Spoken word artist Alix Olson calls her voice her “weapon of choice”, and her powerful work contains equal doses of humor, anger and compassion. A champion slam poet, Olson introduced […]
Monthly Archives: October 2005
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It’s the middle of the night. You wake up with a start. There’s a presence in the room watching you. You sense that it is evil. But you are paralysed […]
In October 2004, the Sebangau area of Kalimantan, in the Indonesian part of Borneo was declared a national park. The region is a very dense, almost impenetrable swamp forest, and […]
Was it fate or chance that brought them together? Theirs is probably one of the most unbelievable yet most fruitful encounters one could imagine. Vincent Polakovič, a lawyer from Slovakia, […]
Illegal immigration and residence became an issue in the Netherlands in the beginning of the 1990’s. People began to realise that quite a few immigrant workers – both legal and […]
More than 30 years after his death, the work of Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) remains popular around the world. His woodcuts and lithographs possess a unique quality […]