Take Away Culture: Imagine IC staff offering Ethiopian coffee to passers-by Amsterdamse Poort shopping area, Amsterdam Southeast, 12/06/09. Photo by Tugba Özer, Imagine IC. © Imagine IC
In June 2009, we got together in Barcelona to discuss strategies for collecting the ‘future heritage’ of contemporary entrepreneurial cultures in European cities. The various museums involved are collecting objects and personal histories of new European entrepreneurs. In the exhibition project Supertoko, Imagine IC in Amsterdam, in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES), presented the (Lire la suite…)
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Do you have or did you go to an orientalised restaurant in a European city and do you have pictures of it ? Please share them and your stories with us. You can send them to us and they will be made available at this website.
Belly dancing in the "Ryad Raval"
The Ryad Raval restaurant in Barcelona markets exotism. According to the serving staff, the non-Moroccan Barcelonean couple who own it, made their love for Morocco into profitable entertainment. Just like the many French and other Europeans do in the gentrifried centre of Marrakesh, they have transformed their mansion in the old immigrant quarter of Raval into a place where tourists and locals spend a leisure time in constructed oriental luxury. And just like in Marrakesh, they call their mansion a riyad. Theirs serves Moroccan but also Lebanese and other dishes with an oriental feel. The interior decoration similarly combines different styles that together with the music even inspire a late evening hour of belly dancing among our group of European museum workers.
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Project meeting in Barcelona
On the first meeting day, we visited the exhibition « Connected Barcelona, Transnational Citizens » and discussed the MUHBA strategic plan and the topic of contemporary collecting. In the afternoon, we walked through the district El Raval where we got impressions of the fieldwork done with and by foreign communities. First, we had a visit to the primary school CEIP Drassanes on our program, where children with different cultural backgrounds (Lire la suite…)
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Read more about the local project of the Museum of European Cultures (MEK) and the Neighbourhood Museum (NBM) in Berlin (Lire la suite…)
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‘The Secret Life of Smithdown’ project will explore how entrepreneurs have helped shape neighbourhoods and local resident’s lives and life experiences along Smithdown Road, South Liverpool over time. The project will culminate in a neighbourhood display in People’s City Gallery in the new Museum of Liverpool opening 2010.
Read more in this document: The Secret life of Smithdown
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…this is the title of the current exhibition in the Tinell Hall at the History Museum of Barcelona: http://www.barcelonaconnectada.cat/en/
The categories of migrant and cosmopolitan go hand in hand when a major part of the inhabitants of Barcelona are of a greatly varied condition and position. Thanks to advances in communications and transport, these inhabitants weave together everyday economic, social and cultural links between very diverse worlds. (Lire la suite…)
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Interviews and stories from and with entrepreneurs, collected during the preparation of an actual exhibition by the Amsterdams Historisch Museum
Document (pdf): Storytelling in Amsterdam
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Project meeting in Volos
The greek project partner DIKI (Municipal Center for Historical Research and Documentation of Volos) presented the actual Volos City Museum project and its website. After a discussion, there was a common visit of the City Museum building (in restoration) in the Palia district (Old town). After that, the partners made a trip to the Tsalapatas brick factory. It was established in 1925 by Tsalapatas Bros and operated until 1975, when ceased the (Lire la suite…)
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Project meeting in Amsterdam
On the first project meeting, there were presentations on the theoretical and practical aspects and experiences of outreach work in local projects in Berlin, Liverpool and Amsterdam. One of the important questions was sustainability. The participants made an excursion to Transvaal neighbourhood in Amsterdam, where the AHM is developing contacts and collecting stories for the 2010 exhibition on the (Lire la suite…)
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This project has been funded with the support of the European Commission