CREATIVECHANGE TRAVELING ARTS EXHIBITION Seeking Local Organization to Host Youth Arts Exhibition highlighting MDGs!
As the Millennium +5 Summit draws near we are working on organizing a traveling arts exhibition that showcases images of photographs, paintings, mixed-media and digiarts; multi-media video, sound, and texts including poetry, short essays submitted by youth worldwide [Nepal, Nigeria, USA, Greece, Australia, Afghanistan, Netherlands, Spain, Uganda, Russia, Zimbabwe, Pakistan, Egypt, UK, Canada, India, Sweden, Philippines, Italy, Israel, and more]. Artworks are based on and highlight developmental issues such as poverty, HIV/AIDS, women empowerment, education, environment/ water. The exhibition will also provide information on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). On April 1st, 2005 the Vision 2015: Your Future Youth Arts Contest was launched by TakingITGlobal and Arts For Global Development, Inc. [Art4Development.Net] in partnership with the UN Millennium Campaign. The youth arts contest aimed at promoting the ideals of MDGs, educating, inspiring, and encouraging young citizens around the world in their efforts to hold key decision-makers / authorities accountable for the promises they made at the Millennium Summit. The objective of the online contest was also to learn young artists' perspectives / interpretation of these vital issues, how they envision the world, their world in year 2015! Young artists were encouraged to emphasize their hopes, fears, anxieties, challenges, goals, and dreams in their artwork. The contest closed on May 31st, 2005 and the online-exhibition is currently taking place. Through the exposure of selected youth artworks submitted via the Vision 2015: Your Future Arts Contest as well as TIGs monthly theme contests, the CreativeChange Traveling Arts Exhibition will help: continue generate awareness on the MDGs and help inspire others to take action to overcome social and economic challenges. recognize those active creative young individuals worldwide, give voice, and share their work, and acknowledge as well as encourage their role in the development field, particularly in achieving the MDGs support the interdisciplinary approach of arts in social change and development; Visitors of the exhibition will be able to live the experience, see and hear right on the site! They will be invited to interact with the exhibition, so as the exhibition travels a web of messages and countries is woven. Along with the artworks a multimedia video will present all elements of the exhibition, information, and additional artworks that are not tangibly showcased during the traveling exhibition. The sound project will help the visitors visualize situations and circumstances, become curious, think and feel... Brief texts on MDGs, which are going to be in multi-language, will be displayed on panels. Exhibition and exhibition launching event specifications will be discussed and decided upon once the host location is identified. The looks of the exhibition as a unique installation will mainly depend on the exhibition space and size. Interested organizations from any country to partner with us for hosting the exhibition and helping to create creative change, educate, inspire, and learn please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] at your earliest convenience [latest August 29, 2005]! Collaborators: Arts For Global Development, Inc. (Art4Development.Net) is an international nonprofit voluntary initiative with a purpose of furthering interdisciplinary, multisectoral, and creative approach in social change, and facilitating creative sector and stakeholders of development together empower socially and economically disadvantaged individuals and communities worldwide, particularly children, youth, and women. The initiative aims to promote this awareness, form a worldwide network by making the best use of ICTs, and further any form of art (fine arts, performing, digital ) in tackling the challenges in the development field and transforming societies into more socially conscious, tolerant, responsible, and creatively active groups of people. The CreativeChange project aims to help generate awareness on volunteerism/societal responsibility, the millennium development goals, and the use of creative sector in social change and development. The traveling arts exhibition is part of this project. You may find more information regarding Art4Development.Net mission and projects at www.art4development.net . TakingITGlobal (TIG): TakingITGlobal (TIG) is an international organization - led by youth and enabled by technology. TIG connects youth to find inspiration, access information, get involved, and take action to improve their local and global communities. Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with a growing worldwide presence, the organization's flagship program is TakingITGlobal.org, the most popular online community for young people interested in connecting across cultures and making a difference, with hundreds of thousands of visitors each month. TIG also works with global partners from UN agencies, to major companies, and especially youth organizations in order to build the capacity of youth for development, support youth artistic and media expression, make education more engaging, and involve young people in global decision-making. The TakingITGlobal platform currently has over 70,000 members in 200 countries, receives more than 1.5 million hits per day, has about 150 new daily memberships and an average of 10,000 guest viewers per day. You may find more information regarding TakingITGlobal at www.takingitglobal.org. United Nations Millennium Campaign: The Millennium Campaign informs, inspires and encourages peoples involvement and action for the realization of the Millennium Development Goals. An initiative of the United Nations, the Campaign supports citizens efforts to hold their government to account for their promise to achieve the Goals by 2015. To join the global fight against poverty visit www.millenniumcampaign.org and www.millenniumcampaign.org/youth. Arts For Global Development, Inc. [Art4Development.Net] URL: www.art4development.net EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Share, Exchange, Inspire, Collaborate! 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