European Creative Forum & Visions of Another World

Date September 10th 2005
Location Area10, Eagle Wharf, Peckham Square (Behind Peckham Library), London
Phone Contact + 44 (0)20 8880 7055
Sponsor European Creative Forum

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In light of the ongoing successes of the World and European Social Forums, and the repeated calls for an increase in their cultural content, the European Creative Forum has been set up to promote art as a medium for expression that goes beyond the limitation of language.

The ECF will actively complement and extend the forums and discussions of the UK-ESF Culture Working Group. It will provide a space for experimental testing ground that encourages, builds and strengthens artistic and cultural networks towards a collaboration of culture, creation, colour, fun and festivities during the UK-ESF.

The events will befree to attend, but donations on entry are encouraged. Funds raised will to be used to support and enable individuals and groups from across Europe to participate in the UK-ESF. This succession of events will address the links between culture and issues such as human rights, education, equality, poverty and others on the agenda of the UK-ESF utilising an array of artistic activities from music and mime; painting and poetry; dance and debate; theatre, talk and others such as cinema, seminars and workshops.

The ECF also intends to stage two carnival-style processions during the UK-ESF to complement and enhance its cultural programme.

The European Creative Forum is: Pro People & Peace, Pro Democracy & Diversity, Pro Environment & Ecology, Pro Culture & Creativity.

Positive, creative expression knows no boundaries!

The first ECF Visions of Another World open event will be at Area10, Eagle Wharf, Peckham Square (Behind Peckham Library), London on 10th April, 2004.
Buses: 12, 36, 78, 17
Trains: Peckham Rye or Queen's Road
Thereafter, further ECF Visions of Another World events will be held on the second Saturday of every month along with other events at other venues around the UK and Europe.



CHARITIES/CAMPAIGNS/INPUT/INFO & STALLS FROM

The European Social Forum
The UK-ESF
The European Creative Forum
Oxfam
Amnesty International
Rising Tide
Charter88
Citizen21
Operation Black Vote (OBV)
Ministry For Peace
Peace-Not-War
Stop The War Coalition
BeThePeace!
The Synergy Project
ID Spiral
Seaside Tribe
Festival of Flight
Brighton Creative Forum
Welsh Creative Forum
Plants and Food Stalls
FairTrade
BuddhaField/BuddhaCity
You?
Otherz tbc


More details about the events, programmes of activity, fundraising, sustainable ethics, organisational processes and other information can be found at: www.EuropeanCreativeForum.org.


Join the ECF
The newly-formed European Creative Forum (ECF) joins the call to all artists, musicians, performers, DJ's, dancers, designers, writers, film-makers, writers, poets, actors, architects, rappers, jugglers, journalists, media activists, culture jammers, critics, promoters, organisations, charities, campaigns, collectives, networks and individuals who share the objective of creating and participating in the next European Social Forum in London in the Autumn. The European Creative Forum will help build a momentum of support for this UK-ESF by staging a series of events called Visions of Another World.

If you are an artist, performer or creative person of any description; if you have a workshop, talk, seminar or screening you would like to host; if you have a performance, exhibition or a message to communicate; if you teach about citizenship, culture or society in any way of if you are involved in absolutely any activity that would add colour to these events or if you’d like to attend, please contact us as below.


The World Social Forum
Firmly committed to the belief that “Another World Is Possible”, The World Social Forum (WSF) is “an open meeting place for reflective thinking, democratic debate of ideas, formulation of proposals, free exchange of experiences and inter linking for effective action, by groups and movements of civil society that are opposed to neo-liberalism and to domination of the world by capital and any form of imperialism, and are committed to building a planetary society directed towards fruitful relationships among Mankind and between it and the Earth”. (From The World Social Forum’s Charter of Principals). Following the spectacular achievements of the WSF meetings in Porto Alegre in Brazil, the World Social Forum 2004 in Mumbai (India) was attended by 120,000 delegates from across the globe.


The European Social Forum
The European Social Forum has held two huge landmark gatherings in Florence (2002) and Paris (2003). This year’s UK-ESF is to be held in the Autumn in London building off of the momentum of the growing public opinion, the continued success of the global justice movement and the amazing anti war marches. The UK-ESF will be a crucial event acting as a catalyst bringing together more organisations and movements of civil society, charities, NGO’s, individual activists, trade unions, peace groups, women's movements, environmental movements and other groups and individuals than ever before in the UK.


The European Creative Forum
The ECF Organising Committee meets every Tuesday (7pm) and you are invited to attend, participate and contribute towards the development and evolution of this new movement that places social values above economic gain. Call below for location.

General Enquiries + Marketing, Media & Promotions
Gareth Strangemore-Jones
Campaign Promotions
(T) + 44 (0)20 8880 7055
(E) gareth@EuropeanCreativeForum.org

Event Production + Charity & Campaign Participation
Shane Hughes
GreenEvent.com
(T) + 44 (0)20 8318 7798
(E) shane@EuropeanCreativeForum.org

Artists & Participants
Danny Ladwa
(M) + 44 (0)7919 435439
(E) danny@EuropeanCreativeForum.org

Website + Links
Kazem Beaton
Sketch Web & Graphic Design
(M) + 44 (0)7899 842180
(E) kaz@EuropeanCreativeForum.org

Brighton Creative Forum
Dan Savery
(M) + 44 (0)7817 294960
(E) dan.savery@EuropeanCreativeForum.org

Welsh Creative Forum
Wayne Jenkins
(T) + 44 (0)2920 399353
(E) wales@EuropeanCreativeForum.org

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