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Project #1

Winter 2009. For our first project we looked to a region where much of the world’s products and services are outsourced, yet many fundamental needs are unmet: India. "Infinite Earth" teamed up with Dr. Prabhavati Dwabha, the director of a rural development project in northern India. Dr. Dwabha’s decades of experience in establishing and running clinics, primary schools and vocational programs in below-poverty-line villages served as an invaluable resource and our collaboration continues with several current and future projects.
In the pursuit of our goal to create self-sustaining facilities for communities in need, "Infinite Earth" sought to improve the conditions of a hand-looming center in the north Indian village of Chamba in Uttaranchal, India. For this project, an edition of 30 prints were produced collaboratively by two of "Infinite Earth"’s founding members, Alona Harpaz and Mika Rottenberg. Titled, Infinite #1, the edition was named after the organization and its mission. Infinite #1 is the first in an infinite series of artistic gestures in the interest of our mission. Funded through the sale of Infinite #1, a new building was constructed and two existing dilapidated looms were replaced with twenty new looms. Inaugurated in 2008, the new hand-looming facility has drastically improved the working conditions for the local women. The center is owned and operated by a local women’s initiative in the village and overseen by a local manager appointed by Dr. Dwabha and "Infinite Earth".
The women of the Chamba looming center are developing a skill set that will enable them to become increasingly self-sufficient. The women have taken the initiative to organize a class to teach young women how to properly use the looming machines and they are working together to promote their own methods of production. The center supports their independent projects and proceeds go towards improving the living conditions of the women and their children. The center is currently producing Angora scarves made of 100% natural products and fabricated in a process that is human and animal safe and environmentally responsible.
"Infinite Earth" seeks to create links between the communities involved in our projects and in keeping with that vision, existing projects will help to fund future projects. The Angora scarves made in the Chamba looming center serve as examples of a successful project and we hope they will inspire support to fund "Infinite Earth"’s next project: a scholarship program for young women and children.


Project #2

When art Meets Social Work
Spring 2010. "Infinite Earth", a non-profit organization founded by major artists Mika Rottenberg and Alona Harpaz and others, will be involved in a joint project with the Wadzeck Foundation, an organization for Berlin's socially disadvantaged children. Alona Harpaz, an Israeli painter, and Peter Bolmer, a Berlin musician, will promote the childrens' creativity and expression through art and music. Works produced will be presented to the public at a fundraising event with a stage show in May 2011. Artists will join the children to create collaborative works that will be contributed to the project on behalf of the Wadzeck Foundation.

The project is valuable for all involved as it establishes and encourages social interaction between groups that normally have no point of contact. Educationally, socially and culturally, a synergy takes place as the project demonstrates best practices for corporate social responsibility through empowerment and participation of those concerned.

We anticipate great success for the project through the experience of "Infinite Earth"'s international project experience and the support of a professional team including Hannah Munger, who brings her experience from New York working with public art projects, Sheila Deutinger, who has successfully organized major multidisciplinary events and the educational team of the Wadzeck Foundation. You can support the work of the participating partners currently working on the project through monetary donations via keywords "Berlin support"
http://www.wadzeck-stiftung.de


Project #3

Winter 2010-11. Art house is a unique community center established by in Tiruvannamalai, south India. On day times, the center is a workshop, for simple handicrafts, such as sewing. Local women attend the center to learn and to work – they get professional training, and then they are employed to work. The head of the orphanage "Wide Children" who is a tailor, trains the women. In addition, "Infinite Earth" is buying 5 sewing machines to the center. During evening times, the center functions as a culture house, while it serves also the westerns, art shows take place there, culture meetings – music nights, leisure and fun.
In addition, is working on a collaboration with the orphanage "Wide Children" in Tiruvannamalai, runs by a local couple. Some of the income from selling Infinite #2 will be allocated to this project.


Project #4, recent

Winter 2012. is collaborating with "Projekt Kaokoland", "e.V" in Namibia, Africa. The goal is to improve basic life quality of the local villagers. Some of the income from selling Infinite #2 will be allocated to the local orphanage and to the development of educational programs for the local children.



Future projects

Spring 2012. "Infinite Earth" will be collaborating with "Bait Cham" center (="warm house"), in Petach - Tikva, Israel, in a new project. "Bait Cham" center is a day center, where 13-15 YO girls meet on a daily basis after school hours. The project will include 20 enriching weekly meetings – in the fields of art and body, with professional instructors and educators (such as: educational sessions at the Petach – Tikva Museum of Art, creative sessions, sessions with professional instructors, like: fashion photographer, yoga instructor, theater actors, and more). To close the project, a festive event and exhibition will take place in the Petach – Tikva Museum of Art, in which the products that the girls have created during the project will be presented, and in addition, the documentation of the sessions.
The goal of this project is to give these girls special treatment, to enrich their worlds in the disciplines of arts and body, to allow them to discover their own creativity, and to intensify their self esteem.


So far, "Infinite Earth" has accomplished the following:


- Buying school desks to the orphanage "Ramana’s Gardens" in Jula Rishikesh Laxman , india (2009)
- Buying carpets and drinking tanks to a local elementary school in a mountainous distant village in Hoonkhal , Tehri, India (2008)
- Buying school books and uniform to the same schhol in Hoonkhal , Tehri, India (2009)
- Donating 1000€ to fund the travel of two women from Orissa, India to attend a course in Germany on Ecovillage Design and Development for Urban and Rural Settlements through Gaia Education, a programme of the Global Ecovillage Network



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