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08.06.2016

The Pleasure of Radical Gardening

“Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.”
Ian Hamilton Finlay cited in George McKay’s Radical Gardening: Politics, Idealism and Rebellion in the Garden.

When I first saw the theme for this year’s Memefest Friendly Competition, my instant response to the word ‘Pleasure’ was gardening. Not very radical might be one’s first response but for me the pleasure of gard…

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02.06.2016

El placer de ayudar a los caninos sin hogar

El placer de ver la colaboración en el control de poblaciones de caninos sin hogar, donde también se ve beneficiada la población desde el punto de vista de la sanidad y la seguridad.

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02.06.2016

El placer en el ambiente sano

Nada causa mas PLACER y felicidad, que un lugar digno para vivir.

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31.05.2016

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10.05.2016

The Patchwork Model

The matter is a new nascent social network: a desktop of proposition, confrontation and deliberation that could be used both to make seriously advance democracy and simply to have fun. Tribes of friends, associations, working équipes, condominiums, sports teams, political movements and parties, governments and families: all these people often face important or mundane turning points and need a co…

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15.02.2016

Expanded social documentary: strategies, techniques, and experimental forms.

Photo, video, research and storytelling master class led by Memefest curator Scott Townsend not to be missed!

A 7 day course introducing new techniques and ideas of social documentary.

Using different ways of recording and interpreting (sound, interview, photo, video, etc.) people and their practices and environment, students will create, edit, synthesize and communicate their research as c…

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02.12.2015

Talking with the moster.


The right wind arise in Latinoamerica. After more than 10 years of leftist governments --the same governments who nationalised the airway enterprises, the retirement founds, oil industries, confronting the big international economics powers and reducing unemployment and iliteracy-- Argentina has go back to the liberalism. The people has elected, for less than 2% of difference, this dark way aga…

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11.07.2015

" the worst thing you did to us was to make politicians out of all of us"

A haunting piece that articulates the thematic concerns of Memefest 2014, as the author concludes - " the worst thing you did to us was to make politicians out of all of us": http://indianexpress.com/…/book-review-kashmir-the-vajp…/99/

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29.06.2015

homophobic bar in Havana

The Kingbar -bar and restaurant- located in the city of Havana has a discriminatory admission police based on sexual orientation and race. While in Havana please avoid this place, they say they are gay friendly, and the place is run by a gay couple, but do not let them fool you, they can still discriminate.