“Someday I will also grow older” says the sign on the façade of the building, where old people who remained without any care, attention and any living expenses, gather everyday 5 days a week, to eat, to talk and just to live the remains of their life with people of their situation.

The entrance door leads you to a big gray hall full of plants; several old fashioned sofas are next to each other, covered by handmade colorful coverlets. There are also small coffee tables opposite of the sofas, with fresh flowers. The hall guides you to the cafeteria, where dinner is being served and the air is full of smells of tasty foods, greens, fried potatoes, meat and fresh vegetables.

Usually this is one of the corners where the old people gather after dinner to talk, to read newspaper or if the weather is nice, they prefer to sit in the garden which is on the back part of the building.

“This is a place where we relax, feel ourselves protected and necessary, and time passes easily with talks, playing domino and chess” says Sikharulidze Mariame, 83. Mariame 3 times was the winner of the competition “Super grandmother” in 2006, 2009, and 2010. The charity house organizes competition every year with nominations “Super grandfather and Super grandmother” in the center, where they play the piano, dance, sing, put some performances.

 “Such kind of events gives them a chance to fulfill their childhood dreams” says Guliko Romanashvili the deputy director of the charity house “Katharisis”.

They have already staged several plays like “the head of the invisible man”, “Stepmother of Samanishvili” in the charity house and in some schools.

“We often have guests from TV and from different newspaper is as we have a lot of talented grandmothers and grandparents, with whom they like to speak” says Mariame. Recently she had been invited to one of the Tbilisi local TV channel programs “Nanukashow”, where she sang a song with one of the Georgian’s musician and also danced. Mariame had moved there in 2004 with her sun who has some physical disorders. Now they are living there and it became their own house.

It is about 10 years that the charity house “Katharisis” has tried to help homeless people and thouse who has remained without care, by giving them shelter and support. The house now has 385 old people from the age of 69 up to 90. They provide everyday a 3 course meal and medical support.

Each of these old people has his/her own story. Sikharulidze Mariame was an economist and worked in the agricultural institute. She has a daughter and a son, who has serious health issues. Her son needs someone to take care of him, and her daughter just left them without any help. The pension was too small at that time in 2003 and she and her son had to move to the center.

Ketie Kakiashvili 67 years old, also attends this center. She has been attending the center for 5 years. She found herself in the center after her daughter’s and mother’s death. They died in the same year, which was she got mental disorder. She even couldn’t talk. The center helped her to come out of it.

“Thanks God that I met them, I don’t know what could have been with me if not the center” says Ketie.

There are people with physical disorder, mental disorder and people who are very old and aren’t able to take care of themselves. People there and the visitors and the stuff are very friendly.

“Our director, Mr. Zaur Lazer Aladashvili, is like a band-master and we are the troop of his” says Shandinova Margarita 69 years old . “He is always concerned about us, he always has time to listen to us, help us, of course he can say “I have a meeting or I’m busy” but not, he stays with us, he listens all these old people with their extraordinary thoughts and tries to help them”

This is already 5^th year for Margarita, she is famous there with her short stories like “a grandmother on a bicycle”, “the princes” and so on. She likes to speak with people and to tell her stories, and she is always open to give interviews to any journalist that visits them. She used to be published in several of Georgian newspapers such as “Aversi”, “Mtskheta” “Madli”. Her topics are mainly about the church and famous people.

“Whenever I am in a church I pray for the other it is a bit strange to pray for me, better to ask for someone else,” says Margarita “and I pray for our director who gave us hope of life”.

A. K.

Public social networks are as complex and esoteric as the imaginations of the players allow. They are ‘transformative,’ in that they let the user determine the outcome. In other words, that is pointing that on the internet, we create our ideal self in a virtual environment; unfortunately, the ideal self we created often does not transform well into real life situations. It is a human nature that we always want to make our self busy with some kind of activity. Sometimes it helps someone to be active and do something different from their daily routine.

Public social nets seems to be one of  the greatest things ever created in the internet, things  that have been created for uniting people from all over the world is now just changing the meaning and the role.

Instant messaging technologies have changed the casual conversation leaving behind the way as young people had communicated. New language has been created and nice, simple life conversation is now being compressed by “Emoticons” and “Acronyms”.

The social nets now have become places of “internet dating”, where everything starts form just a simple chat. The internet dating is kind of a hope that one can find the right person. Restaurants, bar rooms, cafes, cinemas, parks have been replaced by one thing “internet”, and there is no need to be creative where this time to take your girlfriend or to worry about what to wear today. But the main hazard of all those things is that one can be easily defrauded, as this is a new playground for mainly for those who are not self sufficient, and have lack of confidence in them. This is usually happens because of a nice written word, or just because of one just wants to read what he/she wants but not the real things.

It is not said that internet dating is all lie and falsification of every single word of the dialogues, in a real life happy and true dating with nice and healthy relations do exist. Internet dating is something very rapidly growing thing nowadays, but one should be aware the possibility of being lied, not to be reliable and pay attention to the things what has been said and why.

Sometimes those meetings could have an educational meaning for those who easily believe , as after being burnt once, one probably wouldn’t like to get another.

A lot of other aspects play their role in it; that is TV, Movies, happy end stories. Just one example the film “You have got a Mail” staring by Meg Rayan and Tom Hanks, is enough to dream about their own “perfect meeting”

One of the well spread ways of getting acquainted with another person is choosing someone from a long-distance. The danger of long-distance internet romance is that ,it is extremely easy for someone already involved with a partner to go out and cheat in a relatively safe (for them) environment. Get a secret email address, create a persona, and have a cell phone and, and so on, which is actual for close distance as well.

For tasting Public social nets as a dating places, one of my friends opened another account with false name and randomly sent several friend request to unknown people living and far from her and nearby. She began to communicate with her new friends, but after a couple of days, she found in her account requests from people whom she knows. She started to talk with them without telling them who is she and as a result, nothing what has been told her was true except their names.

A. K.

The origins of chocolate can be traced back to the ancient Maya and Aztec civilisations in Central America who first enjoyed a much prized spicy drink ‘chocolatl’, made from roasted cocoa beans. Historians do not know how long the Maya Indians of central America and the Aztecs Indians of Mexico had cultivated cacoa beans, but they had certainly done so by the time Columbus arrived in America in 1942.

The story of cocoa begins with cocoa trees which grew wild in the tropical rain forests of the Amazon basin and other tropical areas in Central and South America for thousands of years. Cacao has always been expensive. In pre-conquest times it had to be imported from tropical places in bags carried on the backs of porters.

Commercially, especially for the Aztec society, the dried nibs were used as currency. In the Maya world only the elite, merchants and warriors were permitted to enjoy chocolate. The Maya Indians and the Aztecs had recognised the value of cocoa beans both as an ingredient for their special drink and as currency for hundreds of years before cocoa was brought to Europe. The first cocoa beans were brought back to Europe by Columbus from his fourth visit to the New World. However, the many other treasures on board his galleons were far more exciting so the humble cocoa beans were neglected. It was his fellow explorer, the Spanish Conquistador Don Hernan Cortes, who first realised the commercial value of the beans. He brought cocoa beans back to Spain in 1528 and very gradually the custom of drinking chocolate spread across Europe.

The heavy import duties which had made chocolate a luxury that only the wealthy could enjoy were reduced in 1853. Chocolate and cocoa became within the reach of the wider population and a number of manufacturers of cocoa and drinking chocolate started to increase. As the popularity of chocolate grew, so the number of cocoa growing countries in the world increased. Cocoa trees need specific climatic conditions to thrive.

Chocolate has become one of the most popular flavors in the world. Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapes have become traditional on certain holidays: chocolate bunnies and eggs are popular on Easter, coins on Hanukkah, Santa Claus and other holiday symbols on Christmas, and hearts on Valentine’s Day. Chocolate is also used in cold and hot beverages, to produce chocolate milk and hot cocoa.

Pure, unsweetened chocolate contains primarily cocoa solids and cocoa butter in varying proportions. Much of the chocolate consumed today is in the form of sweet chocolate, combining chocolate with sugar. Milk chocolate is sweet chocolate that additionally contains milk powder or condensed milk. ‘White chocolate’ contains cocoa butter, sugar, and milk but no cocoa solids (and thus does not qualify to be considered true chocolate).

“The village Shahumian is like an orphan, it has no parents” that is how 80 years old Seyran Paronyan describes the village. He has no big expectations from the local government elections, as the promises are always remains as promises.

“It was very good during the Comunism years, I worked in three places. Now I get pension, and this is hardly enough for bread” says Seyran 

Previously Shahumian used to have 11 thousand population and now only 3500 are left. As Seyran Paronian says, there are only old people.

 “The village is nice, but there are no jobs. The only solution is to open work places for the development of the village and for prevention of the migration” says the precinct’s commission deputy chair of 71 Gerasim Avetisyan.

“I have a son, and it is already fourteen years that I haven’t seen him, as he left for Ukraine to work and live, but his condition is not good enough to help us” says Seyran.

 “The President Saakashvili promises work places, but nothing has been done. Let’s see, what would do our candidates after being elected”, Gerasim says.

One of the main problems of the village is that, they have no gas though there is a gas pipe-line crossing their territory to the Khikhany, when the refugees from South- Ossetia have been settled there, as the result of Georgian- South-Ossetia war. Still government has no certain solution for it; the inhabitants of the village go on with electricity, waiting for the new government for some changes.

It’s amazing but one rarely can meet a woman in the streets. As Nelli Nurinyan, teacher of the villige school N3 says, they have no works so they always stay at home. 500 pupils of the village do not have much to do. They have music school, and recently-opened sports and computer classes. After graduating from the school few of them continue their education, and those who do, either go to Armenia or Russia.

«The reason is not knowing the Georgian language. Before the level of the language was very low, but now teachers from Tbilisi has been sent to teach children, and so we also learn with them», Nelli Nurinyan says.

Being on the borders of two countries, Armenia and Georgia, the villige lacks access to information badly. They don’t have Georgian TV and Radio broadcasting or get newspapers. Only those who have satelite dishes can watch Georgian channels.

Anna Karamyan Tamara Hakobian

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*crosstalk** video art festival*
•Application Deadline

26.02.2010

Media and video artists from all over the world are invited to submit their works for Issue 3 of *crosstalk** video art festival* that will be held in June 2010 in Budapest.

*crosstalk** video art festival *is looking for video pieces that are critical, analytical or showing their subject from new perspectives. There is no criteria as to the subject/theme of the works.

Artist from any age, gender, nationality, religion can submit works up to 3 pieces.
Films and videos submitted must:
- belong to the category of video art ,
- have been completed on or after 1 January 2007,
- be single channel works
- be copyright controlled by the artist.

We are interested in screening videos in the category: video art.
There are no entry fees!

crosstalk video art festival
http://www.crosstal k.hu

festival / biennial

Far away Worlds
•Application Deadline

26.02.2010

Since ten years zeitraumexit has organised an international festival with changing themes. Since 2004
the festival is named “Wunder der Prärie” (Wonder of the Prairie”
“Wunder der Prärie” stands for experimental art projects (fine and performing arts). It occurs in art
spaces as well as in urban spaces and is a well-established part of urban life of the city of Mannheim.

Application:
http://www.zeitraum exit.de/programm /2010_call- for-application_ WdP_en.pdf

Festival duration: September 8 through September 18, 2010

zeitraumexit
Hafenstraße 68
68159 Mannheim

http://www.zeitraum exit.de

exhibition

Zeros+Ones: The Digital Era – climate/gallery New York
•Application Deadline

26.02.2010

There is no jury involved in submitting to our shows. Every artist will be accepted into the exhibition(s) of their choice if they complete the application process before the posted deadline for that exhibition, or before the exhibition is filled.

The gallery’s mission is to find and exhibit artists from all over the United States and the world. The gallery provides opportunities for artist’s work to be seen by curators and other arts professionals working in New York. We actively review artists who participate in our shows for traditional representation and other opportunities, such as inclusion in our Flat File inventory.

10 Featured Artist Awards chosen by well known New Media curator, Erik Sanner. Gallery will publish an exhibition catalogue that will include work from the show of the 10 artists. The 10 artists will be featured on the gallery’s website. Every artist in the exhibition will have a listing in the catalogue with one thumbnail image.(…)

WE WILL ACCEPT all forms of digitally created artwork including those created with manipulative programs like Photoshop, et al, or the various digital drawing software available. We welcome video and sound art. Plus, any other app or meaning of digital art including vector work, ASCII, games, other interactive works, Iphone apps and imaging, and all. (…)

climate/gallery
37-24 24TH STREET, SUITE 406
LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101
http://climategalle ry.com/

festival / biennial

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL DETMOLD 2010
•Application Deadline

28.02.2010

The International Short Film Festival Detmold is inviting filmmakers from all over the world to submit their shorts, film or video, to its 6th ISFF Detmold Approx. nearly 300 titles will be selected for the nternational Competition.

Preview copy: DVD, MiniDV / PAL
Length: max. 15 min.
Genres: all

ENTRY FORMS available as doc downloads

Kultur & Art Initiative e.V.
Charles-Lindbergh- Ring 10
D-32756 Detmold

http://www.fest- der-filme. de

residency / fellowship

Artist Residency Program – Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
•Application Deadline

28.02.2010

JANUARY 2011 – JUNE 2011

Few programs exist either on the national or international level where the sole mission is to support the creativity of artists. From the beginning, the art-making process has been the highest priority at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, where both the atmosphere and environment offer ideal situations for creative growth and experimentation. We address the practical aspects of this mission by providing well-equipped studio spaces, living accommodations and monthly stipends.

For more information about the Artist Residency Program please contact Heather Johnson, Residency Program Manager, at 402.341.7130 x 12 or via e.mail at heather(at)bemiscen ter.org

http://www.bemiscen ter.org/residenc y/residency_ app.html

http://www.bemiscen ter.org/

residency / fellowship

Józef Tischner Fellowships for Polish and Polish-American Scholars
•Application Deadline

28.02.2010

The Józef Tischner Fellow will be invited to spend a six-month term from July to December 2010 at the IWM to pursue her/his research project while working in residence. The fellow will receive a stipend in the amount of eur 9,000 to cover accommodation, living expenses, travel, health insurance and incidentals during the stay at the Institute. Furthermore, the IWM will provide an office, access to the internet, in-house research facilities and other relevant sources in Vienna.

Józef Tischner Fellows are eligible for a grant under the homing Program of the Foundation for Polish Science (for details: www.fnp.org. pl).

More:
http://www.iwm. at/index. php?option= com_content&task=view&id=78&Itemid=151

Institut fuer die Wissenschaften vom Menschen
Spittelauer Laende 3
1090 Vienna / Austria
tel. +43/1/313 58-108

http://www.iwm. at/

festival / biennial

International Short Film Festival Detmold
•Application Deadline

28.02.2010

The International Short Film Festival Detmold is inviting filmmakers
from all over the world to submit their shorts, film or video, to its
6th ISFF Detmold Approx. nearly 300 titles will be selected for the
International Competition.

Submission:

Preview copy: DVD, MiniDV / PAL
Length: max. 15 min.
Genres: all
ENTRY FORMS available as doc downloads
http://www.fest- der-filme. de

isffdetmold

http://www.fest- der-filme. de

residency / fellowship

Le Ville Matte
•Application Deadline

28.02.2010

“Le Ville Matte – visual arts takes place in the town of Villasor, in the Convent of the Capuchins, with moments of study and research at the Castle Seviller (with library and media center) and throughout the town. 
The 2010 edition will start April 14 and ends May 15. 
The residency program involves a group of up to 10 artists from all over the world, offering them space and materials for their work and research, accomodation and food. 
The 2010 program is entitled “Supercalifragilist ic (Mistaken Landscapes)” and the visiting professor is Giancarlo Norese, with Chiara Agnello as guest curator and external guests including Jiri Kovanda, Luigi Negro, Umberto Cavenago, Luca Scarabelli and Mauro Cossu. 
The residency ends with the final show and with a subsequent final publication documenting the works produced during the training and research period.
The selection of artists will be evaluated on the basis of the requirements in the open call and cured by a committee …”

Le Ville Matte

More:
http://www.levillem atte.it/index. php?option= com_content&view=article&id=55&Itemid=113

film / video screening

A Season in Hell
•Application Deadline

28.02.2010

“La brigade des images” is looking for short movies, videos that deal with the exacerbation of identity. They can focus on any kind of identity, as for exemple a family, a social, a cultural, or a nationality identity.

The Gauls were the most stupid hide-flayers and hay-burners of their time. A. Rimbaud

This program will be shown in France and abroad starting April 2010, you can visit the following site to find out about screening places:

http://www.brigaded esimages. com

Please send your films before the 28th of February 2010 to:

Technical requirements: DVD-R, 10 minutes maximum length, with a self-addressed and prepaid envelope.

exhibition

DMY International Design Festival Berlin
•Application Deadline

28.02.2010

“With more than 550 designers from over 30 nations the DMY International
Design Festival Berlin has grown into the largest product design festival
in Germany and one of the most important international platforms for
creative, experimental and forward thinking design”

Application form:
http://dmy-berlin. com/en/2009/ 12/03/jetzt- bewerben/

DMY Berlin GmbH & Co. KG

http://dmy-berlin. com

grants / scholarships

Call for Young Curators: H + F Curatorial Grant
•Application Deadline

28.02.2010

The “H+F Curatorial Grant” is an ambitious and original initiative which allows the FRAC Nord?Pas de Calais (Dunkirk/France) in close partnership with the private collector Han Nefkens (H+F Collection) and the de Appel arts centre (Amsterdam/NL) , to give young international curators the opportunity to participate in the development of exhibition projects based on the collection of FRAC Nord-Pas-de- Calais. This grantoffers emerging art curators a unique infrastructure and environment with free access to a research and documentation centre as well as to one of the best French collections of contemporary art. The selected person will become part of the FRAC’s team as an assistant curator, coordinating local, national and international exhibition-projects . She / he will receive in exchange a grant for 12 months (May 2010 – May 2011) that will help finance her/his living and travel expenses.

Requirements: An excellent knowledge of English is required, knowledge of French would be help

Applicatione: Should contain a recent CV (including a photograph) and a motivation letter.

http://www.fracnpdc .fr

Symposium

children’s LABYRINTH – a creative-magical- mysterious- fantastic place-to play-learn-dream
•Application Deadline

28.02.2010

Paid by artist: personal expenses, own insurances
Paid by host:
- free lodging in the art center based on two persons a studio,
- free meals,
- compensation of the travel costs with a maximum of 150€ based on receipts
- a fee of 450€ paid after the symposium
- publication on the website
Further info:
In 2010 the art centre will actually develop the CHILDREN’S LABYRINTH. The proposal for the symposium has to be based on the idea that children will get an inviting and inspiring environment in which they safely can play and discover. The installations have to be constructed with the material available in the forest.

image: LABYRINTH-SAKSALA, 999-148 (LABYRINTH PATH)

art centre Saksala ArtRadius
Haukivuori – Finland

Discipline: sculpture, installation
frequency: from May 15-31 2010

call for papers / texts

Stipends for Media Art of the Stiftung Niedersachsen
•Application Deadline

28.02.2010

“Until the 28th of February it is possible to apply for three stipends
for the execution of a new project in the field of Media Art and a
residency at the Edith Russ Site for Media Art. The stipend and the
residency take place between July and Decembre 2010, at least one month
of the residency has to be spent at one of the guest appartments at the
Edith Russ Site. The stipends consists of 10.000 Euro for the production
of a new work which is proposed in the application. The application is
only online at http://erh.alnovi. de/applications. You can also navigate
to this site via our website www.edith-russ- haus.de where you also find
further information. The final online application form has to be printed
and signed and then mailed to the Edith Russ Site. The deadline is the
28th of February (date of postmark).”

Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst
Edith Russ Site for Media Art
Peterstraße 23
26121 Oldenburg
Germany
t. +49 (0)441 235 32 08
f. +49 (0)441 235 21 61
info@edith-russ- haus.de
http://www.edith- russ-haus. de

Three years ago, people strolling down the streets of Sarajevo might have been surprised to see, and even walk through, a giant colorful tunnel made entirely of balloons. A group of students held up the tunnel which was big enough that a number of people could easily pass through it, but also light enough to carry away.

The tunnel is a potent and powerful symbol for Sarajevans as underground tunnels were often the only way food and medical supplies reached the city from 1992 till 1995.

“It is the symbol of a current political movement of young Bosnians who aspire for change,” says Sina Greinert, one of the project architects, a self described balloon artist and political scientist. “Balloons make an interesting sculptural medium, which help people explore political ideas in public spaces. Because a balloon sculpture is light, you can easily pick it up and move it, which means you don’t need any permits to build them.”

German native Greinert and some of her friends are founders of Balloons for Peace, the purpose of which is to use balloon sculptures for social changes. She was in Tbilisi in February trying to organize a similar balloon art project with school children.

The idea for Balloons for Peace started 5 years ago, explained Greinert, when she was a student in Berlin.

“Once I was walking in the streets and saw a very huge and a man wearing clothes made of balloons standing near the metro station and playing a balloon guitar. I was interested, so I approached him and we got acquainted,” she says. 

“I had already some ideas at that time but when I saw him I thought why not to try,” Later she suggested her ideas to him and they started to work together.

They organized such kind of projects as “Peace for Piece,” the project rises such issues as public discourses in Sarajevo (Balkan 2006), “Balloon Pyramid,” for Kids festival 2007- colorful balloon pyramid was sculptured as a symbol which reminds of the common past of the region, “Let Bosnia Flourish” 2009- 4 meter tall balloon sculpture in the shape of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which should be decorated during the kids festival with their own balloon flowers the aim of which was to show that Bosnia and Herzegovina could “Flourish” if they all work together.

Last year in the Balkans, Greinert and other project organizers helped young balloon artists make a big house about 3 meters high and 6 meters long and a lot of other sculptures during the kids’ festival. “We wanted children for a couple of hours to find themselves in a magic world of their dreams,” says Greinert. “Every child has a dream about the world they want to live in.”

They have been in several countries- Poland, Hungary, Bosnia and the Nederlands. Now they hope to add Georgia to the list of countries that have tried the “Balloon World Project” though Greinert said she’s currently looking for donors.

“Sometimes it takes more than 6 months to manage everything,” she said. “The project is still in discussion process, but we hope that we can organize everything within that time frame,” she adds.

Specifically, Greinert and balloon artist Sean Rooney hope to offer Tbilisi schoolchildren the opportunity to learn some balloon art skills. First of all, they are going to let them draw and interpret the drawings with balloons.
“Making a balloon sculpture is like an architecture you need to draw first then make a model of it and then start constructing, and you always need long and thin balloons and roll balloons to finish the construction,” she said.

The project includes visiting schools and refugee camps, she said, and will last seven days with the artists performing for kids, as well as gathering the drawings of the kids and using those drawings to create a special “balloon world.” Finally, the group would present this balloon world to the wider public.

“We hope this project will have a good influence on the children of Tbilisi and will open a lot of interesting ideas for them,” says Sina.

P.S.  if you are interested in Balloons art visit www.balloonsforpeace.com

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