(",) 18th "Independnet Arts"-Festival

[Sztuka Fabryka]

18th “Independent Arts”-Festival with international Mail-Art meeting & Mail-Art project Saturday 22 till Sunday 23 April 2006 Friday 21 April opening on invitation only The Festival is a meeting place for Mail-artists and other networking artists from around the world. A designated area in the Festival space will be reserved for Mail-artists to meet. Even more than the past years we offer visiting Mail-artists possibilities to interact with the public. Several tables with art material will be present for Mail-artists to be creative on ATC's, fluxus bucks, artistamp sheets, blank paper, ... Interested to join the international Mail-Art meeting and to swap your Mail-Art with a large public and other Mail-artists? Last year we had on one day about 500 visitors and several artists from all over the world. Next issue we probably will do better, with lots of different artists coming over from the U.S.A. till Taiwan and all in between. And beside our own Festival the Sztuka Fabryka Archive will give also assistance to a poetry event the same weekend around Visual Poetry. Interested to be part of this most unique Festival in the whole world where you are able to show Mail-Art to a large public? Contact Sztuka Fabryka or visit the website http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ for more information. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sztuka Fabryka - c/o De Decker Geert - Kerkstraat 290 - 9140 Tielrode - Belgium Tel & Fax: 03 - 770 84 64 Goal: Issue 18 will focus itself on the interaction between artists and an estimated public of 700. The public will not only be able to “see” but also to “do” in various ways. For participating artists an extra challenge. Mail-Art project "The Earth Charter": Friour Network Magazine Project: "The Earth Charter" organised by Guido Vermeulen. This is a call to send artistic contributions around the four basic principles of the earth charter: I. Respect and care for the community of life. II. Ecological integrity. III. Social and economic Justice. IV. Democracy, non-violence, and peace. Free size and medium (all visual expressions and poetry / texts) Deadline is December 31, 2005. Contributions will be united in a new issue of Friour Network Magazine and exhibited at the 18th "Independent Arts"-Festival. For info on the Earth Charter: please visit www.earthcharter.org Mail your contributions to: Friour's Earth Charter Project - c/o Guido Vermeulen - Vincottestreet 81 - B-1030 Brussels - Belgium or by Email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do not send your contribution for this project to Sztuka Fabryka. Introduction: Since 1988, the "Independent Arts"-Festival has grown towards an international known event for any form of creativity. The aim of the Festival is both to present an overview of independent creativity world wide, performed by communication networks, and to create a meeting place for exchanging the acquired experiences. The Festival mainly focuses on artistic activities performed in scenes such as home-tape, Mail-Art, street art, small press, … On top of that, video, performance and fine art artists do get the possibility to exhibit and perform their creativity. As such, the "Independent Arts"-Festival is unique in its kind.       To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailinglist from Sztuka Fabryka http://www.sztuka-fabryka.be/ SPONSORED LINKS Network storage Network management Network performance management Network security Network performance Network switch YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "ma-network" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.