Colombian Caribbean network of knowledge and crafts
Open project to connect independent organizations form the Colombian Caribbean coast with the objective of fomenting an articulated, visible and autonomous region at both a cultural and media level.
Red Caribe is for:
Artist and communication collectives; cultural associations; community radios; community associations; art institutions; music and cultural centers; media laboratories; hacklabs; artist residencies; sustainable farms, channels of communication; the independent; the institutional; the open; the experimental; the traditional; the millinery; etc.
We are providing events and tools in order to recognize each other; locate each other on the map; identify our resources and necessities; share; communicate and support each other.
When and how did Red Caribe start:
July 2012 through the initiative of Intermundos and Fundacion Cultural Cazadores de Auroras. Both organizations sent a call to various other cities and towns of the Caribbean Colombian coast in order to bring together organizations for a first reunion in the Museo del Caribe during the TREWA ART&TEC festival in Barranquillia. A second reunion took place during October 2012 also in Barranquilla between Intermundos and different local collectives. During January 2013, a third reunion was made possible in Cartagena through the event La Otra Cartagena.
Evolution:
This project is in development. It has no financing at this point, it is grass roots, open and horizontal. All efforts have been made possible throught voluntary work. Our objective is to be able to create an autonouns platform that will will be sucessful in the long term and will not need outside financing. As the Arahuco people say “Work without rushing and without stopping”.
www.redcaribe.org