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Left Forum poster 2009 (by Jonathan Matas) 
Call for Artwork & Graphic Design for Left Forum 2010! (March 19-21 at Pace Univ in NYC)
P K, 12/04/09
Left Forum poster 2009 (by Jonathan Matas)
Left Forum announces an open call for graphic design submissions for the 2010 conference. One primary graphic and several secondary graphics will be selected for use primarily in promotional materials and conference program. The designs will be seen by thousands of conference participants as well as thousands of others via mailings, pamphlets, flyers, email, posters and announcements in progressive magazines, journals, blogs, etc.
The design should reflect the 2010 conference theme, "The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical Imagination." Taken from Yeats' poem "The Second Coming," Left Forum imbues this iconic phrase with a political charge as indicated in this accompanying thematic statement:
The ongoing capitalist crisis generated high hopes that the parties and social movements of the Left, both in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world, would be re-energized. So far this has not happened. The Left remains fractured and confused, drifting away from its labor base, while the Right seems to have emerged as the stronger or at least the more strident force. The result is that unemployment remains high, wages low, and insecurity grows. In the U.S., the Obama administration negotiates from the center, and concedes more and more to business interests and political conservatives. Can this be turned around? Can the hardships and opportunities generated by the capitalist crisis yet become the trigger for the revival of a transformative Left?
Unfortunately we're unable to provide monetary payment, although we do offer compensation in the form of multiple free conference registrations and acknowledgment of artist's name in our program and wherever possible. As artists who've previously worked with Left Forum can attest, it offers the unique opportunity and experience to work with hundreds of like-minded volunteers, artists, musicians, writers, theater arts folks, activists and scholars while making an essential contribution to an international spirit of bringing together people of progressive, left and radical beliefs. Your contributions to this dialogue are welcome and deeply appreciated.
Images from last year's conference are attached.
Please send your submissions to jean@leftforum.org as soon as you can!
Left Forum 2010 -- featuring Noam Chomsky -- will again offer a visual arts exhibit expressing the conference theme. Please let me know if you're interested in showing a work, or if you have any interest in assisting with curating, developing arts and culture panels or other volunteer work to earn free conference registration. We also need videographers and lots of them.
Please don't hesitate to contact us with any idea, question or issue. We look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks!
Jean Pockrus
Outreach Coordinator, Left Forum
www.LeftForum.org
www.myspace.com/leftforum
The design should reflect the 2010 conference theme, "The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the Radical Imagination." Taken from Yeats' poem "The Second Coming," Left Forum imbues this iconic phrase with a political charge as indicated in this accompanying thematic statement:
The ongoing capitalist crisis generated high hopes that the parties and social movements of the Left, both in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world, would be re-energized. So far this has not happened. The Left remains fractured and confused, drifting away from its labor base, while the Right seems to have emerged as the stronger or at least the more strident force. The result is that unemployment remains high, wages low, and insecurity grows. In the U.S., the Obama administration negotiates from the center, and concedes more and more to business interests and political conservatives. Can this be turned around? Can the hardships and opportunities generated by the capitalist crisis yet become the trigger for the revival of a transformative Left?
Unfortunately we're unable to provide monetary payment, although we do offer compensation in the form of multiple free conference registrations and acknowledgment of artist's name in our program and wherever possible. As artists who've previously worked with Left Forum can attest, it offers the unique opportunity and experience to work with hundreds of like-minded volunteers, artists, musicians, writers, theater arts folks, activists and scholars while making an essential contribution to an international spirit of bringing together people of progressive, left and radical beliefs. Your contributions to this dialogue are welcome and deeply appreciated.
Images from last year's conference are attached.
Please send your submissions to jean@leftforum.org as soon as you can!
Left Forum 2010 -- featuring Noam Chomsky -- will again offer a visual arts exhibit expressing the conference theme. Please let me know if you're interested in showing a work, or if you have any interest in assisting with curating, developing arts and culture panels or other volunteer work to earn free conference registration. We also need videographers and lots of them.
Please don't hesitate to contact us with any idea, question or issue. We look forward to hearing from you.
Many thanks!
Jean Pockrus
Outreach Coordinator, Left Forum
www.LeftForum.org
www.myspace.com/leftforum
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