January 2013 Update - Container Stalled & Print Biennale Up & Running...
The container with our donations became caught up in the gridlock of the relief effort following the hurricane and did not sail on the prescribed date. And while we have not yet reached our $10,000, we are 50% toward reaching the goal .
While CRAM did get approval from the Cuban government authorizing the container's shipment, we have not received a number to go with the letter of authorization and have missed 3 subsequent departure dates as a result. Our plan now is to regroup, allow the Cuban bureaucracy time to process their overwhelming workloads (for another month or two) and reapply for the container shipment this Spring when the process will be more manageable .
The hurricane hit as we were preparing the container plan, literally uprooting and throwing trees into the paths of progress of both the CT-International Print Biennale and Container Project. But, waiting for Spring has benefits: 1.) more time to collect and organize donations, 2.) time for additions to the approved list of materials and goods to include many re-building supplies not originally written into the project. 27 Jan 2013 by tobeyc
While CRAM did get approval from the Cuban government authorizing the container's shipment, we have not received a number to go with the letter of authorization and have missed 3 subsequent departure dates as a result. Our plan now is to regroup, allow the Cuban bureaucracy time to process their overwhelming workloads (for another month or two) and reapply for the container shipment this Spring when the process will be more manageable .
The hurricane hit as we were preparing the container plan, literally uprooting and throwing trees into the paths of progress of both the CT-International Print Biennale and Container Project. But, waiting for Spring has benefits: 1.) more time to collect and organize donations, 2.) time for additions to the approved list of materials and goods to include many re-building supplies not originally written into the project. 27 Jan 2013 by tobeyc
Hurricane Disaster Relief
CT-International Print Biennal
http://www.ctprintbiennale.com/
Cuban Artists Need Your Help!
The CT-International Print Biennale organizers need to raise $10,000.00 to send a shipping container of donations from Toronto, Canada to Santiago de Cuba.
Funds are needed to send a shipping container with specialized printing equipment, emergency building materials, and art supplies to Santiago de Cuba by December 21, 2012. Confirmed charitable donations ready for shipment amount to $35,000 and we hope to receive more materials in the short time left before the container sails.
These donations are being sent to Taller Cultural “Luis Diaz Oduardo”, a state-supported collective of multi-disciplinary artists in Santiago de Cuba. Taller Cultural celebrated the 50th year of its operation and programs in January 2012. Hurricane damage to the Taller Cultural workshop’s offices, art studios, ceramic facilities, foundry and sculpture fabrication workshops, printmaking studio, and art gallery was extensive, as with the other art facilities in the city. Taller Cultural will assist in the distribution of emergency building materials to help repair these other cultural institutions including the Art School and Art Galleries.
Through private and business donations, the CT-International Print Biennale has a Charles Brand lithographic press (bed size 36” x 60”), 10 lithographic stones, 2 small etching presses, silkscreen supplies, quality printing papers, inks, drawing materials, ink rollers, and many other hard-to-get art supplies and materials to contribute to the rebuilding process.
Some sponsors of this effort will receive a Charitable Tax Receipt issued by Center3 for Print and Media Arts www.theprintstudio.ca/workshops.html. Contributors to the donation project can use their contributions as a promotion deduction and we will list names or business on publicity connected to the CT-International Print Biennale and Cuban Exchange Programs and provide a complementary gift: contributions up to $250 a CRAM International T-shirt and for donations more than $250 an Original Cuban Fine Art Print signed and numbered by the artist.
The CT-International Print Biennale organizers recognize the timely significance of this international relief opportunity and encourage you to assist in our efforts by sending cash donations to enable this shipping container to be sent to Santiago de Cuba in April 2013.
Please contact us and visit www.craminternational.ca for more information about the Cultural Exchange program and relief effort.
Container Relief Effort Donations: http://www.ctprintbiennale.com/
Contact:
Alan Flint
CRAM Press Co-Director
Ph: 905-572-3955
mailto:aflintster@gmail.com
With our grateful thanks on behalf of the artists and cultural organizations of Santiago de Cuba for your support and contributions.
Tobey C. Anderson, Director
CRAM International
www.craminternational.ca
mailto:craminternational@gmail.com
Tamayo Israel Zamora, Director
Taller Cultural “Luis Diaz Oduardo”
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
tallercult@cultstgo.cult.cu
Telef: (22) 642384, (22) 653723
Colina Maxwell, Director
Centre3 for Print and Media Arts
173 James Street North
Hamilton, ON L8R 2K9
Ph: 905 524 2415
mailto:admin@theprintstudio.ca
http://www.theprintstudio.ca
http://www.ctprintbiennale.com/
Cuban Artists Need Your Help!
The CT-International Print Biennale organizers need to raise $10,000.00 to send a shipping container of donations from Toronto, Canada to Santiago de Cuba.
Funds are needed to send a shipping container with specialized printing equipment, emergency building materials, and art supplies to Santiago de Cuba by December 21, 2012. Confirmed charitable donations ready for shipment amount to $35,000 and we hope to receive more materials in the short time left before the container sails.
These donations are being sent to Taller Cultural “Luis Diaz Oduardo”, a state-supported collective of multi-disciplinary artists in Santiago de Cuba. Taller Cultural celebrated the 50th year of its operation and programs in January 2012. Hurricane damage to the Taller Cultural workshop’s offices, art studios, ceramic facilities, foundry and sculpture fabrication workshops, printmaking studio, and art gallery was extensive, as with the other art facilities in the city. Taller Cultural will assist in the distribution of emergency building materials to help repair these other cultural institutions including the Art School and Art Galleries.
Through private and business donations, the CT-International Print Biennale has a Charles Brand lithographic press (bed size 36” x 60”), 10 lithographic stones, 2 small etching presses, silkscreen supplies, quality printing papers, inks, drawing materials, ink rollers, and many other hard-to-get art supplies and materials to contribute to the rebuilding process.
Some sponsors of this effort will receive a Charitable Tax Receipt issued by Center3 for Print and Media Arts www.theprintstudio.ca/workshops.html. Contributors to the donation project can use their contributions as a promotion deduction and we will list names or business on publicity connected to the CT-International Print Biennale and Cuban Exchange Programs and provide a complementary gift: contributions up to $250 a CRAM International T-shirt and for donations more than $250 an Original Cuban Fine Art Print signed and numbered by the artist.
The CT-International Print Biennale organizers recognize the timely significance of this international relief opportunity and encourage you to assist in our efforts by sending cash donations to enable this shipping container to be sent to Santiago de Cuba in April 2013.
Please contact us and visit www.craminternational.ca for more information about the Cultural Exchange program and relief effort.
Container Relief Effort Donations: http://www.ctprintbiennale.com/
Contact:
Alan Flint
CRAM Press Co-Director
Ph: 905-572-3955
mailto:aflintster@gmail.com
With our grateful thanks on behalf of the artists and cultural organizations of Santiago de Cuba for your support and contributions.
Tobey C. Anderson, Director
CRAM International
www.craminternational.ca
mailto:craminternational@gmail.com
Tamayo Israel Zamora, Director
Taller Cultural “Luis Diaz Oduardo”
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
tallercult@cultstgo.cult.cu
Telef: (22) 642384, (22) 653723
Colina Maxwell, Director
Centre3 for Print and Media Arts
173 James Street North
Hamilton, ON L8R 2K9
Ph: 905 524 2415
mailto:admin@theprintstudio.ca
http://www.theprintstudio.ca
