WORLD COMMUNITY ARTS DAY 17th Feb 2009
"ART AS A CATALYST FOR CARING AND SHARING"
Join us in 2009 and be creative to raise an important issue you believe in.
To create a World
Festival Society for a day
Held on 17
February 2008, this year's World Community Arts Day was more than three times
larger than the 2007 event. With a theme of 'Art as a catalyst for caring
and sharing', this special day saw community arts organisations from around
the world joining in. Events took place in small community centres, concert
halls, bars and many more places besides, in countries as far apart as Singapore,
the US, Australia and of course, here in the UK.
We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who took part, and encourage
even more groups to get on board for the 2009 event. The aim is to create a
world festival society for a day, to illustrate how festival and celebration
through art can provide answers.
HERE IS THE PAGE FROM 2008
Example 1 from 2007: Ken Wolverton's contribution from Madrid, New Mexico, USA. Ken Wolverton
WORLD COMMUNITY ARTS DAY 17th Feb 2008
"ART AS A CATALYST FOR CARING AND SHARING"
Join us in 2008 and be creative to raise an important issue you believe in.
All we ask of you on that day is to do an arts project, however small or big. Be creative about an issue that you believe promotes "caring and sharing". Song, dance, theatre, draw, paint, write, make, poem, photogragh, lecture, walk, tour, talk, art class anyway that you feel you are creative! It maybe an ongoing project you wish to highlight.
Put it on a website, mark it with "World Community Arts day 2008", then send the link to us and we shall put it on this webpage. Or maybe you just want to do it within your own community, great. It is being creative that is important. It could be a small or large gathering. Or add an image or sound, etc to an existing website to mark this day. If you can mark the event on your website in the build up to it that would be great too.
"Art with a Heart"
We are not asking for money, but your creativity and artistic skills to celebrate this day.
Sections of World Solutions banner and Gulliver Sculpture
For the first year and to get things started we started by asking those who were connected with the Craigmillar Festival Society as we know this group of friends is worldwide, in particular to remember a remarkable man Reg Bolton who died in 2006. The first two people to reply and helped to get it all started were Kevin Ryan, Director - Charnwood Arts and Ken Wolverton. Of course Community Arts is much bigger than this, but others did come and join the party.
Reg Bolton archive, Australia and worldwide
A website dedicated to the life & work of social circus pioneer Reg Bolton (1945 - 2006)
Why not join us on Myspace, Flickr or Youtube.
Myspace: World Community Arts Day
Flickr: World Community Arts Day
Youtube: How to make a paperboat in 30 seconds
NEWS
How to create a real mermaid sculpture video gets 1000 hits
A video which shows The Mermaid sculpture being created in 1981 has had a great start by getting 1000 views/hits in just over 5 weeks. The giant sculpture documentation follows in the recent interest in The Gulliver Sculpture which is still under threat. The Mermaid sculpture was created by Pedro D silva and members of The Craigmillar Festival Society. Its purpose was to stop a motorway being built through the area, the sculpture was demolished a few years later.
Dia de Arte na Comunidade 2008
The idea of being part
of a creative world community has always been enthusiastically supported
by Hummingbird's community youth leaders. The results of their actions on the 17th February can be seen in this video
clip, which was filmed and edited by them and which they have
great pleasure in sharing with the rest of this wonderful world community.
E N J O Y !!
Follow our gallery of more than 3000 images on Flickr at:
CARF
Flickr
Gregory J. Smith
Social Entrepreneur and Founder
The Children At Risk Foundation - CARF
Repeat of Community Arts Forum broadcast on Feile FM, Northern Ireland
You can hear recordings from the 17 02 08 sunday night performance.
You can listen online next Sunday at 1.30
Half Way There 13:30pm to 15:00pm
Evening News, Edinburgh: Pink Painters come clean
Prestonpandemonium,
UK
Just to let you know that Nigel has added the green circle logo to website
today to mark WCAD.
The following is the
link to our website were we have a school project with an artist in residence.
We are Catholic High School in the United States, in the state of Illinois.
If you have any questions about the art project, please do not
hesitate to contact me.
Respectfully,
Gonzalo M. Valdez
Driscoll Catholic High School
Artists Meeting Place
(AMP) - Entry into WCAD 17 February AMP is a powerful tool that connects
artists and behind-the-scenes collaborators of all genres, including musicians,
painters, performance artists, writers, dancers, and many more, with resources,
opportunities, and personal connections. With thousands of members in 76
countries, AMPers can connect through our
website, as well as at AMP-hosted parties and multimedia events worldwide.
(pluginamp.com) Go AMP!
Amsterdam AMPer Federico Hewson's public participation project is AMP's entry
into World Community Arts Day - Art as a Catalyst for Caring and Sharing ("we
are not asking for money, but your creative and artistic skills to celebrate
this day - Art with a Heart".
Participate on February
14th in your own way!
To get involved contact:Los Angeles in Raha Tabankia,New York in Katie Rosenthal,Netherlands in Federico Hewson
Celebrate the culmination
of the Valentine Peace Project in Los
Angeles with a performance by AMPer Jason Brock
Santa Monica Bar & Grill, 3321 Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA 90405
Tel: (310) 453-5001, Friday, February 15, 9:30 pm free!
Jason Brook
Feile FM doing WCAD broadcast 26th Feb 2008
Community Arts Forum
are doing a feature on WCAD on Feile FM. This will happen somewhere between
1.30 pm and 2.30 pm.
You can listen online
Make a comment about WCAD 2008 on Communityarts.net
As designed by the team at Community Arts Forum, Northern Ireland.
Some fine words from Lynn Johnson, Theatre of Celebration, USA
from her blog, it starts
"We can either react in fear or anger to the state of our world thus becoming part of the problem or respond creatively and become part of the solution."
This quote above is why I do what I do. And today, World Community Arts
Day, I feel very connected to all of the other people around the world
who do what
they do.
please read more
Paperboats, Rocca Gutteridge and friends at Portobello Beach.
It was a great day, though did end in going for quite a chilly swim to retrieve the boats!!
Come see Drummatik, the best drumming group in Scotland.
"Just a wee email
to thank you for inviting us to perform at the event today. I loved the energy
and enthusiasm that everyone had today...and the whole ethos and idea of
wcad is fantastic! ...and if you are ever looking for a unique drumming group...you
know who to contact!!"
"this is to contribute to world community arts day from Slovenia\Skofije".
A great artist and community activist at Bromley by Bow.
Frank Creber, East End Games, London, UK
An artist and creative director for the celebrated Bromley By Bow Healthy Living Centre.
The Venchie Paperboats, Craigmillar, UK
A message in a paperboat from Ireland
"A little
bit more community awareness has been shared with The Insurance Institute
of Ireland, I am always glad to incorparate any creativity in the office
with my colleagues. It helps in some small way to build relationships"
Caroline, London
"thank you for the many paper boats! they are lovely. Hope
you have a
great day sunday. I may even try and get a boat on the on line community.
all the best to you and yours"
Would like to part of WCAD 2008
I am a community artist
based in Manchester, UK and would like to be included on your website and/or
have your logo on my new website, which I will be launching on world community
arts day 17.02.08.
The Bongo Club in Edinburgh supports WCAD!
By day the Bongo Club is a cafe, exhibition and rehearsal space, by night
it's a multi-functional, multi media venue for live music,
theatre and clubs. In 2003 it moved from the much-loved, but disintegrating
site in New Street (behind Waverley Station) to its new location in Holyrood
Road.
It's a great club space on two levels, with stage for DJs and bands andgrooving
on the bottom and lounge/chilling bar with DJ upstairs.
Artist Proof Studios, South Africa
"Can we add Artist proof Studio website.
We are doing various projects, but we have not managed to link them to the
website"
ActAlive add 65 members to WCAD
The ActALIVE arts coalition is composed of groups and individuals who use or advocate the use of arts to address HIV/AIDS (especially prevention and education), and related issues like poverty, human-rights, and sustainable development. ActALIVE is "Arts for Creative Transformation: Activism, Lifeline, Inspiration, Vision,Education".
Andrew
Jones/Spirithouse records, Bahamas
Musa
Heritage Gallery, Cameroon
SHIFSD, Ghana
Asante Akim,
Ghana
Talented
Youth Theater, Ghana
Ramchandra,
India
Ideas Unlimited,
India
Gram Bharati
Samiti, India
Bill
Clinton Care, India
KAIPPG, Kenya
KANCO, Kenya
Kibera
Community Youth Programme, Kenya
SANAA
Art Promotions, Kenya
AfricaAlive!,
Kenya
REPACTED, Kenya
SIDAREC, Kenya
Minciu
Sodas Laboratories, Lithuania
Gbenga
Sesan, Nigeria
Gbenga Salu,
Nigeria
Femi Babawande,
Nigeria
Development
Partnership International, Marine, Nigeria
AFCODE,
Nigeria
Girl
Child Art Foundation, Nigeria
AZUR
Development, Republic of the Congo
AREPP, South
Africa
Art
for Humanity, South Africa
Bush
Radio, South Africa
Sibikwa
Community Theater, South Africa
MADaboutART,
South Africa
Umcebo,
South Africa
Tanzania
Teens Against HIV/AIDS (Ark Foundation of Africa), Tanzania
Sarawut
Chutiwongpeti, Thailand
Lifehome
Project, Thailand
African
Youth Ministries, Uganda
Ntare
Guma Mwine, Uganda
Craigmillar Communiversity, UK
NextAid, USA
Art4Development,
USA
Shylene Schlackl,
USA
Governess
Films, USA
House
O' Chicks, USA
MTI, USA
Arche Dream,
USA
Playback
Theater NYC, USA
Center
for Digital Storytelling, USA
oneVillage
Foundation, USA
ArtCorps, USA
Global
Peace Tiles Project, USA
FAIR Fund, USA
Community
Arts Network, USA
Michael
McColly, USA
Natasha
Community Theatre, Zambia
SAFAIDS
(Patsime Edutainment), Zimbabwe
Kijana
Project,Zimbabze
Mary
Kathleen Burke. Barfest and Neilston Development Trust, East Renfrewshire,
UK
BarFest
Neilston Developmement
Trust would like you to join us at the "Old Bank" (our
community-owned and managed facility) to celebrate World Community Arts Day
this Sunday 17th February 2008. What better way to mark this occassion than
share in the recent successes of the wonderful Mary Kathleen Burke, having
just launched her debut album. Mary was, in 2005 and 2006, the driving force
behind the first Neilston Live! Festival of Arts and Music BARFEST, and in
so doing provided a great support to the cultural ambitions of Neilston Development
Trust. Come and share a glass of wine and a bite to eat and some music with
Mary and friends at the Old Bank and remind ourselves how lucky we are to
have known her first, wish her well with her new album and remind her to come
back! We will be there from 2pm till 5pm approx - look forward to seeing you!
Thanks
Laura Carswell (0797 417 1830)
Vice Chair and Festival Convenor
neilstondev.trust@hotmail.co.uk
Tel - 0141 561 1201
Neilston Development Trust, a community-led organisation aspiring to
make Neilston, East Renfrewshire, a better place to live, work and play.
"How to make a Real Mermaid Sculpture"
The Mermaid sculpture created in
the early 80's by Pedro D Silva and members of The Craigmillar Festival Society.
Extract
from "The Magic Umbrella"
A 30 second extract from a film about the journey of a magic umbrella
through Edinburgh. The umbrella is chased through Edinburgh by a group
of children. A community Arts Film and a contribution for World
Community Arts Day 2008. Think it was made in 1993 by Ian Rintoul.
This film was contributed by George Williamson.
From Janet Feldman, Actalive
"we wish you and everyone participating a fantastically creative and
inspiring day, and know that we will be with you inspirit, heart...and art!!!"
Happy Birthday Happy Postcards
721 members 3216 photos
Craigmillar Art and Environment project/Craigmillar Community Arts
"A Gathering"
Craigmillar Communiversity/Craigmillar Community Arts
ARTSPACE, 11 Harewood
Road, Craigmillar EH16 4NT
FREE
(entrance at the rear of building)
This will happen between 2 - 4pm on the Sunday.Featuring Janet Howie, Drumatik and
a few more friends.
We are planning a gathering event at The Craigmillar Artspace on the 17th Feb
08, for World Community Arts Day and looking for people to come and do a
5 minute or 10 minute performance, or display artwork, sing a song, poem, etc.
If you are interested
please contact Craigmillar Communiversity.
Come along and see
Prestonfield Neighbourhood centre Exhibition, and local children's primary
school exhibition made from discarded material organised by Craigmillar Community
Arts.
Also
Impact
Arts and the Fabpad project
Scott Whitelaw Photography
Penny Faulkner poet
more to be added.
Janet Howie and friends live on Leith FM Monday 11 Feb 2.30
Janet Howie
sang live for World Community Arts Day online with Lieth FM with Rocca
Gutteridge on 11 Feb 2.30 - 3.00. She sang "When The People Play Thier Part"
and "Dream Angus" and talked about about her life and art.
Global festival takes the stage: Evening news, Edinburgh
"A GLOBAL arts festival that was established in Craigmillar is set to be staged
tomorrow. Organisers behind the Craigmillar Community Arts Day will open the
event at Castleview Primary School from 11pm in a ceremony to mark the start
of scores of arts events across the globe.
Blind singer Janet Howie will lead local children through a rendition of her
song When People Play Their Part during the event, which will also include
the unveiling of a huge paper boat sculpture. Artists from Europe, the US,
South Africa, India, Brazil and Australia have pledged to join in the festival."
Virginia Marín Magán and Antoni Gabarre Gonzalez, Spain
Photograph exposition, murals and theatre from Chiclana, Spain
Photograph exposition "Puertas Adentro", murals with children and theatre from Chiclana, Spain
"for a feast of community dance, drama, music and visual arts"
Community Arts Forum
To mark World Community Arts Day, CAF will be showcasing a choice selection
of community arts talent from Northern Ireland.
Event Date: Sunday 17 February 2008
Start Time: 7.30pm
End Time: 9.30pm
Location: Waterfront Hall
Cost: £ 5 but concessions are available
To mark World Community Arts Day, CAF will be
showcasing a choice selection of community arts talent from Northern
Ireland.
Come along to the Community Arts Showcase at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall
at 7.30pm on Sunday 17 February 2008 for a feast of community dance, drama,
music and visual arts. Performers include African/Irish musical performers,
Afrish; a collaboration between the Andersonstown Traditional and Contemporary
Music School and An
Droichead; a group of dramatists from the Shankill Road and a dance troupe
from County Fermanagh. The evening will be compered by local playwright Martin
Lynch.
Tickets cost £5 but concessions are available for community groups.
To book a place contact Heather Floyd on 028 9024 2910 or email: hfloyd@caf.ie
or the Waterfront Hall. Contact Heather if you are interested in booking
reduced price group tickets.
Penny Faulkner, UK
"I write poetry and would be very happy to read some"
"Fabpad will do something on the Thursday prior to the WCAD - we will make something that will then be shown on the Sunday. Myself and/or Penny and Fiona will be here on the Sunday showing off the artwork and handing out info on Impact Arts and Fabpad."
Please read this website/discussion regards current situation in Kenya.
" The ActALIVE arts coalition is composed of groups and individuals who use or advocate the use of arts to address HIV/AIDS (especially prevention and education), and related issues like poverty, human-rights, and sustainable development. ActALIVE is "Arts for Creative Transformation: Activism, Lifeline, Inspiration, Vision, Education".
"Set a three hour typography project with the BA Visual Communication & Digital Publishing students at Adam Smith College, Fife yesterday : to create an artifact or paper boat using WCAD quote or similar and photograph suitable for uploading."
Shirley-Anne Murdoch
Typography Tutor
Adam
Smith College,Fife, Scotland
CLICK
HERE TO SEE ALL THE TYPO PAPERBOATS
Beautiful image and words.
Paperboats from Craigmillar, Scotland
Castleview Primary School, Craigmillar Scotland have made many paperboats and created a giant fish. Every child in the school created a boat.
Scholastic website: teachers diary
"If you're looking for inspiration for your teaching, take a look at some of the festivals and other events in our live interactive calendar."
API Feb News
"February 17 is World Community Arts Day. Instigated by Craigmillar Communiversity in Scotland, it’s an occasion for celebrating the arts as "a catalyst for sharing and caring." Everyone is invited to cook up a project for The Day and register it on the Web. Some great stuff is already logged in; check it out."
Paper Boat, Patricia Quijano, Mexico City.
How to make a paperboat sculpture
Our first paperboat has arrived for World Community Arts Day from Mexico City by the wonderful Muralist and Artist, Patricia Quijano.It is a beautiful tissue paper boat. Once I have a decent photo I will put it online.A big thank you to Patricia for getting this started.
about
this artist
Patricia Quijano is an internationally
recognized Mexican Artist who resides in Mexico and is known for her experience
in mural art. In 1996 Ms. Quijano was involved in the production of seventeen
murals covering over three thousand square feet of various York University
walls. Ms. Quijano studied and apprenticed with the late Arnold Belkin, a
well known Canadian Mexican mural painter. She has since taken over his studio
in Mexico.
A poem for World Community Arts Day
A beautiful poem about WCAD from Peter Pan's wee brother...
CO2 Project as featured in the Craigmillar Chronicle Jan 2008.
Colchester Roman Mosaic project, UK
A community arts project to create a fantastic Roman Mosaic floor.
Paitor, USA
"Well, count me in then. I'll definitely
participate and do whatever I can."
Ken Wolvertoo, New Mexico, USA
Ken Wolverton will do a seven minute full color pastel drawing
measuring 3
by 6 feet as the Ruebarbs play a special tune in dedication to the second
annual World Community Arts Day celebrations.
We hope to have a fully functioning version of the following
site that
we put up yesterday by the 17th and will be checking and testing over
the next couple of weeks - it represents project work and events
involving many thousands of people's efforts over a five/six year
period here in Charnwood and is a massive collective effort.
The Streatham Arts Festival has issued an open invitation to
the
community to join them in creating a collaborative artwork to
celebrate World Community Arts Day on February 17.
"Community Life" video, featuring singer Nikki Barnes and "It My Life" Art project.
Faye Milligan tribute site, actress and community activist.
World Community Arts Day was in invited to chat live online
with Leith
FM with Rocca Gutteridge on 21 Jan 3.00 - 3.30.
Art4Development home page becomes WCAD for one month.
"This is a message
to let you know that our home page has been updated with a link to the World
Community Arts Day site. The link will be featured
on our
home page until February 17th (exactly a month) in addition to our outreach
efforts through the events page, online publication- art'ishake, and Art4Development.Net
eCommunity network."
"verrrry coollll! u got my support!"
Music from Niddrie Jam
London
Gypsy Orchestra - Family Concert
Sunday February 17,
3pm
At Cecil Sharp House, Regents Park Rd, Camden, London NW1
Concert of Eastern European and Balkan Gypsy and folk music by the 40-piece
London Gypsy Orchestra. With special guests the Serbian Childrens Dance Group,
and mystery puppets. Doors open 2.30pm, starts 3pm. Refreshments in interval.
Entry £9, £7 concessions, £5 children under 12. Tickets
on the door or http://www.ticketweb.co.uk.
There will be an art display on this day in MKE, WI, USA,with a World Comm. Arts Day sign.
SENSCOT MEMBERS BULLETIN No. 408, FRIDAY 11th JANUARY 2008, UK
This bulletin goes to 3,500+ across scotland
"Some of our older readers will remember Reg Bolton 'founder
of Edinburghs Theatre Workshop' who suffered a fatal heart attack, aged
60, at his home in Australia in 2006. Regs vision was to bring performing arts
to the most deprived areas. I can recall how his theatre and circus work in
Craigmillar during the 1970s, showed us all the way to go. As a memorial to
Reg, Andrew Crummy and friends organised last year a Craigmillar World Community
Arts
Day which was such a success that the 2008 event on 17th February is already
flooded with interest from around the world. Read this happy story ˆ and
maybe join the fun. view
story
Gainsborough Riverside Festival,UK
A Big Welcome to the Riverside Festival, England, UK.
They are running a
Chinese Lantern parade on 17th Feb in conjunction with the world
community arts day.
Kadmusarts, festivals of the world
Your festival is now
part of the web's most popular destination to find and connect to every dance,
music, and theatre festival throughout
the world. KadmusArts.com is a free and open world wide social network that
reaches festival directors, artists -- and audiences. Your festival's
page is:
http://kadmusarts.com/festivals/1230.html
World Community Arts Day is featured on website under
Events Section and listed in the online publication art'ishake.
Edinburgh Evening News
Arts festival looks at the big picture
Happy postcards competition winner AlpenaMi "You make me Smile"
Happy postcards held a competition to see which photo should
represent
them on the WCAD webpage. Here is the winner.
Winner
Other entrants can be see here:
Competition
A big thanks to both for helping in Myspace.
Mycommunityticket makes WCAD featured event
"Thanks for letting us know about this. We have added this to the
website and made it a featured events so everyone will see it.
You can view it using this link...eventpage"
December 21, 2007
World Community Arts Day Coming Up
People all over the world are getting ready for the second annual World Community
Arts Day, February 17, 2008. Instigated by Craigmillar Communiversity in
Scotland, World Community Arts Day is an occasion for celebrating "arts
as a catalyst for sharing and caring." Everyone is invited to cook up
a project for The Day and register it on the Web. On board so far are migrant
workers in
Singapore, a children's art workshop in Solvenia, Scotland's Leith Festival,
Global Peace Global Healing, Belfast's Waterfront Hall and the Community
Arts Forum, Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective in Los Angeles,
Children
At Risk Foundation in Brazil, World Peace Markers Project in Florida, Saroja
Vaidyanthan in India and a host of people who have hooked up with WCAD on
MySpace and Flickr. Check out last year's festival on the WCAD site -- and
get busy.
"I am interested to participate in WCAD 08.
I have a series of photographs dealing with migrant workers and their everyday
lives here in
Singapore.
I volunteer
for a group called Migrant Voices, whose aim is to celebrate the unheard
voices amongst migrant workers and encourage social cohesion with Singaporeans.
Here is a set of the photographs
and also a project that sparked Migrant Voices to becoming an arts society
till today, the Migrant Voices album which carries songs from bands who are
migrant workers in Singapore. They are the people building our homes and caring
for our kids, here they get to show their talents. Migrant
voices/My space"
.
Laboratory for children: Children's free art workshops.
"i think that children need to do creative things and we must give them a chance and a place for a better world... "
.
Impact Arts, Scotland
"planning to deliver a workshop for WCAD"
.
Threatens to "put something SPECTACULAR together from
LEITH" which sounds brilliant.
.
PAPERBOATS WORLD COMMUNITY ARTS DAY
How to make a paperboat sculpture
We are asking people around the world to produce paper boats with a message in it, saying how they would create a better world for WCAD. We completed a project last year at Three Harbours festival where we involved 1000 children. They just loved making paper boats. It is a VERY SIMPLE, QUICK AND CHEAP idea.
Create the paperboats for WCAD, create your own sculpture, photo it, make a movie of it for WCAD. We would then love you to send these boats for our festival in the first week of June, so we can make a giant sculpture for the opening night, where we will light them up again. Or if anybody is interested in exchanging paperboats.
Hello! Visit GLOBAL PEACE GLOBAL HEALING here at Flickr and
share your photos!
SEE OUR ONGOING CONTEST TO CREATE A BANNER,SIGN,
BUMPER STICKER WITH THE WORDS "GLOBAL PEACE GLOBAL HEALING." MONTHLY
WINNERS POSTED ON GPGH.
TOTAL ARTISTIC CREATIVITY ENCOURAGED. FROM SILLY TO SERIOUS IMAGES ABOUT HEALING OUR EARTH AND ALL OUR RELATIONS.
Sakanta Running Wolf, Founder, Director GPGH
Belfast Waterfront Hall/Community Arts Forum
In order to mark World Community Arts Day of the 17 February 2008 Belfast Waterfront
Hall is teaming up with the Community Arts Forum to showcase some of Northern
Irelands most exciting community arts projects.
World Community Arts Day was established in 2007 to celebrate the important
contribution that the arts have made to communities across the globe.
To contribute to the showcase or for more information on World Community Arts
Day contact the Community Arts Forum, 15 Church Street, Belfast, BT1 1PG
Tel: 028 9024 2910 Email: hfloyd@caf.ie Web: www.caf.ie
Ticket prices: £ 5.00 Concessions: £3.00
.
AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and resource Collective
"I'd
definitely like AMP to be a part of World Community Arts Day 2008."
Terri Anderson
Executive Director
AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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The Children At Risk Foundation - CARF
"How wonderful that the kind of work we are involved in today in Brazil has solid roots in exactly that which Craigmiller envisioned so many years ago. I feel I am merely repeating history in an entirely different community reality, but one which has many similarities with that of Craigmiller."
GregoryGregory
J. Smith
Social Entrepreneur and Founder
The Children At Risk Foundation - CARF
Everyone a changemaker/The Children At Risk Foundation (CARF), Brazil
Tiite,
Director, World Peace Markers Project
"I'm certain to produce something to add to the festivities on 17/02/08 which I will let you know as soon as I know just what that would be.....we are going to create a page on our website to post links like yours and begin to unify the project with creative streams like yours."
Tiité
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Saroja Vaidyanthan, Padmashree Awardee, one of India 's prominent professional Bharatanatyam exponents, is happy to give a performance for World Community Arts Day.
.
Creative Network News will do a special podcast on 17/02/08.
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Patricia Haines, Level Green Institute, USA
you all continue an inspiration that I share with others -
thank you! who says one person can't make a difference?!
In case you're traveling to the US next April - or if you'd like to share your
ideas along the way -
April 23-26, 2008
artists - educators - activists -
** GREENING THE ARTS: Integrating the Arts With Education for Sustainable Development
Ithaca, NY - Symposium on Public Art; Open Space to create action plans for
a long-term initiative associated with the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable
Development (DESD); Earth Day community performances by participants created
as part of the program
- co-hosted by the Level Green Institute, the Ithaca Center for Environmental
Sustainability and the US Partnership for DESD, in cooperation with greenmuseum.org,
the Ithaca Downtown Business Partnership and the Cornell University Museum
of Art
- Part of Ithaca's EARTH WEEK '08 celebration
- for information: Patricia Haines (607) 339-9472 levelgreeninstitute@yahoo.com
.
Community Arts Forum, Northern Ireland
Community arts showcase opportunity
CAF is offering community arts groups two opportunites to showcase their
work.
CAF are offering groups a chance to perform/exhibit at our AGM in the Waterfront
Hall, Belfast on Wednsday 5th December 2007 and also as part of world community
arts day 2008 (17th February).
Interested groups should contact Heather Floyd at hfloyd@caf.ie
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I am the international correspondent for the Worldwide
Peace Marker Project. I invite all members and interested parties to visit our
website to learn more about this unique work of global art.
I am sure there is some way(s) for your event to integrate our efforts with
yours.
Any ideas?
Click to join
World community Arts day discussion noticeboard
WORLD COMMUNITY ARTS DAY NOTICEBOARD DISCUSSION
SHARE A PHOTOGRAPH ON FLICKR
World Community Arts Day Flickr group
Example 4 from 2007: from schuschu
Administrators:
Andrew Niddrie Sandra Craigmillar Roni Bingham Star1950
Happy Postcards Flickr exhibition
Administrators:
Sandra Craigmillar Perla AlpenaMi Adam - Raphael - Ziberman
Helper Enfin
Administrators:
Sandra Craigmillar Andrew Niddrie Star1950 AlpenaMi
Chinese animal Year hunt the pig - shoot it - post it!
Administrator:
New flickr groups to watch:
CREATE A VIDEO RESPONCE TO
Film your own event and put it online
Example 2 from 2007: Daphne Wills, Mailart and Video installation work working with local group, Scotland. Daphne Wills
SHARE MUSIC ON MYSPACE
World Community Arts Day 900+ friends
CREATE YOUR OWN GREEN CIRCLE
Our Logo is a Green Circle, create your own version.
Example 3 from 2007: Greendyker from Craigmillar, Scotland.
How to draw the perfect green circle
Shirley Anne Murdoch: "101 variations on a green circle"
Green Circle created in 1999 for Communiversity conference
SHARE THE DAY THROUGH YOUR BLOG
Perla The Witches Voice Skip in Art Lounge East Lothian Museum Blog
EXAMPLES
" But some say that the've heard, A whisper in the wind, Communities are on the move, Their way of living to improve and festivals you'll find."
" The powerful in the land, Can't bring a change of heart, But history will be made, When the people play their part."
Example 2 from 2007: Sample of Janet Howie singing, "When The People Play Thier Part" from the award winning documentary, Scotland.
Example 4 from 2007: Restoration of "The Healing Wall" Richmond, USA. Healing Wall
Example 5 from 2007: Under threat Gulliver Sculpture, Craigmillar Scotland.
Flickr 1 Google Earth Save Gulliver Campaign
Craigmillar on Flickr
Andrew Niddrie Sandra Craigmillar Roni Bingham
As part of World Community Arts Day we wish to show the tradition and contemporary work that is ongoing.
Last year three important archives/Art tours were launched as part of WCAD:
Example 6 from 2007: Reg Bolton Archive
Example 7 from 2007: Craigmillar Art Tours
Example 8 from 2007: Charnwood Arts
Example 6 from 2007: An artwork created by Patricia Quijano, Mexico. Patricia Quijano
Example 7 from 2007: Youth art project Chrissie Orr/ Bobbe Besolde Santa Fe, USA. Chrissie Orr/Bobbe Besold
Example 8 from 2007: Arts CARE, Arizona, USA
Example 9 from 2007: Catherine Larkins, Australia Common Ground Lakes Entrance Snow Circus at Possum Flat
Example 10 from 2007: Edel King, Ireland Edel King
Example 11 from 2007: The Venchie, Craigmillar Scotland The Venchie
Example 12 from 2007: "Hal" by Scott Whitelaw Portrait of a Craigmillar Artist
Example 13 from 2007: "Everyone an Artist" Everyone an artist
Example 14 from 2007: Beth Shadur, USA : Lecture
Participants
(as well as all the above)
We are hoping to build on links/have indicated they want to take part/are supportive of.
International Children Art Foundation
Helen Crummy, UK
Steve Burgess, UK
Eddie Anderson, UK
Alexandra Givan, UK
Ken Wolverton, USA
Anne Lorne Gillies, Scotland
Melissa Francis Peacock/Tiphereth group, Edinburgh, UK
Patricia Haines. Level Green Institute, USA
Virginia Marín Magán and Antoni Gabarre Gonzalez, Spain
Brandon Gabriel, Canada
Mosaic The City - Community Unity Society, USA
Beth Shadur, USA
Harold Beaulieu, USA
Kim Berman, Artist Proof Studio, South Africa
Same Difference, International
Neil Cameron, Australia
Worldwide Peace MarkerProject
Sculpture and Environmental Art, Glasgow school of Art, UK Website
Out of The Blue, Edinburgh, UK
PAPER BOATS/Three Harbours Arts festival, UK
George Williamson, Dalry, Edinburgh, UK; The Magic Umbrella
Lynne Shroder, UK
Small and Crummy/World Solutions banner
CNN, Rochdale, UK
Tiite, WPMP
Mark and Gus, Craigmillar
Frae Fife website/artsmart pdf
Sakanta Running Wolf, Global Peace Global Healing
World Neighbors THE ART OF RECYCLING service-learning project
Arts and Health, South West, UK
The Boekman Foundation, Netherlands
Clark Crystal, Brisbane, Clown Doctor
Gainsborough Riverside Festival,UK
Rocca Gutteridge, Leith FM, UK
Prestonpans Mural Trail, UK
BA Visual Communication & Digital Publishing students at Adam Smith College
Beautiful image and words.
Castleview Primary School
Scholastic website: teachers diary
Colchester Roman Mosaic project, UK
A
green circle
A logo has been produced which is simple and can be developed in many ways.
Please use and pass on.
A circle is one of the basic shape in the world. It is a very efficient
way of passing on and conserving energy. It is one of the fundamental
shapes
in the arts and can be applied to many things. There is no top or bottom
to it.
ONCE YOU HAVE DECIDED TO TAKE PART
If possible can you send a weblink, photo so we can put it on the website as
soon as possible. If possible put a weblink to The WCAD webpage as well.
The bigger the list the better it gets.
The event could just be a gesture, highlighht an ongoing event/workshop/artwok
or a larger event: So 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
7. A Theatre Performance
8. A Reading
9. A Mural
10. Online projects
11. A lecture
etc
OUR AIM IS SIMPLE
Our aim is very simple, to show that many people and communities around the
world want to use their creativity and artistic skills to promote caring and
sharing.
HISTORY OF COMMUNITY ARTS
Another aim is to raise awareness of how important Community Art is as
a Global movement, its history, present day activities and the future.
SPARC Murals, Los Angeles,USA The World Wall The Great Wall of Los Angeles
Chicago Public Art Group, USA 30 years of Community Arts
ONLY CRITERIA
The only criteria is that the Art "must be a catalyst for social change
and caring". And it would be Art in its widest form and include
all the artforms plus more
TO BE INCLUDED IN THIS WEBSITE
To be included in this website we ask for you to have words "World Community Arts Day " or the Green Circle Logo on your website or contact us and we will create a special page, but prefer if it is on another/your own website.
GREEN CIRCLE LOGO
A logo has been produced which is simple and can be developed in many
ways.
Please use and pass on. A circle is one of the basic shape in the
world. It is a very efficient way of passing on and conserving energy.
It
is one of the
fundamental shapes in the arts and can be applied to many things.
There is no top or bottom to it.
"We can either react in fear or anger to the state of our world thus becoming part of the problem or respond creatively and become part of the solution."
jour d'arts
de la communauté du
monde