Shared Dreams has now completed it's 4th full year bringing together Cuban and American artists and designers.

Sharing Dreams: Cuba and The U.S. Cross the Digital Divide
Compartiendo Sueños: Cuba Y Los Estados Unidos Cruzan La Brecha Digital

Call For Entries: Sharing Dreams 5 / Compartiendo Sueños 5
AIGA's Center for Cross Cultural Design (AIGA XCD) invites you to participate in a collaborative design exhibit along with designers from Cuba during the 10th Anniversary of Centro Pablo’s Guitarra Limpia Program in Havana, Cuba, November 17-23, 2008.

This year marks the first open call to students. We will be inviting students to participate this year along with practicing design professionals.

SHARING DREAMS / COMPARTIENDO SUENOS V
The event is sponsored by The Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Comitė Prografica Cubana and AIGA's Center for Cross Cultural Design.

This is a great opportunity to share ideas with talented designers in a non-commercial way and develop friendships with our neighboring graphic designers.

EIGHTEEN (18) designers, SEVEN (7) professional and TWO (2) students from each country, will have their posters exhibited at the Majadahonda Gallery at Centro Pablo in Old Havana, published on the event's site, on AIGA's Center for Cross Cultural Design site and in other promotional publications. The posters will travel to additional galleries around the world in 2009. Additional activities will be scheduled for collaboration with the Sharing Dreams participants in Havana.

PROJECT
Be ready to collaborate with designers from Cuba on this project, taking into consideration the influences of people, environment, technology, change, geographic location, and communicating across cultures.

Designers will pull from personal drawings, photography, video and other media. The final results will be exhibited in poster form (44"x56"), along with the designer's written commentary / explanation.

DEADLINES / DATES
Please email your curriculum vitae (250 word maximum, in paragraph form) and why you'd like to participate by Friday May 23, 2008 in MS Word. Please also indicate if you will be traveling to Havana for participation with the rest of the Sharing Dreams Designers in November. We'll select the NINE (9) designers by Friday May 30 and send detailed specifications for the project. Poster design / commentary will be due Friday, August 1, 2008.

FEES
$295 USD printing and program fee - payable to AIGA's Center for Cross Cultural Design Due June 15, 2008

Each participant is responsible for their own travel expenses. We will connect you with the experts at Cuba Travel Services.

PERMISSION
Participating designers grant the right to reproduce their work for non-commercial purposes. We assume all entries are original and are the works and/or property of the designer with all rights granted therein. We are not liable for any copyright infringement on the part of the designer.

I WANT TO PARTICIPATE. CONTACT
Toni O'Bryan : designpartnerships@xcd.aiga.org

In October, 2007 during Icograda’s Design Week in Havana, 16 designers - 8 from the U.S. and 8 from Cuba - represented their respective design communities with the help of AIGA's Center for Cross Cultural Design and Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau. They used the language of culture that they know best: visual design, the spoken word, and digital technology to reach across borders using visual communication in order to communicate with diverse audiences.

The designs from each of the 16 artists were exhibited at the Centro Hispanoamericano Museo de Cultura in Havana. This project has also been posted on the Web here as well as on the AIGA site at www.xcd.aiga.org and at www.prografica.cult.cu and www.artedigital9.cubasi.cu.

These events in Havana are sponsored by The Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau and with the support of the Historiador de la Ciudad de La Habana (the City Historian), HIVOS, ENET / ETECSA Cubas' Portal, and the collaboration of the Union of Cuban Artists and Writers (UNEAC), the Cuban Institute of Art and Cinema (ICAIC), and the Consejo Nacional de Artes Plásticas.

2006 Sharing Dreams - EL AMOR CONQUISTA TODO
The theme of last year's event was SHARED DREAMS / LOVE CONQUERS ALL. Written commentaries from the designers accompany their submitted designs, focusing on their visions for how love brings disparate cultures together.

2005 Sharing Dreams - SUEÑOS DE PAZ
The theme of the event in 2005 was DREAMS OF PEACE. The designers collaborated online, and then provided written commentaries in addition to their designs, focusing on their individual visions for peace on earth.

2004 Sharing Dreams- SUENOS COMPARTIDOS
The inaugural theme of this annual event was simply SHARING DREAMS. Written commentaries from the 10 designers (5 from Cuba and 5 from the U.S.) accompanied their designs, focusing on how the dreams of those in disparate cultures are, in fact, so similar.

The experiences - and images - of all the designers in this annual event are represented in an International Touring Exhibition currently visiting galleries in the U.S, Canada, South America and, of course, Cuba.

2008 Sharing Dreams
This year's Call for Entries will be announced in April. Please visit here again or send us an e-mail with your request for more info.

Signed and numbered limited edition posters available