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Las Palmas Brochure Art for Food On the occasion of the training seminar Since 2002, Plexus Inter- PLEXUS ADVANCEMENTS ON national Forum Onlus is INTERNATIONAL NUTRITION AND OBESITY organizing in the Medina is an ongoing communi- organized by the Research Group on Nutrition "THE TRIANGLE of Dakar ty-based artists and scien- OF ART FESTIVAL", a tists network. Since its be- community-based sustai- ginnings in 1982, in New nable development pro- York, it has created many ject to be held every two years on the occasion of the community-based cross- Dakar Biennale. Workshops are conducted with children, cultural experimental art women, and young artists and their artworks and pro- & science events, invol- ducts are sold internationally through art events and scien- 21 July 2006 ving on some occasions tific meetings to raise funds for the community project. Casa de Colón (Columbus House) Kre MBaye hundreds of artists and Las Palmas of Gran Canaria scientists, across Euro- pe, Africa, Australia and North America. PLEXUS has pla- yed a seminal role in the conception of numerous insti- The Closing of the tutional scientific projects, linking the notion of "art", as International Travelling Event a community sustainable development resource, to the concept of "well being for all". Erosions and Renaissance Show ACT VI°: Sardi- nia, Sicily, Calabria, no- vember 2006. EROSIONS AND RENAISSANCE SHOW It will continue, on the oc- ACT V casion of the World Food Medina of Dakar – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Day Italian Celebrations, from Carloforte, in Sardi- nia, on board the Elisabeth CHANGE OF ROUTE boat, The Ark of the Well AN OPEN CALL FOR Being, an open shuttle of communication A COMMON ACTION of art & science, to continue to promote the Open Call for a Common Action on Food in the Mediterranean. ART FOR FOOD THE VOYAGE CONTINUES… 6 0 FOOD FOR ART ACT VII°: New York, december 2006 0 2 o n i Marocco 2007 r A FUNDRAISING ART EXHIBITION e s a l e a c i PLEXUS INTERNATIONAL m y FORUM ONLUS b k r Via G. da Castelbolognese 89, 00153 Roma o w t r It is made as a collaboration by Tel./Fax 06-99700208; Email: [email protected] a More info: www.plexusforum.net Seni MBaye Morin Diop Plexus International Forum Onlus, Italy ART FOR FOOD CHANGE Erosions and Renaissance FOOD FOR ART OF ROUTE Show ACT V° in Las Palmas The Plexus project was will stress again that malnutri- tion and hunger are eroding The purpose is, through the sel- presented at the Columbus the cognitive capacities of ling of works of arts, to finance di- Reconciliation Forum, held our young generations around rectly community children food security and education in 1992 in Carloforte, the world. Act V° started in projects as well as local artists in the most disadvanta- Sardinia, as a contribution May 2006, at the House of ged communities of Africa and of other critical areas of to the CHANGE OF ROUTE OPEN CALL the Slaves of Goree with the the planet, starting from the Medina of Dakar, as an ex- for alternative creative visions in the use measurement of the advance- perience pilote of effective sustenaible development. of natural and human resources and for the empowerment of the individual and of ment of the sea erosion in SCOPE the community. Since 1988, the “Door of front of the Door of No Return. It continued in the commu- • Develop community-based street children food No Return” of the House of the Slaves of nity of the Medina of emergency projects,household food security and nu- Goree, that today is under a dramatic sea Dakar, on the occasion tritional well being education programs. erosion, became for Plexus International of the Contemporary • Develop afterschool community children artists the symbol of the erosion of humankind African Art Biennale, projects. memory and the place from where sym- with the 3rd edition of • Develop micro-credits lending programs to help bolically to start the repatriation of the money of art back into the community. the Festival "The Triangle art productions (canvas, brushes, colors, etc) of un- of Art", focused on "Art, Cul- known and poor community artists. ture, Food and Sustainable • Develop training programs for community women THE EROSION AND Development". groups. RENAISSANCE SHOW • Reinforce community participation. • Strengthen individual and collective well being An international travelling event in several in the Community. acts, from 2004 to 2006, was staged in Bal- • Preserve the House of the Slaves in Goree-Dakar, larat (Australia), Lecce (Italy), Rome, New Senegal, an UNESCO World Heritage site as well as York, Barcelona, Dakar, Las Palmas de Gran a sanctuary of the African Diaspora, from the today in- Canaria, to warn on the increasing “ero- creasing sea erosion. sions” underway in our living Earth: from the erosion of The House of The Slaves of ART FOR FOOD – FOOD FOR ART project origina- Goree to the erosion of humankind herita- ted as a follow up of the historical proposal made in ge, of biodiversity, local knowledge, cultu- 1988 by Plexus Internationa of the creation of a World ral diversity, wellbeing, human rights, free- Art Bank, symbolically placed in the House of the Sla- dom and peace in the world. ves of Goree-Dakar. .
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