jim submits:

This is a not-so-early-warning announcement of a super grass roots Do-It-Together no budget radical summer camp thing we are organising for June in Chicago called FREEDOM FESTIVAL... We need some advice and inspiration. It is a follow up to and is related to another festival I work on called Version. http://www.versionfest.org

We want to rev up and rejuvenate a wandering and depressed movement.



Ok.. So:


Freedom Festivals are gatherings of artists, thinkers, activists, citizens and friends who wish to celebrate and strengthen, through performance and art, music , discussions and theater, the spirit and intent of the founding documents of this state and other free and democratic societies -- freedom of expression, pursuit of happiness, freedom from persecution, and other various civil liberties.FREEDOM FESTIVAL is an open attempt to use our remaining rights, understand

how to keep them, and reclaim the ones we have lost.



FREEDOM FESTIVAL is a gathering of cultural, social, and artistic

communities seeking to expand our networks, challenge the dominant

assumptions, strengthen our activities, and work towards defending our

rights to work outside, beside, or without the privatized life.



Creative responses, satiric guerrilla theater, infowarfare, music,

workshops, video screenings, performances, debates, talks, and fashion

coalesce into one evening to help kick off a Summer of Reaction and

Resistance to Un-american Activities



FREEDOM FESTIVAL is a look at Free Speech, Open Cultures, Do-It-Together

media, and tools of expression. It¹s a forum to discuss strategies used to

create and facilitate:

o media making

o alternative spaces

o direct action

o culture jamming

o Smart ­Meming

o community activity

o innovation in music

o artist activities



The festival will be a sampling of the multiplicity of campaigns and

gathering of groups trying to shape and participate in a world we want to

live in.



FREEDOM FESTIVAL is a moment to celebrate the projects and campaigns and

people that have been on the front lines defending our freedoms, in our

streets, in our spaces, at home and in our minds.



FREEDOM FESTIVAL is a party.



FREEDOM FESTIVAL will take place June 20-22 at Buddy, Wicker park and on the

streets. We are looking for groups and individuals that want to

share their work, projects, and ideas.

Please send us:

o performance ideas

o workshop ideas

o media to screen, hand out, listen to on kiosks

o posters, paintings, stencils agit prop devices to showcase

o facilitated debates / presentations

* web-based initiatives and campaigns

* info about bad-ass groups and projects going on that we should check out


There is main space that will feature, video screenings, a surveillance

fashion show and performances. (the party area.)



There is room for tabling, installations, presentations, and to show work,

like posters and photos as well as areas for workshops and talks.



We want to utilize the time and space of the summer to see how many

activities can be sustained and acted upon here in Chicago and beyond..


Proceeds from the fest are going to fund a mobile structures project and a

tour of the Resistance camp along with a Version>04 Invasion/Occupation tour

this fall to promote radical activity and an invasion and occupation of

Chicago in May 2004.


Outline of events:



Freedom Festival ::

Creative the Response and Resistance Summer Camp

How to Act like a PATRIOT in the Age of Bush

Celebrate yer rights to Free expression and dissent


June 20 Friday :: Chill nite. Introduce projects/ agit radical art opening /

keynote / guest speaker /

Arts and crafts, stenciling, presentations, videos


June 21 Saturday:;

Day time: Agit prop workshops, teach-ins and sessions

Night time:

screening of videos

Pret a surveillieur fashion show

Performances / DJS (shhhh)


June 22 Sunday :: Freedom Summer camp?

Workshops :: picnic / bar-b-q / actions / parade /


Please let me know if you are interested in contributing something,

keep your participation simple or share work you have recently done or will

be doing. Many of you are not in the US, but please add your perspective.

Solidarity net cholos!


Best,

edmar



Ed Marszewski

Post: 960 w 31st st. // chill 60608 // U$A

Office: 1542 n milwaukee ave. 2nd floor // chill 60622 // U$A

Hand Phone :: 773.837.0145



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