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Last event
MIGHT SHOP Opening SATURDAY 10.12.2011 from 2pm to 10pm
Might shop is open every afternoon until the 18th of December.
The Might Shop exhibits all that is handmade by the inhabitants of its neighborhood. From type design to traditional knitting, from football banners to handmade clay birdhouses.
We examined during this period of preparation and exhibition the role of commercial / non commercial spaces and the relationship between people and organisations of the neighborhood and what they are creating with a passion.
Many participants - artists, collectives and associations - take part in the event :
Groep Intro, de Kriekelaar, Ultras Maroc Belgique, Radio Voltaire, Open Source Publishing, Hackerspace Brussels, The Wasteland, Iffy Genia...
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International collaborations
[EN] Euroaxacan Inititative of Transformative Cultures (EITC) is a European-Mexican collaboration which connects art and traditional – as well as future – crafts, while bridging the gap between the digital, mediated and corporeal world. The overall aim is to function as a catalyst of socio-economic transformations induced by transcultural production.
EITC centres on the community workshops of the township of Zegache Sta Ana, state of Oaxaca, Mexico – renowned for restoration of traditional artefacts, as well as contemporary artists’ interventions. The community workshops fulfil a crucial role in the creation of work opportunities and the establishment of an economic outlook for socially-challenged rural areas.
EITC extends the current activities of the community workshops to include electronics, digital media and permaculture. Cultural production is intertwined with business development in order to guarantee a sustainable continuation of the project. The goal is to create an example with international relevance of how to encourage artistic creation, protect cultural identities and secure sustainable local economies.
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Open calls
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
nadine is calling for proposals for their Artists/Gardeners In Residence program at nadine's urban garden project, Wastl.
The project Wastl is set up around exploring and setting up urban gardens, food production and researching resilient systems and futures. This project is part of the European project Resilients, supported by the European Culture Program 2007-2013.
Residency dates: April-May 2012, September-October 2012
Wastl 2012
Wastl is a local garden project, that was originally initiated in Schaarbeek, Brussels, behind the community centre De Kriekelaar. Here, a display garden with vertical garden structures was set up in 2010.
The focus in 2011 lied on the technical development of irrigation systems.
For 2012 we want to:
- strengthen our skills on a technical level
- namely elaborate on the hanging mobile growing units, experiment with different materials to make them and make them more resilient through all seasons
- initiate creative training sessions that will be organized at people's homes on balconies, garden terraces, wastelands, etc
- work on a more local city level and develop educational possibilities for young and old
- set up a new garden project in Elsene-Ixelles, Brussels behind the community centre Elzenhof.
nadine is looking for residents who can work alongside these existing structures and explore new concepts in the field of sustainable gardening, mobile growing units, permaculture, waste treatment, environment and garden design.
We are looking for an artist that is interested in a long term engagement where he/she can work autonomously on own practices and concepts, as well as collaborate with nadine on the ongoing Wastl project.
Who is interested, is invited to send us a motivated mail, project description of the practice you want to work on during the residency, and CV that can be of interest for this call.