Wanted: Artists Working on Art for Social Change

Friday, August 26. 2005

My friend Alma sent me this email, definitely worth blogging.

i was wondering if you have any suggestions on groups and artists,
organizations etc. in the Arab world and the Mediterranean region
(Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Algeria,
Libya, Tunis, Morocco, maybe even Iran, did i forget any country??) who
are working on art for social change.
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these groups could be working in any medium of art, with any age
groups or social groups. social change could be defined as you wish...
no specific definition�in my mind!
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thank you for your help. i am asking for this information because
i am trying to organize a meeting for some artists to work on the ideas
of�free knowledge, art and society.

Posted by Ammar Ibrahim at 14:48 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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wow!!sounds very intersting!!im not sure id call myself an artist though but i have adequate knwldage in digital design if that counts!where can i get more info about this?count me in from now : )

#1 dee on 2005-08-26 16:39 (Reply)

Salamat Ammar,

Hope all is well ...

I think if you or your friend were to widen your search to include individuals, then you might be surprised by the responses you might get.

Don't worry, I'm a long way from art, but it is just a suggestion that might help. This actually could be the start of such a group ...

Salamat,

Feras

#2 Jordan spirit (Homepage) on 2005-08-26 19:54 (Reply)

Oops,

just realised that you did mention artists .... my mistake ... sorry ...

but it still would be a good idea for the free-lance artists(if I may call them that) to form such groups ...

Feras

#3 Jordan spirit (Homepage) on 2005-08-26 20:07 (Reply)

I'd be interested too, although I've never tried to equip art for social work(unless you count dabkeh).

#4 Roba (Homepage) on 2005-08-26 23:33 (Reply)

Hi

I stumbled about this page and I liked how it encourages art for better social change. I am a Jordanian filmmaker living in Canada. I currently have 2 films in festivals one which is currently going in the Toronto film Festvial. I am more than glad to help out with ideas and educating the people back at home.

My line of work would be animation but not restricted to that. There are lots of oppurtunities to get your voice heard in Canada by getting governmental aid to projects aimed for clutural artistic expression.

I want to lend a hand in anyway I can. I lived in Jordan for 8 of my teen years.

I have friends there (in Jordan) who can also lend a hand. We should all put our hands together and work for something larger than all of us.

Firas Momani

#5 Firas Momani (Homepage) on 2005-09-01 04:17 (Reply)

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