One World Arts
Awesome Arts Festival 2013
The Festival on May 24th was a huge success with more than 275 people in the audience and 100 child, youth and professional performers! Many thanks to all who came out, to all the Awesome Arts participants, our supporters and of course the amazing workshop leaders: Jamaal Jackson Rogers, Rag & Bone Puppet Theatre, Austin and Jack from The Otesha Project, Luv2Groove Dance Education, Tina LeMoine and Keltie Duncan from Ottawa International Animation Festival (OIAF), Kay'la Fraser, Craig Allen Conoley of Partus Films, cj Fleury, and A Luta Continua host Monique Fuller! As well, a huge thank you to our professional performers: Julia Dales and and AAA, Missing LinX, Grupo de Capoeira, Dendê do Recife, The Joynt and Bboyizm!
Awesome Arts is a program of One World Arts, a charity providing global issue awareness through the arts, since 1972. Lowertown Community Resource Centre has been offering a range of social and community services to individuals and families residing in Lowertown since 1970. For the past five years we have been offering the Awesome Arts Program and Festival to Ottawa's youth, a program that raises awareness about global issues through the arts.
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2013 Call for Documentary Film and Video Submissions
The call for documentary film and video submissions to the 2013 One World Film Festival has now closed. We would like to thank all filmmakers and distributors for their submissions and look forward to announcing the line up for the 24th edition of the film festival some time over the coming months.
The festival will be held in September 2013 in Ottawa. For more information and to connect with us, please visit the One World Film Festival section of our website, join our Facebook group, follow @OneWorldFilm on Twitter, or email us at oneworldfilmfestival@oneworldarts.ca
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Many thanks to the 250 people who came out to the ONE WORLD AWESOME ARTS FESTIVAL in Strathcona Heights on December 13, 6-8pm!
Check out the Awesome Arts promotional video!
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ABOUT US
Founded in 1972, One World Arts is a volunteer-based, charitable organization working to create awareness on world issues. With a focus on the media and performing arts, our programs are designed to engage citizens of all ages. It is our conviction that education through the arts is the most powerful and effective method of public engagement.
Central to our mission is to work together with Canadian artists and with organizations involved in human rights, social justice and the environment to further public education on issues that concern our global communities. To carry out this mission, we run or help with several programs such as the One World Awesome Arts, One World Film Festival. One World Radio & Reel Food Film Festival.
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