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WED 2008
Art, Culture & Environment
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World Environment Day 2008
The aim of WED 2008 is to enable a wide range of movement-based, artistic, cultural and environmental activities to take place at different locations around the world on 5th June 2008, marking World Environment Day.
Web Art Garden was conceived by Suprapto Suryodarmo and originally developed by Sandra Reeve and colleagues of theirs. So its roots are in non-stylised movement and in dance. But WED 2008 events may take any movement-based form, including:
Performance, theatre, ritual, exhibition, singing, presentation, installation, poetry, writing, lecture, meditation and prayer, discussion, video, photography, film.
WED 2008 is open to individuals, groups, organizations and institutions alike. Each participant or group of participants will create an event in their region, which reflects their approach to nature & creativity/environmental art/ecology & culture.
WED 2008 can last for a few minutes or the whole day (or longer), on or around June 5th 2008
Be welcome:
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If you want to attend, participate in or contribute to an event listed on this site, contact the event administrator. You’ll find their contact details in the relevant listing on the Events Page.
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If you want to create a WED 2008 event, please let your national facilitator know. You'll find their contact details in the relevant listing on the National Facilitators Page.
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If you want to create a WED 2008 event and there is no national facilitator listed, please contact Web Art Garden and let us know your plans, so that we can include your project and share your information with others on the Web Art Garden website. (We will also ensure that your WED 2008 event is logged on the UNEP World Environment Day website). If there are several of you interested, or if you would like to be a focal point for your area, please let us know. Afterwards, send us any documentation of your project so that we can post it on the website as a testimony to the day’s activities. Text, blogs and images (still or video) are all welcome, but do contact us first if you’re thinking of submitting large or complex files so we can discuss formats.Whatever happens, happens because we created it.
“Development efforts often fail because the importance of the human factor - that complex web of relationships and beliefs, values and motivations, which lie at the very heart of a culture - has been underestimated in many development projects.”
“Creativity requires an environment that encourages self-expression and exploration. Support to emerging or experimental art form should be considered as an investment in social research, creativity and human development, rather than as a mere subsidy to consumption.”
(Rethinking Cultural Policy - Our Creative Diversity). UNESCO
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