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- Walls, fences and roads to nowhere... fading, becoming less defining and seperating. A community defined by participation and engagement, not by design and constitution. A community of individuals playing an authentic role in society - accountable, creative, responsive. A richness, not of classes and sectors, but of bio-diversity and organic growth.
We are seperated, not by the oceans and the mountains, but by the ideas and attitudes that reinforce otherness and diminish the natural flow of love and energy between us. All the 'arts' have a role to play in bringing back the zest of communicative juices to our lives, not the art in boxes and application forms, but the living dynamic art that we can bring about for ALL people to share and enjoy, the art that is communication of our deepest truth, the truth that sets us all free... This is my vision. Check out Healthy Concerts. This world family started at a Healthy Concert.
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was wondering if u have typed up those notes and if u could mail them to me if u have. Thanks! also ,we need 2 female artists to perform on the 8th of March. any ideas?
I hope the quietness on the group site is a moment of study and preparation for others as it is for me. I am still studying the 6 documents you sent me, but as you may have noticed I posted a video from a site called T.E.D (http://www.ted.com/) which addresses many issues to do with the future of this planet.
This link, along with others, was given to me by Chissie's husband who has, as I think I mentioned, just retired as course leader of Three Dimensional Design and Materials Practice after many years at Brighton University,and he is now part-time at doing only the things that interest him as research projects, one of which is a collaboration between Brighton Academics AND Students and those at Shristi University in Bangalore (led by Arvind Lodaya) concerning the maintenance of ancient arts and crafts which are the mainstay of probably something like 300 Million non-industrialised workers, in other words those who remain once you account for the 400 million smallholders that you have mentioned who could lose their lands to the "New Maharajas" of Agro-industry by the year 2020. The link to the Brighton University page outlining this research is: http://cetld.brighton.ac.uk/projects/current-projects/design-and-indian-traditional-village-manufacturing
Although it is not concerned with food sovereignty as such, there are obvious correlations, not the least of which is that they are as dependent, and may even be in some cases the same families, as the small-holders.
Chris Rose (that's why we call his wife Chrissie) is visiting Bangalore in February to advance the project further, and he is one of my guests on the next Vision Shack along with James Tijou who is working on parallel projects that, if successful, will also affect us all.
Both these men are potential trailblazers in the development of ways and means to protect everything from traditional small cottage industry "economies" to the sovereignty of consciousness (an example of which is the "virtual plebiscite" based upon internet technology that took place in Brazil led by Agosto Boal using theatre to change 13 NATIONAL LAWS - this is part of James' plan).
I do not wish to distract World Family from the main task of Food Sovereignty, but all these projects (and many others of which I am becoming aware through T.E.D and other sources) are concerned with Participatory Development, which is why the next Vision Shack will be about Participatory Development.
This, along with the re-birthing of Healthy Concerts, is also a part of my contribution to the future, and I do not know how long or in what manner I will be fulfilling my part in the Seminars you spoke of, but I feel the need to talk to both Caspar and Moving Sounds to gain more intelligence that can assist me in moving on this responsibility, as well as using my academic contacts and others in the UK to present the result to young people, trainee farmers, smallholders in trouble over here (for superficially different reasons, but they all add up to greedy giants making money) and so on.
I have many ideas like contacting farmer's associations and unions and tapping into or promoting inter-continental farming groups.
As you can imagine this is a lot of work, so I am going to paste this forum to both Caspar and Moving Sounds (and also members of the Brighton Branch who are meeting at Jocelyn's on Friday 30th afternoon, folowed by a proposed Healthy Concert for World Family that evening - so that all members can be thinking about all the issues involved, alongside your excellent summary of our first meeting and others and Nadia's notes from that meeting).
I also ask anyone reading who can assist me to get in contact. I also ask you all to listen to the program if you can, or if not send me by private message an address I can send a CD of the (new) program to - I have already handed out about 35-40 copies of the interview and discussion we did on 8th November at RadioReverb.
Sorry to be so verbose, but as you can see there are a lot of connections and possibilities, and I want to ensure that we reach an over all strategy so that we are like the bunch of twigs that cannot be broken.
Love, Honour and Respect to all,
Louis Loizou.