Relevant linksLEVIER’S associatesSOCIÉTÉ ELIZABETH FRY DU QUÉBEC Since the summer of 2007, Engrenage Noir / LEVIER has partnered with the Société Elizabeth Fry du Québec on the project Agir par l’imAGinaIRe. The Société Elizabeth Fry du Québec is a community organization founded in 1977. Their mission is to help women who have problems with the criminal justice system and who, while determined to change, are unable to do so without help. Other organisationsL’ABRA ou Rede Brasileira de Arteducadores (Brazilian network of art educators)
Created during the World Social Forum of 2005, this network targets personal and social transformation through dialogue and creativity. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the American largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities. ACTION CONTRE LA FAIM (ACTION AGAINST HUNGER) This NGO, founded in 1979 by several French intellectuals, is dedicated exclusively to the problem of world hunger in its largest sense, and creates humanitarian missions in the world. ArtCorps’ mission is to advance social change initiatives by promoting arts and culture as powerful tools to generate cooperative and sustainable work between development organizations and the communities they serve. ARTICULAÇAO LATINOAMERICA CULTURA E POLITICA (ALACP)
This is a grouping of many organizations including the Latino-American Art Network and La gran marcha de los munecones presented above. Creating networks and collaborations between community arts projects / programs / organizations / resources with the outcome being positive benefits to communities that need hope and opportunity the most. The Foreman Art Gallery’s Community Art Lab positions itself on the cutting edge between art, education, and community development with the goal of exploring how these worlds collide and interact with one another. Art Threat is a leading media outlet devoted solely to political art and cultural policy. Arts and Healing Network is an on-line resource celebrating the connection between art and healing. The mission of Artworks for Youth is to provide free after school visual art instruction, mentoring, and academic support to under-served students in South Africa. ASCs are spaces of conviviality, self-managed, more often established in abandonned buildings in different urban areas around the world. They are centers of cultural, social and political activities. The particuliarity of ASCs, wich differentiate them from community centers, is altogether their autonomy from the State, their refusal of hierarchy and of illegetimate authority, and their their management by direct democracy. Barefoot Artists is a nonprofit arts organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that uses the power of art to transform impoverished communities. CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ARTS & COMMUNITY The Center for the Study of Art & Community believes the time is ripe for creative pioneers. The building of sustainable creative communities and organizations must be undertaken by citizens and institutions with enormous energy and imagination. THE CENTER FOR NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION The Center for Nonviolent Communication is a global network of people and communities committed to living and teaching NVC to resolve conflict and meet the needs of all people. THE COALITION OF WOMEN FOR PEACE This Coalition brings together independent women and 10 feminist peace organizations who work relentlessly for peace and justice. The Coalition is committed to the struggle to end the occupation; to the full involvement of women in peace negotiations; to an end to the excessive militarization of Israeli society; to equality, inclusion, and justice for Palestinian citizens of Israel; to equality and social justice for all inhabitants of Israel. COLLECTIVE FOR A POVERTY FREE QUEBEC Building a Poverty-Free Quebec is a new campaign intended to demonstrate our common desire to make Quebec into a poverty-free society and to get the Quebec National Assembly to commit itself, in the name of human rights, to act here and now against poverty.
An american (USA) national grassroots organization committed to ending society’s use of prisons and policing as an answer to social problems. Founded in 2003, DTES Community Arts Network brings together artists, residents, community agencies, and arts organizations to cultivate a vibrant and viable arts scene in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. THE FELLOWSHIP FOR RECONCILIATION (FOR) Since 1915, The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) has carried on programs and educational projects concerned with domestic and international peace and justice, nonviolent alternatives to conflict, and the rights of conscience. A Nonviolent, Interfaith, tax exempt organization, The FOR promotes nonviolence and has members from many religious and ethnic traditions. It is a part of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), which has affiliates in over 40 countries.
This is a demonstration that has been held in Peru since 2004. The themes of the last demonstration were art, cultural diversity and social transformation. LEVIER will participate at the next Quebec Social Forum held in Fall 2009 (Montreal).
Free Dimensional is an international network that promotes social justice by hosting activists in artistic spaces and reinforcing their work with various cultural resources. These spaces can be found in approximately 40 countries. This organization bases in the US uses the garden as a metaphor for healing self and community through art. IDEA 2010 (Associaçao Internacional de Drama Educaçao)
7th world congress that will be held in July 2010 in Belem with the theme of Theater Education of Today. The members of IDEA (Associaçao Internacional de Drama Educaçao) come from more than 90 countries and work in more than one hundred thousand different cultural communities. The mandate of Inspire Art is to archive community arts in the Montreal region, to facilitate dialogue about community arts practices and to highlight the relationship between the local and the transnational community arts movement. LA GRAN MARCHA DE LOS MUNECONES
This Peruvian organization has worked in the poverty-stricken region of Comas since 1991. They have created a meeting place for all with the help of art (giant marionnettes, clowns, etc). They also organize the Comas street festival, Fiesta Internacional de Teatro en calles abiertas.
Cinema’s Daniel Cross brings social media to street people. Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art encourages and supports the intellectual and creative development of women in the visual arts by providing an ongoing forum for education and critical dialogue. The Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) est une organisation qui utilise le théâtre distinctivement Philippin comme outil de développement et de changement social. RED LATINOAMERICA DE ARTE PARA LA TRANSFORMACION SOCIAL A collective which dreams of a transformed America, derived from the heart of creativity. An unmeasured challenge in the fight for dignity and equality. SOMA is a series of physical workshops, based on the principles of self-organization. The Writer Roberto Freire created SOMA-therapy in Brazil during the 1970s as a means of activating resistance to the military dictatorship. TEN THOUSAND THINGS THEATRE FOR RASKOL Theatre which produces plays in prisons, homeless shelters, homes for the aged and juvenile delinquents. VICHAMA is a community of creators who daily work and fight for the democratization of the art and the culture in order to make them accessible to all. For Vichama the theater is a laboratory of life and a space that allows to meditate and to act on history. Their art actively implicate the community in order to make the people reflect on their values and identity and the ways to act on her. VICHAMAis a visionary, healer, pedagogical, transformer theater: that contributes to recover what of human we are losing. WHO PROFITS FROM THE OCCUPATIONS?
This website shines a light on the economic, political and social stakes inherent in the occupation of the Palestinian territories. The World Social Forum is an open meeting place where social movements, networks, NGOs and other civil society organizations opposed to neo-liberalism and a world dominated by capital or by any form of imperialism come together to pursue their thinking, to debate ideas democratically, for formulate proposals, share their experiences freely and network for effective action. Since the first world encounter in 2001, it has taken the form of a permanent world process seeking and building alternatives to neo-liberal policies. Resources in playback theatreCreative Alternatives (Montreal): www.creative-alternatives.ca Playback NYC: www.playbacknyc.com Center for Playback Theatre: www.playbackschool.org Theatre of the Oppressed: www.theatreoftheoppressed.org Living Arts Center (California): www.livingartscenter.org Other funding sourcesTHE CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS Artists and community collaboration is an arts process that actively involves the work of professional artists and non-arts community members in creative and collaborative relationships. The Inclusion and Innovation Program targets the traditional disciplines of amateur artistic practice such as dramatic art, circul art, visual art, dance, art trades, music and the heritage of expression, as well as the disciplines currently emerging such as media art multidisciplinary projects. THE FOUNDATION OF GREATER MONTREAL The FGM will consider projects from a variety of sectors and fields. However special attention will be given to projects that touch on the following sectors: Physical health and mental health; Education; Social services; Arts and culture; and The environment and sustainable development. With the goal of contributing to a world of justice, cooperation and solidarity, the Solstice Foundation encourages local initiatives for global change. It proposes to go above and beyond charity and philanthropy to attack the root causes of inequality. It is accociated with the social transformation movement, the fight against poverty, the elimination of disparity of chances, the fight against oppression and exploitation, and the respect of the environment and biodiversity.
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In Our Lifetime
LEVIER's current activities are focused on the connections between art and the struggle against poverty (or rather for healthy interdependence). What is possible with IN OUR LIFETIME as we bring our collective energies to challenge the systemic causes of poverty?
Affirming Collaboration: Community and Humanist Activist Art in Québec and Elsewhere
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