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Art and Activism Caravan :: the video's
These are the videos made during the Art and activism Caravan, which was touring South-Eastern Europe this summer. For more information and full coverage of the project, see the AA Caravan Indymedia page.
Creative activism by the Mischief Makers - a short history
The Mischief Makers are a group of activists and artists based in Nottingham (UK) who formed early 2005 as a creative response to the G8 Summit, held at Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland in July that year. The collective uses creativity to support community, environmental and social justice campaign and activist groups. The groups aim is ''to inspire people and empower them to identify challenges and take action in their local environment''. (1) Here follows a short overview of their first 2 years in action...
Report: Rhythms of Resistance Manchester Outreach Session!
Sunday night and the Basement (Manchester's Social Centre) was swinging to the sounds of samba, with 18 people attending the Rhythms of Resistance Manchester open workshop.
Samba workshop 12th November
Rhythms of Resistance Manchester invites you to a Samba workshop!
Creative Activism Exhibition at The Basement
Omladinski Centar here we come!
In Novi Sad the Caravan was welcomed and looked after by people from two organisations. One is Kulturanova, which organised various visual arts festivals and has been campaigning for a cultural youth centre in the city. The other is the 'Volonterski Centar Vojvodine' a volunteer centre, which supports and runs a variety of projects. The week in Novi Sad was one of good workshops, good actions and the occasional party! Most Caravan members were accomodated on an old Ukranian cruise ship in the Danube, where workshops took place too. The Mischief Makers build a giant bird as a symbolic way of opening up Serb borders and made an impressive mosaic on the same theme, possibly to be used in a new youth centre. Clowns trained and joked about at the final parade to end the week of workshops. An other impressive feature of the activities in Novi Sad was the quickly formed samba band, which did a couple of stunning performances in the centre of town. The video group made 3 videos and did several open air screenings. At the end of the first week a demonstration was held for the cultural youth centre as well as for the opening up of Serbian borders. During the second week some Caravan members worked at a Roma settlement and prepared a film screening and demonstration, demanding an electricity supply, which the settlement in its 33 year existance has had no access to. Photos: art caravan arrived to novi sad yesterday | Caravan flyers Audio: Milan from Kulturanova speaks on local radio about Caravan Others articles: Groovy times in Novi Sad Links: AA Caravan Indymedia | KulturaNova website + article on Caravan | Volonterski Centar Vojvodine website + announcement | Wikipedia on Novi Sad
Milan from Kulturanova speaks on local radio about Caravan
Everything can change through art
Samba in Plav
impressions of Plav. montenegro and my workshop week
Groovy times in Novi Sad
Rhythms of Resistance is a growing network of percussion(samba) groups around Europe which shows up to many demonstrations to various issues as well as coming up with their own actions. In Berlin the samba band is quite active and I give with this article an overview about my workshop I did in Novi Sad, North of Serbia, Voyvodina
Hands off! - struggle for a Belgrade park
The week in Belgrade was very different from our stay in the small community of Plav. There it was, a big city once again. We were looked after by people from the Stanipani Kolektiv, who had got people interested in the workshops and helped generating ideas on a possible theme and action. The day the Caravan arrived a memorial vigil took place in the centre of the city to commemorate the victims of the Srebrenica genocide in 1995. People held banners and placards saying 'never again' and 'remember Srebrenica'. Last year the same vigil was attacked by nationalist groups, some of who trew teargas in the crowd. The police guarded the protest heavily this time. The article 'Belgrade remembers Srebrenica - 11 years on...' contains various links and photos of the event. The final outcome of the week was an evening of silk and film screening at Peti Park, a small park in Belgrade, where a corporation called Crnotravac wants to build a five storage high commercial centre. In June 2005, the company cut down all the trees in the park. The neighbourhood has started an impressive struggle to safe the park. Coen from the Art and Activism Caravan spoke with local campaigners... Photos: Interview with Belgrade park campaigners | Belgrade remembers Srebrenica - 11 years on... | On the road again - Plav to Belgrade Links: AA Caravan Indymedia | Stanipanikolektiv website | Peti Parkic campaign website | Wikipedia on Belgrade | Wikipedia on Serbia
In the small town of Plav...
Plav is a small town in the north east of Montenegro. The 3.500+ inhabitants form a mixed community of Montenegrians, Serbs and Albanians. 80% is muslim, 14% orthodox, 2% catholic. Among the Montenegrians there are both muslims and orthodox, among the Albanians both muslims and catholics. Part of the population are refugees from the Bosnian war (1992-1995) and the Kosovo war (1998-1999). The town is very isolated, surrounded by mountains and six hours away from the capital Podgorica. In autumn last year, a small group of people set up an NGO, Plagus_M, with the aim to activate the local community and the youth culture. The Art and Activism Caravan was guest in the town of Plav for a very special and hectic week. We were made very welcome by the people and everybody has worked very hard to make a big parade happen on the final day. The samba practiced by marching through the town, getting many funny looks. The Mischief Makers build a giant football and stadium seat, to support the demand from local youth to get better seating in the local football stadium. At the moment they have to sit on a rubbish dump to watch the matches... Another group of mischievious fairies made costumes and danced around during the parade. The video workshop produces films about the local lake and its safety, the management of waste and another one on local youth in Plav. The clowns worked on a performance about waste and collected some from the street in order to find its owners... Photos: On our way to Plav... some photos | Plav final event - The parade... | Plav final event - handing over the petition | Plav final event - Filmscreening and party... Other articles: Small town activism in Montenegro - interview with a community activist | Samba in Plav Links: AA Caravan Indymedia | Wikipedia on Plav |
...a mixed media exhibition on clowning, samba, video activism and creative writing...
Here a short audio of Milan from Kulturanova speaking on local Novi Sad radio about the AA Caravan coming to town. This was one of the many publicity they had done previous to us coming... Below the flyer that we found everywhere when we arrived.
Video, samba, clowns, photographs, graffiti… everything to serve activism. It is about a caravan in which youngsters from different countries of Western Europe have chosen art as a means of activism. This is not impossible. The third stop for the organizers of this caravan was Tirana, along with the youth of the MJAFT Movement. During four days students of high schools from Tirana, Berat and Kucova transformed the capital in an inspiration place and opportunity source.
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