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[shahidulNews] Chobi Mela III in 2nd Week

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font-family:Arial">http://www.chobimela.org/

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font-family:Arial">I Will Not

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font-family:Arial">Today on Earth Day we are celebrating by making promises

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font-family:Arial">But I will not

font-family:Arial">I will not stop throwing paper on the ground.

font-family:Arial">I will not stop using plastic bags

font-family:Arial">I will not go to clean the beaches

font-family:Arial">I will not stop polluting

font-family:Arial">I will not do all these things because I am not polluting

the world

font-family:Arial">It is the grown-ups who are dropping bombs

font-family:Arial">It is the grown-ups who have to stop

font-family:Arial">One bomb destroys more than all the paper & plastic that

I can throw in all my life

font-family:Arial">It is the grown-ups who should get together and talk to each

other

font-family:Arial">They should solve problems and stop fighting and stop wars

font-family:Arial">They are making acid rain and a hole in the ozone layer

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font-family:Arial">I will not listen to the grown-ups!

font-family:Arial">[student of class five of Karachi High

School

font-family:Arial"> on Earth Day 1991].

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font-family:Arial">Other forms of resistance can be seen in the second week of

Chobi Mela III, the biannual festival of photography in Asia. While the

evening presentations (http://www.chobimela.org/schedule.htm), the workshops by

Chris Yap, Barbara Stauss, Pedro Meyer, Rupert Grey, Dick Doughty, Morten Krokvold

and Liz Wells, as well as some of the exhibitions are already over, Peter

Fryer’s workshop is still ongoing, and Raghu Rai’s workshop is yet

to start. Numerous exhibitions are also ongoing, including the open air shows

at the

font-family:Arial">Abahani Park, and the

hugely popular mobile exhibitions traveling all over Dhaka.

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font-family:Arial">Besides the Chobi mela website www.chobimela.org where daily updates are

available, those of you who couldn’t make it to Dhaka should look

up Tay Kay Chin’s visual diary at www.eastpix.com.

As for the all night river cruise, sorry there are no substitutes.

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font-family:Arial">Thanks to all the volunteers, the teams at Sketch, Ikon,

Pathshala and Drik, the Prince Claus Fund, the partners, associate partners and

the organizations who provided institutional support. Chobi Mela III could

never have been realized without your active support.

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font-family:Arial">Special thanks to Chris Yap for making the wonderful prints,

Peter Bakker of TNT for getting Morten Krogvold’s exhibition over, Dr. Hashemi

for providing the Entifadha posters, and NTV, Channel I and The New Nation for

providing excellent media coverage. Thanks also to Rob White and his team at

LCC for their brave try at video conferencing and Yutaka

Ohira for his excellent work behind the scenes.

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