Sailing the Nile for MDGs: starting the project with an exhibition. Alexandria, Egypt, April 7 2006
Gudran Association for Art and Development is a group of artists based in Alexandria – Egypt (plastic artists, a filmmaker, a graphics designer, a musician and a fisherman from the Max), interested in using art as a method for development. Gudran is currently involved in a major project that will be developed in Egypt through 2006, called “Sailing the Nile for MDGs”. Eight sailing boats will be sailing down the Nile River, stopping in various cities (between the 28th of October to the 9th of December 2006). Each sailboat will represent one of the eight MDGs (the eight Millennium Development Goals– which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015) and have the corresponding MDG symbol on the sail. It will display successful MDG projects involving volunteering and aims to guide and inspire local communities of the Nile Basin to start own projects to realizing the MDGs. In addition, various cultural sport and art activities will take place in each chosen stop point or city. In each city concrete visible results and tools will be left behind benefiting the local population.
Gudran Association has organized the exhibition “Artistic Work for the MDGs”, where young artists' works are presented in the course of the preparatory stage of the program of “Sailing the Nile for MDGs”: opening on Friday April 7th in ACAF/ Alexandria Contemporary Arts Forum, Azarita, Alexandria.

Navigare sul Nilo per gli MDGs: lancio del progetto con una mostra. Il 7 aprile 2006 ad Alessandria d’Egitto>>>