Thanks to everyone who came to yesterdays event, and helped out by buying a raffle. The money raised will help us cover some costs for the mounting of the exhibition in April.
The winning number for the two tickets to the Van Doesburg exhibition at Tate Modern is 8.
The winning number for the brunch for two at the Breakfast Club in Hoxton square is 25.
To get the prize email us to hello@genesisartforhaiti.org with your address and we will post them to you.
Unfortunately I only heard today about this screening, so probably many will read this too late, but for those who read this before 6pm 4th March, I recommend that you attend:
In support of the ongoing disaster appeal for Haiti, Four Corners Gallery is pleased to feature a screening of: ‘Atis-Rezistans: The Sculptors of Grand Rue, 34mins’ and host a drinks reception in the company of artists Andre Eugène and Leah Gordon.
Please invite friends and colleagues who may be interested.
Time & Date: 6.30-9pm, Thursday 4 March 2010.
Venue: Four Corners Gallery, 121 Roman Road, London E2 0QN.
Admission £5: (All proceeds go to DEC) http://www.dec.org.uk/item/200To reserve places, please email: dave@fourcornersfilm.co.uk
All good wishes and hope to see you there.
Dave
Dave Than
Exhibitions & Projects Manager
Four Corners
121 Roman Road
London E2 OQN020 8981 6111
www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk
The famous Foundry on Great Eastern St., east London, has set up a Haitian Fund where people can donate. They have been involved for many years with the Ghetto Biennale and have set a strong link with Atis Rezistans artist community.
For more information how how you can help or donate, visit the Foundry wesbsite for the Haitian Fund.
The submissions for the Genesis: Art for Haiti exhibition will be over tonight at 11:59 PM. We have received over 40 submissions so far, and an amazing variety of work. Tomorrow we will begin the selection and curation process, so in a few day’s we’ll be uploading the work to www.genesisartforhaiti.org.
John Cussans is currently taking part in the organization of Tele-Geto project in Haiti, which will accompany a screening of a film which he made during the Ghetto Biennale last year.
You will find many interesting writings on Cussans’ blog about the Haitian Revolution, current affairs, and the aftermath of the earthquake and it’s political and social impact.
Have a look at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/world/americas/13doctors.html?src=tptw .
The truth is that not enough funding is getting through to Haitians. There are alternatives to the well known American and European organizations. These are organizations from Haiti, working directly with the people who need immediate assistance.
If you want to donate directly to organizations in Haiti, you can do this through the Haiti Support Group, which is channeling donations to:
-The KOAFVIV women’s organisation.
-The PAPDA/POHDH coalition.
-The Batay Ouvriye worker’ organisation.
Read more details about this organisations below.
If you are in the UK, you can donate money to these organisations through the Haiti Support Group (HSG).
If you are in the US, you can donate through three US-based organisations that are supporting the three Haitian organisations (details below).
The best way to send money to the HSG is by direct bank-bank transfer, details as follows:
Payee name: Haiti Support Campaign
Payee account number: 6 1 7 2 0 9 4 1
Payee sort code: 6 0 – 0 3 – 3 6
All the money sent to the HSG for earthquake survivors will be sent, within days, in equal shares, to the three organisations below:
The Commission of Women Victim to Victim – KOFAVIV – is a remarkable organisation of 3,000 former child slaves (restaveks) and rape survivors who have banded together to ensure that no child or woman ever again experiences these horrors. It is a women’s organisation that for many years has been working with women in the poorest and most marginalised communities in Port-au-Prince. It provides a space for women to meet, medical care for victims of rape, sexual violence, and other violence, advice on legal issues, and many other forms of practical and moral support to women who otherwise would get no help at all. It was the only organisation in Haiti that spoke up and publicly denounced the rape and sexual violence committed by the gangs that controlled various shanty-towns in Port-au-Prince in the 2004-6 period. More than 130 KOFAVIV members died in the earthquake. The KOFAVIV office was destroyed. Many core members lost their homes and are now living on under plastic sheets in the main square in the capital. From there they are trying to continue to provide help to other women.
Batay Ouvriye is a workers’ organisation which since 1995 has been helping factory and plantation workers to organise themselves to win improvements in wages and working conditions. It is one of the few active and effective workers organisations in the country. Since the earthquake, core members in Port-au-Prince have been providing relief and assistance to the best that their limited resources allow at the Batay Ouvriye centre in Delmas 13. Workers who have lost everything – their jobs, their homes, their spouses and children, and families which have lost their ‘bread-winnner’ are getting help from Batay Ouvriye, but the organisation desperately needs financial assistance. It has a few links with organisations abroad but not with any that have large resources to be able to make sizeable donations.
The two platforms – the Alternative Development Advocacy Platform (PAPDA) and the Human Rights Organisations Platform (POHDH) are some of the most effective Haitian progressive organisations working with the majority population on issues of participatory democracy, the economy, human rights, education, communications, etc. The two platforms and the Haitian NGOs which together have formed a coordination committee to confront the post-quake situation. These organisations – many of which lost their offices in the quake – are pooling remaining resources and organising joint responses to the disaster. They have opened a coordination centre in Canape Vert, and are providing medical and material assistance to survivors at a centre in downtown Port-au-Prince. They plan to open more of these centres in areas of the city that are more or less ignored by the large humanitarian agencies.
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Those in the US can make donations to these Haitian organisations through the following US-based organisations:
- Other Worlds is supporting the grassroots group, the Commission of Women Victim to Victim (KOFAVIV).
See - http://www.otherworldsarepossible.org/just-alternative-haiti/update-other-worlds-allies-haiti
and to donate online see:
http://www.ips-dc.org/about/funding
Please write ‘OW-HAITI’ when asked if you want to donate to a specific IPS project.
- Grassroots International has set up an “Earthquake Response Fund for Haiti” and is sending money to the PAPDA and other respected community-based Haitian-led organisations.
See - http://www.grassrootsonline.org/news/blog/grassroots-international-partners-haiti-receive-emergency-funding
and to donate online see:
https://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5123/t/6631/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=1694
- The Miami Autonomy and Solidarity (aka the Miami Workers’ Center) is collecting donations for Batay Ouvriye.
see - http://miamiautonomyandsolidarity.wordpress.com/2010/02/04/latest-update-on-haiti-solidarity/
and to donate online see:
https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/811/t/3678/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=5875
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Tagged alternatives, Batay Ouvriye, funding, haiti, KOAFVIV, organization, PAPDA, POHDH
Bashi Kolibarova and Tomas Hein, organizers and curators for Genesis: Art for Haiti, will be giving a talk about how the project is taking shape, and how it came into being.
The symposium will be open to everyone interested in helping or knowing more about the project, or starting their own projects for Haiti. It will take place on Monday the 15th of February at 7pm (London time) via “Genesis: Art for Haiti” Initiative on HaitiReact.org.
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We have chosen The Rag Factory for the exhibition.
It will take place from the 7th to the 11th of April.
The address is:
16-18 Heneage Street, London E1 5LJ. Just off Brick Lane.
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We thank Hotel Metropol for their support in making this exhibition possible.
Hotel Metropol is a hotel/culture center located in Slovakia, and will be holding an exhibition of young Slovak emerging artists in June. For more information on their services please visit their website:
