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  • InteRDom’s HOT Summer Seminars Begin

    InteRDom’s HOT Summer Seminars, a feature of the program’s academic offering, kicked-off on Tuesday, June 30, with a two-day seminar series in conjunction with The World Bank titled “Doing Business in Latin America.”

  • Fourth Annual GMAI Summer Course Comes to a Successful Close

    The Global Media Arts Institute (GMAI), an initiative of Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), offered for the fourth time the summer course “Introduction to Audiovisual Production: Film and Television,” in collaboration with New York University’s Opportunity Program and One Race Global Film Foundation.

  • Premiere of GMAI Documentary Film Juan Bosch: Solo Letras

    The documentary film produced by the Global Media Arts Institute, Juan Bosch: Solo Letras, was premiered June 8, during the Centenary Celebration of the Birth of Juan Bosch, celebrated June 8-12, 2009. Juan Bosch: Solo Letras is an artistic representation of Coronada Pichardo Niño’s book Juan Bosch y la Canonización de la Narrativa Dominicana.

  • GFDD and FUNGLODE Organize Musical Performance by Cuban Group Ars Longa

    On Monday, June 8, Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE), in collaboration with Mauricio Baéz organized a musical performance by the Cuban group Ars Longa at Mauricio Baéz in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

  • New Perspectives of the Dominican Republic Exhibition Major Success

    A major success. An exhibition never before seen in the Dominican Republic. A reunion of Dominicans with their compatriots and their countryside. Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) and the Ministry of Culture collaborated in organizing a photo exhibition titled “New Perspectives of the Dominican Republic” in Parque de la Independencia.

  • GFDD and FUNGLODE Officially Open the Juan Bosch Library

    On Monday, Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (FUNGLODE) officially re-opened its Documentation and Information Management Center, renaming it the Juan Bosch Library. The dedication of the library was attended by various donors whose contributions made possible the construction of the new facility. Many influential academics and intellectuals were present at the event, in addition to Dominican President Leonel
    Fernández, Honorary President of GFDD and FUNGLODE, and Carmen Quidiello, widow of the honored Professor Juan Bosch.

  • GMAI Staff Member Participates in TeleSUR Training Program in Venezuela

    Jesús Frías, a Global Media Arts Institute staff member, is presently participating in the teleSUR training program, “Audiovisual Journalism,” in Venezuela, in order to strengthen the capabilities of GMAI in the areas of broadcast journalism, audiovisual editing and television production.

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