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kamishibai books, in which popular culture merged with children’s literature.
And we haven’t yet mentioned Peter Verhelst’s Fairy-tale Brothel, in which visitors
were told a story in the context of a total experience pleasurable to the senses, and
emerged with a warm tingling sensation.
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BRUGGE 2002
Reflection and debate
Reflection was on the agenda in a very specific manner on many occasions, in the
form of debates, conferences, lectures and exchanges of thoughts on all matters
through which culture has ever attempted to save the world.
These included the lecture cycle Vives 2002 (in co-operation with the Adult Education
Centre and the College of Europe) on the underprivileged, culture and urban development,
and Na de beeldenstorm (After the Iconoclasm), a three-day symposium
(organised by the non-profit organisation Moritoen) in which thinkers reflected on
spirituality and the giving of meaning today. A colloquium and lecture cycle on photography
and urban development was held in the framework of the exhibition Portrait of
a City. A lecture cycle entitled Architects, artists, visionaries was put on by the architecture
association Archipel, and saw leading architects come to talk about their vision
of the role of contemporary architecture in a city like Bruges. There were lectures by
the grouping Christians 2002 and an international colloquium Right to Culture, in
which experiences and thoughts were exchanged on cultural integration in our
European education. And finally Bruges was host city for a number of conferences in
2002, such as the European Oxfam Conference on Fair Trade, the conference on cultural
tourism organised by the Catholic University of Leuven and Toerisme
Vlaanderen (the Tourist Office for Flanders), the international congress of Europa
Nostra, etc.
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