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Dropping Knowledge: A Table of Free Voices The frontier of collective knowledge
“A much needed effort to gather a global dialogue of voices.” HOWARD ZINN
MOMS 4 PEACE www.moms4peace.com THE GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN www.globalfundforchildren.org WOMEN’S BUSINESS EXCHANGE www.wbex.org MERCY CORPS www.mercycorps.org
Dropping Knowledge is an ambitious global audio-visual resource created to expand and share collective knowledge that unites the experiences and visions of diverse cultures,
WOMEN’S EDGE COALITION www.womensedge.org WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL www.womenforwomen.org
continents, and intellectual disciplines. Dropping Knowledge brings together a group of 112 visionary individuals who have had an innovative, creative, or humanistic impact on the international public including artists, philosophers, educators, writers, socially responsible business leaders, scientists, filmmakers, economists, musicians, religious leaders, and human rights activists from around the world. For one day these individuals will respond to 100 of today’s most pressing questions, which will be gathered through the international public and will
IMAGINING OURSELVES: THE INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN www.imaginingourselves.org INDIGENOUS WOMEN’S NETWORK www.indigenouswomen.org FACE TO FACE www.facetoface.org CHILDREN’S DEFENSE FUND www.childrensdefense.org
be selected by a committee beforehand. The questions will be asked one by one, and the participants will respond simultaneously into individual cameras. The responses of each participant will be recorded as a single audiovisual portrait. Together these portraits—672 hours of recorded material—will create the base of the open source wisdom archive. In addition, the material will be distributed
CENTER FOR WOMEN POLICY STUDIES www.centerwomenpolicy.org CENTER FOR WOMEN AND DEMOCRACY www.womenanddemocracy.org
internationally through educational outreach and a movie.
THIRD WAVE FOUNDATION www.thirdwavefoundation.org
Questions are currently being collected, and the Table of Free Voices will occur with a
MADRE www.madre.org
historic high-profile event in 2006. The wooden table will become a multimedia exhibition piece and travel throughout the world to centers of global communication such as Beijing, Dakar, São Paulo, and New York.
DEVELOPMENT ALTERNATIVES WITH WOMEN FOR A NEW ERA www.dawn.org.fj CENTER FOR WOMEN’S GLOBAL LEADERSHIP www.cwgl.rutgers.edu
MORE INFO: To view participants or pose a question, go to:
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S TRIBUNE CENTRE www.womenink.org www.iwtc.org WOMEN’S ACTION FOR NEW DIRECTIONS www.wand.org INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN www.icrw.org
www.droppingknowledge.org
©Yin Xiozehn
WOMEN AND WAR PROJECT www.womenwar.org