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New documentary, bridges between Art Islam & Europe
Art, Islam & Europe - ENG from SHAAMAN.COM on Vimeo.
A short documentary to explore the perception of Islam as a civilisation and culture through contemporary art and artists influenced by eastern culture in Europe.
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Through its Belief in dialogue project, the British Council is developing initiatives to tackle current issues around cultural diversity, challenging misunderstandings and misconceptions of different communities.
Acknowledging the complex identities which form our pluralistic societies, Belief in Dialogue is exploring how to develop engagement for better global citizenship, help widening participation and building trust.
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director and footages : khéridine mabrouk
editor and color grading : maxime mathis
post production: shaaman.com
special thanks : benjamin laurent
additional images/
art videos by damir niksic
the film graffix from the Soux by pete stern
art and islam usa tour by musa syeed
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION :
Around the film/
http://www.artislameurope.com
Around Belief in dialogue project/
www.britishcouncil.org/new/society/belief-in-dialogue/
Graphic design in Chefchaouen
Spanish graphic designer and multimedia artist Javier Reta's digital collages are inspired from the two years he spent living in Chefchaouen, in Morocco's northern Rif region.
This series is entitled "Into Jebl" (Into the mountain).
Javier's mixed-medias draw from his "devotion to these mountain woman and their hard work," his curiosity with Arabic typography as graphic elements and his personal photography.
His photography is also quite stunning, veering towards the abstract. See this series 'Blue & Orange.'
All images courtesy Javier Reta. For more of his work, visit his website or portfolio.
US - 1 Million of Deportations soon with S-Comm program
From Just seeds : Artists cooperative
"the administration has moved to ramp up deportations, expanding the brutal efficiency of a system that Mr. Obama has acknowledged is broken, arbitrary and unjust." - New York Times, Aug 15. 2011
After hitting a record 1 MILLION deportations, the Obama administration just did the unthinkable: Forcing states and police departments to comply with a controversial program called Secure Communities or S-Comm – a move guaranteed to deport many more millions of people.
S-Comm is a highly criticized federal program that is deporting immigrants who have done nothing wrong, encouraging racial profiling, devastating communities around the country, and making us all less safe. In fact, under S-Comm authorities can deport a woman reporting domestic violence, instead of protecting her. Huge immigrant states like Illinois and New York opted out of the program because it breeds distrust of the police – and now President Obama is forcing them to comply.
We need a massive outcry—and fast—if we are to stop this disastrous program. Since Thursday, the organization I helped found, Presente.org, began a petition to end S-Comm, and since then, more than 20,000 people have signed on!! Will you help us get to 30,000 signatures?
Click here to sign the petition asking President Obama to end S-Comm
Under the Obama Administration, ICE and DHS have gone out of their way to mislead the public about Secure Communities. And despite rhetoric about supporting fair immigration reform and relief for our communities, their actions are speaking much louder than their words.
Now they are poised to force local officials to make this situation even worse. Until recently, the Obama Administration used to sign agreements with states, cities, and towns regarding whether or not these localities wanted to enroll in S-Comm. But when local governments started to say they didn’t want the program, the Obama administration changed their own rules. On Friday, August 5th, they ended agreements with 42 states, claiming that local permission wasn’t needed to force every local police department into the program by 2013.
If we don’t do something about it, S-Comm will come to every neighborhood in the country—including yours! The Obama administration has already deported more than 1 MILLION people, more than any other administration in history. S-Comm will bring about even more devastating consequences.
We’ll start by compiling these signatures and delivering them to the President and the media. We’ll work with immigrant rights organizations, state-based groups, and law enforcement to educate the public and help organize a major pushback on the administration’s dangerous move.
Click here to sign the petition asking President Obama to end S-Comm
SUPPORT A LOGO FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
In search of a globally recognized Logo for Human Rights, Human Right Watch create a contest for design a sign for Human Rights.
You can join here : http://humanrightslogo.net/
You can join here : http://humanrightslogo.net/
DREAM ACT - VISUAL ARTS FOR DIGNITY
Art and Activism Come Together to Make DREAM a Reality
visual activism has played an important role throughout history. From civil rights, labor unions, women’s rights, migrant’s rights and any other injustice we’ve fought for, artists have carried the voice of millions through a single poster, flier or composition of music. Through campaigns such as Alto Arizona, Wordstrike and Soundstrike, artists were able to engage creatively in fighting the unlawful treatment of immigrants. And even though much activism has moved online, the power of the poster is never going away—it’s.
More recently, we see artists coming out to support the DREAM Act. The proposed bill would allow undocumented youth with a clean criminal record who were brought to the country before the age of 16 the right to apply for permanent residency if they commit two years to the military or higher education.
Favianna Rodriguez
Julio Salgado
Santiago Uceda
Visual arts - Revolution in Tunisia & Egypt - Designers for freedom
A good post from African Digital art. Some artworks here :
Michael Thompson
http://www.africandigitalart.com/2011/02/revolution-egypt-tunisia-designers-react/
Michael Thompson
Omar Nejai
Border Art - Paseo de la humanidad
This sculpture mounted on the wall is supposed to depict the 2 sides of the border, the people moving across it and what they bring with them. The highly symbolic figures are based on ancient mesoamerican pictograms where people are depicted with icons floating above their heads to indicate who they are.
this art is by Alberto Morackis and Guadalupe Serrano.
this art is by Alberto Morackis and Guadalupe Serrano.
This installation was oriented towards the deaths of migrants in the desert and the humanity of the migration phenomenon. In this piece, the figures are depicted by images from the borderlands. Fruits, vegetables, bombs, the Statue of Liberty, and household appliances all help to build the images of other figures as they represent society on the border.
These giants were constructed from post-industrial maquiladora material, an aspect of their identity that complicates their interpretation. Are they pushing the wall down? Are they holding the wall up? Who are they?
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