Verona & Roberto Zamora
Project Director
"Peace As A Human Right"
Verona at La Finca Sonador with Guadalupe Urbina, Lucca & Rolando Spendlingwimmer
Gusein, The Peaceful Warrior in Dagestan
We strive to connect digital media with the social fabric of our lives.
We produce and support educational & digital media projects that contribute to a deeper understanding and involvement in social, cultural, or spiritual arenas of the world.
Iris Arts & Education Group, a 501(c)3 organization, was founded by Jan Camp in 1992 to be a container for emerging visual artists to show and share their culturally relevant work. In 1997 Verona Fonte became the Executive Director and Chair of the Board of Directors, shifting the focus somewhat, working mainly in the emerging digital media arena. In the last decade Iris has focused on the support and production of digital media projects for other nonprofits organization in socially, culturally relevant arenas. We donate our time, services, productions, at times training and software to nonprofit organizations that have something to add in terms of educating, informing or inspiring projects in arenas where heart, head and the public good are aligned. When approached by sources who offer to pay us for our services, we accept; but money is never the basis for our project selection.
Iris support includes consultation in the digital media arena or issues where art and social issues converge, the production of media, websites and educational materials to organization’s whose objectives fit within the social, cultural mission of Iris. These materials range from websites to short movies, posters, postcards to books.
Iris also continues to work with well known artists, creating animated video that promote socially relevant or educational issues.
Iris provides fiscal sponsorship or interim fiscal sponsorship for selected projects that fit within the mission of social or cultural relevance that have strong digital media components that the organization can be involved with.
2012 Fiscal Sponsorships:
THE ERADICATING ECOCIDE CAMPAIGN
The aim of the Eradicating Ecocide campaign is to stop the destruction of ecosystems by human activities, putting in place a law of Ecocide as the 5th International Crime Against Peace. There are already four of these: genocide, war crimes, crimes of aggression and crimes against humanity. Ecocide is the missing 5th crime – it is a crime against nature, humanity and future generations. By making Ecocide a crime we will transform business, end major destruction and damage to our Earth – stopping the problem at source and causing investment to flow into sustainable practices.
This is a two prong campaign:
● Reaching out to UN ambassadors, business leaders, parliamentarians and other
government officials to build awareness and generate support; Polly has travelled
extensively and has met with leaders from over 30 countries to build this topdown
support.
● Using a range of online sources (including website, social media, visual arts,
posters and short films) to build a global campaign to educate people about
ecocide and give them tools to call on governments to agree for Ecocide to
become a crime at Rio+20.
Iris Arts is involved in supporting and consulting on several dimensions of this campaign: U.S. outreach to organizations and individuals to inform them about and engage them in the campaign, consultation on the digital media components of the campaign, develop a web gallery highlighting the work of videographers, animators and artists that focus on issues relevant to the campaign.
The campaign Eradicating Ecocide Campaign is part of the Earth Community Trust is a UK Registered Charity (number: 1143660)
“HEIST”
2008 - 2012 Iris provides fiscal sponsorship for the upcoming movie “HEIST: WHO STOLE THE AMERICAN DREAM” about the collapse of the U.S stock and mortgage market (www.heist.com). The movie premiered in the fall of 2011, and in the first quarter of 2012 was sucessfully released in New York City with rave reviews. Currently there is a campaign to distribute the film to not for profit organizations for educational purposes. Iris is dedicated to supporting the digital media components of this project to enhance its production and outreach
PEACE AS A HUMAN RIGHT PROJECT
Project Director: Roberto Zamora, Costa Rica
This project, headed by Roberto Zamora, seeks to strengthen and develop the concept of Peace as a Human Right by developing coalitions with people and organizations in the international community that embrace principles such as disarmament, gun control, peace as a "human right", fair trade between nations large and small, the rule of law and access to justice. It seeks to challenge the practice of perpetual war, the "outsourcing" development of 'weapons of mass destruction' to less dominant nations; the impact of the development of these weapons on struggling third world economies and the impact of weapons development and war on the environment and climate change.
DISASTER PREPARATION
In response to the swine flu emergency Iris Arts has offered the comprehensive disaster preparation book "Bird Flu What To Do: Prepare To Survive" and a PDF copy of the updated version "What To Do: Prepare To Survive" both by Verona Fonté to non-profit, religious and community organizations who are interested in creating disaster resistant communities. The organizations need provide only the cost of shipping the books to their location.
Former Iris Arts projects not included on this website are: Digital Media Literacy & The Altruistic Archetype
The goddess Iris is the messenger of the Greek gods. Personified by the rainbow, she is a bridge connecting the human world and the divine..
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