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The Launch of the Mandril Cultural Center (MCC)
Maas-Media is proud to announce the recent launch of Maastricht’s Mandril Cultural Center (MCC). Squatted in 2009, the building received its name Mandril by a Dutch satirical magazine Mandril – maandblad voor mensen which existed in the years 1948 until 1953, of which a box of unique copies were found in the attic. Thanks to the [...]
Posted in Arts & Culture, Editorials, Uncategorized
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Panic On The Streets of London
I see plumes of smoke rising from the distance as I stand on the balcony of my father’s apartment, located about ten minutes away by foot from Wood Green, the site where it all started four nights ago. London, this great burgeoning metropolis, this once shining beacon of world leadership, is in flames, and things [...]
Second Maas Sessions Video: The Serious Beans Project
Second Maassession video: The Serious Beans Project from Maas Media on Vimeo.
The Serious Beans Project: Mobility (2011)
Filmed and Edited by Daniel van Hauten
Written and Performed by The Serious Beans Project
Posted in Arts & Culture, Categories, MaasSessions, Newsletter
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First Maas Sessions Video: Mervie And Alessandro
MassSession Mervie & Alessandro from Maas Media on Vimeo.
Performance by: Mervie & Alessandro
Original song: “To Build a Home” by Cinematic Orchestra and Patrick Watson
All rights reserved to artists & no copyright infringement intended.
Shot by Daniel Van Hauten
Directed by Zai Moon
Posted in Arts & Culture, MaasSessions
Tagged Arts & Culture, MaasSessions, Maastricht, Music, OneShot
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A bridge of solidarity
By Katalina Präkelt
"We Build a Bridge of Solidarity" Photo by Tim Strasser
The revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya have not only shaken the Arab countries in North Africa, they have had an impact on the entire world – and they have surely ignited some action in Maastricht. On the theme ‘a bridge of solidarity‘, more [...]
Gonzo Photojournalism
We are on a mission to portray an array of various subjectivities and to narrate the spectacle of this festivity through precisely the stand points of these subject positions, including our own. Equipped with a camera and a creative approach we tell the diverse stories of participants of various ages, ethnicities and social strata who [...]
Calcutta/Kolkata – A Personal Memoir
A typical afternoon scene for the old Calcutta
In the last week of December 2009, just as the whole of Europe froze over, like a migratory bird I headed out to warmer climes. Yet my destination, tropical as it is by location, was Calcutta (known officially now as Kolkata, a ‘reclaiming’ of pre-colonial city names), not [...]
Posted in Arts & Culture, Food & Consumption, Politics & Human Rights
Tagged India, Photojournalism
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Living Off the Grid
Who are “Woodsies” and why do we ask, you might wonder? Well, it is not so much merely a matter of idealizing some ‘hippie lifestyle’, as it might seem, which has been and still very much is a characteristic feature of Santa Cruz, California. Maybe that too, but rather our intention is to point out, [...]
Activist Art Does Not Have a Home
Spending a four month, -30 degree winter with the street as a home is not something everyone can handle easily. After a couple of hours on the square Emilie Gamelin in central Montreal last November, for the event État d’urgence, my body was begging for warmth, although the thermometer only sank till -10. For four [...]
Posted in Arts & Culture, Politics & Human Rights
Tagged Activism, Arts & Culture, North America
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