Drumbeat/events/SanDiego/pressrelease1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Date: January 25, 2011
Contact: Mera Szendro Bok, email: meraszendro@gmail.com, cell phone: 845-536-8415

New Media Rights and the Drumbeat San Diego community- which includes tech, arts, journalists and activists groups are encouraging San Diegans to register today for an exciting event called “Drumbeat San Diego” happening on Saturday, Feb. 5 from 12:30-6:30pm at Queen Bee’s Art and Cultural Center. Participants at the event will have the opportunity to get involved with various projects, such as the Open Data Project and The EAT Good Food Project.

Drumbeat San Diego is will be a 6-hour participatory, hands-on event that will engage community organizers, artists, filmmakers, citizen journalists, musicians and other community members who are interested in networking, building with information tools, and connecting with diverse communities in San Diego and the larger world.

We have various project spaces in which participants can explore and engage in vibrant projects of civic engagement, open data, local farmers markets. Local arts organizations, Media Arts Center and the Fab Lab will facilitate a session. We will also include international Drumbeat Projects: Universal Subtitles, P2PU and "Shaping the future of Mozilla" workshop, with Marcia Knous of Mozilla Foundation.

“We are part of a global movement that is empowering communities to create new media projects to better the world we live in,” said Art Neill of New Media Rights. Drumbeat is a worldwide initiative led by Mozilla Foundation to create positive change in our community and have a global impact.

Please see the event’s agenda for more detail:
http://www.newmediarights.org/drumbeat/agenda_drumbeat_san_diego_event_february_5th_2010