World Community Arts Day

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WORLD COMMUNITY ARTS DAY
We wish to start a World Community Arts Day, on 17 Feb 2007, to raise awareness of how Community Art is a Global movement, its history, present day activities and the future.
Initially our idea was to ask those people we knew through The Craigmillar Festival and its world wide network. Of course Community Arts is much bigger than this, so if others wish to join us, that would be great. So hopefully it will generate a much bigger picture.
So in the the spirit of Community Arts. We are asking individuals, organisations, groups of people to an event in their own community to mark this day. The event could could just be a gesture or a larger event. To create a big global party!
It could be
1. Ongoing project you wish to highlight.
2. A website or discussion group
3. A small or large gathering
4. A walk or art performance
5. A Exhibition or art class
6. A poem
etc
The only criteria is that the Art must be a catalyst for sharing and caring. It would be Art in its widest form and include all the artforms plus more.
These are all linked by a communal email that goes out before to press and friends, where all the events are listed. So if you want to be part of this. have fun. If you want to contact us, great.
It really is a very simple idea.

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From Ken Wolverton in New Mexico
http://www.kewolve.com/Communityarts.htm

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From Ken wolverton

A day late in updating site but here are old photos of the making of Gulliver, plus one photo of the finish from Craigmillar archives. http://www.kewolve.com/Communityarts.htm

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rom website:

"But to get back to Community Arts and the up-coming world celebration
day, several artists and musicians are coming together to do a
"performance art" piece at the local bar, The Mine Shaft. There is a
sign above the bar that reads: MADRID HAS NO TOWN DRUNKS, WE ALL TAKE
TURNS.

Our contribution to WORLD COMMUNITY ARTS DAY will be to create a large
pastel mural on stage while a local band , the RUE BARBS play music
for the audience. The event will be digitally filmed and then on the
17th of February it will be uploaded on the web and become viewable
to all who are curious."

http://www.kewolve.com/Communityarts.htm

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Community Arts Day Festival.
PROJECT: "INEFFABLE VOICE"

Original authors: Dramarte and Artefacto (México)

1.- "Ineffable Voice" Internet audio recording being played
the 24 hours of February 17th.
2.- Dramarte and Artefacto invite other artists living in
Mexico or other cities to adhere to our "Ineffable Voice".
3.-The audio will be recorded in CD's and shared with all
the other artists which decide to link to our concept to
create a new art expression of their own, using "Ineffable
Voice" audio recording as framework or stimulous.
The idea is to multiply the effect.
Those artists participating with Ineffable Voice will
express in their own artistic language, using the audio we
share with them.
4.- Translators of all languages are invited to participate, so
"Ineffable Voice" poem is translated to as many
languages as possible, including, of course, Mexican
Indian languages (oral traditions).
We are considering written and oral recordings.
The outcome of this apparently simple, but complex
project will depend on how many translators are willing
to collaborate, besides the artists that decide to

intervene on our audio creation, the "first generation"
that intends to multiply the essence of the Arts
Community Day Festival.
We aim to have the recording with all languages
ready for the Community Arts day on February 17th.
Spanish and English are available already, and we are
including them in this presentation.

AUDIO CHARACTERISTICS:
a) The "Ineffable Voice" poem will contain some audio effects:
∑ The diverse voices of water (rain, creeks, waves…)
∑ The mantra "Méxhico", (pronounced in the original indian word,
similar to "Meshico")
∑ Heart beats
b) The needed format for the oral collaborations (all
languages included) is MP3. This is what the radio
station requires to play the audio material.






LET'S CREATE THE GREAT ACTION TOGETHER

1.- Send us your collaboration
2.- We will send you:
∑ the text to be translated (first phase,
translators)
∑ and/or the audio material to be used in
your artistic expression. (2nd phase)
3.- Wherever you live, in your own city, community, in your
circle of artists, in your circle of friends, create the
artistic action.
4.- The only criterion "Ineffable Voice" asks participant
artists to take into account is:
the artistic expression will consider the solutions
that any person (the regular citizen) must use
everyday to protect the environment.
We all can contribute to save, and heal the Earth being
aware of our habits, and responsible of the use we make
of the earth resources.

For collaborations please contact :
dramarte@hotmail.com
artefacto@radiomexico.com
ineffablevoice@gmail.com

dramarte: Mónica Gabriela Gutiérrez, "Dr. Mars"
artefacto: Manuel Cruz Vazquez, "Ludo"

Artefacto is an internet based radio program about arts and culture,
produced in Mexico City.
"La Ventanita" ("the little window") is one of the program's section,
a place to flexibilize our maps about reality.
"La Ventanita" hosts the "Ineffable Voice" project.

Our first contact with the the Community Arts Day Festival mentioned
"La Ventanita" as the name of the project, but we have renamed it as
"Ineffable Voice", so we kindly ask you to consider this advance.

Cheers.

Mónica Gabriela Gutiérrez
dramarte@hotmail.com








"INEFFABLE VOICE"

We cannot see things as they are
Because we see them as we are

"Only with the heart one can see well,
What is essential is invisible to the eye"

But if we see according to the way we are,
Our heart is impregnated with
The way we watch.

The story you tell yourself makes up your history.

I am you
You are me
But you and I
Are That…

Acting new stories
is brading new destinies
The planet deserves other denouement
Beyond you
Beyond me,

Life on Earth must prevail.

VOZ INEFABLE
No podemos ver las cosas como son
Porque las vemos como nosotros somos.

"Sólo con el corazón se puede ver bien
Porque lo esencial es invisible para los ojos".

Pero si miramos de acuerdo a como somos,
Nuestro corazón está impregnado
de nuestra forma de mirar.

El cuento que te cuentas construye tu historia.

Yo soy tú
Tú eres yo
Pero tú y yo
Somos Eso…

Actuar nuevos cuentos
es tejer nuevos destinos
El planeta merece otro desenlace,
más allá de ti
más allá de mí,
La vida de la Tierra requiere prevalecer.

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http://www.worldslargestmural.com/in...n=page&name=31

They will be repainting the mural on this day.

"On saturday, Feb 17, 2007 I will be at the 800 block of MacDonald
Ave, in Richmond to repaint this wall. THe entire Community is invited
to help this project. All paint and brushes provided.

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I will be doing a lecture on the Social Role of the Artist looking at socially engaged art, at Concordia University, River Forest IL. Unfortunately, I had to schedule it one week later. Best, Beth

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World community arts day group on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/groups/33107331@N00/

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Beginning 22 Jan and running until 26 Jan my Site Specific group at
Falkirk College will be showing a video installation work. As part of
this, I am proposing to involve Special Needs Pupils, part of our
education community, by holding a "mail art" event for them on site (ie
in the Library) - this will be filmed to show their reactions to the
video installation and their participation in the "mail art". Mail
Art, which they will create themselves, will then be taken by them out
into the wider community of their friends and family. The film of this
event will be posted as my contribution to the WCA Day on 17 Feb this
year.

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http://www.neilcameron.com/