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Sights
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The entire village of Iseltwald is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.
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Politics
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In the 2011 federal election the most popular party was the Swiss People's Party (SVP) which
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received 42.2% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the Conservative Democratic
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Party (BDP) (25%), the Social Democratic Party (SP) (11.9%) and the Federal Democratic Union of
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Switzerland (EDU) (4.9%). In the federal election, a total of 140 votes were cast, and the voter
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turnout was 42.3%.
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Economy
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, Iseltwald had an unemployment rate of 1.49%. , there were a total of 222 people employed in the
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municipality. Of these, there were 26 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 10
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businesses involved in this sector. 19 people were employed in the secondary sector and there were
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8 businesses in this sector. 177 people were employed in the tertiary sector, with 16 businesses
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in this sector. There were 210 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity,
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of which females made up 43.8% of the workforce.
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there were a total of 187 full-time equivalent jobs. The number of jobs in the primary sector was
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14, of which 12 were in agriculture and 2 were in fishing or fisheries. The number of jobs in the
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secondary sector was 17 of which 9 or (52.9%) were in manufacturing and 8 (47.1%) were in
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construction. The number of jobs in the tertiary sector was 156. In the tertiary sector; 61 or
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39.1% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 1.3% were in the information industry, 6 or 3.8% were in
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education and 81 or 51.9% were in health care.
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, there were 42 workers who commuted into the municipality and 101 workers who commuted away. The
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municipality is a net exporter of workers, with about 2.4 workers leaving the municipality for
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every one entering. Of the working population, 7.1% used public transportation to get to work, and
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44.3% used a private car.
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Religion
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From the , 38 or 8.8% were Roman Catholic, while 318 or 73.3% belonged to the Swiss Reformed
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Church. Of the rest of the population, there was 1 individual who belongs to the Christian
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Catholic Church, and there were 54 individuals (or about 12.44% of the population) who belonged to
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another Christian church. There was 1 individual who was Islamic. There was 1 person who was
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Buddhist. 40 (or about 9.22% of the population) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist,
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and 8 individuals (or about 1.84% of the population) did not answer the question.
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Education
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In Iseltwald about 174 or (40.1%) of the population have completed non-mandatory upper secondary
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education, and 35 or (8.1%) have completed additional higher education (either university or a
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Fachhochschule). Of the 35 who completed tertiary schooling, 54.3% were Swiss men, 40.0% were
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Swiss women.
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The Canton of Bern school system provides one year of non-obligatory Kindergarten, followed by six
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years of Primary school. This is followed by three years of obligatory lower Secondary school
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where the students are separated according to ability and aptitude. Following the lower Secondary
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students may attend additional schooling or they may enter an apprenticeship.
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During the 2010-11 school year, there were a total of 36 students attending classes in Iseltwald.
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There was one kindergarten class with a total of 6 students in the municipality. Of the
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kindergarten students, 33.3% have a different mother language than the classroom language. The
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municipality had one primary class and 26 students. Of the primary students, 11.5% were permanent
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or temporary residents of Switzerland (not citizens) and 19.2% have a different mother language
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than the classroom language. During the same year, there was one lower secondary class with a
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total of 4 students.
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, there were 8 students from Iseltwald who attended schools outside the municipality.
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Transport
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For a long time, the only access to the village was through a small regional road or by ferry.
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Since the building of the A8 motorway in 1988, the village has its own junction.
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PostBus Switzerland bus service 103 connects Iseltwald to Interlaken on an hourly basis, serving
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both Interlaken West and Interlaken Ost stations. In summer, the village is also served by BLS AG
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shipping services, which operate on Lake Brienz serving various points between Interlaken Ost and
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Brienz.
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Tourism
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Iseltwald is a popular destination for backpackers and skiers in the Jungfraujoch region. The
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village has a host of backpacker hostels and Bed and Breakfasts.
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References Municipalities of the canton of Bern Populated places on Lake Brienz
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Ivy Ma (Ma King Chu; ; born 1973) is a Hong Kong visual artist specializing in mixed media works.
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Her works were featured in the Hong Kong Art Biennial in 2005 and the Hong Kong Contemporary Art
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Awards in 2012. She was the winner of the Young Artist Award category of the 2012 Hong Kong
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Contemporary Art Awards. She was one of the fifteen artists included in the online Artshare
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exhibition entitled Resistance dedicated to Hong Kong artists, curated by art writer Caroline Ha
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Thuc. Recipients of the FCO Chevening University of Leeds Scholarship from the Hong Kong Arts
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Development Council and the Lee Hysan Foundation Fellowship from the Asian Cultural Council, she
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participated in various artist-in-residence programs and international artist workshops in
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Bangladesh, Finland, Åland, and the USA from 2005 to 2009. Her works are in the collection of the
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Hong Kong Heritage Museum and is part of the Hong Kong Legislative Council Complex Art Acquisition
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Project commissioned by the Hong Kong Legislative Council Commission.
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Early life and education
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Ivy Ma was born in Hong Kong in 1973. Her academic training was originally in information science.
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She received a BA in Information Systems from the City University of Hong Kong in 1996. After
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working as a programmer and software engineer for some years, she began to study painting in 1999
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at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) / The Art School, Hong Kong Arts Centre in
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Hong Kong and earned a BFA (Painting) in 2001. She was awarded a scholarship by the Hong Kong Arts
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Development Council to study for one year at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, where
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she obtained a MA in Feminist Theory and Practice in Visual Art in 2002.
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Career
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Ma served as the Project Coordinator / Manager of 1a space, Hong Kong from 2003 to 2005. She was
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the curator of the exhibitions If Hong Kong, A Woman / Traveller and Schema: a Traveller's approach
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at 1a space and the Artist Commune in Hong Kong in 2005, two exhibitions which are part of the
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Bilateral Cultural Exchange Project organized by University of Leeds and 1a space, Hong Kong,
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showcasing artworks by eight female artists from Hong Kong. She curated the exhibition In Details
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at agnès b.’s LIBRAIRE GALERIE, Hong Kong in 2010, in which she is also one of the participating
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artist.
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She taught at the HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity in Hong Kong from 2006 to 2007. She was a
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part-time lecturer at the Hong Kong Art School from 2004 to 2016, and has assumed the position of
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full-time Lecturer since September 2016. She is course instructor of Associate Degree of Arts in
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Visual Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts (AVA), Hong Kong Baptist University since 2015.
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Selected works and exhibitions 2001 to 2003: Transmigration of Materials
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Initially working in the media of painting and sculpture during her study at the Royal Melbourne
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Institute of Technology, Ivy Ma already shown her interest in exploring the marginality of
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different media and materials in her early works by using everyday materials like hairpins, thread,
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wood, cotton, dolls, fresh meat, and candies. She called the process "transmigration of materials".
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Shown in the group exhibition entitled Wo-Man at the Old Ladies House in Macau in 2001, Room of
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Memories (2001) is an installation work consisted of a giant thought bubble composed of hundreds of
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old-fashioned women's hairpins suspended above a broken chair in a comic-strip narrative.
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Remember How to Throb (2002) is an installation consisting of three works presented in the