preservation of the Xingu, Madeira, and Ene River basins and demand respect for the rights of local populations whose livelihoods depend on these riverines.

 

  • Film: Children of the Amazon: Showing on February 18th in London. This film follows Brazilian filmmaker Denise Zmekhol as she travels a modern highway deep into the Amazon in search of the Indigenous Surui and Negarote children she photographed fifteen years ago. Her journey tells the story of what happened to life in the largest forest on Earth when a road was built straight through its heart.

 

  • Yasuni: Two Seconds of Life:  Crowdfunding Project - we want to bring this movie to the world and we need your support! Have a look at the on IndieGogo and spread the message.

 

  • Save the Forest, Save the Culture: The Amazon in Times Square! The Gabarron Foundation Partners With The United Nations to Promote the International Year of Forests Through Photographs of Amazon Rain Forest. Gabarron Foundation to Display International Year of Forests Photo Exhibition on Cemusa Newsstands in Times Square.

 

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  • You can help protect the Amazon! Brazilians are increasingly organizing protests throughout the country. Saturday August 20 will be massive day of action in at least 22 Brazilian cities. Antonia Melo, a key leader of the movement to stop the Belo Monte Dam, has asked people to organize protests around the world on Monday August 22 in front of their local Brazilian Embassy or Consulate.