Get Visible! Get Going! Art and Sexuality

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ART AND SEXUALITY

Hello Everybody.

Here is a competition that you can work towards to show the LGBT

community as a visible and active segment of society. This is how:

Ask the LGBT community / staff of your organization to come together

as a group and put together a poster on issues of stigma and

discrimination faced by them.

The final poster made by the group must then be taken to the nearest

art school/college students interested in art and the issue

illustrated in the poster must be discussed with the students in an

open forum.

Then ask the students to make a poster on the issues discussed by the

LGBT group and represented in their poster. Allow the students to use

their creativity and express the issues of the LGBT community in

their own way.

Now each participating organization has two posters (a pair) ready:

one made by the LGBT community and other made by the students of the

Art School. The poster pair becomes part of a set of posters that

will be made through out the country. The poster pairs will be

brought together at an exhibition held in Delhi / Mumbai and the best

pairs of poster will be awarded with Rs. 10,000/-. We will choose as

many as we can to encourage pluralism and many voices being heard.

PROCEDURE FOR THE COMPETITION

1) Identify your team and let them decide the subject on which they

would like to make the poster

2) Write how you went and discussed this issue with the art students,

class of students in the nearest college.

3) Photograph of discussions berween yourselves and art students

must be attached and signed by a lecturer or principal of the

School/College.

4) The poster must be produced on A/2 sized poster paper.

5) Put them all in a roller holder from the nearest stationary shop.

Despatch them by post/courier to us at

Ashok Row Kavi,

MSM/TG Consultant

UNAIDS

A2/35 Safdarjung Enclave

NEW DELHI 110029

7) Every person coming visiting the exhibition will be asked to vote

for one pair of poster as the best poster

8) The poster pair that gets the highest number of votes will be

given away the best poster prize followed by 1st and 2nd runner up

6) Document the entire process

The deadline for sending the posters to UNAIDS is 20th November

(Only Indian citizens may participate please)

Ashok Row Kavi

e-mail: <arowkavi@...>