[afro-nets] UN Habitat and World Youth Centre Seek Young Artists

[Janet Feldman <kaippg@earthlink.net>]

UN Habitat and World Youth Centre Seek Young Artists for MDGs
Mural Project
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BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE: THE 1,000 WORD PROJECT

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS:

The World Youth Centre (Canada), in cooperation with UN Habitat,
is launching a new global initiative and we invite you to take
part! The World Youth Centre aims to engage young social entre-
preneurs in social, educational, cultural, development, mind-
body, and growth activities both locally and globally.

The Thousand-Word Project is an international mural project
based around the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals
(MDGs). This project is uniting young people around the world in
a common focus that is at the same time unique to each coun-
try/city/locale. For more see http://www.beautifulstruggle.org.

The uniting theme for this project is two words: Beautiful
Struggle. Young artists from across the world will focus on one
of the Millennium Development Goals and bring to life their in-
terpretations of that goal through depicting the attainment of
that goal as a beautiful struggle.

The project will be two-fold. The first stage will take place as
the international mural program. The second stage will consist
of the artists involved being interviewed by our chief writer on
why they chose that particular MDG as part of her research on
each locale.

This 2nd stage will culminate in the publishing of a book to be
distributed throughout junior-high schools and high schools as
an educational tool. This book, titled "Beautiful Struggle: The
Thousand Word Project", will feature each mural created across
the globe and will be accompanied by thousand-word essays on the
locales and problems that young people face in each participat-
ing region, relating to the Millennium Development Goals.

United Nations Millennium Development Goals:
1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
2. Achieve universal primary education
3. Promote gender and empower women
4. Reduce child mortality
5. Improve maternal health
6. Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
7. Ensure environmental sustainability
8. Develop a global partnership for development

What we are looking for:
We are looking for either individual artists or community based
arts groups that are interested in becoming a part of this
global and groundbreaking initiative by painting a mural around
one of the Millennium Development Goals in their own locale.

For more information or to be involved, please contact:
Javid Alibhai
Project Coordinator
cell:. +1-416-564-0239
mailto:thousandwordproject@gmail.com