We arrived yesterday, and the city seems very, very peaceful," said Japanese delegate Yoshiki Oi, who attends the University of Tokyo. "We are going to big cities, but this allows us to have a good perspective of America. If all we saw were the big cities, we would not learn about all of America.

The Ayala Center Cebu Cinema will be hosting Eigasai 2010, a Japanese Contemporary Film Festival from Aug. 3 to 8. “This event is a very good chance for cultural exchange. We are privileged to watch other nations' cultures particularly Japan’s in relation to filmmaking,” said regular film festival movie viewer Prof. Ligaya Rabago...

With thousands of people from the region and the rest of the world expected to attend the 7th Edition of the Pan African Dance Festival, FESPAD 2010, Rwanda says will market its rich cultural heritage.

A diverse range of performances prepared to strengthen cultural exchange will be hosted by the National Theater of Korea from September to October. The “2010 National Theater of Korea Global Festival” has become a yearly cultural ritual so-to-speak since its inception in 2007.

The 27th July marks just two years to go to the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games which will see excited fans from around the world descend on the UK capital to participate in what will be the nation’s most prestigious sporting event to date.

Culture and creativity are central to life in the 21st century. The global stakes have never been higher; never before have we been surrounded by so much information or so much art - high and popular, visual and aural, original and reproduced, amusing and challenging, bland and exciting.

Today, the State Department is reaching out to foreign publics in partnership with major private sector partners including Jazz at the Lincoln Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music as well as maintaining its own program of visits, exhibitions and tours.

The brilliant performance by a 13-member Egyptian folk dance troupe at Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) ended about ten years of cultural isolation between the two countries. Incidentally, the show also celebrated the National Day of Egypt.