A ten-day storytelling workshop for international writers, artists and filmmakers submerging into the lives, culture and nature of the Peruvian Amazon and its indigenous people.
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What will maritime cultures be without vibrant economic and social communities connected with the sea itself?! How can communities retain and promote local livelihoods, social networks, cuisine, music, stories, values, varieties of customs and language?
Over a 35 year career, Mark Abouzeid has worked in International Economics, Technology Development, Innovation Theory, Photojournalism, Documentary Filmmaking and Cultural Heritage.
Born in Princeton, N.J., to a Lebanese father and Irish-American mother, Mark Abouzeid moved countries for the first time at 10 months of age. Since then, he has lived and worked in over 35 countries including the polar arctic, bedouin deserts and countless seas.
This project explores the validity of social artefacts and their interpreted context by means of participatory social art experiments.
Gerald Bogad has been working in the artisan tradition of the Ferlacher gunsmiths for 40 years but does not hunt or kill animals.
It is not only the dance that we need to preserve but, more importantly, the act of learning how to dance.
Strong, intelligent, serene; the African man has everything necessary to be successful except for the ropes of cultural bondage.
“Finding My Lebanon”, a short film by Mark Abouzeid, began as a discovery of his own heritage, his Lebanese heritage.
Returning from the premiere of his film, “Finding My Lebanon”, at the Cannes Film Festival, Abouzeid appeared on MTV Lebanon’s “Wall of Fame”.
In this exclusive interview with Mark Abouzeid, Michele shares his unorthodox training regime, past failures attempting the same expedition and his love for the Ramones.