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Tirana International Photo Fest was launched on May 12th 2014, at the Dream City Fest expo venue located in the heart of Tirana, in the presence of friends, art lovers, photographers, architects and media. Dream City Fest Fest is bringing together photographers, architects, designers from all around the world in to one city wide festival about photography.

The second part of TIPhF Tirana International Photo Fest in PARIS will take place on 15th April 2015 at the "Laboratoire de la Création" - 111 Rue Saint Honoré 75001 Paris.

Journey to Mount Tomor was premiered in public at the International Film Festival in Prishtina, in May 2014. For Iljir Selimoski, it was a great honour after 7 years of struggle to be able to show it in Kosovo. He greatly feared that moment, because he wondered if people in the theatre would want to talk about the subject after the viewing...

The first National Conference of Albanian Architects and Urban Planners was held in Tirana on June 2014. The event was organized by the sector of built heritage within the Albanian Architect’s Organization.

Talks were held by researchers, urban planners, architects, sociologists, annalists from Kosovo and Albania, representatives of non profitable organizations, representatives of local government, and professors from the Polytechnic University of Tirana, Epoka University, UFO University, researchers from of Institute of the National Heritage etc.

The capital of Kosovo is home to a rich architectural heritage which reflects its history, but the waves of destruction which have affected the city - and more generally the territory - since the end of the Second World War have deeply altered its appearance.

Belgium is not only beer and chocolates, but many other things. One of its cultural values is comic strips, considered in Belgium as an art in itself. Belgian artists are pioneers in this field and have played an important role in the development of this art in Europe. This is why Mr. Willem De Graeve, P&R director of the Belgian Comic Strip Center, opened several exhibitions in Balkans.

Kirsten Johnson’s recordings and performances have delighted listeners around the world. Building on the success of Këngë: Albanian Piano Music (Guild 7257), she has compiled a second album of pieces titled Rapsodi: Albanian Piano Music, Volume 2. On the release of Këngë, critics marvelled at the charm of this unknown repertoire.

For its 7th edition, Balkan Trafik! presents the best of music, dance and film in South-Eastern Europe. The most powerful brass bands from Serbia and Romania, the best Turkish jazzmen and gypsy musicians, the most beautiful sevdah voices from Bosnia, devilish rock from Pristina, clubbing on the hottest electro from Athens, the prince of the gypsy synthesizer and the masters of Albanian wedding music!

The work of Adrian Paci (born in 1969 in Albania) underlines one of the parodoxes of human intelligence, which consists of becoming aware of reality through irreality. Often inspired by subjects close to him, stories arising from his everyday life, Adrian Paci lets them slide poetically towards a fiction, which in its turn creates one or more wider realities. The exhibition at the Jeu de Paume gathers extremely diverse works (videos, installations, paintings, photographs and sculptures) made since 1997 and shows the numerous interconnections that operate between these different media and means of expression.

The work of Adrian Paci (born in 1969 in Albania) underlines one of the paradoxes of human intelligence, which consists of becoming aware of reality through irreality. Often inspired by subjects close to him, stories arising from his everyday life, Adrian Paci lets them slide poetically towards a fiction, which in its turn creates one or more wider realities. The exhibition at the Jeu de Paume gathers extremely diverse works (videos, installations, paintings, photographs and sculptures) made since 1997 and shows the numerous interconnections that operate between these different media and means of expression.

Art & Heritage invites you to the launch of the exhibition “Protect & Promote”, Wednesday 1 August 2012, 19:00. Venue: EU Info Center, Tirana

The prize-giving event will be opened by the head of EU Delegation in Tirana, Ambassador Ettore Sequi.

The Contest and the exhibition Protect & Promote is an initiative of the cultural periodic Art & Heritage and of Cultural Heritage without Borders.