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Hey Felipe - I want to know more about Ubatuba - as soon as you can send
some info.
I believe you are hanging out with Cesar now :)

Kasia

on 28/11/12 10:43 PM, Bricolabs <brico@???> wrote:

> cultura digital in Brasil: forget about it for a while... no news so
> far... now there's the world's end, then christmas and new year, then
> carnaval. if it happens, I'll bet it's only in the second semester.
>
> also for second semester something will happen in Ubatuba. save your
> travel-funding opportunities :D
>
> On 28-11-2012 17:23, victoria sinclair wrote:
>> sounds good...i will probably be in europe then as well...felipe...any
>> news on cultura digital dates in brasil? some people asking about when
>> the yearly convention will be and any info is good to plan brico hops....
>> greetings from mexico to the brico family!
>> vx
>>
>> 2012/11/28 Felipe Fonseca <felipefonseca@???
>> <mailto:felipefonseca@riseup.net>>
>>
>>     Facing north / facing south sounds like something we've been
>>     positively doing in this list... how about organising a brico-hop in
>>     helsinki? I think I'll be that side of atlantic by then...

>>
>>     efe

>>
>>
>>     On 08-11-2012 14:59, Vanessa Gocksch wrote:

>>
>>         /// Pixelache Helsinki 2013 Festival

>>
>>         Pixelache Festival 2013 is entitled ‘Facing North – Facing
>>         South’ and
>>         is organized as a dual-city event, both in Helsinki and Tallinn
>>         during
>>         16-19 May 2013. If every North as its South and every South its
>>         North,
>>         this is an invitation to alternately face North and South from
>>         multiple points of views.

>>
>>         With this theme, Pixelache expands it’s on-going 'Signals from

the
>>         South' programme, that has focused on presenting media, art and
>>         technology projects from Africa, South America and Asia since
>>         2009. It
>>         explores further the relationships between South and North,
>>         looking at
>>         these notions from various perspectives, including geo-political,
>>         cultural, economical, both on global, regional and local levels.

>>
>>           From a regional point of view, organizing part of the festival
> in
>>         Tallinn poses the question of what it means to bring these
> cultural
>>         actions across the water. Indeed, not only geographically, but
> also
>>         economically, Tallinn is still in the South of Helsinki. The term
>>         'Talsinki' has in the past often been used by Estonians "to
>>         imply that
>>         the commercial centre of Tallinn has become the ‘Helsinkians’
> living
>>         room" (Wikipedia). On the other hand the biggest group of
> immigrants
>>         to Finland is Estonians, especially construction workers. There
>>         is an
>>         economical benefit from relocating South. Shall we and how, deal
>>         with
>>         this dissimmetry as a festival? Can we build something meaningful
>>         between both capitals, that would contribute realizing the
>>         Talsinki/Hellina twin city ambition as envisioned by the
> think-tank
>>         Demos Helsinki and the two cities themselves?

>>
>>           From a global point of view, relations between commonly
> understood
>>         North and South are even more complex and the problematics raised
> by
>>         cooperation issues are multifaceted. Various non-western
> initiatives
>>         have been encountered through the Pixelache Network during the
> past
>>         years and also contributed to disseminating approaches strongly
>>         relying on the potential of open source, D.I.W.O. and
> peer-learning
>>         practices. In that context, both individuals and Pixelache

Network
>>         nodes have been exploring two-way exchanges and on-going
>>         processes. At
>>         the time when many countries in Europe today are also starting
>>         to face
>>         the same water, energy and food dependency crisis than in the
> South,
>>         more than ever we should explore the ideas and initiatives
>>         emerging in
>>         the South and imagine new ways to tackle together these common
>>         issues.

>>
>>
>>         /// Call for Programme Planner

>>
>>         We are looking for organisations, groups or individuals who
>>         would like
>>         to organise a seminar and an exhibition for the 'Facing North –
>>         Facing
>>         South' programme of Pixelache in Helsinki in 2013, with the hope
>>         that
>>         the programme will bring interesting insights and points of views
> to
>>         the question of North-South relationships.

>>
>>         The selected organisation, group or individual will be given a
>>         production budget and a fee for the realization of the 'Facing
>>         North –
>>         Facing South' seminar and exhibition.

>>
>>         Applications will be reviewed in early December by a committee
>>         consisting of Marion Louisgrand (Kër Thiossane, Dakar, Senegal),
>>         Raquel Renno (Catholic University of Sao Paolo, Brasil), Peter
> Kuria
>>         Githinji (Shalin, Helsinki, Finland), Mathieu Marguerin (Mal au
>>         Pixel,
>>         Paris, France), Vanessa Gocksch (Intermundos, Santa Marta,
>>         Colombia),
>>         Reet Aus (Trash to Trend, Tallinn, Estonia). Facilitation and
>>         production of the selected proposal will be carried out with
> support
>>         of the Pixelache Helsinki office, beginning in mid-December 2012.

>>
>>         Application deadline: 5.12.2012

>>
>>
>>         MORE INFO & APPLICATION FORM
>>         http://www.pixelache.ac/__helsinki/festival-2013/
>>         <http://www.pixelache.ac/helsinki/festival-2013/>

>>
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