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> Subject: Documentary project Open Call > >> > >> Dear friends, > >> > >> May this email find you well. I'm sending you this collective letter > >> to inform you about the latest project we are working on. It's a > >> collective documentary project involving people from the visual arts > >> and the humanities from The Netherlands, Mexico and Morocco. If the > >> project interests you and you live in The Netherlands, Mexico or > >> Morocco, we would be more than happy to receive your application. > >> And/or if you know someone living on one of the three involved > >> countries that could be interested in applying, please forward them > >> this email. > >> > >> Thanks and greetings, > >> > >> Diego Gutierrez > >> www.eldespacho.org > >> > >> MEXICO-THE NETHERLANDS-MOROCCO > >> GRANTS FOR STUDENTS AND PROFESSIONALS OF THE > >> VISUAL ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES > >> > >> el despacho > >> el despacho, an artist initiative based in Mexico City interested in > >> relating visual artists with alternative video-documentary making is > >> looking for students and professionals of the visual arts and the > >> humanities interested in participating the documentary-project: > >> > >> > >> ?Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner? > >> > >> > >> Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner is a video-documentary collaborative > >> project between students and professionals of the visual arts and > >> the humanities from Mexico, The Netherlands and Morocco through > >> which a three-in-one feature length documentary around the issues of > >> the three diary meals will be made: Breakfast in Mexico, Lunch in > >> Morocco and Dinner in The Netherlands. Such film will be elaborated > >> through three workshops (each one three to four-weeks long) in > >> Mexico, The Netherlands and Morocco. > >> The workshops participants will come into contact with divers > >> individuals and communities of the three involved countries and will > >> put into action and reformulate collectively their knowledge in > >> order to create a series of audio-visual tools that will help to > >> ?portray? a series of events, individuals and communities. The > >> workshops will be coordinated by visual artists and filmmakers that > >> have previously collaborated with el despacho. > >> > >> Each workshop will be conformed of 12 participants. el despacho > >> offers between eight and ten grants in each country for people > >> interested in participating in this project. > >> > >> Workshops dates: > >> Mexico: September 2009 > >> Morocco: November-December 2009 > >> The Netherlands: January 2010 > >> > >> > >> At the end of each workshop, two local participants will be selected > >> and will travel and participate in one of the other workshops in the > >> other countries: two Mexican workshop participants will travel and > >> participate in the Morocco workshop, two Moroccan workshop > >> participants and two Mexican workshop participants will travel and > >> participate in the Netherlands workshop and the two Dutch workshop > >> participants will travel to Morocco or Mexico in a later stage of > >> the project. Traveling, living costs as well as materials and > >> equipment will be provided by el despacho. > >> > >> > >> Requirements: > >> -Information of the candidate (applicant): Name, Curriculum Vitae, > >> address, telephone and email address. > >> -To be a student or professional of the visual arts and/or the > >> humanities. > >> -To live in one of the three countries involved in the project. > >> -To be interested in working in collaboration. > >> -To be interested in experimental video-documentary. > >> -Motivation letter. > >> Why are you interested in participating in this workshop? What do > >> you think this experience can bring/give you and how can you > >> contribute to this project and its people/participants? > >> -A written documentary proposal: an approach, a documentation upon a > >> situation/history/life in some neighborhood, corner, caf?, office, > >> house, etc. of the city where you live. How to explore the social > >> networks and to enter into personal communication with ?the other?, > >> ?the portrayed one?? (This proposal is not necessarily meant to be > >> realized during the workshop. It?s just a written exercise in order > >> to get to know better the ideas and skills of the candidate) > >> -Documentation of the candidate?s work. (photos, videos, writings > >> that can show the interests of the candidate in the area of the > >> visual arts and/or the humanities). > >> -To have time to participate full time in the three weeks workshop > >> in the city of residence of the candidate. > >> -To participate in the workshop abroad, it is important that the > >> candidates speak: > >> for Mexico: Spanish or English > >> for Morocco: Arabic, Amazigh. French or English > >> for The Netherlands: Dutch or English > >> > >> > >> Deadline: The applications should be send before AUGUST 15th 2009 to: > >> > >> > >> [email protected] > >> > >> and a copy to > >> > >> [email protected] > >> > >> > >> MORE INFORMATION AT: www.eldespacho.org > >> > >> > >> > >> This project has the support of: > >> > >> Artscollaboratory > >> > >> Mondriaan Stichting > >> > >> FONCA-CONACULTA > >> > >> SMART Project Space > >> > >> > >> Participating institutions: Escuela de Pintura, Grabado y Escultura > >> La Esmeralda-M?xico DF, Sala de Arte P?blico Siqueiros, UACM-M?xico > >> DF, UAEM-Cuernavaca, Morelos, El Pochote, IAGO-Oaxaca, Oaxaca, > >> Institute National des Beaux Arts de Tetouan-Morocco, Rijksakademie > >> van Beeldende Kunsten-Amsterdam, European Exchange Academy-NL and > >> SMART Project Space > >> > > > ___________________________________________________ > gente haciendo cosas extraas con o sin electricidad > > [Bogota] http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotbta/ > [medellin] http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotmde/ > http://dorkbot.org/mailman/listinfo/dorkbot-kolab > -- Carlos Mario Díaz Barrientos. 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