Principles in Action, Principles in Art

[Tom Merilahti]

The driving objective is to organize Principles in Art Exhibitions in major cities and countries all over the world, with the seven fundamental principles and humanitarian values of Red Cross as the starting point.

The central theme is “Safe Water Saves Life”, which may even support the Global Water & Sanitation Initiative (GWSI), which has been launched by IFRC (www.ifrc.org). The seven Fundamental Principles of Red Cross are; humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and universality.

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TOM

[Jeff]

Tom: This sounds like a wonderful idea in principle, but I'm having a little trouble getting my head around what exactly you're seeking to accomplish and what the call to action is. Who are you trying to reach, and what exactly are you trying to do with this planned art exhibit (raise funds? build awareness?) This sounds like something some members of the OurWorld community might rally around.

Jeff

[Tom Merilahti]

Hi Jeff,

If you opened the .pdf, you know that it is the first draft of the original idea and concept I've created in order to create attention and chart for an eventual interest of individuals, institutions and sponsors to become involved in the project.

At this very moment I'm negotiating with the University of Arts & Design in Helsinki about developing and executing the Principle in Arts exhibition in Helsinki in spring 2009. It is possible that this will be done as a part of the international exchange program of the University, which may lead to that the event format will be copied and executed in cooperation with other Arts & Design Universities in other countries as well.

Thank you for your interest!

TOM

[kayiwa]

I think with Art and design students gain and learn culture
I have my buddy who is traveling to Huston for Art Exhibition will ask him to join here

[Tom Merilahti]

Thanks a lot Kayiwa for your interest a and thoughtfulness!

Best regards,

TOM

[Lewis Evans]

Nice idea, but personally I would not hang my fundamental principles on the work of the Red Cross - why would we need to do that? Don't we have our own that are good enough? The Red Cross is a highly political organisation, and their record on human rights has some very big black marks, if you research the situation of German Jews in World War ll, for example....

[Tom Merilahti]

I don't like to take any stand-point on Red Cross, but why.... Simply because of the huge size of the organization, because of its supporters, amount of volunteers worldwide...