Collaborators Sought for "Water Water Everywhere"
27/08/2002
Filmmaker/activist turned event producer is seeking collaborators for the following event:
Called *Water Water Everywhere?* (working title), it's a collaborative, multi-media project inspired by *Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water.* It's part education (cold, hard facts & figures; water around the world), part celebration (folk tales about water, gorgeous/wonderful water stuff like fountains, images, interactive games), part wake-up call (every-day places we find water/don't take it for granted), part activist tool kit (here's what *you* can do to protect water/input from audience from their ideas and experience).
The project will also have an international component. Ideally, it will travel. Another possibility is that it will go on simultaneously in several places linked via the Internet. The most likely target dates are March 16-23, 2003, when the 3rd World Water Forum takes place in Japan. I work part-time as technical director for Democracy Now! (a combined radio and TV show), and hope to set up live reporting from the Forum, either via phone or ideally, by video link.
I'm based in New York City, where I hope Water Water will take place in a non-traditional venue, one close or in a busy area so that potential audience can just happen upon it. I'm talking with Free Speech TV about using their CyberCar to satellite cast the event live.
I'd like to involve artists working in a wide range of media, including live performance. Interested artists include storyteller Laura Sims and the acrobatic dance company Lava. Videos and films relating to water will also screen. I'm eager to include artists working in new media.
konscious.com has agreed to host web-related activities.
I plan to facilitate a knowledge cafe in early October to bring together interested citizens/artists/organizations to explore and develop the event concept.
I see this project both as a celebration of water but also a catalyst to bring civic attention to what's looking very much like a diaster of global proportions.
If interested please contact me at angela@sparklehouse.com
