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fD Enterprise
Online and at each program site, freeDimensional engages in activities to sustain its programs and build capacity throughout the network in addition to income generation for individual stakeholders. In so doing, we aggressively experiment with new models and ideas to raise funding support for the freeDimensional community. At the same time, we do not believe that a "quick fix" helps to achieve sustainable livelihoods. Therefore we are taking some time to study the financial landscape in order to develop a set of innovative tools for our stakeholders. For example, we have learned a lot from Community Wealth Ventures, Artist Pension Trust, The Saatchi Gallery's STUART and Nomads Land, a new platform for social issue filmmakers. We have made a few test-runs with some promising results (see Experiments).
freeDimensional was a semi-finalist in the 2006 Global Social Venture Competition, a finalist in the 2006 Yale 50K Competition, and recently received first place in the Working for Good Business Plan Competition. That said, freeDimensional is a young initiative; our ambitions still exceed our human resource and technical capacity, but with your support we will play an important role for culture workers making sense of a globalized world. Do you know an "angel" funder who would like to help us further implement the fD Enterprise system? If so, please contact .
Online Sales Platform
Forthcoming!
By engaging the entire network in an online art auction, we will offer partner centers a year-round income generation activity that allows them to sell the artworks they have inherited from past artists-in-residence as well as those specific to Creative Safe Haven placements. This system allows the network to receive a percentage for its overhead costs; freeDimensional stakeholders to sale their work during periods when their normal livelihood activities are interrupted; and the center from which the sale item originates to capitalize its assets. We envision a platform that will streamline merchandise, music (mp3s) and ticket sales from our community members.
Brazil in NYC - Helping Projeto Lingua Solta was our 1st attempt at raising funds for a community partner through online auction.
In our next attempt, we worked with a local real estate developer in Central Brooklyn to purchase and feature the work of Bara Diokhane - lawyer and visual artist from Senegal.
The paintings are "Untitled No. 1, 2003", made in Harlem with the residuals of candles used during the NY 2003 blackout, and "Untitled No. 2, 2003", Watercolor and oil stick on board, made in Harlem after the 2003 blackout.
Another success has been the sale of Writing Home from Exile (by Issa Nyaphaga) for publication and exhibition by the initiative "Voices of Global Civil Society: the work of cartoonists, comic strip artists and graphic novelists." This initiative is organised by the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, a research centre at LSE, which investigates the impact of civil society on political processes around the world. The aim of this initiative is to highlight the important role of cartoonists, comic strip artists and graphic novelists in communicating about issues of concern to ordinary citizens around the world.
Find out more about Writing Home from Exile.
fD Shoppe on CafePress
Check out our CafePress shop for fD merchandise, music and art from our Placement Fellows.
Distribution
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Circulo establishes a circulation of independent and socially oriented films in key cities throughout the Americas. Circulo provides sustained viewing opportunities for new audiences and marginalized groups, as well as distribution opportunities for a global community of independent filmmakers, focusing primarily on those working in the Americas.
In 1979 Gadalla and Sara Gubara made the film TAJOUJE based on a true love story that happened a hundred years back in the eastern part of the Sudan. In 2006 freeDimensional brokered the sale of TAJOUJE to the South African Film Resource Unit (FRU) for inclusion in MNET's African Film Library. From a sale of 20,000 USD, the Gubara's kept 95% which they used as finishing funds for their current production, a Sudanese version of Les Misérables. If you are interested in screening either film, please .
Also in 2006 and in conjunction with Ciné Canada, Circulo & freeDimensional presented educational workshops and film screenings of The Corporation in Bogotá, Colombia. The Corporation was screened in four major universities in Colombia and one cultural organization - La Universidad Nacional, La Universidad Javeriana, La Universidad del Rosario, La Universidad de los Andes, El Centro Colombo Americano. Panel discussions were organized at each venue and the events were all free of charge. We are exploring the option of a commercial theater continuing the screenings now that publicity and interest have been generated. The Canadian Embassy in Venezuela and a representative of Cuban TV have expressed interest in showing The Corporation to their audiences.
Eventually, we look forward to bringing you a fine selection of critical magazines and journals from around the world. In the meantime, here is a sample of our tastes:
Bidoun
www.bidoun.com
Chimurenga
www.chimurenga.co.za
A Public Space
www.apublicspace.org
Cabinet
www.cabinetmagazine.org
