The Container Launch Dates
 
CONTAINER Launch (sailing) September 1999
Will be appearing in various venues throughout UK and Wales
venues to be confirmed
Web Site Launch was on: April 30, 1999 Jamaican High Commission
 
We want to thank you all for your support and participation at the launch of the Container Project, which I am pleased to say was a resounding success. The event brought together an interesting diverse mix of people in harmonious celebration of technology and advancement, at a time when *"all around us barked the mad and angry dogs", when another nail bomb was exploding. This however, must serve as a consolidation of our efforts and attempts to bring a greater level of connectivity among migrant / marginalised grassroot communities and cultures via technology.
 
Special thanks to the speaking panel:
Ms D Cooper (Community Relations Officer at The Jamaican High Commission)
Ms J Tulloch (Project Manager Computer Gym/Peabody Trust)
Ms A Davidson (Arts Council of England)
Mr J Prince (Urban Regeneration and Information Broker)
Mr G Harwood (Artist/Educationalist working with newer technology)
Mr R Pierre-Davis (Digital Street Artist)
 
Thanks to Mrs J John for leading us in prayer.
 
Thanks also to the many of you who enabled us to present such a wonderful evening, the staff at the Jamaican High Commission who assisted in the preparation and smooth running of the event - Mr Hammond, Ms Pryce-Ross, Mr Dennison, Ms Comper and all the others. To the catering staff Ms Carter, Ms Edwards and Ms Thomas-Jarman for the lovely presentation of the buffet and the facilitators of the Container Project for an entertaining evening.
 
Once again, I would like to thank you all for attending and look forward to your continuous support as we trod along.
 
mervin
The Container Project
 
 
* extracted from a poem by Claud Mckay 'If We Must Die'
Website is funded by the Arts Council of England
 
The Container Web Site is the first stage of the project being launched in April, this will put in place a comprehensive, internet access point to provide a focus through which the material, procedural, technical and cultural dynamics of diaspora and of globalisation can be investigated.
 
The Container Web site will become the main on-line point of entry to the margins and as such its image and style is important to everyone. Given that it caters for no particular market segment it should probably aim to be as neutral as possible but provide for easy user customisation.
 
Container a unit of transportation, distributing large quantities of collective and individual
Gross Domestic Product. A dogma in the industrial revolution.
Container a means of technological repatriation.
 
The container will be packed with computers and accessories and shipped to Jamaica,
offering technical advice, support and solutions, training preparation for further education or DIY- media.
We are seeking donations and sponsorship for technological accessories for this project.
 
For more information on the project and how you can contribute to it please
contact: mervin@mongrel.org.uk - TelFax: 01815522698 or
visit our web site at http://www.container.access-it.org.uk
 
The Container project is supported by IANI media, Mongrel, Escape, Computer Access and The Arts Council of England.
 
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