‘Artivism’ Institute Calls For Solidarity With Victims Of Matthew

'Artivism' Institute Calls For Solidarity With Victims Of Matthew / 14ymedio

14ymedio, Havana, 8 October 2016 — The Hanna Arendt Artivism Institute
(Instar), led by the artist Tania Bruguera, began operations in Cuba
with a call to "encourage solidarity, always latent in the Cuban people,
with those affected by Hurricane Matthew," according to a note from the
organizers of the independent project.

Monday, 10 October, a holiday in honor of the beginning of the wars of
independence in Cuba, Instar's headquarters at Calle Tejadilla 214 in
Old Havana will be "receiving donations for the victims in the eastern
part of the island," says the announcement. The collection will be held
between 10 am and 6 pm.

The organization says that the "donations of food, clothing, household
goods and/or economic aid will be published in a communication from
Instar" for the sake of "promoting (…) transparency in all the project's
actions among its followers, founders and the general public."

The institute has set up a telephone number +5352720282 for those who
want more details related to the initiative. More details can be found
on the page Instar's Facebook page.

The Institute uses the term "artivism" to define itself, from the idea
of combining art and activism, which results in socially responsible
actions, and it carries the name of Hannah Arendt, a political scientist
"who studied totalitarian systems, both capitalism and socialism, and
their effects on the concept of citizenship," Bruguera said in a recent
interview.

The Instar initiative has as a precedent the announcement made last
week by the Cuban American National Foundation based in Miami, about the
sending humanitarian aid through the opposition group the Patriotic
Union of Cuba (UNPACU).

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