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Cultura projects with Netcetera's support

Website for La Dhoka: Social Project in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

Netcetera developed and hosts the website of the Swiss association La Dhoka that finances a children’s home in Nepal. In December 2011, Netcetera’s apprentices designed and implemented the new web presence of La Dhoka. The social project evolved in 2008 from the friendship of the Nepalese Laxmi Dhungel and the Swiss Simone Moser. Today the children’s home close to Kathmandu offers a home and a school education to nine children from poor families.

• More about the Social Project La Dhoka

Artists creating magic Moments

Cinema for Life gives joy to cancer patients and their relatives and lives from the gratuitous commitment of its contributors. Well-known artists present fascinating, contemplative and funny short stories with musical interludes. Netcetera supported the Christmas reading in Zürich Oerlikon on 27 November 2011, which puts a smile on the listeners’ faces for the fourth time.

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Swiss German Music with Netcetera

Netcetera supports “LiedArt”, a concert series with Swiss German music in Zug, Zürich, Biglen and Gerlafingen. At the five evening concerts in October and November 2011, two to three balladeers perform a palette of fresh, bizarre and profound texts and tones.

TheaterWerkstatt for Children with Disability

Since 2006, „machTheater“ (play theater) and Theater HORA Züriwerk organize theater workshops for children and adolescents with a disability. Netcetera supported the rehearsals and performances in Zürich in June and July 2011. The  workshop enables the young participants to practice physical expression, role-playing, improvisation and creativity.

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Youth Work Integration Project „KopfBall“ supported by Netcetera

„KopfBall“ is a work integration project for unemployed youths in Zürich stimulating their enthusiasm for learning. Individual support increases the chances to find an apprenticeship for adolescents having problems to get a job. Since 2010, the young participants have been organizing and playing football matches and as a result experience joy and social regard. Beside the practical organizational work, they can close gaps in their school work and dedicate themselves to finding and applying for jobs.

Swiss Play about Muhammad Ali and the Beauty of Boxing: “Ali - Schlegle mit Regle”

The play roughly translates “Ali – beating up with rules” and pursues questions like “What’s a role model?” “What does fairness mean?”. Netcetera Cultura supports the performance about Muhammad Ali at schools in Zürich in May and June 2011. On a boxing ring stage in the schoolyard or gym, two actors take up the structures and rituals of a boxing match to solve a conflict. A boxing match with its strict rules crassly contrasts a street fight without rules or referees. They abstract the fight in crosstalk, dance and rap. Beforehand, the actors researched the issue “violence at schools” with a group of pupils in Zürich Oerlikon to better understand how today’s youth deals with conflicts and violence and to integrate their findings into the play.

• More about the Play (in German only) (PDF, 3190 KB)

Swiss Indian Orchestra on the Road with Netcetera

The Swiss musicians have been performing together as a quartet for six years now, creating melodious compositions inspired by Indian music with Tabla, Sitar and Bansoori. Netcetera finances the musicians’ flight tickets for their tour in Ireland from 7 to 10 April 2011.

• More about the Swiss Indian Orchestra

Enchanting Sounds from Lithuanian Swiss Jazz Quintet SWILIT

Since 2006, the Swiss musician Herbie Kopf has been playing in the Lithuanian Swiss band SWILIT in Lithuania. Following their successful performance at the Jazz Festival in Birstonas in spring 2010, Herbie Kopf brought the band to Switzerland for a series of concerts. Netcetera Cultura supported this tour from 1 to 12 November 2010. The musicians enchanted the listeners with surprising inflections and sound variations in dizzying tempo or meditative tranquility.

• More about SWILIT

Open Theater Workshop in Zürich’s Aussersihl Quarter facilitates Integration

Netcetera Cultura supports the Open Theater Workshop in the community center Aussersihl organized by the Association for Exchange, Socioculture and Theater – Vast. In 2010, the workshop organizes two theater courses for 9 to 14 year olds. The offer is intended for children and adolescents from the Zürich city districts 3, 4 and 5. These children do not have the possibility to participate in such activities due to their budgetary situation and language deficits. By acting, they can playfully develop their language skills and creativity, which in turn facilitates their social integration.

• More about the community center Aussersihl

Netcetera Cultura supports video tank – 24-Hour Showcase Disco

Fabian Chiquet’s installations deal with different characteristics of youth and party culture. In his work „Pass This On“ for video tank he constructs a 24-hour showcase disco in three aquariums underneath the Dreikönigsbrücke in Zürich. In the center of each aquarium a monitor displays light shows from Zürich’s clubs and party rooms. The installation runs from 25 June to 12 September 2010 and poetizes the disregarded part of the city beneath the bridge.

• Mehr über Fabian Chiquet und Pass This On

Stroll through Zürich’s Quarter “Hard” – A Film by young Residents

Netcetera Cultura partly finances a film by the Open Youth Work District 9 and Hard in Zürich. The teenagers of the city district Hard present their life while strolling through the streets. The film is shown at schools and in associations encouraging the mutual exchange between generations and cultures. The premier took place at the Albisriederplatz school’s opening on 28 Mai 2010.

• More about Open Youth Work District 9 and Hard

Youth Music Zürich 11: Netcetera supports the Jubilee Concert

Generations of girls and boys have been playing at the music school „Jugendmusik Zürich 11“ for more than 50 years. Even Netcetera founders Andrej Vckovski and Ronnie Brunner played in the symphonic wind orchestra as boys. On 6 June 2010 the wind orchestra performs together with the children’s choirs of the youth music school Zürich in the Tonhalle Zürich. Netcetera Cultura financially contributes to the success of this jubilee concert.

• More about Youth Music Zürich 11

Vocal Ensemble Turivox sings between Darkness and Light

Turivox interprets old and new choir works with a small cast. With their three-part opus „Erpicht auf Licht“ - Eager for Light - they transcribe a crisis-laden vita into sounds. The first part is dedicated to the dark side of life, followed by Christoph Ganter’s premier and experimental second part „Erpicht auf Licht“. It spans the arch between the dark first part and the third and last part, which is devoted to the light side of life. Netcetera supported the concerts in Zürich, Dietikon and Unterottikon at the end of April 2010.

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Chasing Whiffle Balls with Netcetera Cultura

The floorball club Seuzach is an association for former floorball players and newcomers. Every year, the club organizes a fun tournament open to everyone: the Seuzicup. At the Seuzicup of 20 and 21 March 2010, the teams chase the whiffle balls through the sports hall Rietacker in Seuzach with Netcetera’s support.

• More about the UHC Seuzach

Netcetera Cultura Treats the Swiss Scouts to Registration Portal

In July 2011, about 30,000 children meet at the World Scout Jamboree in Kristianstad, Sweden. For the 1,500 Swiss scouts Netcetera developed an online registration portal facilitating a reliable and efficient event administration starting October 2009.

• More about the World Scout Jamboree 2011
• To the Registration Portal

"Fisches Nachgesang"

Netcetera Cultura supports the media art project “Fisches Nachgesang”. It plays with new media in public space. Nica Giuliani and Andrea Gsell from "île flottante" present their project arranged in video and audio elements underneath the Dreikönigsbrücke in Zürich from 30 October to 4 December 2009. Under this bridge, the financial world of Paradeplatz encounters the water element. On three monitors, three financial professionals interpret and recite the poem “Fisches Nachtgesang” by Christian Morgenstern. A female underwater voice accompanies them with a hourly changing melody that interprets the progression of the current stock-market price.

• More about Fisches Nachgesang

Kobal – Music Plays with Literature

The creation of Jazz musician Jochen Baldes and author Nicolai Kobus combines music with literature. Baldes’ music accompanies and contrasts Kobus’ text “Ach Anna”. Their work consists of 14 musical and textual pieces: prologue, January to December and epilogue. A journey through the year with the band’s music framing the poets voice. Netcetera Cultura supports the CD release tour. The Swiss premier takes place at the Jazz club Moods in Zürich in March 2010.

• More about Kobal

Opening Celebration Albisriederplatz School Zürich

In summer 2009, 150 students between 12 and 17 years of age moved into the new senior high school at the Albisriederplatz in Zürich. The schoolhouse's goal is to upgrade the quality of life in the socially disadvantaged city quarter Hardau. With the motto “Arriving – Settling – Rooting“ the school celebrated their opening. Together with Cafe Boy , Netcetera Cultura sponsors food and drinks for its young neighbors.

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Bodycloud – Human Motion Materialized

Netcetera Cultura supports Raphael Perret’s master thesis in scenography. It analyzes the transformation between real and virtual space. The scenographer digitally records a dancer’s movements and produces a 3D simulation. He re-materializes the digitized body space with sculptures true to scale. The work is being presented at the symposium "Monitoring Scenography 3: Space and Desire" in October 2009.

• More about the Symposium

Jazzy Netcetera Supports the Summer Jazz Open-Air Zürich

Netcetera employees passionately perform in a Jazz band and even the CEO Andrej Vckovski enjoys playing the saxophone. Reason enough for Netcetera Cultura to financially support the summer Jazz open-air. For the third time, Jazz bands from all over Switzerland perform under the moon and stars in the Kanzleiareal in Zürich on 3 and 4 September 2009; admission is free.

• More about the Summerjazz open air

Paulus Choir Jubilee Concert – Netcetera Sings along

Netcetera Cultura funds the jubilee concerts of the Paulus Choir Zürich. Three Netcetera employees also help to strike the right note with their vocal cords: Together with the choir of 70 singers they celebrate the 75 year anniversary of the Paulus church and the centenary of the local protestant committee with a concert. On 12 and 13 September 2009 they perform the Paulus oratory by Felix Mendelssohn in the cities of Zürich and Winterthur.

• More about the Paulus Choir

Art Exhibition "inside Teheran out"

The “Forum Schlossplatz“ organizes an exhibition about artistic work from Teheran that was created during the past 30 years. From the artists’ perspective the exhibition illuminates life in the metropolis since the Islamic revolution in Iran. The art works reflect political and cultural development and reveal the oppressive atmosphere as well as utopian moments that keep the door open to a different society. Netcetera Cultura supports the exhibition from 13 September 2009 to 10 January 2010 in Aarau, Switzerland.

• More about the ”Forum Schlossplatz“ and the exhibition

Max on the Brink – Peter Hottinger Philosophizes in the Cafe Boy

In his spoken theatre performance "Max am Rand", Peter Hottinger reflects on seemingly irrelevant aspects of everyday life. The young city dweller Max takes the audience along on his urban ramble: an odyssey through emergency wards, waiting rooms, cafes, and a side trip to paradise. For his performances in January 2009, Netcetera Cultura put its event location, the Cafe Boy, at his free disposal.

• More about Peter Hottinger

Homage to Zürich: Thanks to Netcetera Cultura, Residents of different City Areas Have their Say

"Un bel caffè alla Migros" is an ironical short movie about Zürich’s inhabitants from different areas, social classes and origins. They recount cheerful moments of their everyday lives. The screenwriters plan to show the movie about Zürich’s microcosm at places like post offices, museum entrances, or railway stations in June 2009. Netcetera Cultura helps to publicize the humorous and personal statements of Zürich’s residents. "Un bel caffè alla Migros" came in third in the city competition "We live Zürich".

Equipment for the Renegades: Netcetera Cultura Supports Football Club’s Juniors

The Zurich Renegades are a very successful American Football Club. American Football is clearly a marginalized sport in Switzerland and the club has only limited funds. As one of the first clubs in Switzerland the Renegades created a U16 tackle team, the Sophomores. To lower the entry barrier to the sport Netcetera supports the Renegades’ youngest and finances equipment for the new talents starting 2008.

Netcetera develops Website for "Reaching U" in Dubai

Reaching U offers a sports and nutrition program for children with special needs and creates awareness for the problems of disadvantaged children in the United Arab Emirates. Netcetera supports this social project and, in 2008, developed Reaching U’s extensive web presence for free. With the new and attractive platform Reaching U now easily reaches people affected and donators.

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25,000 Scouts in the River Plains of Linth - Netcetera Cultura Supports Swiss Scouts’ Jamboree

For two weeks in July 2008, thousands of scouts have erected their tents at the Scouts’ Jamboree in Switzerland. At the camp “Contura”, all Swiss scout sub-camps experience nature and campfire romance together. The last reunion of this kind took place 14 years ago. Netcetera Cultura supports the sub-camp 1, named 360°, with a tower. It symbolizes the center of the sub-camp and also suits as landmark. Four Netcetera employees participate in the Jamboree too, leading on the younger scouts.

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Netcetera Cultura enables "Jack’s Back" Jazzical

Jazzcetera from Zürich is winning the audience with their ambitious a-capella repertoire, choreographed pictures and acted scenes since 1988. "Jack’s Back" is Jazzetera’s ninth Jazzical in indigenous production. With the support of Netcetera Cultura "Jack’s Back" was performed more than ten times in various Swiss locations in March and May 2008. The story is about the landlady Anna and her former lover and father of her daughter, Jack. Jack’s alleged appearance motivates Anna to relive her life-lies in flashbacks.

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Guitar Concert in Bern - Netcetera Cultura Contributes the Location Rent

The guitar duo “Clormann-Trechslin” has been giving concerts at home and abroad for more than ten years. Their perfect interplay inspires the audience and offers an extraordinary listening experience. Jury Clormann’s and Elisabeth Trechslin’s travels through Andalusia and South America made them experts in Spanish and Argentinean guitar music. Their public performances however, need financial support. Netcetera Cultura took on the rent for the location “Ono” in the city of Bern for their concert of 16 November 2008.

• More about the Guitar Duo