FUTURE IMAGEMAKERS“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”
Lila Watson, part of an Australian Aboriginal Group, is given credit for this quote, but when interviewed she “was quite clear… that she was not comfortable being credited for something that had been born of a collective process” northlandposter.com
(reference came from this blog)
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEW YORK is a school with no curriculum. It’s GLOBAL
At the moment, it operates as follows: first, classes are proposed by the public (I want to learn this or I want to teach this); then, people have the opportunity to sign up for the classes (I also want to learn that); finally, when enough people have expressed interest, the school finds a teacher and offers the class to those who signed up.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL is not accredited, it does not give out degrees, and it has no affiliation with the public school system. It is a framework that supports autodidactic activities, operating under the assumption that everything is in everything.
LOCAL
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL project was initiated in New York by common room and Telic Arts Exchange as The Public School (for Architecture) and operated with support from the Van Alen Institute between September and December 2009.
TRIPLE CANOPY works collectively with writers, artists, researchers and other collaborators on projects that deal critically with culture and politics, and the ways people engage them, both online and in the world at large. more
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEW YORK and TRIPLE CANOPY are based at 177 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Light Industry (a venue for film and electronic art in Brooklyn) also shares the storefront at 177 Livingston. map
from the BBC: Born into a brothel in the Indian city of Calcutta, Avijit Halder’s life has undergone a dramatic transformation.
The 20-year-old is currently pursuing a degree at one of the top film schools in the US. It all started with the filming of an Oscar-winning documentary, Born into Brothels, which dealt with the lives of the children of Indian sex workers.
Avijit Halder was one of eight children of sex workers who featured in the 2004 documentary film, co-directed by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman. read rest of article
Housing is a Human Right Teaser from Housing is a Human Right on Vimeo.
Beyond Broadcast: Launching NITV on Isuma TV
article by Faye Ginsburg on inmediares
Isuma TV, a free internet video portal for global indigenous media, available to local audiences and worldwide viewers.
On May 29, 2009, Isuma will launch NITV on Isuma TV, a digital distribution project, bringing a hi-speed version of IsumaTV into remote Nunavut communities where the bandwidth is inadequate to even view YouTube. NITV allows films to be re-broadcast through local cable or low-power channels, or downloaded to digital projectors. [read more]
Soliya is developing a global network of young adults and empowering them to bridge the divide between the “West” and the “Arab & Muslim World.”
Soliya is a pioneering non-profit organization using new technologies to facilitate dialogue between students from diverse backgrounds across the globe. Our flagship program, the Connect Program, uses the latest web-conferencing technology to bridge the gap between university students in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and the United States. In a time when media plays an increasingly powerful role in shaping peoples’ viewpoints on political issues, Soliya provides students with the opportunity, skills, and tools to shape and articulate their own viewpoints on some of the most pressing global issues facing their generation. more
watch this for an overview
International Theater of the Opressed Organization
Augusto Boal, Founder of the The ater of the Oppressed, Dies at 78
Story and Interview from Democracy NOW : Augusto Boal, the legendary Brazilian political playwright and popular educator, died Saturday at the age of seventy-eight. He was the founder of the Theater of the Oppressed, a popular international movement for a participatory form of theater as a means of promoting knowledge, democratic forms of interaction, and transformation. We play a never-before-aired interview on his life and work. [includes rush transcript]May 03, 2009
CAN websiteFinally, the NYTimes Obit on Boal
This is a Wintessesque organization that a friend of mine started recently and is working in the realm of human rights and documentation (video).
OVP – the Organization for Visual Progression
— Brett Mayfield
Spring 09 Community Collaborations begins
READINGS for next week
An Introduction to Community Art and Activism by Jan Cohen-Cruz, Director of Imagining America
Telling and Listening in Public: The Sustainability of Storytelling by Linda Frye Burnham, Co-Director of CAN
Community-Based Workshops from Soup to Nuts by Jan Cohen-Cruz and Lorie Novak Download file
Exercise chapter in Urban Ensemble: University/Community Collaborations in the Arts by Jan Cohen-Cruz and Lorie Novak download
A Participatory Photography Toolkit download
Websites for inspiration
Photovoice
Workshop Exercises contributed by Tisch Students to the Office of Community Connections
Artists in the Classroom: Ten Collaborative Projects (Center for Documentary Studies, 1998)
Storymapping Projects, interesting interface for presenting stories
in process list of participatory photography sites on photoandimaging.net/coco