i d e n t i d ad e s has been selected as a Social Design project

Systemic Excellence Group and the Social Design site selected i d e n t i d a d e s as one of those "innovative projects that help develop and sharpen our common understanding of social design". See it here

New: identidades.04 website

5célula plays as chair(wo)man in the First Meeting with the new Government, as part of a NGO Committee. As part of that, we volunteered to open a  blog so it can be a communication and information tool for all the State's organizations.

In another activity, we were facilitator and lecturer with a paper on Contemporary Art in Public Spaces and the Community, in a Michoacan NGO Encounter.

Our PangeaDay screening was made along with the Youth Michoacan Office, after promoting its broadcasting by the State TV and Radio System. Even it was Mother's Day, the young people present joined the millions spectators around the globe

we welcome a new member of our Counsellors Board, the theatre director and philosopher Roberto Briceño

we are now the linking organization for Mexico  to the Artists Forum for the Latinamerican Integration.

a new Art project on and with immigrant women, with 5célula member Cristina Fernández and fellow artists Teresa Puig (Barcelona/Norway) and Dorothea Fleiss (/Romania/Germany ). This is the Project's blog banner.

Alonso Ross is showing the first part of his comic story Lizbeth the diabolic girl, made completly on ceramics, in Valle de Bravo. Click on the round image to enlarge.

We are honoured by our new Counsellors Board which includes extraordinary masters on their own fields:

Carlos Blas Galindo, artist, curator, art critic, director of CENIDIAP

Miriam Kaiser, art critic, curator

Gregorio Sigal, musician and composer, director of CMMAS

Clemente Padín, artist and art critic from Uruguay

Fernanda Navarro, philosopher with a long and interesting career in activist fields

Iwan Bala,  Welsh artist and  art critic  and teacher

Víctor  Manuel Toledo, Etnoecologist, biologist, poet

Gustavo Pérez, ceramics artist

new identidades.04 planning stage

we start 2008 launching our webpage english version!

We welcome new member Ayanna Jolivet McCloud

Her artistic qualities,  her curatorial  habilities  and knowledge on Arts administration will prove to be very valuable for our organization enhacement.

some 2007 highlights:

we produced 4 videos as a collective

     

     

Kunstgruppe GOTTLIEB had a big show in Herne, Germany

 

you can see our collaboration in these photos.

  Marta Rial came to México and among many things, she made an art action during the Nonviolence against Women in Tepic, Nayarit.

Michoacan Radio and Television System and La Voz de Michoacán, the biggest newspaper in our State, broadcasted a special 30 minute TV program on 5célula.

              

Identidades goes South. The project was presented in thel 4th Latinamerican Forum on  Memoriy and Identity in Montevideo, Uruguay, last October.