Forwarded from Andrew Crummy in Scotland:

World Community Arts Day 17/02/08

Art as a catalyst for caring and sharing

First of all a big thank you to everyone who took part.

World Community Arts Day 2008 has gone really well this year and has more than tripled in size. It is now a Global festival. From Brazil to Slovenia, from Australia to Ireland, from The USA to Singapore, from Kenya to Canada.

The World Community Arts Day begins to shows how many great projects there are that are based on Art for caring and sharing. From the CARF Street children of Brazil to the Pyramids of Peace in Kenya (acrobats promoting peace), from Walking against poverty in USA to The Community Arts Forum in Northern Ireland, from Charnwood Arts in England to Ken Wolverton in New Mexico, from Irena D in Slovenia who does art with children to the global Artist Meeting Place (AMP) and the Valentine Peace Project, from Actalive (Arts against AIDS) to the Level Green Institute in New York City to The Theatre of Celebration in The USA. From the "best drumming group in Scotland" Drumatik to The Peace Marker Project and on and on it goes. Then add all the Myspace, Flickr and You tube contacts and it really starts to build up. Individuals, families, groups and Community groups.

We have tried to monitor 25 out of the 200 plus sites involved, at present that stands at 100,000 plus hits.

From Community Radio stations to websites, many have featured us on their homepage. New WCAD Logo designed, new artwork, photos, music, etc. And as for the events from small to concerts halls, Workshops, a couple of murals, music in bars, fundraisers, Chinese Lanterns walks, to the many paperboats.

2009 As the websites will stay active, it will now just continue to grow through the year towards 2009. Our aim to create a world festival society for a day to illustrate how festival and celebration through art can provide answers. We invite you to be one of the websites/organisation for next years event.

Andrew Crummy

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