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MALMÖ-KÖPENHAMN BYGGER EN KULTURBRO 2000
Först Kulturhuvudstad-96 och nu Kulturbro-2000. Köpenhamn satsar vidare på kulturen, nu tillsammans med Malmö. Den fjärde september i år blev det nämligen klart att Sverige går med i projektet Kulturbro 2000, då beviljade den Svenska regeringen projektet 375.000 danska kronor för första verksamhetsåret. Det nya projektets mål är att vara en återkommande kulturbiennal med start hösten 2000. Biennalen skall finansieras med hjälp av Statliga bidrag och samarbetspartners från privata näringslivet. Fondens ordförande är Svensken Lars Nittve, museedirektör för Louisiana, Danmarks museum för modern konst i Humlebäck.
Under Kulturhuvudstadsåret satsades det mycket på evenemang utanför institutionerna. Det flesta succeérna var kreativa fyrverkerier. Alla njöt av en färgsprakande himmel men då succeéarrangörerna inte hade någon bas att stå på försvann kreativiteten lika fort som den kom. De etablerade kulturinstitutionerna började genast diskutera hur man skulle kunna dra fördel av detta försprång att ha en fungerande organisation som kan förvalta den kreativitet som uppstår med anledning av ett stort arrangemang. De skulle även behöva den vitamininjektion som ett stort arrangemang ger. Lugnt och organiskt växte det fram ett förslag om en återkommande kulturbiennal i Öresundsregionen. Det Danska kulturministeriet tog kontakt med Lars Nittve och tillsammans utarbetade de en plan. Denna gång skulle man samarbeta med Malmö och börja realisera drömmen om ett stort återkommande kulturarrangemang över gränserna.
Lars Nittve presenterade Kulturbroprojektet för första gången på konsthallen i Malmö den 11 april-97. Den sjätte juni i år hade fonden sitt första sammanträde då man bestämde styrelsens sammansättning. Den 4 september beviljade den Svenska regeringen fonden "Kulturbro 2000" ett tillfälligt bidrag på 375 000 danska kronor för fondens första verksamhetsår. Den 12 september hade fonden sitt andra möte då styrelsen träffade sekretariatschefen Ann-Sofie Bäcker. Man drog även upp riktlinjerna för Kulturbrofondens verksamhet det första verksamhetsåret. Tredje och sista mötet under 1997 kommer att ske innan jul då man skall utvärdera möjligheterna att kunna realisera visionen med en kulturbiennal vartannat år med början hösten -2000.
Även om fondens bidrag än så länge är öronmärkta utredningspengar är stämningarna inom kulturinstitutionerna mycket positiva. Kulturchefen i Malmö talar om ett lyft för Öresundsregionen och ett gynnsamt kreativt klimat . Även Ordföranden för fonden Lars Nittve är mycket positiv.
- När vi talar om att slå en Kulturbro över Öresund, så handlar det inte om en abstrakt konstruktion byggd bara på fromma förhoppningar. Här finns redan ett naturligt intresse att bygga vidare på. Såväl hos konstnärerna som hos publiken. Hur många tänker på att Louisiana med sina 150-200.000 svenska besökare faktiskt är Sveriges, publikt sett, största museum. sa Nittve bestämt när han först presenterade projektet.
Grundideén i Kulturbro 2000 enligt Nittve är att bygga på de redan existerande institutionerna, på deras expertis, på deras organisationer och etablerade publikrelationer istället för att för dyra pengar bygga upp parallella organisationer utan en upparbetad publik. Han menar att här finns visioner och drömprojekt som bara väntar på att bli realiserade .
Sedan den första augusti har fonden haft ett sekretariat Som chef för sekretariatet har Nittve handplockat Ann-Sofie Bäcker. Bäcker har bl.a jobbat i 10 år på Nationalmuseum i Köpenhamn. De senaste två åren har hon varit engagerad i Kulturhuvudstad 1996, där hon var curator tillsammans med Willie Flindt. Tillsammans gjorde de den uppmärksammade utställningen "Memento Metropolis" i Turbinhallarna. Bäckers uppgift är att ge råd och stöd till de gamla kulturinstitutionerna i Öresundsområdet då det gäller möjligheten att få pengar ur Kulturbrofonden.
- Vi konkurrerar med Berlin, Hamburg och Stockholm om den kulturella uppmärksamheten och då gäller det att vara kreativ om man skall synas.säger Ann-Sofie Bäcker, Sekretariatschef sedan den första augusti för den nya satsningen Kulturbro 2000.
- Öresundsregionen måste manifestera sig på kultursidan. Köpenhamn är bra på att kunna dra till konferenser och kongresser men det behövs även en fokusering på kulturen. Bra universitet och kulturinstitutioner är en bra grogrund för tillväxt. Det får företag att vilja investera i Öresundsregionen. Det drar också till sig arbetskraft. anser hon. I den återkommande Biennalen kommer utvalda delar inom kulturområdet att få visa upp sin bästa sida.
- Tyngdpunkten kommer att ligga på egenproducerat material men då det inte är en nordisk biennal kan vi även hämta produktioner ute i Europa. Det viktigaste är att det håller hög kvalitet och förankras här poängterar hon
Vem får vara med på Biennalen 2000 ?
Inför Premiärbiennalen har fondens styrelse valt ut de kulturområden som får möjlighet att vara med första gången. De lyckliga vinnarna är Bildkonst, Design, Dans, Teater och Musik.
- Vi fokuserar nu på att hitta ett tema som överskrift till den första kulturbiennalen Vad önskar man säga med sina kulturella arrangemang. Tittar man bakåt, eller framåt. Vad har man för ambitioner och hur skall man göra sig mer konkurrenskraftig. Fonden skall göra det möjligt för kulturinstitutionerna att öka sin kreativitet och fokusera mer på det som gör att omvärlden får ögonen på Öresundsområdet istället för att hela tiden tänka på ekonomin.
Vem är det då som ligger bakom detta projekt ?
Ordförande är Lars Nittve, museedirektör för Louisiana, Danmarks museum för modern konst i Humlebäck.
I styrelsen sitter Direktören för statens kulturråd Göran Lannegren . Erik Jacobsen från Danska kulturministeriet Köpenhamns kommuns finansdirektör Kurt Bligaard-Pedersen. Lars Bernhard- Jörgensen från Wounderful Copenhagen.
Från Näringslivet hittar vi Lennart Hallberg Informationsdirektör på Skanska.
Mads Øvlisen, Direktör på Novo Nordisk.
Samarbetspartner är än så länge: Den Danske Bank, SAS, Köpenhamns flygplats , Skanska och Novo Nordisk.
Utvecklingskostnaderna för första verksamhetsåret 970801-980801 är budgeterat till 1,5 miljoner och har delats upp i fyra lika stora delar mellan Svenska kulturdepartementet, Danska kulturministeriet, Köpenhamn och Malmö kommun. Man hoppas även att samarbetspartners från privata näringslivet kommer att bidraga med 500.000 kr. I dagsläget har man samarbete med SAS, Skanska, Novo Nordisk, Den danske bank och Københavns lufthavne.
I mitten på December i år får vi veta om det blir någon Kulturbiennal.
Vem vet, tro kan i många fall flytta berg.
- Jag väntar mig med andra ord något stort av Kulturbro projektet och jag vet att det går att genomföra. Det är ett naturligt och enkelt projekt, ingen framkrystad skrivbordsprodukt. Kulturbiennalen skall få en så stor lyskraft, att inte bara regionens kulturtörstande blir lyckliga, utan ljusskenet skall synas över hela Europa säger Lars Nittve övertygande
Copyright © 1999 Reportagebyrån i Malmö
Full Coverage: Independent Counsel Report about President Clinton and Ms Lewinsky.
III. January-March 1996: Continued Sexual Encounters
President Clinton and Ms. Lewinsky had additional sexual encounters near the
Oval Office in 1996. After their sixth sexual encounter, the President and
Ms. Lewinsky had their first lengthy conversation. On President's Day,
February 19, the President terminated their sexual relationship, then
revived it on March 31.
A. January 7 Sexual Encounter
According to Ms. Lewinsky, she and the President had another sexual
encounter on Sunday, January 7, 1996. Although White House records do not
indicate that Ms. Lewinsky was at the White House that day, her testimony
and other evidence indicate that she was there.(202) The President,
according to White House records, was in the Oval Office most of the
afternoon, from 2:13 to 5:49 p.m.(203)
According to Ms. Lewinsky, the President telephoned her early that
afternoon. It was the first time he had called her at home.(204) In her
recollection: "I asked him what he was doing and he said he was going to be
going into the office soon. I said, oh, do you want some company? And he
said, oh, that would be great."(205) Ms. Lewinsky went to her office, and
the President called to arrange their rendezvous:
[W]e made an arrangement that . . . he would have the door to his office
open, and I would pass by the office with some papers and then . . . he
would sort of stop me and invite me in. So, that was exactly what happened.
I passed by and that was actually when I saw [Secret Service Uniformed
Officer] Lew Fox who was on duty outside the Oval Office, and stopped and
spoke with Lew for a few minutes, and then the President came out and said,
oh, hey, Monica . . . come on in . . . . And so we spoke for about 10
minutes in the [Oval] office. We sat on the sofas. Then we went into the
back study and we were intimate in the bathroom.(206)
Ms. Lewinsky testified that during this bathroom encounter, she and the
President kissed, and he touched her bare breasts with his hands and his
mouth.(207) The President "was talking about performing oral sex on me,"
according to Ms. Lewinsky.(208) But she stopped him because she was
menstruating and he did not.(209) Ms. Lewinsky did perform oral sex on
him.(210)
Afterward, she and the President moved to the Oval Office and talked.
According to Ms. Lewinsky: "[H]e was chewing on a cigar. And then he had the
cigar in his hand and he was kind of looking at the cigar in . . . sort of a
naughty way. And so . . . I looked at the cigar and I looked at him and I
said, we can do that, too, some time."(211)
Corroborating aspects of Ms. Lewinsky's recollection, records show that
Officer Fox was posted outside the Oval Office the afternoon of January
7.(212) Officer Fox (who is now retired) testified that he recalled an
incident with Ms. Lewinsky one weekend afternoon when he was on duty by the
Oval Office:(213)
[T]he President of the United States came out, and he asked me, he says,
"Have you seen any young congressional staff members here today?" I said,
"No, sir." He said, "Well, I'm expecting one." He says, "Would you please
let me know when they show up?" And I said, "Yes, sir."(214)
Officer Fox construed the reference to "congressional staff members" to mean
White House staff who worked with Congress -- i.e., staff of the Legislative
Affairs Office, where Ms. Lewinsky worked.(215)
Talking with a Secret Service agent posted in the hallway, Officer Fox
speculated on whom the President was expecting: "I described Ms. Lewinsky,
without mentioning the name, in detail, dark hair -- you know, I gave a
general description of what she looked like."(216) Officer Fox had gotten to
know Ms. Lewinsky during her tenure at the White House, and other agents had
told him that she often spent time with the President.(217)
A short time later, Ms. Lewinsky approached, greeted Officer Fox, and said,
"I have some papers for the President." Officer Fox admitted her to the Oval
Office. The President said: "You can close the door. She'll be here for a
while."(218)
B. January 21 Sexual Encounter
On Sunday, January 21, 1996, according to Ms. Lewinsky, she and the
President had another sexual encounter. Her time of White House entry is not
reflected in records. She left at 3:56 p.m.(219) The President moved from
the Residence to the Oval Office at 3:33 p.m. and remained there until 7:40
p.m.(220)
On that day, according to Ms. Lewinsky, she saw the President in a hallway
by an elevator, and he invited her to the Oval Office.(221) According to Ms.
Lewinsky:
We had . . . had phone sex for the first time the week prior, and I was
feeling a little bit insecure about whether he had liked it or didn't like
it . . . . I didn't know if this was sort of developing into some kind of a
longer-term relationship than what I thought it initially might have been,
that maybe he had some regular girlfriend who was furloughed . . . .(222)
According to Ms. Lewinsky, she questioned the President about his interest
in her. "I asked him why he doesn't ask me any questions about myself, and .
. . is this just about sex . . . or do you have some interest in trying to
get to know me as a person?"(223) The President laughed and said, according
to Ms. Lewinsky, that "he cherishes the time that he had with me."(224)
She considered it "a little bit odd" for him to speak of cherishing their time
together "when I felt like he didn't really even know me yet."(225)
They continued talking as they went to the hallway by the study. Then, with
Ms. Lewinsky in mid-sentence, "he just started kissing me."(226) He lifted
her top and touched her breasts with his hands and mouth.(227) According to
Ms. Lewinsky, the President "unzipped his pants and sort of exposed
himself," and she performed oral sex.(228)
At one point during the encounter, someone entered the Oval Office. In Ms.
Lewinsky's recollection, "[The President] zipped up real quickly and went
out and came back in . . . . I just remember laughing because he had walked
out there and he was visibly aroused, and I just thought it was funny."(229)
A short time later, the President got word that his next appointment, a
friend from Arkansas, had arrived.(230) He took Ms. Lewinsky out through the
Oval Office into Ms. Hernreich's office, where he kissed her goodbye.(231)
C. February 4 Sexual Encounter and Subsequent Phone Calls
On Sunday, February 4, according to Ms. Lewinsky, she and the President had
their sixth sexual encounter and their first lengthy and personal
conversation. The President was in the Oval Office from 3:36 to 7:05
p.m.(232) He had no telephone calls in the Oval Office before 4:45 p.m.(233)
Records do not show Ms. Lewinsky's entry or exit.
According to Ms. Lewinsky, the President telephoned her at her desk and they
planned their rendezvous. At her suggestion, they bumped into each other in
the hallway, "because when it happened accidentally, that seemed to work
really well," then walked together to the area of the private study.(234)
There, according to Ms. Lewinsky, they kissed. She was wearing a long dress
that buttoned from the neck to the ankles. "And he unbuttoned my dress and
he unhooked my bra, and sort of took the dress off my shoulders and . . .
moved the bra . . . . [H]e was looking at me and touching me and telling me
how beautiful I was."(235) He touched her breasts with his hands and his
mouth, and touched her genitals, first through underwear and then
directly.(236) She performed oral sex on him.(237)
After their sexual encounter, the President and Ms. Lewinsky sat and talked
in the Oval Office for about 45 minutes. Ms. Lewinsky thought the President
might be responding to her suggestion during their previous meeting about
"trying to get to know me."(238) It was during that conversation on February
4, according to Ms. Lewinsky, that their friendship started to blossom.(239)
When she prepared to depart, according to Ms. Lewinsky, the President
"kissed my arm and told me he'd call me, and then I said, yeah, well, what's
my phone number? And so he recited both my home number and my office number
off the top of his head."(240) The President called her at her desk later
that afternoon and said he had enjoyed their time together.(241)
D. President's Day (February 19) Break-up
According to Ms. Lewinsky, the President terminated their relationship (only
temporarily, as it happened), on Monday, February 19, 1996 -- President's
Day. The President was in the Oval Office from 11 a.m. to 2:01 p.m. that
day.(242) He had no telephone calls between 12:19 and 12:42 p.m.(243)
Records do not reflect Ms. Lewinsky's presence at the White House.
In Ms. Lewinsky's recollection, the President telephoned her at her
Watergate apartment that day. From the tone of his voice, she could tell
something was wrong. She asked to come see him, but he said he did not know
how long he would be there.(244) Ms. Lewinsky went to the White House, then
walked to the Oval Office sometime between noon and 2 p.m. (the only time
she ever went to the Oval Office uninvited).(245) Ms. Lewinsky recalled that
she was admitted by a tall, slender, Hispanic plainclothes agent on duty
near the door.(246)
The President told her that he no longer felt right about their intimate
relationship, and he had to put a stop to it.(247) Ms. Lewinsky was welcome
to continue coming to visit him, but only as a friend. He hugged her but
would not kiss her.(248) At one point during their conversation, the
President had a call from a sugar grower in Florida whose name, according to
Ms. Lewinsky, was something like "Fanuli." In Ms. Lewinsky's recollection,
the President may have taken or returned the call just as she was
leaving.(249)
Ms. Lewinsky's account is corroborated in two respects. First, Nelson U.
Garabito, a plainclothes Secret Service agent, testified that, on a weekend
or holiday while Ms. Lewinsky worked at the White House (most likely in the
early spring of 1996), Ms. Lewinsky appeared in the area of the Oval Office
carrying a folder and said, "I have these papers for the President."(250)
After knocking, Agent Garabito opened the Oval Office door, told the
President he had a visitor, ushered Ms. Lewinsky in, and closed the door
behind her.(251) When Agent Garabito's shift ended a few minutes later, Ms.
Lewinsky was still in the Oval Office.(252)
Second, concerning Ms. Lewinsky's recollection of a call from a sugar grower
named "Fanuli," the President talked with Alfonso Fanjul of Palm Beach,
Florida, from 12:42 to 1:04 p.m.(253) Mr. Fanjul had telephoned a few
minutes earlier, at 12:24 p.m.(254) The Fanjuls are prominent sugar growers
in Florida.(255)
E. Continuing Contacts
After the break-up on February 19, 1996, according to Ms. Lewinsky, "there
continued to sort of be this flirtation . . . when we'd see each
other."(256) After passing Ms. Lewinsky in a hallway one night in late
February or March, the President telephoned her at home and said he was
disappointed that, because she had already left the White House for the
evening, they could not get together. Ms. Lewinsky testified that the call
"sort of implied to me that he was interested in starting up again."(257) On
March 10, 1996, Ms. Lewinsky took a visiting friend, Natalie Ungvari, to the
White House. They bumped into the President, who said to Ms. Ungvari when
Ms. Lewinsky introduced them: "You must be her friend from California."(258)
Ms. Ungvari was "shocked" that the President knew where she was from.(259)
Ms. Lewinsky testified that on Friday, March 29, 1996, she was walking down
a hallway when she passed the President, who was wearing the first necktie
she had given him. She asked where he had gotten the tie, and he replied:
"Some girl with style gave it to me."(260) Later, he telephoned her at her
desk and asked if she would like to see a movie. His plan was that she would
position herself in the hallway by the White House Theater at a certain
time, and he would invite her to join him and a group of guests as they
entered. Ms. Lewinsky responded that she did not want people to think she
was lurking around the West Wing uninvited.(261) She asked if they could
arrange a rendezvous over the weekend instead, and he said he would
try.(262) Records confirm that the President spent the evening of March 29
in the White House Theater.(263) Mrs. Clinton was in Athens, Greece.(264)
F. March 31 Sexual Encounter
On Sunday, March 31, 1996, according to Ms. Lewinsky, she and the President
resumed their sexual contact.(265) Ms. Lewinsky was at the White House from
10:21 a.m. to 4:27 p.m. on that day.(266) The President was in the Oval
Office from 3:00 to 5:46 p.m.(267) His only call while in the Oval Office
was from 3:06 to 3:07 p.m.(268) Mrs. Clinton was in Ireland.(269)
According to Ms. Lewinsky, the President telephoned her at her desk and
suggested that she come to the Oval Office on the pretext of delivering
papers to him.(270) She went to the Oval Office and was admitted by a
plainclothes Secret Service agent.(271) In her folder was a gift for the
President, a Hugo Boss necktie.(272)
In the hallway by the study, the President and Ms. Lewinsky kissed. On this
occasion, according to Ms. Lewinsky, "he focused on me pretty exclusively,"
kissing her bare breasts and fondling her genitals.(273) At one point, the
President inserted a cigar into Ms. Lewinsky's vagina, then put the cigar in
his mouth and said: "It tastes good."(274) After they were finished, Ms.
Lewinsky left the Oval Office and walked through the Rose Garden.(275)
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