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05.02.2020

Your 20 Sources and 20 People for this Year 2020

This OPENBLOG 2020 theme is for all MEMEFEST MEMBERS to freely participate in.

The idea is to help each other on MEMEFEST get to know and understand what you represent in 2020 on MEMEFEST. What identity you have and through this, knowledge can be shared and collaboration may form between people that you may never have considered talking to or collaborating with.

Discovering similar intere…

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27.12.2018

Cook Up Dialogue

A project aiming to establish a heightened sense of connectivity between the chef, the kitchen and the community

We are students that have spent three weeks in Patan, Nepal developing a body of work surrounding the concepts of unlearning photography and pleasure media through the lens of food

To see more find us on instagram @cookupdialogue

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05.10.2018

Job Opportunity (Contract) - Systems Change, Melbourne Australia

Hi all,
Extending this.
And corrected the email address below, apologies! The one there is now correct.
I am posting a small job for a Communications Designer.
I'm looking for someone located in Melbourne Australia.
Please send on if you know anyone here that might be interested.
Thanks so much, Annette!

*****

Insight Maps is a start up based in Melbourne Australia.

Targeting p…

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02.02.2018

Community Harvest Project

Hello all! I find this super meaningful and I am seeking your support. I have been participating in the Community Harvest project twice and was both times blown away by the magic created by bringing together such diverse communities, people of such different backgrounds and with such incredible life stories. The Community Harvest Project does the best job, I have ever seen in finding meaningful, …

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18.09.2016

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10.05.2016

The Patchwork Model

The matter is a new nascent social network: a desktop of proposition, confrontation and deliberation that could be used both to make seriously advance democracy and simply to have fun. Tribes of friends, associations, working équipes, condominiums, sports teams, political movements and parties, governments and families: all these people often face important or mundane turning points and need a co…

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29.06.2015

homophobic bar in Havana

The Kingbar -bar and restaurant- located in the city of Havana has a discriminatory admission police based on sexual orientation and race. While in Havana please avoid this place, they say they are gay friendly, and the place is run by a gay couple, but do not let them fool you, they can still discriminate.

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28.01.2015

Invasion Day Rally Melbourne 2015

As many of you know, Memefest has been working with Aboriginal activists in Australia for a couple of years now. As part of last year's symposium and workshop we made contact with many new friends in Melbourne who are working towards genuine recognition of the sovereignty that was never ceded to the colonial invaders 277 years ago in this country. Australia is the only Commonwealth country that h…

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03.12.2014

Memefest's Radical Intimacies, sneaks into a small town in rural NSW

In contemporary Australia the words ‘country’, ‘decolonisation’, ‘family’ and ‘law’ are loaded with meanings that differ greatly from person to person across this nation’s Aboriginal and migrant communities.

As part of Memefest's Radical Intimacies, a small group of us got together a few weeks ago and developed a work that explored this diversity while challenging our understanding of ourselv…

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24.11.2014

MELBOURNE MOB - Radical Intimacies in Action

So... finally some snapshots from the amazing energy we are all experiencing here in Melbourne right now.

Three days of symposium with great speakers: critical thinkers, activists, academics, artists, designers, lovers and friends (and guitar players) from around the world who helped to open our horizons on the theme Radical Intimacies: Dialogue in out Times - especially the ones delivered fr…