MISTICA: Fw: World Culture Open Award Finalists

From: Rosa Maria Torres (rmtorres_at_fibertel.com.ar)
Date: Wed Aug 25 04:19:16 2004


Para su informaci�n y saludos.

Rosa Mar�a Torres
Secretaria Regional para Am�rica Latina y el Caribe del World Culture Open
(WCO)
http://www.worldcultureopen.org

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>WORLD CULTURE OPEN AWARDS FINALISTS
>http://www.worldcultureopen.org
>
>Chinese Theatre Circle (Singapore)
>http://ctcopera.com.sg/ctc.html
>The Chinese Theatre Circle's mission is to preserve and promote Chinese
>Opera, one of the richest areas of Singapore's cultural heritage.
>
>Interactive Resource Centre (Pakistan)
>www.interactivetheatre.org.pk
>The Interactive Resource Center uses interactive theatre techniques, a
>combination of Augusto Boal's "Forum Theatre", and indigenous Pakistani
>theatre traditions to promote social and economic justice, democracy and
>citizenship rights, and gender equality in Pakistan.
>
>Orcamento Participativo (Brazil)
>http://portal.prefeitura.sp.gov.br/cidadania/orcamento_participativo
>Sao Paolo-based Presupuesto Participativo aims to construct channels of
>dialogue between citizens and government bodies with the objective of justly
>distributing available resources, socially controlling the government's
>actions, and instituting an interactive plan to create concrete forms by
>which to bring democracy to the state, to the city and to society.
>
>The Barefoot College (India)
>www.barefootcollege.org
>The Barefoot College began in 1972 with the conviction that solutions to
>rural problems lie within the community. The College addresses problems of
>drinking water, girl education, health & sanitation, rural unemployment,
>income generation, electricity and power, as well as social awareness and
>the conservation of ecological systems in rural communities.
>
>Dr. Jose Antonio Abreu (Venezuela)
>http://www.icmf.co.za/socioeconomic.htm
> Dr. Antonio Jose Abreu, UNESCO's Goodwill Ambassador for Music and for
>Peace and the founder of the National System of Youth and Children
>Orchestras in Venezuela, is building a world-wide system of youth and
>children orchestras and choirs.
>
>WITNESS (USA)
>www.witness.org
>Since 1992, WITNESS has strengthened the human rights movement by forging
>partnerships with human rights defenders worldwide. Using cameras and other
>technology, WITNESS-trained partners produce videos that help expose human
>rights violations, challenge powerful forces, and restore dignity and hope
>to survivors of human rights abuses.
>
>Eloxochitl Ivonne M. Buendia Sanchez (Mexico)
>Tradition healer Eloxochitl is a medicine woman, or Cihuapactiani, from
>Mexico and an heiress of a large philosophic and medical tradition that has
>been transmitted orally for the last 500 years. The essence of
>Nahuatl-Philosophy is rooted in living in harmony with nature and other
>human beings, whatever their race or belief system. Eloxochitl practices
>her Medicine, the traditional Medicine of the Mexihka-People, by using
>flowers, fruits, and eggs and a special form of massage called Tlahuayo - a
>healing form which integrates the philosophical concepts of the Nahui Ollin
>Teotl (4 energies in movement) that serves as a diagnostic tool and
>treatment at the same time.
>
> International Education for Peace Institute (Switzerland)
>www.efpinternational.org
>The main purpose of Education for Peace International and its sister
>Institutes is to develop and implement peace education programs in all parts
>of the world for all segments of human society.
>
>Casa Alianza (Central America)
>www.casa-alianza.org
>Casa Alianza advocates for 'street children' and provides food, shelter,
>medical care, drug rehabilitation, counseling, education, skills training,
>and other services to more than 10,000 children annually.
>
>Grupo de Teatro Catalinas Sur (Argentina)
>http://www.catalinasur.com.ar/new/ingles/historia.htm
>The founding members of Grupo de Teatro Catalinas Sur believe in a fairer and
>more mutually binding world and attempts, through theatre, to remember the
>value of individual and collective histories, and revive the memory that
>believed
>and believes in a better world.
>
>Arthur Demarest (USA)
>http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/biography/abcde/demarest_arthur.html
>The initial goal of the project was to convert the ancient Maya city of
>Canuen
>into an archaeological and ecological preserve that would provide an economic
>resource to the local Q'eqchi' Maya through ecotourism.



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