Socially Conscious Activists & Artists - Workshops & USSF Multimedia Arts Project - PLEASE SUBMIT! Deadline March 20!
As you may or may not know, the United States Social Forum is coming to Detroit June 22-26, 2010. Over 20,000 community organizers and activists will converge on the Motor City for a week of action, learning, teaching, networking, organizing and growing.
Here’s more info about the USSF from http://ussf2010.org:
The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next most important step in our struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational, diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country and changes history. We must declare what we want our world to look like and we must start planning the path to get there. The USSF provides spaces to learn from each other’s experiences and struggles, share our analysis of the problems our communities face, build relationships, and align with our international brothers and sisters to strategize how to reclaim our world.
Registration workshop & cultural submission forms open & online: www.ussf2010.org
Registration: http://www.ussf2010.org/register & workshops: http://www.ussf2010.org/call_for_proposals
In addition to the over 1000 workshops that will take place, there will be concerts, art exhibits, film festivals and more that will demonstrate the power that art and culture have for shaping this new vision of America and the world. We’re also accepting submissions for those events, and would love for you to participate in the Forum in Detroit as well.
However, leading up to the social forum, Detroit-based arts activism organization Change::The Music is producing a Multimedia Arts project that will be used as a fundraiser and promotional tool for the USSF.
That’s where you come in. I’m writing to ask you to submit works that you feel are appropriate for this project. I know you have some, or I wouldn’t be sending you this email.
Here is a brief overview of the project from http://changethemusic.net:
Change: The Music is proud to curate and produce a digital compilation of music, spoken word, writings, visual art, photography, and video created by socially conscious artists to support the 2010 U.S. Social Forum (USSF). The Multimedia Arts Project will take the form of downloadable files available to donors who contribute a minimum of $5, with all proceeds going directly to the U.S. Social Forum.
SUBMISSIONS: The Music invites artists to submit audio, video, images and writings to the USSF Multimedia Arts Compilation Project, with the agreement to license and donate the digital files for dissemination via the Internet and to be used for other promotional purposes that support the 2010 U.S. Social Forum (USSF).
SUBMISSIONS CRITERIA: The Music shares a vision with the USSF to challenge poverty, exploitation, racism, oppression, militarism/war and environmental destruction – locally, nationally and globally – through communication with persons from diverse groups. Art works will be selected not only for quality and craftsmanship, but also for their contribution to the conversation about why another world is possible and another U.S. is necessary.
You can submit your work at the Change::The Music website – http://changethemusic.net – through our flash uploader or through FTP. If you have any questions about the submission process or the project as a whole, please contact me.
So can we count on you to submit your incredible artwork for this very worthy project?
Thanks so much for your time, your attention, for your participation in this project, and most of all for the work you do every day to bring about a positive change in this world.
J. Nadir Omowale
Cultural Activist – Media Mercenary – Funk Assassin
Nadir - Revolutionary Funk & Soul – http://distortedsoul.com
EAPro, Inc. - Music/Media/Marketing – http://eapro.net
1440 Collective Studio - Detroit’s Creative Chop Shop – http://1440collective.com
Change::The Music - Arts Activism for Progressive Change – http://changethemusic.net
Here’s more info about the USSF from http://ussf2010.org:
The US Social Forum (USSF) is a movement building process. It is not a conference but it is a space to come up with the peoples’ solutions to the economic and ecological crisis. The USSF is the next most important step in our struggle to build a powerful multi-racial, multi-sectoral, inter-generational, diverse, inclusive, internationalist movement that transforms this country and changes history. We must declare what we want our world to look like and we must start planning the path to get there. The USSF provides spaces to learn from each other’s experiences and struggles, share our analysis of the problems our communities face, build relationships, and align with our international brothers and sisters to strategize how to reclaim our world.
Registration workshop & cultural submission forms open & online: www.ussf2010.org
Registration: http://www.ussf2010.org/register & workshops: http://www.ussf2010.org/call_for_proposals
In addition to the over 1000 workshops that will take place, there will be concerts, art exhibits, film festivals and more that will demonstrate the power that art and culture have for shaping this new vision of America and the world. We’re also accepting submissions for those events, and would love for you to participate in the Forum in Detroit as well.
However, leading up to the social forum, Detroit-based arts activism organization Change::The Music is producing a Multimedia Arts project that will be used as a fundraiser and promotional tool for the USSF.
That’s where you come in. I’m writing to ask you to submit works that you feel are appropriate for this project. I know you have some, or I wouldn’t be sending you this email.
Here is a brief overview of the project from http://changethemusic.net:
Change: The Music is proud to curate and produce a digital compilation of music, spoken word, writings, visual art, photography, and video created by socially conscious artists to support the 2010 U.S. Social Forum (USSF). The Multimedia Arts Project will take the form of downloadable files available to donors who contribute a minimum of $5, with all proceeds going directly to the U.S. Social Forum.
SUBMISSIONS: The Music invites artists to submit audio, video, images and writings to the USSF Multimedia Arts Compilation Project, with the agreement to license and donate the digital files for dissemination via the Internet and to be used for other promotional purposes that support the 2010 U.S. Social Forum (USSF).
SUBMISSIONS CRITERIA: The Music shares a vision with the USSF to challenge poverty, exploitation, racism, oppression, militarism/war and environmental destruction – locally, nationally and globally – through communication with persons from diverse groups. Art works will be selected not only for quality and craftsmanship, but also for their contribution to the conversation about why another world is possible and another U.S. is necessary.
You can submit your work at the Change::The Music website – http://changethemusic.net – through our flash uploader or through FTP. If you have any questions about the submission process or the project as a whole, please contact me.
So can we count on you to submit your incredible artwork for this very worthy project?
Thanks so much for your time, your attention, for your participation in this project, and most of all for the work you do every day to bring about a positive change in this world.
J. Nadir Omowale
Cultural Activist – Media Mercenary – Funk Assassin
Nadir - Revolutionary Funk & Soul – http://distortedsoul.com
EAPro, Inc. - Music/Media/Marketing – http://eapro.net
1440 Collective Studio - Detroit’s Creative Chop Shop – http://1440collective.com
Change::The Music - Arts Activism for Progressive Change – http://changethemusic.net
