Art and human rights - digital meetings

Art and human rights - digital encounters

Digital networking platform that presents/introduces and relates groups, NGOs and individuals who are involved in arts and use cultural activism in such way to provoke social consciousness on human rights.

Presentation and aims of the Operational Programme

The aim of this Operational Programme is to create a digital platform that will present/introduce and relate groups, NGOs and individuals who actually take action in defending human rights through arts. Moreover, the platform will focus on both the social and artistic aspect of cultural activism.

In particular, the platform hosted at Osmosis' website, intends to become a meeting point and a terrain of exchanging ideas and experiences between bodies (organizations), informal groups and individuals who use cultural activism as a vehicle in educating society on human rights.

Furthermore, this digital environment attempts to become a supportive tool in promoting interaction between bodies/institutions and individuals, by creating archives and collecting useful material both on human rights and various forms of art, as well as encouraging activities that defend social dissimilarity, for example various forms of applied theatre such as the "theatre of the oppressed".

Members: NGOs, groups and individuals

Individuals, groups and NGOs that use arts either as a way/method for promoting human rights or as an activity product, are called to participate in this initiative

In particular:
⌧ bodies of formal and informal education, NGOs, networks of volunteers
⌧ artists-educators, volunteers, of social-artistic programme coordinators.

The project is implemented by Osmosis but the participation of other institutions and individuals is essential in forming the platform, since every single element of the digital environment is designed, brought into effect, evaluated and re-designed according to its members' usage and their characteristics.

The platform will become a data base for all members in order to constantly detect the needs and methods of updating and promoting the "activity message".

Membership benefits

Signing up to the platform, with absolutely no charge, all organisations will automatically have access to the electronic material (online library) as well as to information on the projects and activities of its members. (volunteers - artists who took action using the arts). In this respect, the platform will facilitate the communication between the above mentioned groups.

Organisations may present, and publish informational material (photos, videos), about their activities. Moreover, Osmosis will circulate a newsletter and member organisations might contribute in developing it. The newsletter will contain information on sponsorship, articles about human rights and cultural activism as well as best practices of national and global organisations that are involved the field of "arts and human rights".

Finally, all organisations that will sign up to the platform will have exclusive access to the online forum whereby they may debate and exchange views in real time.