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Film on
WMF's work at Angkor Online |
Now view Les Guthman's beautiful documentary,
Churning the Sea of Time: A Journey Up the Mekong to
Angkor, online at AOL True Stories. The film
features WMF's 15-year project at the vast temple complex in
Cambodia. View the film, or call 646-424-9594, ext. 247, to
purchase a copy on DVD for $25. | |
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A Warm Welcome from Bonnie Burnham,
President of the World Monuments Fund
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At WMF we are
constantly exploring new ways to communicate with you, our valued
supporters. With this dispatch, we launch a monthly
e-newsletter to keep you abreast of upcoming events, as well as
opportunities to travel and see first-hand your donor dollars at
work. In addition, we continue to upgrade our website at www.wmf.org, where you can find the latest
information on projects you help support and the extraordinary
places you care most about.
Sincerely,
Bonnie Burnham
President |
2008 Watch
Panel to Convene in New York City
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On May 14, experts in historic preservation and heritage
management from around the globe will gather at
WMF headquarters in New York to select the 2008 list of 100 Most Endangered Sites. Over
the course of three days, the ten-person panel will consider the
applications of each site nominated, evaluating them on their
cultural significance, urgency of threat, and the viability of
proposals put forth to preserve them for future generations.
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Passing the
Torch: In Conversation with Jonathan Foyle, WMF's New Man in
Britain
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A distinguished architectural critic and writer,
ICON contributing editor Colin Amery
has been director of WMF in Britain
for nearly a decade. Now, as he hands over the reigns of chief
executive of our British affiliate to Jonathan
Foyle, noted architect, historian,
host of the popular BBC archaeology program Time
Team,
we thought it an opportune time to have Amery (who will remain a
senior advisor to WMF) introduce his hand-picked successor and
explore the future of WMF in Britain...
CA:
Welcome aboard the WMF ship. As an architect, historian, and
archaeologist as well as someone who has been taking groups on
cultural tours for some years, you sound like just the man for
WMF. How did your passion for heritage first
begin?
JF:
I was raised in the country, in Lincolnshire, and as a teenager, I
started to go on long solo cycle rides across the flat Fen country
and into Northamptonshire. What strikes a visitor to that part of
England are the churches rising out of
the landscape and the superb quality of the local stone. I realized
that when you just walk inside the door of an ancient parish church,
the whole perspective of the centuries opens up for you. I felt
transported into a different time zone and that sense of wonder and
history, once you have felt it, never leaves
you. Read
more... |
Focus On: A Race against Time for Kentucky's Bluegrass
Region |
As the equestrian
world gears up for this year's horse racing season, we thought it an
ideal time to highlight the plight of one of America's great, yet
imperiled cultural landscapes--the Kentucky Bluegrass Region. Known
as the "horse capital of the world" and home to such racing legends
as Seattle Slew, winner of the 1977 Triple Crown, the
1.2-million-acre Inner Bluegrass will host the 2010 World Equestrian
Games. By the time the games roll around, however, the region is
likely to be a mere shadow of what it is today. Over the past two
decades, more than 80,000 acres of rural Bluegrass have given way to
unbridled development, garnering the region a place on WMF's 2006
List of 100 Most Endangered Sites. More on efforts to save this iconic American
landscape...
Photo: Copyright Marc
Manning |
Destination China:
Explore the World with WMF |
Ancient,
Imperial, and Modern China: October 21-31,
2007
Join WMF as we travel to Beijing, Xi'an, Hangzhou,
and Shanghai for a behind-the-scenes tour of extraordinary
archeological sites, sumptuous private quarters of China's emperors,
and contemporary works of Chinese art and architecture.
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Modernism
At Risk |
The World Monuments Fund/Knoll
Modernism Prize® will be awarded biennially,
beginning in 2008, to a design professional or firm in recognition
of an innovative design solution that preserves or enhances a Modern
landmark. The Prize may be awarded for an individual project or body
of work. The Prize is intended to raise public awareness of the
influential role that Modernism plays in our architectural
heritage. Visit our website for more information or to submit a
nomination... |
Support WMF
with a click of your mouse! |
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search, to the charities its users designate. You use it just as you
would any search engine, and it is powered by Yahoo!, so you get
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enter World Monuments Fund as the charity you want to
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$7300 in a year without anyone spending a dime! Be sure to spread
the word. | |