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The Cultural Program of Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland
Swiss Roots - Cultural Offshoots: USA 2006
Pro Helvetia offers a program of contemporary highlights in music, film and visual arts. Titled "Swiss Roots – Cultural Offshoots" the program reveals the cosmopolitan and playful side of Switzerland to the American public. Swiss artists today show a refreshing lack of restraint in coming to terms with their cultural roots and using them as the basis for bold, uninhibited new creations and interdisciplinary encounters. A delight in experimentation coupled with typically Swiss qualities – sensible, persevering, graciously stubborn – produce an inimitable creative mixture.

For over sixty years, Pro Helvetia has been mandated by the Swiss government to support arts and culture within Switzerland and to promote both domestic and international cultural exchange. Its range of activities contributes significantly to Switzerland's standing as a culturally rich, innovative and multi-faceted nation.

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EXHIBITION: REPROCESSING REALITY
What is reality and is there a truth beyond the images we create to visualize it? These and similar questions constitute the thematic horizon of the exhibition. Reprocessing Reality, organized by Swiss curator Claudia Spinelli, sets up a transdisciplinary dialogue between documentary film and the visual arts.

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Exhibition: Ticinese Architecture in the World (1970 - 2003)
Architects from Ticino epitomize the international success story of Swiss architecture. The exhibition documents the works and its makers, embodying an architectural movement that began in the 1970s as a "tendency" in the Canton of Ticino and soon garnered worldwide acclaim.

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MUSIC: ERIKA STUCKY & ROOTS OF COMMUNICATION
Erika Stucky loves contrasts. Born in San Francisco, she grew up in Mörel, a town in Valais, Switzerland. She embodies the spirit of the cosmopolitan city and the mountain hamlet, hippies and folklore. She eludes classification. She sings and performs in a diversity of genres with unabashed verve.

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SWISS FILMS: TRADITIONS – TRANSITIONS
Documentary filmmaking in Switzerland covers a wide variety of themes from studies of society to portraits of artists, music films, and essays. The swiss roots film program, scheduled in two parts, invites viewers to venture into new territories.

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CULTURAL MAGAZINE: PASSAGES
The May 2006 issue of Passages does not simply function as a mirror for the themes addressed in swiss roots and the Pro Helvetia cultural program. It elaborates on them in wider-ranging, in-depth studies. Passages is not confined to the question of immigration, nor to Swiss arts and artists in the United States.

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