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Mostra Viva del Mediterrani presents its 8th edition engaged in internalisation

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Maria Colomer, president of MVM assured that « Mostra Viva is much more than the first 18 days of October and we create, with the MCA Foundation an international network of mobility and cultural exchange with organisations as the Anna Lindh or the Mediterranean Forum, in order to constitute a space of collaboration between the countries of the 3 continents which are gathered in this sea, despite this unusual situation ».

In his speech, Vicent Garcès, president of the MCAF and honorary president of MVM, thank Ms. Rosa Roig, the director of Mostra de València for her presence, and expressed his wish of organizing the simultaneous presentation of the next editions  of these events, sending a message of Valencia as a mediterranean culture meeting place.

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El acto ha tenido lugar el en Centro Cultural La Nau con la presencia del Vicerrector de Cultura y Deporte de la UV Antonio Ariño

La Presidenta de Mostra Viva, María Colomer y su Presidente de Honor Vicent Garcés, han incidido en la institucionalización del encuentro cultural

Pese a la gratuidad de la mayoría de eventos de Mostra Viva, se deberá reservar entrada online previamente para evitar aglomeraciones y situaciones de riesgo

La 8ª edición de Mostra Viva del Mediterrani se ha presentado hoy 24 de septiembre en el Aula Magna del Centro Cultural La Nau con la asistencia del Vicerrector de Cultura y Deporte de la Universitat de València, que ha moderado el acto. En la mesa le han acompañado la Presidenta de MVM María Colomer y su Presidente de Honor Vicent Garcés.

Ariño ha comenzado su intervención recordando que la UV ha estado desde el principio con Mostra Viva y ha expresado la voluntad de la institución de continuar en las próximas ediciones asegurando que “estamos y estaremos”. Tras una breve presentación, Cristina Barbero, Coordinadora General de MVM ha hecho un repaso por algunas de las actividades que tendrán lugar durante la celebración y ha destacado que “Debido a las circunstancias actuales, el programa puede sufrir cambios dependiendo de la evolución de la pandemia”. Barbero, que ha hablado desde el patio de butacas para seguir las medidas de seguridad establecidas por La Nau, ha afirmado que “Adivinar vuestras sonrisas tras las máscaras, nos da fuerza para seguir adelante”.

La Presidenta de Mostra Viva María Colomer, por su parte, ha querido agradecer el apoyo de la Generalitat Valenciana, el área de cultura de la Diputación, el Consell Valencià de Cultura y el Ayuntamiento de Valencia además de reconocer la colaboración de las instituciones y organizaciones que servirán como sedes de los diferentes actos programados para este 2020 entre los que se encuentran Octubre Centre de Cultura Contemporània, L’institut Français, el MuVIM o el Centre del Carme, entre otros. Colomer también ha asegurado que “Mostra Viva va más allá de los primeros dieciocho días de octubre y estamos creando junto a la Fundación de Ciudadanos y Ciudadanas del Mediterráneo (Findación ACM), una red de movilidad e intercambio cultural internacional con diferentes organizaciones como la Fundación Anna Lindh o el Foro del Mediterráneo para que haya un espacio de colaboración entre países de los tres continentes que confluyen en el mar que nos es común”.

En su discurso, Vicent Garcés, Presidente de Honor de Mostra Viva del Mediterrani también ha querido agradecer la presencia de la Directora de la Mostra de València, Rosa Roig, y ha expresado su deseo de que de cara a la próxima edición; se organice una presentación conjunta de los dos eventos ya que según sus propias palabras, “Las fechas de ambos, se compenetran perfectamente y convierten octubre en el mes de la cultura mediterránea en Valencia”. También ha justificado el lema de este año, ‘Emergència mediterrània, ciutadania en resistència’, asegurando que “El Mediterráneo está en emergencia desde antes de que llegara la pandemia, hay una emergencia civil, económica, social y climática” Garcés ha querido señalar las guerras en Siria o Yemen y ha aseverado que “la desertificación de los países del Mediterráneo es un hecho innegable”, además, no ha querido concluir sin recordar la incorporación de la organización en la agenda anual de actividades patrocinadas de la Asamblea Parlamentaria del Mediterráneo (APM), donde representantes de los parlamentos de 29 países de la zona euro-mediterránea debaten con el objetivo de mejorar las condiciones sociales, económicas y culturales de la ciudadanía.

Toda la cultura mediterránea en Valencia

Mostra Viva traerá a Valencia, como cada mes de octubre, a algunos de los representantes más importantes de la cultura mediterránea en las disciplinas de música, danza, artes de calle, videocreación, narración oral, literatura y artes visuales. El encuentro cultural, llenará la ciudad con actuaciones de artistas de 14 países diferentes que, ya sea de presencialmente o por internet, actuarán de forma exclusiva interpretando lo mejor de sus repertorios. Además de las actuaciones en directo, las exposiciones y las proyecciones; Mostra Viva también ha programado debates que abordarán algunos de los retos más importantes a los que se enfrentan los países mediterráneos, desafíos que se han visto agravados por la situación de pandemia provocada por el virus SARS-CoV-2.

El programa de Mostra Viva se complementará con la Mostra Educativa, que organizará actividades para grupos escolares y para niños y niñas a partir de los seis años, y una serie de eventos paralelos que incluyen encuentros con los artistas participantes, presentaciones de libros y talleres que permitirán un acercamiento de la ciudadanía a las raíces culturales comunes de los países mediterráneos.

La organización del encuentro cultural ha buscado la fórmula más viable para poder asegurar la presencia de figuras tanto del ámbito nacional como internacional con representantes de la cultura de países como Italia, Chipre Montenegro o Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Las actividades planificadas para este año contarán con protocolos sanitarios para poder asegurar el disfrute de las actuaciones y espectáculos con todas las garantías; así pues, pese a que la mayoría de eventos de Mostra Viva del Mediterrani son gratuitas, se deberá reservar previamente en la página web eventbrite.es para así evitar aglomeraciones y controlar de manera más efectiva los aforos de todas las sedes.

 

Mr. Garces, MCAF President: “The Human rights are accompanied of responsibilities which have to be socially promote with an egalitarian perspective”

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The  Mediterranean Citizens’ Assembly Foundation took part in the webinar organised by the Parliamentarian Assembly of the Mediterranean and the Platform for Development, about the protection of the Human Rights in a Post-Covid context.

The conference gathered more than 80 participants with numerous parliamentarians of all the Mediterranean region. The president of the MCA Foundation, Mr. Vicent Garcès, presented the MCAF as a network of dialogue, action and proposition, which is present in 19 countries trough its 29 MCA circles, and congratulate the organisers for their initiative sharing voices of cities, regions, parliaments and citizens. “I take advantage of this space to announce the publication of  “Desigualdades mediterráneas, reto del siglo XXI” by Ricard Pérez Casado, that the MCAF published in spanish and french respectively with the publishing houses Catarata and Cygne. This essay observe that the inequalities are increasing between the countries and inside the borders of these countries. These inequalities, in this period of pandemic, are destabilising the sanitary systems and the resources of citizens.

During and after the pandemic, the inequalities became an essential point to fight against. The defence of Human Rights is crucial in this period. The Human rights are accompanied of responsibilities  which have to be socially promote with an egalitarian perspective. Otherwise, the democrracy is in danger and we will not reach the peace”.

Mostra Viva del Mediterrani presents its 8th edition marked by internationalization

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Editorial Novelty: The MCA Foundation co-publish with Cygne in French, the book : “Les inégalités méditerranéennes Le define du XXIe siècle» by Ricard Pérez Casado

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Editorial Novelty
The MCA Foundation co-publish with the Parisian publishing house Cygne in French, the book : “Les inégalités méditerranéennes Le define du XXIe siècle». A work wrote by the former mayor of Valencia and FACM Advisory council member, Ricard Pérez Casado and translated by Laurence Thieux. The book was originally published in Spanish in march 2020 under the title « Las desigualdades mediteraneas. Retos del Siglo XXI » co-published by the MCA Foundation and the publishing house Catarata.

An essay which deseeds cultural, social and religious History of both Mediterranean rives in addition to explain the increasing inequalities and the political, economical and  environmental conflicts in all the Mediterranean space of the XXI century. This work tries to recover the Mediterranean space, the people who are living in, the inequalities between the countries and in their own borders, as much at the continental scale as at the global scale. It includes geographical, social, economical and historical data with the European perspective but also the Mediterranean one, highlighting the dizzinesses between neighbour societies. The work describes also the most vehement conflicts, with a hopefully perspective to fight their undeniable permanence. It’s finally a resume which includes concrete proposals for a distant future but also immediate perspectives

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The MCA Foundation at the International ON LINE Art Festival « Grad »

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The MCA Foundation takes part and collaborate in the IV edition of the International ON LINE Art Festival « Grad » organized in Sarajevo with the support of the MCA circle of this city, from the 7.9.2020 to the 21.9.2020

With the slogan « City-my-home », the festival will scan the stakes of remoteness, the artistic creation, and the Online communication in all the artistic disciplines. Directed by Ibrahim Spahic, honorary member of the MCAF Advisory Council. The MCA Foundation will take part and will cooperate in several activities :

SPACE POETERY : video presentation of the seminary Mediterranean Heritage and Citizenship » celebrate in Naples.
VISUAL ARTS : on line presentation of the exposition « La mar d’il.lustrades », a selection fo  18 female artists and illustrators from the Mediterranean basin.
Presentation of the works of the artists who took part in the first virtual residence for  Mediterranean artists-RAVMED19
DIALOGUES: Presentation of the first Mediterranean congress: Music and Science, the use of the TIC in the post covid era which will take place in November 2020.

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VIDEO: Heritage and Citizenship. Destruction, reconstruction, conservation of memories and citizen participation

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MARIA DONZELLI, President of Peripli and member of the MCAF Governing Board and Advisory CouncilDear friends, members and supporters of “Peripli” and MCA Foundation,

“We are pleased to send you the videos related to the Conference on Heritage and Citizenship. Destruction, reconstruction, conservation of memories and citizen participation, held in Naples on 4 and 5 October 2019, in the Chapter Hall of the monumental complex of S. Domenico Maggiore. The Conference was organized in collaboration with the Foundation of the Assembly of Citizens of the Mediterranean (FACM) based in Valencia (Spain), with the French Association of Mediterranean Cities AVEC, with the Municipality of Naples, with the Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies of the “l’Orientale” University and with the Curia of Naples.

Video resume of 22 hours of the Conference : « Heritage and Citizenship. Destruction, reconstruction, preservation of the memory and the citizens participation, celebrate in Naples the 4th and 5th of October 2019 »

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It has obtained the patronage of UNESCO, the Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly, the Consulate of Portugal and the Consulate of France, in Naples.
These videos summarize about 22 hours of the conference and give an idea of the intertwining of the Mediterranean heritage preserved in Naples and those of nine other countries in the Mediterranean area, in relation to the life and history of their citizens.
The Conference was a happy moment of harmony, sharing and discussion between the representatives of the institutions and countries presents and contributed to achieving one of the main objectives of our Association: the construction of a consciousness of Mediterranean citizenship. We hope to be able to offer still other opportunities for this kind of meeting in the years to come.
We would like to remind you that, in collaboration with the FACM, the meeting in Naples has produced an itinerant project in various countries of the Mediterranean area. In 2021, a meeting on the theme of Heritage and citizenship is expected in Larissa, Greece. This event is already in preparation.”

SOLIDARITY WITH LEBANON International call to donors via AMEL Association International

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SOLIDARITY WITH LEBANON

International call to donors

 

FACM partener, AMEL NGO, non-sectarian and present in Lebanon since 1979, invites all individuals, partners and friends of the association, to contribute to its call for donations.

(Updated 05.08.2020)

Tuesday August 4, explosions destroyed the port of Beirut and several districts of the capital of Lebanon. The human toll of this disaster is tens of deaths, thousands of wounded as well as many missing and displaced. The material damage is enormous and hundreds of thousands of households are affected, finding themselves homeless, food insecure, and destitute – this calls for national mobilization. This disaster that has struck Beirut affects us all gravely, as for months, Lebanon has been facing multiple crises – COVID-19, severe economic downturn and growing humanitarian needs.

Teams from the 25 health and social centers and 9 mobile units of Amel Association International (Amel) are continuing to assess the needs resulting from the disaster, and are implementing an emergency response in the field. Our NGO, non-sectarian and present in Lebanon since 1979, invites all individuals, partners and friends of the association, to contribute to its call for donations.

Locally, AMEL has launched an appeal for donations (food, clothing, etc.) available online: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3595907597109728&id=218029528230902

Internationally, AMEL is calling for donations that will allow to meet urgent needs including:

– Food;

– Protective equipment and medicines;

– Health support;

– Rehabilitation of the affected areas.

 

The links for online donations are:

Amel France: https://www.helloasso.com/associations/amel%20france/collectes/solidarite-avec-le-liban

Go Fund Me: https://www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-fund-for-lebanon

 

We have a duty of solidarity and humanity with Lebanon!

Join 800 workers and volunteers to help Lebanon and its people!

For any questions, contact AMEL by email (info@amel.org) or by phone (00 961 1 317 293).

 

Guide on gender institutionalization by Fatma Boufenik, member of the FACM Advisory Council and the ACM Circle of Oran

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We share the guide on gender institutionalization prepared by Professor Fatma Boufenik, member of the FACM Advisory Council and the ACM Circle of Oran, and which is part of a series of seven guides developed as a result of the training operations carried out by the Pilot Action Program for Rural Development and Agriculture (PAP ENPARD) between 2016 and 2019. The Pilot Action Program (PAP-ENPARD) for rural development and agriculture is a bilateral EU / Algeria program whose general objective is to contribute to improving living conditions by increasing income and employment in rural areas, particularly in the wilayas of Ain-Temouchent, Laghouat, Sétif and Tlemcen.

The development of the guide for the institutionalization of Gender is based on enhanced knowledgeor acquired during the process put in place, as part of the project, seeks to supportproject stakeholders and its beneficiaries by the consolidation and / or construction of know-how in gender equity for achange in knowing how to be expressed in actions and practices in favor of equal opportunities in public policies and in equal access to fundamental human rights by laws and procedures based on the principle of equality which must be taken into account in development approaches because it is no longer possible to ignore that in any society:

• women and men have different needs and opportunities, given theirtheir distinct roles and responsibilities, and given the inequality in access and control of resources;

• women form a disadvantaged group compared to men, in terms of well-being (education, health, income, etc.), in terms of access to and control of the means of production and in terms of power;

• poverty weighs more heavily on women than on men;

• Additional difficulties in terms of accessibility for women in of disabilities with rights already insufficient for all people in a situation handicap;

• violence against women is still tolerated;

• the persistence of discrimination against little girls and violations of their rights is still a reality;

• the fundamental rights of women and the shortcomings for their promotion are not respected;

• this situation of inequality constitutes an obstacle to development, since it limits chances and opportunities of half a population .

Read the guide: Guide_genre_Boufenik_PAP_ENPARD_2019

THE ACM FOUNDATION PRESENTS THE FIRST VIRTUAL RESIDENCE FOR ARTISTS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN

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On July 27, the Mediterranean Citizens’ Assembly Foundation  (FACM) presented the first virtual residence for artists of the Mediterranean RAVMED-19. A project promoted by the FACM in cooperation with the Mostra Viva del Mediterrani association and the CREI entity.

Within the framework of global confinement caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, from the ACM circle in Algiers comes the initiative “Virtual Residence for Mediterranean Artists-RAVMED-19”. An initiative that will allow the visibility of artists from the region, as well as students of Fine Arts and artistic baccalaureates. RAVMED-19, still in the prototype phase, has opened a call for artists from all over the Mediterranean who this time will reflect and make artistic productions that deal with COVID-19.

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With an approach that enhances sustainable cultural plurality through a virtual artistic residence and interactive gallery, the initiative aims to break the isolation of artists, foster cooperation and exchange through a digital environment open to all professionals in culture.

This project has been submitted to the Call for Cultural Diversity promoted by UNESCO and has the sponsorship of the FACM to be carried out in the best conditions. VICENT GARCÉS, President of the FACM; participated in the opening ceremony of last July 27, held virtually and with about fifteen selected artists; MARIA COLOMER, President of MVM; AMINA AMARAN, Representative of the Algerian Cultural Center in Paris and the promoter of the project, and member of the ACM circle in Algiers, Zino Seffadj.

The event was televised in Algeria and was attended by members of the ACM circles from six Mediterranean countries cooperating in this initiative, including the circles of Valencia, Algiers, Oran, Casablanca, Palestine, Naples and Sarajevo with more than one twenty institutions and entities linked to them. The final objective of this project is for it to become a permanent platform for dialogue, reflection, promotion, entrepreneurship and artistic exchange in the Mediterranean.

FACM President, Mr. Vicent Garcés addressing at Biennale Habitat World: ” facing the Mediterranean emergency, we should adopt a position of citizens’ resistance”

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BIENNALE HABITAT 2020-2022 – third webinar “HUMAN VALUES AND HUMAN THINKING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN”

 

Thanks’ to the organizers for inviting me, thank you also for giving me the opportunity to speak Spanish. This proves the linguistic and cultural richness of the Mediterranean. The FACM is a non-governmental organization, which, as its name suggests, gathers citizens, on a personal basis. It is a foundation with legal personality established in Spain, in Valencia, which is articulated as a network of 29 citizen circles, that are present in 20 countries of the Mediterranean. It is a citizen network that has 10 years of life and has built throughout its history, an ability to give voice to citizens directly, and has built a  wide network of collaboration with all types of public institutions in the Mediterranean area.  The FACM can be defined as a network of dialogue, proposition and citizen action, shaped around universal values and principles, the values of freedom, democracy, respect for Human rights, tolerance, recognition of diversity and the will to resolve conflicts peacefully. Our foundation as a citizen organization has been developed in a context that is the cradle of three monotheist religions, of great discoveries throughout history in scientific and technique matter, in a sea that Paul Balta (unfortunately now deceased) defined as the cradle of the future (La  Mediterranée  berceau  de  l’avenir). That means the Mediterranean has a present but also a past. The Mediterranean and the peoples who live together in its northern, southern, and eastern rives share centuries of cultural and commercial relationship. These people built their history with words and swords. Sometimes with collaboration and cooperation, and sometimes with war.

We therefore have behind our present, a whole story that Professor Abulafia has characterized, a context that requires a great capacity to observe its development. At that moment, the Mediterranean is full of conflicts. If the Arab springs came offers hope for the future of people, 10 years later, these hopes have either been dashed, or there has even been an involution. We have wars on both sides, we have an EU that does not just define its policies well in relation to this reality of the Mediterranean. The Barcelona process and the Union for the Mediterranean have not yet achieved their objectives. The UpM is in development, but it also does not point to a common space where the integration of the Mediterranean countries is progressing decisively. We have foreign powers, powers from outside the Mediterranean, among which some were present in the twentieth century, ancient powers, colonial powers during the nineteenth century. But now in the 21st century, the old and the new powers are all in the Mediterranean, and setting up spaces of confrontation around interests that are not exclusively those of the peoples of the Mediterranean, but there are interests of all kinds. These powers are fighting in our sea. We have a context that is difficult, complex.

That is why we could say that the Mediterranean is living an emergency. We have an environmental emergency, arising from climate change, arising from extreme pollution of the Mediterranean Sea. A climate emergency that deepens difficulties by water and around desertification, pushing waves of immigration. A social and echo emergency, with growing inequalities between Northern and Southern countries, and even inside each country. We have an emergency exacerbated right now by the pandemic. The pandemic has come to the impromptu and is tensioning all the problems that we already had as a Mediterranean Sea, and in the face of this cluster of situations and this “Mediterranean emergency” sentence. The citizens of the Mediterranean are under double pressure, the pressure of existing conflicts, the pressure of the development of tensions and interests of all kinds that negatively affect them and the difficulty of moving forward in a calm and serene way to create the conditions of progress. As a foundation of Mediterranean citizens, we say that we practice citizen diplomacy, that means, express the willingness to move towards points of integration of the people of the Mediterranean towards a community of Mediterranean people.

But we also look at the enormous difficulties in these developments, so we say that citizenship in the face of an emergency situation like the one we are experiencing is obliged to adopt a position of resistance facing the emergence of the Mediterranean and we must practice citizen resistance. Citizen resistance around values and principles, of objectives that we have been defining, citizen resistance not to give in and accept situations such as the crises of migration flows and refugees and the conversion of the Mediterranean Sea into a cemetery. Before events like these we must put resistance, the will to resist, that is our message, now as a foundation, towards the citizens of the Mediterranean. It is clear that we have on the horizon the need, the obligation to create synergies to seek allies, to make possible alliances, and that World Habitat certainly has to be an axis, of those alliances for the future.

I conclude by saying that there are those who think that the Mediterranean or that the European Union, has its future in Africa and that it is therefore to guide all the external action of the UN UU to Africa as a future to come. It’s a vertical, the vertical UUEE–Africa, we think that this vertical is not enough that we must maintain the horizontal, the horizontal is not to fracture the Mediterranean between east and west, make it possible for the construction of bridges between east and west of the Mediterranean, to make the horizontal, then the Mediterranean is  at the crossroads of the vertical and the horizontal and at that junction where we, the Mediterraneans, are, and it is that crossing that we have to strengthen with that perspective of building a community of peoples.

 

Thank you.

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