We will be carrying out various activities. For the moment (5 January 2007) we’re envisaging the following:
Stories about how art is used as a media for
dialogue and social change
We
have booked a room with seats for a 400
audience.
We, AIDOH (Art In Defence Of Humanism) are
organising the workshop in co-operation with Danish Council on Social Welfare,
also from Denmark.
At the conference artists from Denmark, Uganda, Kenya and
other countries will tell about how they use art – theatre, painting or
sculpture – to highlight local and global issues. Come and hear the cases of
how art is staked in the fight against corruption and racism, for the right to
contraception, to further social change and dialogue.
The purpose of the conference is to provide
inspiration and reflection on how best to strengthen this kind of work.
The conference will not just
provide lectures and one-way communication, but we will arrange the meeting to
ensure that everybody has the opportunity to interact beyond boundaries between
countries and cultures, to get at grips with the potential of art.
2. Exhibition of the
sculpture
at the conference venue
We will put up the sculpture In the Name of God (a
crucified teenager cast in copper) on a central site of the WSF. In the
neighbourhood we will set up a small stand, e.g. a tent where we’ll display
flyers and posters explaining the project and discuss it with the WSF
participants.
Forum theatre: In
co-operation with the IATM International (Anti-Corruption Theatrical Movement) from
Uganda we will carry out forum theatre performances around the sculpture. The
theatre troupe will spur the public to join the dialogue about interference of
religion in the policy of sexual rights, contraception and AIDS. The
performances will take place on 20, 21, 24, and 25 January between 2 and 3 pm
around the sculpture In the Name of God.
Secret theatre: Our
group will try to make a sort of ‘molecular’ discussion forums at the WSF. All
of a sudden we will turn up with a version of the sculpture In the Name of
God to fan a discussion among the passers-by, as a sort of secret street
theatre.
Danish ecologist association Eco-net will display two Balancing Act sculptures at the
WSF to achieve worldwide promotion of this sculptural manifestation on sustainability.