Fabrica will present its latest product collection in Creative Weekend, a complete weekend dedicated to creativity, that will take place on December 18th, 19th & 20th at Hotel Chic&Basic Mayerling in Madrid.
A selection of designers, fashion designers and artists will be exhibiting and selling their creations. Each room will be customized and transformed by the artists into a temporary gallery-shop to show their work to the visitors who will also be able to chat directly with the creators.
Fabrica will exhibit Fabrica Features, a dynamically evolving series of products and collections mapped by a web of multipurpose commercial and cultural spaces around the world. Each of the products is designed by a team of young, enterprising international designers and captures the crisp, multi-paletted Fabrica spirit which is rooted in research. The products embody Fabrica’s values of novelty, collaboration and diversity of thought. They challenge conformities by posing subtle interventions to daily routines and realities. Among the products, are there sketchbooks, posters, boxes, bags, tapes, objects for the house, jewelry, ceramics and Colors magazine.
18-19-20 December 2009
CREATIVE WEEKEND
Hotel Chic&Basic Mayerling
Conde de Romanones 6
20012 Madrid
SPAIN
Friday 18th 17.30-23.00 h
Saturday 19th 11.00-23.00 h
Sunday 20th 10.30-15.00 h
More info: http://creativeweekend.itunube.com
The documentary "Branding Kosovo" directed by the Fabrica resident Diego Hurtado de Mendoza and produced by Fabrica, won the "Opera Prima Doc" Prize at the Potenza International Film Festival.
Branding Kosovo is a one-man trip into one of the most recent conflicts in Europe. It is a film about the creation of the symbols that represent the identiy of the newest country in the world, the Republic of Kosovo.
After the unilateral declaration of Independence on February 17th, 2008, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza travelled to Prishtina to document the international contests for the State flag and the new anthem of Kosovo.
Which is the best design that could represent this new State and its citizens? What melody could symbolically identify everyone living in Kosovo? In this historical time of transition these symbols tell the story of a fragmented society seeking a new identity that could help them get away from the ethnic hatred that has caused so many conflicts in the Balkans.
See trailer: http://www.fabrica.it/project/branding-kosovo-trailer
The Festival invited Babak Payami to hold a lecture about cinema. Babak Payami spoke about The right to offend" in the cinema field.
Screening: Dec 2nd, at 7.40 pm
Lecture: Dec 4th, at 12.00 am
Between December 7 and 18, 2009 the United Nations Climate Change Conference will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark.
For this important summit Fabrica has realized, for the World Health Organization, the poster "Climate Change Hurts": a dried-up foot that is almost indistinguishable from the dry cracked earth it stands on.
Using a visual language that speaks to people all over the world, this image communicates one of the key-messages of the Copenhagen summit: climate change will have devastating consequences on human health. Human beings will not survive this change and it is therefore necessary to fight to prevent climate disaster.
This image is part of a suite of advocacy and awareness raising products that will be showcased at COP15 as well as during the WHO's side event “Protecting health from climate change”, on 17 Decembre 2009, 1–2.30 pm, Bella Centre, Copenhagen.
Fabrica has been invited by the French Institute of Cooperation of Tunis to participate in the Traditional Tunisian Tapestries Workshops that will take place in Tunis from November 30th to December 5th.
Tunisian and European designers will explore the traditional skills of Tunisia to create new works. Craftsmen and designers will combine their own skills to conceive innovative forms, from sketches to prototypes, thus renewing interest in outdated or declining industries.
Fabrica’s designers Sam Baron and Elliott Burford will work in the field of plant fibers, with a focus on woven reeds. Making objects with braided fiber plant stem is a Tunisian tradition, performed primarily by men, as working conditions are generally difficult in overheated workshops. They have chosen to work the ground, on the border between the West and the East.
The output of the Traditional Tunisian Tapestries Workshops will culminate in the 2010 exhibition 'The Collection'.
Tunisia, Nabeul
30 November - 5 December 2009
Rwanda Again, the latest documentary produced by Fabrica ad RSI Swiss Television, was broadcast on Monday December 14th and 15th, at 9.00 pm on LA2, the new RSI channel, dedicated to a young audience, with a great offer of cultural programmes, documentaries and fiction films.
“Rwanda Again” tells the story of survival and remembrance as a means for healing the wounds of Genocide. This film focuses on life in five key locations where these atrocities were perpetrated - an ore mine, sugarcane field, fishing lake, a cattle slaughterhouse and farms where life continues over grounds stained by violence and brutality.
A story of work and healing; of a people who have survived the ruins of genocide and must rebuild what they once had and what they must have; food, shelter, liberty and trust for fellow human beings.
See trailer: http://www.fabrica.it/project/rwanda-again-trailer
