Bornfree USA
Photo: setting up at Duke University Duke, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Organized in corporation with Leon L. Dunkley, Ph.D., Director, Mary Lou
Williams Center For Black Culture.
Bornfree USA,
an Indonesian American Dutch Cross Cultural Promotion Tour of 70 Non profit
jazz Performances at 45 Universities and Colleges in 24 States of America
A music project reviving a tradition from the earliest days of American
jazz. Band buses, carrying their music to ‘out of town’ dancehalls. For this
tour the festival specially designed a Coach into a moving Stage, the Stage
Bus, and shipped it to New York
Tulips 2005
photo left: Maurice Leclerc - World War II Veteran, Chaudière Regiment of Quebec, Canada, Liberator of the Netherlands. Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands sees to it that 60 doves are released from the roof of the Stage Bus while she herself releases a white dove.
Tulips 2005,
100 performances in 76 communities, 14 provinces, throughout Canada, 50.000
km, 57.000 tulips offered in the spirit of peace and international
friendship as a tribute to Canadian veterans on the sixtieth anniversary of
the Netherlands’ liberation.
Tulips 2005 was executed with the festival’s stage bus to distribute the
gift of the tulips from Holland all over Canada and to reach out to the
younger Canadian Generation with music as an educational platform to remind
them about the II world war, the Canadian veterans and our freedom of today.
Prior to - and during the tour hundreds of veterans were interviewed and
photographed and their stories, accounts of WWII , were collected and
published in a book online: “Friendship”. (The Story, their stories 4 jazz
musicians playing tribute to Canadian WWII Veterans) The book was presented
to Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands during the 65th
anniversary of the liberation in May 2010
Classical Nuances
Photo: Korean oboist, Soun-Youn Yoon and American violist, Sharon Eng, in front of the Indonesian shadow puppetry of Nanang Hape.
Classical Nuances a chamber ensemble of rare distinction performing at the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Auditorium, United Nations Headquarters, New York on April 21st, 2006 as part of the Nuances American Tour 2006. Classical and contemporary works for a multinational trio enhanced by Indonesian shadow puppetry accompanied by a lighting and visual presentation.
Young in 60 Cities
Photo: 8-11-09 photo shoot workshop / 100 photographers from the Darwis Triadi School of Photography
"Young in 60 Cities" the embodiment of 2 disciplines: Photography and fashion. A 10 day exhibition including youth fashion and photographic related activities including fashion shows, fashion shoots and fashion workshops, musical events. The exhibition was the result of the International Teen Fashion Photo Competition. A choice of up to 240 photographs were presented. The jury consisted of a panel of great and well-known photographers, fashion Designers, Artists, including Hollywood producer Paul Verhoeven, Simon Xavier Guerrand-Hermès and others. A special project that offers an opportunity to maybe find the answers to the questions that surround teenagers and youth in general and therefore the climax of the event was a forum and discussion organized in collaboration with UNESCO Jakarta, highlighting the role of youth in establishing peace.