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NEW LIFE CANCUN Call for Proposals

July 7, 2010newsActivists, Artistic Experimentation, Climate Change Summit, Climate Disasters, Co2 Emissions, Copenhagen, Fundraising Efforts, Hospitality Project, Hurricanes, Low Budget, New Ways, Platform Artists, Production Budget, Public Spaces, Research Questions, Social Architecture, Test Field, Tourism Sector, Travel Accommodation, Wooloo

Call for Proposals

Artists working with interventions, activism and other participatory practices are invited to apply for participation in NEW LIFE CANCUN. This experimental hospitality project will take place during the UN Climate Change summit (COP 16) in CancÃºn, Mexico from 29 Nov – 10 Dec 2010.

In continuation of Wooloo’s NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN festival – in which we secured housing for more than 3.000 activists coming to the Copenhagen summit – NEW LIFE CANCUN is aiming to connect visiting activists and NGO employees with local families in the area of CancÃºn, infamous for its vulnerability to climate disasters (mainly hurricanes), as well as for the high-CO2 emissions associated with its tourism sector.

Utilising this meeting of hosts and guests in Cancun as our exhibition platform, artists and activists are invited to explore its social architecture and suggest work proposals of an awareness, educational and/or practical-action nature designed around the topic: â€œNEW WAYS OF LIVING TOGETHERâ€.

Up to five artists will be selected for participation and will get all travel, accommodation and production costs covered by Wooloo. Proposals must include a detailed budget. As fundraising efforts are still ongoing, we do not yet know the size of our final production budget. However, it wont be large – so please be aware that your project must be able to be realized in a low-budget manner!

The deadline for work proposals is Thu 1 August 2010.

Please direct all research questions to contact[at]wooloo.org

NEW LIFE is an ongoing series of works focusing on social and artistic experimentation. Staged by Wooloo and taking place in institutions and public spaces worldwide, NEW LIFE aims to be a test field for new ways of living together on our planet.

NEW LIFE CANCUN is a collaboration between Wooloo.org and the Mexican climate change collective Carbonding.

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WOOLOO.ORG – NEW LIFE CANCÃšN

April 26, 2010newsActivism, Activists, Climate Change Summit, Climate Disasters, Co2 Emissions, Continuation, Copenhagen, Fundraising Efforts, Hurricanes, Image Credit, Interventions, Low Budget, New Ways, Ngo, Platform Artists, Production Budget, Research Questions, Social Architecture, Tourism Sector, Wooloo

Artists working with interventions, activism and other participatory practices are invited to apply for participation in NEW LIFE CANCUN.

This experimental hospitality initiative intends to promote and facilitate participation during the UN Climate Change summit (COP 16) in CancÃºn, Mexico at the end of 2010 (Nov. 29th â€“ Dec. 10th).

In continuation of Wooloo’sÂ NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN festival – in which we secured housing for more than 3.000 activists during the Copenhagen summit – NEW LIFE CANCUN is aiming to connect visiting activists and NGO employees with local families in the area of CancÃºn.An area infamous for its vulnerability to climate disasters (mainly hurricanes), as well as for the high-CO2 emissions associated with its tourism sector.

Utilizing this meeting of hosts and guests in Cancun as our exhibition platform, artists and activists are invited to explore its social architecture and suggest work proposals of an awareness, educational and/or practical-action nature designed around the topic: â€œNEW WAYS OF LIVING TOGETHERâ€.

The deadline for work proposals is JULY 1st, 2010.

Please direct all research questions toÂ contact@wooloo.org

Proposals must include a detailed budget. As fundraising efforts are still ongoing, we do not yet know the size of our final production budget. However, it wont be large – so please be aware that your project must be able to be realized in a low-budget manner!

NEW LIFE CANCUN is a collaboration between Wooloo.org and the Mexican climate change collectiveÂ Carbonding

Image credit:Â Stephanie Claverie

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No place to stay in Copenhagen? Artists get Danes to offer their homes and host a festival

October 2, 2009Ashden Directory, Conferences, COP15, CSPA Convergence18 December, 192, Activists, Civic Engagement, Climate Change Conference, Climate Summit, Copenhagen, Denmark, Exhibition, friends of the earth, Hosts, Hotel Accommodation, Ngo, Organisations, Platform Artists, Residencies, Volunteer, Way Of Life, Wooloo, Wwf

From 7 – 18 December, representatives from 192 nations, as well as thousands of activists and NGO organisations, will gather in Denmark for the UN Climate Change Conference.

To help solve the problem of over-booked hotel accommodation, NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN is running a volunteer-based campaign to get private Danish homes to open their door to the visitors.

NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN is organised by the arts collectiveÂ Wooloo.org, who are utilizing this large-scale human meeting as its exhibition platform. Artists and performers will be presenting events, happenings and performances as part of their ‘residencies’, for hosts and guests in Copenhagen.

The artists curated by Wooloo.org will develop projects that reflect a new, sustainable way of life, works that are experiments in civic engagement and social empowerment.

NEW LIFE COPENHAGEN is an official partner of both the UN Climate Summit and the Alternative Climate Summit. Friends of the Earth and WWF are co-partners.