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Back to School - Aspen

It started with our High School visit and the screenings of 1000 Journals during Schools at the Festival of the San Francisco Film Society -- encouraging feedback from students and teachers, and more and more questions how schools, universities, even hospitals can implement the film and begin their own journal exchanges. With the great help of Lil Blume, we created the 1000 Journals Extension, a teachers network, and have been increasingly involved with these educational aspects of collaborative projects.

Just recently, Aspen Film has selected 1000 Journals to participate in its Education Outreach Program. Bringing films to remote and underserved communities, the program reaches 5,000 children and adults and nineteen schools annually, with films that are capable of opening windows on the world and building bridges between cultures.

Aspen Film's Terry Rigney created a Curriculum Guide for 1000 Journals (available on the Extension), and invited Deb Jones, Creative Program Director at the Wyly Community Arts Center, to present our film. Deb has taught several journaling classes and serves as an amazing resource for anyone interested in the process and journey of journaling.

So far, Aspen Film screened 1000 Journals on April 16, 17 and 20, 2009, and will program the film again in May. 

Deb Jones and Marti Cyrus leading the discussion at the Aspen High School screening.

I asked Terry Rigney a few questions -- read her answers and see more pictures on the jump.

Collaborate: The Scribble Project

This will help you to get through any boring phone call or meeting: The Scribble Project was started by the Australian artist Lisa Currie, and grew from a zine project to a blog, now archive, to the current club on Flickr. Doodlers are invited to complete a sketch-friendly "questionnaire" and upload it to the club.

The original Scribble sheet that got it all started:

Here are a couple of the filled-in sheets:

More are on the archive blog. New "blank" sheets are on Flickr. And if you like this, see also  Doodlers Anonymous.

Fnac - pix from the screening

Belén just sent me these pictures from the screening at Fnac Alicante yesterday evening:

Belén hosting the screening and handing out Fnac's 1001 Journals.

More pictures on the jump.

Fnac + 1001 Journals

The initial demand was so high, Fnac Bulevar in Alicante, Spain, launched four journals on 1001journals.com. The journals will go live at the 1000 Journals documentary screening, tomorrow night, at 7:00 PM. Two will travel from hand to hand, two will stay on location. Belén posted a sweet note on Facebook, "Si no te gustan los experimentos, no sigas leyendo...," - if you don't like experiments, don't read on - and recommended carrots for dinner, to get creative juices flowing. Ah, that's how they do it in Spain - carrots!

Blanket Magazine

1000 Journals and Someguy makes an appearance in Blanket Magazine, a collaborative PDF publication which is uncovering artists, designers and photographers from around the world.

A few days ago, Blanket launched a redesigned website, and put out Number 15, The Communication Issue. Editor and Art Director Bec Brown writes, "It's all about that thing we have to do everyday as artists/designers/photographers/crafters… TALK to our audience in our own personal medium to communicate our feelings, our thoughts, our ideas. It's all about being open and unafraid: in art AND in life."

The Art of Communication: how do you communicate with an audience you might never meet? features Jonathan Hulme's interview with Someguy, a story about Post Secret, Blanket's own Pass It On project, a section about Crafter-Bloggers, and many interviews punctuated by great art and photography. There's also a call for contributions to the next issue, whose theme is "Portrait." Deadline: May 15th.

El Nautilus

For six month, the Spanish television network Telecinco published an innovative blog, the Nautilus. Its Captain Nemo is José Alberto García Avilés, a media analyst in search of audiovisual trends. The blog was so successful on Telecinco's website, it is now continued as a wordpress blog.

Today's post is about our beautiful collaboration with Belén Torregrosa, the film, its upcoming screenings and various journals projects that are now starting in Spain. It features a beautiful collage of pages from 1001 Journals.

For kicks, check out Google's translation.