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We first heard of Gianmaria Giannetti very recently, it was last July. The association «Artistes du Monde» (Artists from around the World), under the patronage of Marina Picasso, organized with the help of the City of Cannes and the Palais des Festivals an international exhibition that brought together some one hundred artists from 20 countries. Gianmaria Giannetti won City of Cannes Prize. Information about the artist is scarce and his official ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. ...

Mehdi Favéris-Essadi also known as DJ Mehdi, was 34 years old. He died from fatal injuries on Tuesday after roof of his Paris home collapsed. He was a French-Tunisian Hip-hop/electro producer and DJ, and much appreciated by electro fans, and by us. Billboard.com says about him: DJ Mehdi gained prominence in the French electro and house scene in the late 90s as a DJ for Different Teep, and recently became a staple of Ed Banger Records. He has worked with ...

Paris Design Week has started and it is about celebrating design through a popular event for both the general public and professionals. Exhibitions, events, in many different places across Paris. Design but also music and most of all great guests. About the event: Paris Design Week is both cultural and commercial, professional and consumer-oriented. It will bring together a hundred events, including the MAISON&OBJET international trade show, ...

Stop Genocide Now organizes a Rally for Regime Change in Sudan in New York on September 16, 2011, 1-4pm, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, East 47th Street. As you may already know if you read En Route to Sudan, destructive military action against Blue Nile State as well as in Darfur are still going on.  From SGN: The Sudanese marginalized movements and organizations representing the marginalized areas of the Nuba Mountains, Darfur, Blue Nile, Abyei, Beja, and ...

Ousmane Sow is an internationally acclaimed Senegalese sculptor. The sculptor extraordinaire as many call him, had been sculpting since childhood and we are enthralled with his work. Whether it is a Masai warrior with spear and shield, wrestlers coupled body to body (see illustration below) or the Toussaint figure created in 1989 in Dakar (acquired by Smithsonian in 2009 and illustrating this post, left), Sow knows how to tell a story. Each sculpture ...

This is our new Friday Digest! Every Friday, this weekly news round-up gives us the occasion to share with you news from various topics: politics to arts, entertainment, media, science, sports, fun and less fun news… This digest is a list of news published this week on the Internet (Friday to Friday), selected by the Sama Team, and it is by no means exhaustive. If you want to suggest a news to be added in the next Friday Digest, contact us. ...

It has been a while since we didn’t mention Burlesque on the Sama Gazette and we had to do something about it. So here is a great news for any Burlesque lover: for its fourth year, BurlyCon will be held in Seattle the weekend of October 20-23. If you don’t know what BurlyCon is about, here is a hint: BurlyCon is an annual Burlesque Educational convention that provides educational offerings, professional growth and in-person social networking ...

Everything started back in May, when IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was accused of sexual assault. Four months later,  the New York District Attorney moved to withdraw the charges on 22 August 2011, due to the ‘unreliability of the complainant and inconclusive physical evidence’. On Sunday, Dominique Strauss-Khan and his wife Anne Sinclair have returned to France, and they were surrounded by journalists, eager to ask DSK questions about ...

Among the many, many new things we added to the new version of the Sama Gazette, there is a revamped version of En Route To Sudan (we will present it in a next post) but there is most of all a brand new section we are very proud of: Inspiration to Action. Here is the introduction to it: This page is dedicated to organizations and campaigns we support, and also to inspiring people (this list is by no means exhaustive, of course). They all do an amazing job ...