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What is Global City Symphony? Summary: Following a 2009 Delhi pilot, Big Bang Lab presents Global City Symphony, a digital media project using music, archive media, participatory documentary and silent digital films to connect disadvantaged communities around the world. A future creative learning and knowledge sharing platform in a network of seven cities will allow [...]
A contemporary silent animation winner of the best music award at SCIFE 07, short film festival (Spain) Director: Jonay Ortiz de Urbina Original music: Sergio López Figueroa Sound recording and mastering: Tenth Egg, Nick Barron “Homeland” tells the adventures of two characters who look for a place to settle. It is a tale of belonging [...]
Creative Partnerships cross curriculum project combining music and maths Big Bang Lab and the curriculum Who says maths has to be boring? Year 7 and Year 8 students had an opportunity to explore the relationship between graphic notation, geometry, music composition and moving images using a balloon orchestra! We use photography and flash animation during [...]
Summary: Following a 2009 Delhi pilot, Big Bang Lab presents Global City Symphony, a digital media project using music, archive media, participatory documentary and silent digital films to connect disadvantaged communities around the world. A future creative learning and knowledge sharing platform in a network of seven cities will allow citizens to creatively express issues affecting their lives and the future of the cities.
Big Bang Lab designs and delivers uniqueindependent collective creative audiovisual productions combining the re-use of archive media across thepublic and corporate sector promoting digital silent cinema with live original music, participatory videoproduction, creative oral history and digital inclusion programmes.
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GLOBAL CITY SYMPHONY Following the production of the first pilot in Delhi as the outcome of aCultural Leadership Award (Delhi City Symphony) Big Bang Lab’s director is developing a global citizenshipproject connecting disadvantaged communities worldwide by providing hands on training and capacity buildingprogramme using local resources in seven cities worldwide in order to allow communities and artists todevelop new ways of connecting with each other and expressing their views about the future of their city,engaging neighborhoods in the creative and knowledge transfer process.
This project is Big Bang Lab’s cultural social responsibility framework, an alternative to corporate CSR, lookingat creating cultural and social capital in each city establishing the first social innovation model towards liveablecities by creating value from the intangible assets and empowering communities through information,participation and positive civic activism.
This is a working model of community participation through media,cultural heritage engagement and a review of a more ethical distribution on wealth based on new Intellectual Property agreements. We are planting the seed to sustain a programme for the future creative-cultural socialentrepreneurs and a new paradigm of collaboration and convergence.
We are looking for a £83,000 R&D sponsorship grant for a breakeven by March 2012.
Funds will be used for:
• R&D to produce 7 pilot projects • Clearing copyrights for use of archives • Development as an open source video platform and beta website • Staffing: 7 Big Bang Lab community engagement agents and 1 DirectorFuture plans include: • Development of a consortium in each city involving 35 private, public and civic organizations • Audiovisual production for web distribution channels and social networks • 280 individuals from 7 countries and a team of 28 cultural leaders
What can you do right now ?
JOIN OUR GLOBAL CITY SYMPHONY FACEBOOK GROUP
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SIGN OUR PETITION on Change.org www.change.org/bigbang-lab
LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR WORK on our Vimeo channel www.vimeo.com/bigbanglab
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