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December 2003
Event: World AIDS Day 2003
Date: December 01, 2003
Location: Global. The World AIDS Campaign and World AIDS Day aims to encourage people to break the silence and the barriers to effective HIV/AIDS prevention and care. For more info. please see http://www.unaids.org/worldaidscampaign.
Event: Keep A Child Alive (KCA) Concert/Broadcast (Well-known recording artist Alicia Keys will officially launch the KCA. Webcast live by America Online)
Date: December 01, 2003
Location: Webster Hall, New York City, USA. All proceeds will go to the KCA, to provide funds for medicines and the expansion of their programs. The KCA will also be the official beneficiary of funds from One World Beat events, with 10% of the proceeds of all events going to the foundation so that it can expand its work into Ethiopia, Mali, and Uganda. For more info. please see http://www.keepachildalive.org/news_kca/archives/000046.html
Event: Break the Silence around HIV/AIDS: An exhibition of graphic prints to mark World AIDS Day
Date: December 01- 13, 2003
Location: Pretoria, South Africa. For more info. please contact German Development Service (DED), Art for Humanity (formerly Artists for Human Rights) and Mind's i art space at Tel: +27 (31) 203 6694; Fax: +27 (31) 203 6644; Website: www.ahr.org.za; Email: afh@dit.ac.za.
Event: Cinemagic World Screen Festival for Young People, an international film festival
Date: December 04-14, 2003
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland. For more info. please contact CineMagic at info@cinemagic.org.uk. Tel: +44 (0)28 90311900 Fax: +44 (0)28 90319709
Event: 25th International Festival for New Latin-American Film & 17th seminar on "The Audiovisual Universe of the Latin-American Child"
Date: December 04-07, 2003
Location: Havana, Cuba. For more info. please contact Pablo Ramos Rivero at Red UNIAL - unial@icaic.inf.cu. Tel: (53) (7) 552865 / 553651 ext. 248 Fax: (53) (7) 333078
Event: International Volunteer Day
Date: December 05, 2003
Location: Global. For more info. please see www.worldvolunteerweb.org. For activities in Turkey contact info@art4development.net.
Event: Culture, Communication and Health: An Introductory Course
Date: December 05-07, 2003
Location: London, UK. For more info. please contact International Health Exchange / RedR at info@ihe.org.uk. Tel: +44 (0) 207 233 1100; Fax: +44 (0) 207 233 3590
Event: FREE holiday concert
Date: December 05, 2003 at 7:30pm, at St. Cecilia's Church on Main St in Wilbraham, Ma. A second performance will be at the Granite Valley Middle School on Thompson St in Monson, Ma. at 7:30pm.
Location: Massachusetts, USA. For more info. please contact Louis Hess at lhess69@comcast.net and visit their website www.opro.org .
Event: Global Forum on Indigenous Peoples and the Information Society
Date: December 08-11, 2003
Location: Geneva, Switzerland. For more info. please contact Mr. John Scott, Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, Division for Social Policy and Development, DESA at scott9@un.org. Telephone: 1 (917) 367 5798 Fax: 1 (917) 367 5102
Event: II. International Digital Silk Roads Symposium to foster global corporation in the preservation of the Silk Roads heritage objects and utilising advanced information technology to share them with the future generations.
Date: December 10-12, 2003
Location: Nara, Japan. For more info. please contact Yong-Nam Kim, UNESCO, Information Society Division, yn.kim@unesco.org.
Event: Global Peace Film Festival for utilizing the power of the moving image to further the goal of peace on earth.
Date: December 10-14, 2003
Location: Orlando, Florida, USA. For more info. please contact Global Peace Film Festival at info@peacefilmfest.org.
Event: The Anchorage Film Festival 2003 to promote independent film and video artists while establishing a showcase of compelling films that will provoke and entertain.
Date: December 12-21, 2003
Location: Anchorage, Alaska. For more info. please contact Tony Sheppard at filmsak@alaska.net. http://www.anchoragefilmfestival.com/.
Event: Community Radio Festival
Date: December 12-13, 2003
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa. For more info. please contact Shingai Nyoka at omofficer@global.co.za; or Lorraine Mkabela at specialp@global.co.za.
Event: The Organising Committee of the Information Technology in Regional Areas Conference (ITiRA)
Date: December 15-17, 2003
Location: Queensland, Australia. For more info. please contact Professor Stewart Marshall, ITiRA Conference Chair at Central Queensland University. Phone: +61 7 4930 6542 Fax: +61 7 4930 9729; s.marshall@cqu.edu.au. http://itira.cqu.edu.au/
Event: 1st Global African Youth Assembly
Date: December 22, 2003 - January 03, 2004
Location: Sierra Leone, West Africa. For more info. please contact 21st Century African Youth Movement, International Coordinating Secretariat; P.O. Box 8582, Madison, WI 53708 Phone: (608) 274-8542 Fax: (253) 540-3282, African2000@writeme.com.
November 2003
Event: Uncommon Visions for the Common Good, Independent Sector Annual Conference
Date: November 02-04, 2003
Location: San Francisco, USA. For more info. please contact Bob Shoe at meeting@independentsector.org; Tel: 202-467-6100.
Event: Off the Wall and Online: Providing Web Access to Cultural Collections, a two-day conference organized by The Northeast Document Conservation Center
Date: November 04 - 05, 2003
Location: Nevada, USA. For more info. please see http://www.nedcc.org or contact Tel:978-470-1010; Fax: 978-475-6021
Event: Pride International Film Festival, organised to benefit HIV/AIDS education on awareness, prevention and care/cure in the Philippines.
Date: November 05 - 09, 2003
Location: Manila, Philippines. For more info. please contact Mr. Severino Planas at Pride International Film Festival, Suite 1005, Medical Plaza Ortigas Building, 25 San Miguel Avenue, Pasig City, Metro Manila, Philippines 1600. email: piff@filmfestivals.net
Event: Los Angeles International Film Festival
Date: November 06 - 16, 2003
Location: California, USA. For more info. please contact AFI FEST 2003, 2021 N. Western Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90027-1657, Tel: 1.866.AFI FEST, email: afifest@afi.com
Event: Crossing Paths, a biennial arts education conference that encourages partnerships among arts organizations.
Date: November 06 -09, 2003
Location: North Carolina, USA. For more info. please contact Jamie Driver, Phone: 217-355-9054; Email: j.driver@insightbb.com
Event: The Unifying Aspects of Cultures, a conference organized by the Institute for the Study of Austrian and International Literary Processes (INST).
Date: November 07-09, 2003
Location: Vienna, Austria. For more info. please contact Dr. Herbert Arlt, Email: arlt@adis.at www.inst.at/kulturen/konf2003_sektionen_english.htm
Event: Youth and Peace Festival organized by UNIFEM Armenian office.
Date: November 07, 2003
Location: Yerevan, Armenian Republic. For more information about the film, painting, photos and composition competition please contact "Manana" Youth Educational Cultural Center, Baghramyan St. 2, apt. 25, Yerevan 375019, Armenia. email: manana@nt.am
Event: Barcelona International Television Festival focusing on children's television and the fight ethical content
Date: November 10 - 15, 2003
Location: Barcelona, Spain. For more information please contact Claudia Aliaga at fitb@oeti.org. Tel: 34.93.488.19.14 Fax: 34.93.488.20.86
Event: Strategic Communications for Good Governance Programming Workshop (on media)
Date: November 10-13, 2003
Location: Geneva, Switzerland. For more info. please contact Moncef Bouhafa, Center for Development Communication (CDC) at mbouhafa@cendevcom.org. www.cendevcom.org/geneva.html
Event: Global Media Exchanges: China to Appalachia. A dialogue on issues of tradition and change, art and culture from Chinese filmmakers to eastern Kentucky.
Date: November 10, 2003.
Location: New York, USA. For more info. please contact Laura Sohn, Phone: 606-633-0108, Email: Lsohn@appalshop.org; http://www.appalshop.org
Event: Information Technology, Transnational Democracy and Gender Conference
Date: November 14-16, 2003
Location: Luleå, Sweden. For more info. please contact Christina Mörtberg, Luleå University of Technology, Phone: +46 (0)920 49 21 17 Fax: +46 (0)920 49 18 66, email: christina.mortberg@arb.luth.se
Event: Conference: Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures,
Date: November 14 -15, 2003
Location: California, USA. For more info. please contact Marita Sturken, Phone: 213-821-2543; Fax: 213-821-5578; Email: american.quarterly@usc.edu
Event: Understanding Ageing and Development in the Asia Pacific: A training workshop for Asia Pacific television and video professionals
Date: November 17-22, 2003
Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand. For more info. please contact Dr Dharmapriya Wesumperuma, HelpAge International Asia Regional Development Centre, email: wesum@helpageasia.com
Event: The Female Eye Film Festival
Date: November 20-23, 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada. More info at Female Eye Headquarters, 50 Wallace Street Woodbridge, ON L4L 2P2, Phone: (416) 216-1645 Fax: (905) 964-7731, email: info@femaleeyefilmfestival.com.
Event: International Conference on 'Learning AND The World We Want: Intersecting Conversations on Education, Culture, and Community'
Date: November 20-23, 2003
Location: Victoria, Canada. For more information please contact Maria del Carmen Rodriguez, at International Conference Learning AND The World We Want, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 3N4. Email: mdcr@uvic.ca
Event: BeyondTV 2003, a showcase for independent video-makers working for environmental and social awareness and change.
Date: November 22, 2003
Location: London, UK. For more info. please email helen@videonetwork.org.
Event: World Congress of Writers 2003 - 69th PEN International Congress : Cultural Diversity and Free Expression
Date: November 22-28, 2003
Location: Mexico City, Mexico.For more info. please contact Lic. Juan Carlos Pineda Barrilaco 410, Col. Lomas de Chapultepec, México 11000, D.F., México, email: congreso-registration@penmexico.org.mx
Event: A Sense of Place, a 4-day international event that will investigate, question and shed light on 'displacement' and 'integration' in Europe, through the intellectual focus of the role of the arts, culture and media.
Date: November 24-27, 2003
Location: Cardiff, Wales, UK. For more info. please see www.asenseofplace.org.uk or email info@asenseofplace.org.uk.
Event: Symposium on Public Art: Public Art-Public Authorship, organized by the Department of Art History, University of Warwick, the Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, and Coventry School of Art and Design.
Date: November 29, 2003.
Location: Coventry, England. For more information please contact Jonathan Vickery, Email: box.office@warwick.ac.uk; http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=135511
October 2003
Event: 'Beijing Bicycle' Film Workshop, a look at the shifting values in today’s China, Landmark. 'Beijing Bicycle' won the jury prize and two other major awards at the Berlin Film Festival in 2002.
Date: October 05, 2003 at 10 am.
Location: Maryland, USA. Bethesda Row Cinema, 72235 Woodmont Ave., Bethesda.
Event: Kid Screen 2003: Audiovisual Stories of a Digital Age Screening Meeting. Aims to bring together educators and media professionals to participate in a week of screenings, discussions and lectures.
Date: October 05 - 09, 2003
Location: Oslo, Norway, For more inof. please contact Per Terje Naalsund, The Norwegian Film Institute/Screen Education, Tel: + 47 22 47 45 91, conference@nfi.no.
Event: National Exchange On Art And Civic Dialogue. Aims to advance efforts in arts-based civic dialogue, civic engagement, and community building through various activities.
Date: October 09 - 12, 2003
Location: Flint, MI, USA. For more info. please contact Michael del Vecchio, Animating Democracy Project Associate, Phone: 202. 371.2830, mdelvecchio@artsusa.org
Event: 4th Annual Conference: Advancing Cultural Diversity Globally by The International Network for Cultural Diversity (INCD)
Date: October 11-13, 2003
Location: Opatija, Croatia. For more info. please contact INCD/CCA, 804-130 Albert St, Ottawa, ON K1P 5G4 Canada. Tel: +1 613 238-3561, Fax: +1 613 238-4849, incd@ccarts.ca
Event: Women in Management: Building Leaders for Development Course. Aims to prepare women to lead development efforts by bringing together individuals working in a wide range of professions
Date: October 14 - November 14, 2003
Location: Washington, DC, USA. For more info. please contact Ketty Jaramillo, Workshop Manager, CEDPA, 1400 16th Street, NW, Suite 100. Tel: 202/667-1142 Fax: 202/332-4496, kjaramillo@cedpa.org.
Event: 46th Annual International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
Date: October 14 - 19, 2003
Location: Leipzig, Germany. For more info. please contact Dr. Wolfgang Kröplin, Managing Director at DOK Filmwochen GmbH, Festivalbüro, Große Fleischergasse 11, 04109 Leipzig. Tel: +49 / 341 / 9 80 39 21 and +49 / 341 /9 80 61 42. kroeplin@dokfestival-leipzig.de
Event: 11th Raindance Film Festival. Aims to reflect the cultural, visual and narrative diversity of the international independent filmmaking community and specialises in films by first-time directors.
Date: October 24 - November 7, 2003
Location: London, UK. For more info. please contact Raindance Film Festival, info@raindance.co.uk.
Event: Integrating Content and Language: Meeting the Challenge of a Multilingual Higher Education Conference
Date: October 23 - 25, 2003
Location: Maastricht The Netherlands. For more info. please contact Bob Wilkinson, Email: b.wilkinson@languages.unimaas.nl; http://www.unimaas.nl/icl/#
Event:11th International Conference for People Living with HIV/AIDS
Date: October 26 - 30, 2003
Location: Kampala, Uganda. For more info. please contact Global Network
of People Living with HIV/AIDS (GNP), kampalaconference@gnpplus.net
September 2003
Event: The Advertising Festival (TAF) - an annual global festival to provide a platform for for all media in the industry to convene and exchange advertising initiatives.
Date: September 02 - 05, 2003
Location: Paris, France. For further info. please contact Peter Field, The
Advertising Festival, BNP Agence Centrale, 16 Boulevard des Italiens, 75009
- Paris, France. email: peterfield@theadvertisingfestival.com
Event: International ChildArt Festival
Date: September 06 - 13, 2003
Location: Washington, DC, USA. For more information please contact Tim Bigelow, Director of Programs, ICAF at tim_bigelow@icaf.org or visit the site - www.icaf.org
Event: International Literacy Day
Date: September 08, 2003
Location: Worldwide. For more info. http://www.reading.org/meetings/ild/fact_sheet.html
Event: Art4Development.Net Arts Exhibition
Date: September 01-30, 2003
Location: Bethesda, Maryland, USA. Barnes & Noble, 4801 Bethesda Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814, Tel : 301-986-1761. For more information contact info@art4development.net.
Event: International Chief Executive Media and Television Workshop
Date: September 12 - 13, 2003
Location: Beirut, Lebanon. Center for Development Communication. For more info. please visit their site at http://www.cendevcom.org/workshop.html
Event: Nottingham Institute for Research in Visual Culture on Image & Critique- Conference
Date: September 13 - 14, 2003
Location: Nottingham, UK. For more inof. please contact Sunil Manghani at sunil.manghani@nottingham.ac.uk.
Event: 34th Session of the UN Committee on the Rights of a Child
Date: September 15 - October 03, 2003
Location: Bangladesh, and Canada. For detaisl please contact Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Committee on the Rights of the Child at pdavid.hchr@unog.ch.
Event: Digital Video Journalism and Filmmaking Workshop
Date: September 21 - October 04, 2003
Location: Rockport, Maine, USA. The International Film Workshops, P.O. Box 200, 2 Central Street, Rockport, Maine, info@theworkshops.com, Tel: 207.236.8581.
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Event: Arts Education Partnership Meeting
Date: September 19 - 20, 2003
Location: New York-NY , USA. Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education.
For moreinfo. please contact Stephanie Wright, Email: Stephaniew@ccsso.org
- http://www.aep-arts.org
Event: General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization
Date : September 22, - October 01, 2003
Location: Geneva Switzerland. For more info. please visit http://www.wipo.int/news/en/.
Event: 15th European Television and Film Forum
Date: September 25-27, 2003
Location: Berlin, Germany. For more info. please contact Ilknur Yilmaz, Forum co-ordinator Institute for the Media (EIM), forum@eim.org.
Event: Open Radio Festival
Date: September 29 - Ocotber 04, 2003
Location: Barcelona, Spain. For more info. please contact Platoniq at openair@platoniq.net.
Event: New Perspectives to Save Cultural Heritage Symposium
Date: September 30 - October 04, 2003
Location: Antalya Turkey, Talya Conference Centre. For details please visit http://www.cipa2003-antalya.org.
August 2003
Event: 27th Annual Meeting of Alternate ROOTS:...and justice for all: When Art Shapes Attitudes
Date: July 29- August 3, 2003
Location: Winder, Georgia USA. For more information please check http://www.alternateroots.org/am.html website.
Event: AATE/ATHE Joint Conference: Tomorrow's Stages: Blueprints for Transforming Theatre
Date: July 31 - August 3, 2003
Location: New York, USA. For more information and registration please check their website: http://www.athe.org/conf/
Event: InSEA 6th European regional Congress for teachers, museum educators, curators and others involved in art education. The aim is to focus on and examine traditional and contemporary conditions of art education and their role in the development of knowledge in society.
Date: August 02-08, 2003
Location: Stockholm, Helsinki and Tallinn. For more information please check their site at: http://arted.uiah.fi/insea/inseaonsea/
Event: Stories and Images in TV News Workshop for Russian Journalists
Date: August 01, 2003
Location: Veliki-Novgorod, Russia. For more info. please contact European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Training Unit, Phone: +41 (022) 717 21 46 Fax: +41 (022) 747 41 46, training@ebu.ch
Event: Theatre for the Living Training
Date: August 03 - 08, 2003 (Level 1) and August 11-15, 2003 (Level2)
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada. For more. info pleace contact Headlines Theatre, #323 - 350 East 2nd Avenue, Vancouver BC, Canada V5T 4R8, Phone: 604-871-0508 Fax: (604) 871-0209, info@headlinestheatre.com
Event: Developing a Social Marketing Campaign Workshop
Date: August 11-12, 2003
Location: Islamabad, Pakistan. For more info. please contact NGO Resource Centre, Aga Khan Foundation Project email: dme@ngorc.org.pk
Event: Congress of Youth 2003
Date: August 16-28, 2003
Location: Casablanca, Morocco.For more info. please contact Peace Child International, Phone: +44 1763 274459, maroc2003@peacechild.org
Event: Two-week course on Achieving the Millennium Development Goals: Poverty Reduction, Reproductive Health and Health Sector Reform
Date: August 18-29, 2003
Location:
Turin, Italy. For more info. please contact Ms. Lan Joo, World Bank Institute
1818 H Street, N.W. MS J3-302, Washington, DC 20433, Fax: +1-202-676-0961,
email: ljoo@worldbank.org
Event: MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival
Date: August 22-24, 2003
Location: Edinburgh, UK. For more info. please contact MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF), 1st Floor, 17 - 21 Emerald Street, London, WC1N 3QN, Tel: 020 7430 1333 Fax: 020 7430 2299, info@mgeitf.co.uk
Event: The UNESCO 3rd World Youth Festival
Date: August 27-30, 2003
Location: Manila, Philippines. For more info. please contact Aileen Grace Arriola, info@wyf2003.org, url: http://www.wyf2003.org/
Event: Intercultural Communication Exchange Program: Preparing the European Society for multiculturalism
Date: August 18 - September 02, 2003
Location: Madrid, Sevilla & Barcelona, Spain. For more information please contact EYE Network (European Youth Exchange) url: http://www.eyenetwork.org/
July 2003
Event: Music For Change - Music, dance, storytelling, poetry, childrens' games, a host of workshops, food and crafts from around the world.
Date: July 5, 2003 - 12.00- 7.30pm
Location: Canterbury, UK. For more info please visit http://www.musicforchange.org/
Event: Participatory workshops in (1) Participatory Communication; (2)Participatory Development and(3) the Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
Date: (1) June 16-20, 2003; (2) June 23-28, 2003 & July 21-26, 2003; and (3) July 28-August 2, 2003
Location: Canada.Full details at www. mosaic-net-intl.ca or contact Cristina at workshop@mosaic-net-intl.ca.
Event:
Schüler Helfen Leben: Theatre Workshop "Theatre of the Oppressed"
Date: July 19-26 2003
Location: Sarajevo, Bosnia, Herzegovina. For more information and application forms contact:Schüler Helfen Leben (SHL); Lepenicka 89, 71210 Sarajevo, Bosnia, Hercegovina, Phone: +387 33 773 000 Fax: +387 33 773 00 email: shl@bih.net.ba
Event: 33rd Giffoni Film Festival organised by the Autonomous Association of the Giffoni International Festival for Children and Young People, a non-profit organisation founded in 1973.
Date: July 19-26 2003
Location: Salerno, Italy. For furher information please contact Giffoni Film Festival, c/o Cittadella del Cinema - 84095, Giffoni Valle Piana (SA), Ph. +39 089 8023111 Fax +39 089 8023210 email: giffonif@giffoniff.it
Event: Art for Justice - A call for entries for an art exhibition on national and international social justice, which will take place from 6-30 September 2003
Date: Deadline for submisions- July 25, 2003
Location: North London, UK. For further info. please contact Karen Grace at 16 Powerscroft Road, London E5 OPU, EMAIL: kazzagrace@yahoo.co.uk
June 2003
Event: Cultural Arts for Education Conference with Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance, Co-hosted by Nancy Grasmick, State Superintendent of Schools
Date: June 04, 2003 8:30am-3pm.
Location: University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA. E-mail for registration form: arts.edu@erols.com. 410-783-2367. http://www.aems-edu.org.
Event: Nordic Multicultural Media Conference "Multicultural Media in Scandinavia
Date: June 12-15, 2003
Location: Denmark. For more info. please contact Nordic Multiethnic Media Association (NORDSAM) Mediehuset, Jægergårdsgade 152, DK- 8000 Århus C, Phone : +45 - 8732 1182 Fax: +45 - 8613 9871, info@nordsam.org
Event: Digital Video Journalism and Filmmaking Workshop
Date: June 15 - 28, 2003
Location: Rockport, Maine, USA. For more info. please contact The International Film Workshops, P.O. Box 200, 2 Central Street, Rockport, Maine., info@theworkshops.com, Phone: 207.236.8581
Event: Participatory Communication Workshop
Date: June 16-20, 2003
Location:
Ottawa, Canada. For more info. please contact Mosaic.net International,
Inc
705 Roosevelt Avenue., Ottawa, Canada. K2A 2A8, Phone: (613) 728-1439 Fax:
(613) 728-1154. workshop@mosaic-net-intl.ca
Event: Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Date: June 16 - 26, 2003
Location:
New York, NY, USA. For more information please contact Bruni Burres
Director, Human Rights Watch International Film Festival. 350 Fifth Avenue,
34th Floor
New York, NY 10118 USA, Phone: 212 216 1264 Fax: 212 736 1300, burresb@hrw.org
Event: The Kids For Kids Festival - an independent festival of films made by and for children and a meeting place for young filmmakers, media experts and the interested public.
Date: June 19-23, 2003
Location: Bologna, Italy. For more info. please contact Miomir Rajcevic, ECTC. Roaming Reporters Coordinator, Phone: +381 63 248490. rajcevic@eunet.yu
Event: ED-MEDIA 2003 - World on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia, and Telecommunications - international conference
Date: June 23-28, 2003
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. For more info. please contact Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. Phone: 757-623-7588 Fax: 703-997-8760, conf@aace.org
Event: Youth for Future - international theatre camp
Date: June 27 - July 10, 2003
Location: Vienna & Carinthia, Austria. For more info. please contact Ms Hermine Steinbach-Buchinger, Kutschkergasse 44/8 1180 Vienna, Austria. Tel: +43 1 367 88 80 Fax: +43 1 367 88 80 80, office@agentursteinbach.at
Event: Conference: The Role Of Art and Music Celebration In Child Abuse Prevention. The conference will be followed by a 2-day multicultural art and music festival.
Date: June 27 - 29, 2003
Location: Sacramento, CA, USA. For more inof. Ruth N. Naam, 9213 Folsom Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95826, Voice: (916) 362 - 3124, conference@africamix.com
Event: Summer Art's Camp at Joe’s Movement Emporium
Date: Motion Theatre Ages 8-14 (June 30-July 25 8:30am-3pm) ; Creativity Explored Ages 3-5, Session I: July 7-11 / Session II: July 14-18 9am-3pm (extended care available); Xtreme Circus Ages 6-12, Session I: July 21-August 1 / Session II: August 4-15 9am-3pm (extended care available)
Location:
Maryland, USA. World Arts Focus at Joe's Movement Emporium, 3802 34th Street
Mount Rainier, MD 20712. Tel: 301-699-1819, Fax: 01-209-1874. www.worldartsfocus.org
May 2003
Event: Our Children The Future Conference
Date: May 01-04, 2003
Location: Australia. For more info. please contact Department of Education, Training and Employment. GPO Box 1152, Adelaide, S.A. 5001. Phone: 00 61 (0) 8 8226 9548 Fax: 00 61 (0) 8 8226 0099. email: octf@saugov.sa.gov.au
Event: Artists’ Roundtable Dialogue Session
Date: May 08, 2003 3:15-5pm.
Location:Washington DC, USA. National Gallery of Art, between Third and Ninth Streets at Constitution Avenue, NW. East Bldg. Small Auditorium
Event: Music Theatre For Actors Workshop with George Fulginiti-Shakar. Emphasis will be on sharpening current skills, expanding singing and performance techniques, learning to choose songs, personalizing the lyrics, and reducing the fear of singing in public.
Date: Saturday & Sunday May 03 and 04, 2003 at 1:00-6:00pm
Location: Washington DC, USA . The Studio Theatre, 1333 P Street NW. For more information call Roma Rogers at (202) 232 7267, email: roma@studiotheatre.org
Event: Entertainment-Education Strategies and HIV/AIDS Workshop
Date: May 04-09, 2003
Location: Philipines. Westin Hotel, CCP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Pasay, Philippines 1099, Phone: (63)(2) 551 55555 Fax: (63) (2) 551 5610. For more info. please contact Kaija Helmetag- kaija@populationmedia.org
Event: Conflict Transformation and Peace Building Course
Date: May 05-16, 2003
Location:
Kenya. For more info. please contact Michael E. Muragu, COPA Coordinator
P.O. Box 61753. City Square 00200 Nairobi, Kenya. Tel: (254-2) 577557/8
Fax: (254-2) 577557, copa@copafrica.org
Event: The Art of Getting Attention: Secrets 2003 Seminar
Date: May 08-09, 2003
Location: Washington, DC, USA. For more info. please contact The Advertising Council, c/o The Art of Getting Attention: Secrets 2003, 261 Madison Avenue, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10016. Phone: 212-984-1942 Fax: 212-922-1676 seminar@adcouncil.org
Event: Peer 2 Peer International Conference for Young People
Date: May 09 - 11, 2003
Location:
Newport Wales, UK. For more info. please contact Youthlink Wales,
91a Cardiff Road, Caerphilly, CF83 1FQ UK, Phone: 0044(0)2920 885711 Fax:
0044(0)2920 888727, youthlink@youthlinkwales.org
Event: Global Printing Trends Seminar
Date: May 19, 2003
Location: South Africa. For more info. please contact Print Media South Africa, Cathy Pestana, Phone: (+27-11) 447-1264, cathyp@printmedia.org.za.
Event: Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach: An Introduction to Dialogue Education ( 4-day course)
Date: May 20-23, 2003
Location:
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. For more information please contact Dwayne Hodgson
Canadian Programs Director, Global Learning Partners Canada. In Ottawa:
613 230-5772 or Toll Free: 1-866-284-4572. dhodgson@globalearning.com
Event: Culture, Communication and Health: An Introductory 3-day Course
Date: May 28 - 30, 2003
Location: London, UK. For more info. please contact International Health Exchange, 134 Lower Marsh London SE1 7AE, Tel: 0207 620 3333 Fax: 0207 620 2277, info@ihe.org.uk
Event: 9th International Conference: Access to Care and Treatment for Women, Children and Families
Date: May 26 - 29, 2003
Location: Khartoum, Sudan. For more info. please contact Dr. Fathia A. Mahmoud, President, Society for Women and AIDS in Africa (SWAA), swaasudan@hotmail.com
Event: Talented Children World Forum
Date: May 29 - June 02, 2003
Location: Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. For more info. contact Moldavian Federation of UNESCO Clubs, academsocivil@yahoo.com
April 2003
Event: Exhibition of photos taken by Afghan street-working children (girls between the ages of 10-14)
Date: March - April 18, 2003
Location: London, UK. For more information please contact PhotoVoice at info@photovoice.org
Event: National Youth Training Workshop Against Violence in Nigeria
Date: April 01 - 03, 2003
Location:
Abia State, Nigeria. For application forms please contact Arc Chijike Ndukwu
Project Coordinator, All-Nigeria United Nations Students & Youth Association
(ANUNSA),
C/o United Nations Information Centre, 17 Kingsway Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, P.O
Box 5756 Oshodi, Lagos, Tel: 08023179041, chijike@eudoramail.com
Event: Free Public Concert by the Wilbraham based Old Post Road Orchestra. The winning musical selections will be performed under the direction of Conductor Neal Schermerhorn.
Date: April 05, 2003 at 7:30pm (at The Granite Valley Middle School in Monson, Ma) and April 06, 2003 at 3:00pm (at Palmer High School in Thorndike, Ma.)
Location: USA. For more information, please call (413) 596-9732 or visit www.opro.org.
Event: Institute for the Advancement of Journalism Newsroom Leadership and Management Course (Workshop)
Date: April 07-11, 2003
Location:
Cape Town, South Africa. For more info. please contact: Dibuseng Kaibe
Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ), Training Co-ordinator,
Phone: (+27-11) 484-1765 Fax: (+27-11) 484-2282, dibuseng@iaj.org.za
Event: 5th annual conference on Children & Islam: Faith and Social Change in Africa and Southeast Asia
Date: April 10 - 12, 2003
Location:
Ohio, USA. For more info. please contact Acacia Nikoi, Conference Coordinator
Center for International Studies, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701 USA,
nikoi@ohio.edu
Event: LocoMotion International Film Festival
Date: April 18-26, 2003
Location:
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. For more info. please contact Spy Hop Productions
Locomotion Film Festival, 353 West Pierpont Avenue #200B, Salt Lake City,
UT 84101
Phone: 801.532.7500 Fax: 801.532.7505, info@spyhop.org
Event: 26th International Wildlife Film Festival
Date: April 19-26, 2003
Location: Missoula, Montana, USA. For more info. please contact International Wildlife Film Festival & Media Center, 718 S. Higgins, Missoula, Montana 59801M, Phone: 406-728-9380 Fax: 406-728-2881, iwff@wildlifefilms.org
Event:
Children and Youth Mass Media Festival
Date: April 28- May 03, 2003
Location: Cheboksary, Russia. For more Info. please contact Irene Ivanova, YNPRESS International Coordinator, Tel/fax: (095)206-06-25, ynpress@online.ru
March 2003
Event: Digital Video Documentary Workshop (To teach new and emerging documentary filmmakers the process of Digital Video camcorders, Apple's Final Cut Pro editing software, and making of short video projects)
Date: March 02 - 15, 2003
Location: Puerto Rico, For more information please contact: The International Film Workshops, P.O. Box 200, 2 Central Street, Rockport, Maine, info@theworkshops.com, Phone: 207.236.8581
Event: 'Post Border Land' Art Exhibition and 'Art in Action' Workshop
Date: Exhibition March 01 - 16, 2003 and Workshop: March, 15 - 29 M
Location: Exhibition: Amsterdam, Holland and Workshop: Accra. For more information please check http://www.africancolours.com.
Event: 2nd International Women's Animation Film Festival
Date: March 07-13, 2003
Location: Vienna, Austria. For more info. please contact: Culture2Culture, Kulturbüros / quartier21 im Museumsquartier, Museumsplatz 1, A-1070 Wien, Phone: +43-1-990 46 63 Fax: +43-1-990 46 64, email: culture2culture@chello.at
Event: International Women's Day
Date: March 08, 2003
Location: Worldwide. For more information about events please contact: Development and Human Rights Section, United Nations Department of Public Information, Room S-1040, United Nations, New York, NY 10017. Phone: (212) 963-3771 Fax: (212) 963-1186
Event: Celebrating Women as Peacemakers (activities include concerts, teach-ins, exhibits, etc.)
Date: March 03 - 09, 2003
Location: Washington, DC USA. For a full schedule or more details visit these websites: http://www.unitedforpeace.org/women; http://www.codepink4peace.org or call The Women’s Peace Vigil at 202-393-5016
Event: African Youth Assembly
Date: March 09- 15, 2003
Location: Abuja, Nigeria. For more info. please contact: Dapo Saheed [Jaycee], Event Coordinator/Director, 16,Buraimoh Street, Obanikoro. Tel: 2341-7736575 Tel: 234-8033073475, Tel: 2341-4714181. Fax: 18586304864 [international] email: Africanassembly2003@hotmail.com or odsaheed@hotmail.com.
Event: The 59th Session of the Commission on Human Rights
Date: March 17 - 25 April 2003
Location: Geneva, Switzerland. For more info. please check this site: http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/2/59chr/index.html.
February 2003
Event: Synergy: Arts, Health and Design World Symposium. The conference will focus on culture, arts and design in the context of health and wellbeing.
Date: February 02 - 05, 2003
Location: Sydney, Australia. Contact Marily Cintra, Director, The Arts for Health Research Centre, PO Box 3390, Liverpool NSW 2170, Australia, Phone: 0414 944 991, Marily.Cintra@placemaking.com.au
Event: Brown-bag presentation on Promoting Gender-equitable Norms and Behaviors Among Young Men to Reduce HIV/STI Risk with Dr. Julie Pulerwitz.
Date: February 06, 2003
Location: Washington, DC. The Society for International Development-Washington's Women in Development(SID/WID) and International Health and Nutrition Workgroups. The presentation will be held in the 2nd floor auditorium of Chemonics International, 1133 20th St. NW (between L and M). For inofrmation please contact SID/WID co-chair Frances Molinaro at (202) 623-2542 or via email at francescam@iadb.org.
Event: Community Art Program by Joe's Movement Emporium. Live performances, food and drink, live sculptures, and great company will make for a Sunday afternoon you won't want to miss. Performances byDC Thai Dance Troupe; Belly Dancers Zahra and Tisha Tucker; Singer Tamara Wellons; Spoken Word Artists; Live Sculptures staged by Brooke Kidd
Date: February 09, 2003 (3:00-6:00PM)
Location: Washington DC, Mimi's American Bistro, 2120 P St., NW. $50 per ticket call 301.699.1819 to reserve tickets. All donations and ticket sales are 100% tax deductible. For more information contact Joe's Movement Emporium, 3802 34th Street Mount Rainier, Maryland 20712, 301.699.1819, www.worldartsfocus.org
Event: The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, AMARC's, 8th World Conference: "Voices for a Better World"
Date: February 21-27, 2003
Location: Kathmandu, Nepal. For inofrmation contact Prema Bista, AMARC8 Local Organising Secretariat Radio Sagarmatha, Post Box 6958, Kathmandu, Bukhundol, Lalitpur, Nepal, Phone: (977-1) 545681 Fax: (977-1) 530227, email: amarc8_kathmandu@radiosagarmatha.org
Event: Seminar on Soap Operas with a Difference (Specialists in production of radio soap opera dramas from the BBC World Service, and from international organisations will show how drama can be used as a tool for social change and a way to reinforce democracy in transitional countries.
Date: February 24, 2003
Location: Tirana, Albania. For inofrmation contact Arben Papadhopulli, General Director, Rruga me Pisha Foundation, BBC World Service - Radio Tirana Project, Rr. Ismail Qemali Nr 11, Tirana, Albania, Phone/Fax: 00 355 4 228444, Cell phone: 068 20 40 928, arbenpapadhopulli@albmail.com, a.papadhopulli@talk21.com, or rugamepisha@albaniaonline.net
January 2003
Event: Conference: Combating Human Trafficking: Key Approaches
Date: January 6, 2003 (8:45am - 12:30pm)
Location: The Woodrow Wilson Center - Ronald Reagan Building at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. Washington DC 20004.(Federal Triangle stop on Blue/Orange Line). http://www.wilsoncenter.org. 5th Floor Conference Room. RSVP by email to conflict@wwic.si.edu or via fax at 202-691-4184. Contact Andrea Bertone at 571-216-5527.
Event: Conference: HIV/AIDS IN AFRICA:WHAT WORKS? hosted by the Center for Global Development and John Snow, Inc., with support from the Gates Foundation.
Date: January 8, 2003 (8:30 - 5:30 p.m.)
Location: More information is available at www.cgdev.org.
Event: Dialogue Session organized by The Women in Development, Information Technology and the Middle East Workgroups : A Global Dialogue, Women and Gender Issues in Afghanistan
Date: January 14, 2003 (11:30 pm– 1:30 pm)
Location: World Bank, 1818 H Street, NW, (corner of Pennsylvania and H Streets, NW). Metro Stations are Farragut North (Red Line, K Street exit) and Farragut West (Blue and Orange Lines, 18th Street exit.) Please RSVP to John Hatch, JHatch@usaid.gov, with full name and place of work by noon January 9th as Security Badges have to be prepared.