OCI NOVOSTI, Eyes News- Cultural Fusion fires up again
OCI NOVOSTI is about to kick off as a Cultural Fusion Group project led by the instructor and students of NGO Art Studio in the Republic of Macedonia.
The project is beginning with a small print magazine to be distributed locally in Skopje. It will focus on the community and art scene through the eyes of artists working and studying there.
Fouad developed the concept as:
Television for Humanity [TV-4-Humanity] is a global humanitarian development initiative to establish a freely accessible new media based IPTV infrstructure based Channels deployed on Free & Open Source Software. We are sending out an appeal globally to support the establishment of this IPTV.
Everyday thousands of development community groups and organizations face the hardship of raising their voices globally. The channel will never charge for humanitarian development television material.
It stands as a wonderful example of Fouad's insight about how ICT can be the bridge between projects, ideas, and communities around the globe.
When TV4Humanity launches this will be one of the first collaborations to create humanitarian content through the eyes of artistic communities. Oci Novosti means Eyes News in Macedonian.
The project serves multiple purposes, most obviously it informs and involves the community in the arts...
It gives voice to the previously voiceless...it involves the community in early phase projects addressing reforms based on transperency, integrity, reliable monitoring systems that support accountability of officials... it illuminates the community through new eyes for the global network when FOSS can be leveraged to deliver ICT solutions for innovative projects such as those connected to Cultural Fusion.
The project can easily be replicated in other communites and again ICT/FOSS supported projects offer the ideal opportunity for distribution and collaboration planning/development.
Cultural Fusion promotes community renewal through art/creative expression that is aligned with sustainable enterprises. Each project is designed to be a pilot or demonstration project as part of the art series, while the final results are replicable community renewal and economic development models that integrate technology solutions to create virtual support networks.
greetings from Mexico - our sisters and brothers of macedonia mapas_huitzuco_taxco
here is a map so you can find your way here http://www.artcamp.com.mx/Baile/Huitzuco/index.htm
here is the offering to the Virgin of Guadalupe the patron saint of Mexico . we are initiating a collaboration between our countries. Viva Mexico Viva Macedonia cottage industry handcraft jewelry product; traditional music, movie-making, folkloric dancing
Viva la revolucion! Thanks for the post...I ll do my best to make a publication real..My volunteer team will start to collect materials and soon we will have a material to launch first edition
Oci Novosti is publication which means to give a heart of the social vision in Macedonia and promote a belief in cultural and creative expression which will affect deep and lasting social change. Laws may be altered, court decisions may be handed down, officials may be voted in and out of office--but if the majority of the people do not believe in the possibility and the rightness of their/our common cause, nothing authentic or long-lasting will be changed. This is where art, artists and art project play essential role. If we want freedom, we must promote free expression. If we want equity, we must have equal access and support in expressing ourselves. If we want respect and love and beauty among us and all our many communities, we must actively and systematically promote it through our art and through NGO Art Studio project . OCI NOVOSTI, in this sense, becomes conscious effort to build a movement of people prepared to facilitate and participate in social change and promote culture in the diverse communities. OCI Novosti Eyes News are committed to bringing the arts to bear on the widest possible range of social conditions and challenges facing our communitiy
Mexico will be featured also as our first partner...
Believing that the imagination is a healing force, NGO Art Studio offers innovative arts-based programs to heal, enrich, and transform the lives of individuals, communities, and the world.
· promote a culture of peace, and strengthen the human spirit through peace education, the arts, and the media;
· build more effective networks and increase global capacities across divides, building co-operation and finding common ground, relying on the strength of our diversity;
· ensure collaboration across generations;
· support those who work on other social and sustainability issues that are ultimately related to a just peace;
· learn from the past and insist on redress and reconciliation for past injustices;
· realize the capacity of civil society to make and build peace.