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Stranger Festival

jerneja — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:00:22 +0000

Stranger Festival is an online and offline platform and video competition for young video-makers across Europe. Stranger festival initiates workshops, masterclasses and traveling exhibitions throughout the year culminating its activities in a live event. The nominees for the best videos competition categories and workshop participants are invited to the festival in Amsterdam where they can interact with young artist across Europe. The main focus of the festival is self-expression, creativity and inspiration.

Stranger Festival is an initiative of the European Cultural Foundation.

Roots & Routes

jerneja — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:00:09 +0000

ROOTS & ROUTES TV is the web-TV for youth, culture, music, lifestyle and cultural diversity. Roots&routes is an initiative that invites youngsters from different cultural roots to create media content through the web. Roots&routes organises workshops and creative groups where young people talk about urban culture and lifestyle. The initiative encourages media empowerment and high level public engagement through annual festivals.

The One Minutes Jr.

jerneja — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:59:58 +0000

The One Minutes Jr. is a platform for for videos of sixty seconds made by youth from all over the world between the ages of 12 and 20.

The main idea is to give a space to youth from diverse background to express themselves creatively using video as a means of expression. TOMjr organises a festival competition, video braodcasting on ten European public TV channels, and screenings at festivals and events.

Theoneminutes network also creates opportunities for workshops and video training in collaboration with UNICEF and the European Cultural Foundation.

Voices Beyond Walls

jerneja — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:59:42 +0000

“Youth Visions of Jerusalem” is a unique program of digital video, photography and storytelling workshops conducted by Voices Beyond Walls. The program supports Palestinian youth in expressing their cultural identity, personal narratives, and creative visions of Jerusalem, the Arab Cultural Capital in 2009.

The program was conducted in June-July in partnership with the Woman and Child Centers in Shu’fat Refugee Camp, the African Community Youth Center, and the Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem. A selection of 6 video shorts and photography taken by the youth (aged 10-16) has been screened and exhibited at various venues including the Franco-German Cultural Center in Ramallah, and will continue to travel in the West Bank and Gaza during the year.

Photomarathon for Peace

admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:49:15 +0000

Good Practice: Making waves across the Mediterranean

Category: Video, Photography.

Description: In September RECREATURA_arts&culture organized a series of events under the motto Making waves across the Mediterranean. Their objective with this project was to foster a culture of co-existence and peace between the countries in the Mediterranean.

On Saturday, 5 September they organised a Photomarathon on the Mediterranean combined with a public breakfast. The event took place in front of the MuVIM (Museu Valencià de la Illustració i de la Modernitat, entering calle Quevedo), starting at 10am with a public breakfast during which the rules of participation and the topic of the Marathon were announced. The official start of the Marathon was at 11am – the participants had time from then until 5pm to take pictures corresponding to the announced topic. In parallel, between 10am – and 5pm, a Peace Fair was held in cooperation with such renowned NGOs such as Intermon Oxfam, Amnesty International and Entreiguales Valencia.

A jury made up of various Photography and Mediterranean experts including José Manuel Gironés, Director of the UNESCO Centre in Valencia; Willy Domeque, photographer and illumination expert; Mercedes Acitores, Mediterranean expert, as well as Mateo Gamón, photographer, selected the winners. The best photographers received attractive prizes such as cameras, framed photos or a dinner for two in Valencia.

The 20 best photos were shown from 14 – 21 September in the Institut Français in Valencia and the opportunity was given to select an “Audience Award”. All the final winners were eventually announced during a closing ceremony in the evening of September 21st, International Peace Day. Moreover, the Euro-Med Young Artist Network (EMYAN) will make a part of the photo exhibition available during the second edition of their online arts festival taking place between 20 – 30 October 2009 (www.emyan.org).

The actions are all part of the regional initiative Restore trust, rebuild bridges launched by the Anna-Lindh-Foundadtion for the Dialogue between Cultures and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. They were generated with the financial support of the Anna-Lindh-Foundation.

Used Tools: Picasa, YouTube, Blogger, Facebook, LinkedIn.

Language: English, Spanish.

Good Practice Sample

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:17:57 +0000

In this section we will feature the work of organizations, individuals and group that use new media tools promoting Art and artistic and cultural activities.