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				Jewels in Passing Next to the e-future hype, Expo's Christian Church celebrates calm and contemplation. Daily choral concerts serve as delightful contrasts to the Expo's multimedia overkill [listen]. If one takes some time to wander around without any goal, one finds other exciting jewels. Sometimes it is the exhibition's own cultural program, that meets the visitor at unexpected occasions: Drummers from Burundi at a flight of stairs [listen] or a music parade from the Dominican Republic in a deserted street [listen]. Incidentally, exponauts encounter art: Fish swim in a telephone box, a cased plaster gang intimidates visitors with its brooms. One can even dive five meters to a secret exhibition or relax in massage chairs. The Swiss pavilion surprises with a cosy cafe at the heart of the piled up timber beams, poems projected on the corridors' wooden walls and shrill-dissonant saxophone, accordion and chopping board sounds. In the Swiss refugium creativity arose because the organizers left open space to the artists. Here and in other areas Expo was best when it was least structured. It was worst when visitors were guided through noisy multimedia shows. Has the exhibition after all realized its over-all theme "Humankind - Nature - Technology?" Does the world need a world exhibition? Expo fought hard to meet the proclaimed sustainability goal. Despite many imperfections, Hanover succeeded in showing that world exhibitions can address questions and raise awareness in an innovative way and even provide unexpected answers to the visitors. Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 | Page 6 | Page 7 TOP
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