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Final day to bid! Artist-Physician Dr Ahmed Mater (@ahmedmater) has donated his Mecca-inspired Magnetism installation to support the global Covid-19 response through the arts.As a community physician and leading Arab artist, Ahmed has donated the work to express his solidarity with the World Health Organization (@WHO)and join a global cultural movement to support recovery from the pandemic.Scroll through the slideshow to see where Magnetism has been exhibited over the ...years. The Future is Unwritten’s Healing Arts Initiative has launched with the sale of Magnetism as part of Christie’s (@christiesinc) Middle East Contemporary Art Sale in London. Bidding for the sale ends tomorrow, 24 November at 9AM EST.Working in collaboration with the WHO, WHO Foundation (@thewhof), UN75 (@join_un75), World Council of Peoples of the United Nations (@wcpun) and CULTURUNNERS (@culturunners), the initiative aims to increase awareness around a global path to recovery and raise critical funds to mobilise artists and health professionals in support of communities most vulnerable, at-risk and with the weakest health systems to act effectively in response to the pandemic. Click the link in the bio for more information, and to browse the sale. The British Museum, London, Hajj, Journey to the Heart of Islam, 2012 53rd Venice Biennale, Edge of Arabia, 2009 Institut du Monde Arab, Paris, 25 Years of Arab Creativity, 2012 Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Hajj, the Journey through Art, 2013 Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde, Leiden, Longing for Mecca: The Pilgrim’s Journey, 2013 Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Festival & Institut du Monde Arabe, 25 Years of Arab Creativity, 2013 Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Scenarios: The End of the World, 2016-2017 Brooklyn Museum, Ahmed Mater: Mecca Journeys, 2017-2018 Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Mitochondria: Powerhouses, 2018 Image Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Longing for Mecca, 2019-2020

Meet the panelists for tomorrow’s @join_un75 dialogue: The Pilgrimage & The Pandemic - exploring how the city of Mecca managed the challenge of a mass gathering during a global pandemic? And what is the role of creativity in faith and spirituality during times of societal anxiety? Christopher Bailey, Arts & Health Lead at the WHO. Dr Ahmed Mater, Artist-Physician and Mecca cultural historian. ... Dr Hanan Balkhy, Assistant Director-General for AMR (Antimicrobial Resistance) at WHO. Hamza Serafi, artist and co-founder of ATHR Gallery and the Saudi Art Council. The discussion is part of The Future is Unwritten Healing Arts Initiative and set against the sale of Dr Ahmed Mater's Mecca-inspired Magnetism installation (pictured above) to raise funds for a global COVID-19 response through the arts.

To mark #UNday, we are launching:The Future is Unwritten: Artists for Tomorrow - a @unitednations 75th Anniversary Exhibition honoring artists on the front line of Sustainable Development. The exhibition showcases projects by nine international artists implementing societal innovation towards a more sustainable world. With a focus on action and impact, these ‘artists for tomorrow’ represent the shift from discussion to implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goa...ls. Meet the artists rewriting the future: Ghana Think Tank, The American Riad Rashad Salim, Ark Re-imagined Hannah Thomas, Tears of Gold Matthew Mazzotta, The Main Idea Mona Chalabi, Years Stolen Ahmed Mater, Desert of Pharan Chip Thomas, The Painted Desert Khalid AlBaih, Khartoon! People of America - Initiated by Mel Chin, Fundred Project Artists for Tomorrow is curated by @stephenstapleton and Danielle Sweet, organized by @culturunners and @wcpun in collaboration with @join_un75 and @googleartsculture; and presented in partnership with the Open Mind Project

Art, neuroscience, music, and mindfulness merge @themuseumofmodernart for tomorrow’s (Oct 22) immersive event: The Art and Science of Hope and Justice with @DrDanSiegel,@drmindheart, Orlando Villarraga & Chris Bailey @WHO. Registration here: https://moma.zoom.us/web/register/WN_gnmonG7EQWK-lUrw-nLzPA We are proud that this event is part of #thefutureisunwritten #UN75 dialogue series and if you can not join tomorrow, will be available on @join_un75 YouTube from next week. ... TFIU's 2020 Programming Partner is the Open Mind Project. Artwork credit: Ben Shahn. "For All These Rights We've Just Begun to Fight, Register, Vote." 1946. Lithograph. Gift of S. S. Spivack. Courtesy The Museum of Modern Art, New York

During last week’s @who #covid press conference in Geneva, WHO Director General, @drtedros announced The Future is Unwritten’s Healing Arts Auction series in the context of World Mental Health Day. Thank you to @join_un75 @thewhof and @christiesinc for coming together with #culturunners and @wcpun to launch this landmark project; and to our 2020 programming partner #theopenmindproject

Announcing The Future is Unwritten’s Healing Arts Auction series in partnership with @christiesinc - a cultural call-to-action to support the World Health Organization & COVID-19 response through the arts. The Healing Arts Auctions - announced today by #christies @thewhof and @join_un75 - will run until the end of next year, with works to be offered in a number of sales across a wide range of genres. The first work to come under the hammer will be Magnetism (2012) by physic...ian-artist, Ahmed Mater, appearing in Christie's November Middle East Contemporary Art Sale in London. As part of @culturunners and @wcpun #thefutureisunwritten initiative to engage the international art world in UN priority areas, and @who Solidarity Series of Events, the auction series aims to increase awareness around a global path to recovery and raise critical funds to mobilize artists and health professionals in support of communities most vulnerable and with the weakest health systems to act effectively in response to the pandemic. We are actively searching for artwork donations and support to make this project a success so please do DM us if you are in a position to help. Thank you to our 2020 programming partner: the #openmindproject - as well as @nationalartsclub & @create2030 for support.

A huge thank you to #thefutureisunwritten 2020 programming partner - the #openmindproject - and all participating institutions and individuals for collaborating on events as part of last week’s UN 75th Anniversary commemorations.

Join us for a livestream of today’s #un75 Webinar (link in bio) hosted by @museumfortheun in collaboration with The Future is Unwritten. The webinar features pioneering museum leaders from around the world in dialogue about how the cultural sector can confront the most pressing social and environmental issues facing humanity. As bearers of history and physical places of trust, museums are uniquely placed to transform the values that guide our actions. Facing unprecedented glo...bal threats, a positive and hopeful future depends on radical shifts in mindset and on action at massive scale. So, at this crucial moment in time, how do we lead with action and optimism? #thefutureisunwritten #unga week program is presented in partnership with the Open Mind Project Moderated by: Molly Fannon, CEO, Museum for the United Nations UN Live Panelists include: Frances Morris, Director, Tate Modern Elizabeth Silkes, Executive Director, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, Global Bonita Bennett, Former Director, District Six Museum, South Africa Courtney Johnson, Tumu Whakarae Chief Executive, Te Papa, New Zealand Andres Roldan, Executive Director, Parque Explora, Colombia George Okello Abungu, CEO, Okello Abungu Heritage Consultants, Kenya

Meet the panelists for today’s #un75 Webinar hosted by @museumfortheun in collaboration with The Future is Unwritten. The webinar features pioneering museum leaders from around the world in dialogue about how the cultural sector can confront the most pressing social and environmental issues facing humanity. As bearers of history and physical places of trust, museums are uniquely placed to transform the values that guide our actions. Facing unprecedented global threats, a posi...tive and hopeful future depends on radical shifts in mindset and on action at massive scale. So, at this crucial moment in time, how do we lead with action and optimism? Moderated by: Molly Fannon, CEO, Museum for the United Nations UN Live Panelists include: Frances Morris, Director, Tate Modern Elizabeth Silkes, Executive Director, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, Global Bonita Bennett, Former Director, District Six Museum, South Africa Courtney Johnson, Tumu Whakarae | Chief Executive, Te Papa, New Zealand Andrés Roldán, Executive Director, Parque Explora, Colombia George Okello Abungu, CEO, Okello Abungu Heritage Consultants, Kenya

Meet the speakers for tomorrow’s UN75 Dialogue as part of Goals House @ UNGA. Link in bio to register. @communityjameel and #thefutureisunwritten are convening this expert panel to explore the relationship between art and health after trauma and conflict. The event will highlight ground-breaking research into the links between art and health and focus on a specific case study relating to the preservation of Yazidi culture following the ISIS genocide in 2014. Chaired by #comm...unityjameel international president, Fady Jameel Panelists include: Danielle Olsen, International Cultural Producer, Wellcome Trust; Christopher Bailey, Arts & Health Lead, World Health Organisation; Hannah Rose Thomas, Artist & Humanitarian Activist; Dr. Maher Nawaf, Director, Yazda UK and board member for Yazda Global; and Antonella Caruso, Founder, LAMEDINA Institute and ex-Director of Middle East and Western Asia Division, Department of Political Affairs, United Nations Artwork by Hannah Rose Thomas from her Tears of Gold project with the Yazidi community in Iraqi Kurdistan The Future is Unwritten’s #UNGA week program is presented in partnership with The Open Mind Project

Launching now - see link in bio: This UN75 presentation by The World Around showcases case studies that show how Designers, Architects and Thinkers can collaborate and rebuild in a Time of Crisis. Founded in 2019, The World Around is a New York-based institution led by curator and writer Beatrice Galilee that champions innovative and outstanding contemporary architectural and design practices; connecting a global audience to the most progressive values and promising ideas in culture today. Presented in partnership with The Open Mind Project #theworldaround #thefutureisunwritten #thefutureofarchitecture

Going live in 1.5 hours: Hosted by Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal, today’s special UN75 Dialogue (link in bio) coincides with the reopening of the seminal exhibition, Countryside, The Future at the Guggenheim in New York. The dialogue will explore radical changes transforming the surface of the world beyond cities. Countryside, the Future was conceived by architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal, Director of AMO, the think tank of Koolhaas’s Office for Metropolit...an Architecture (OMA), presenting original research that addresses urgent environmental, political, and socioeconomic issues in rural contexts. Dialogue moderated by: Rem Koolhaas and Samir Bantal. Panelists: Etta Madete, Architect and Lecturer at University of Nairobi; Dr Linda Nkatha Gichuyia, Department of Architecture, University of Nairobi; Matthew Mazzotta, a Social Practice Artist and Founder of The Main Idea; Lenora Ditzler, Agricultural systems scientist. PhD candidate at Wageningen University. All photos courtesy of the Guggenheim Museum and OMA.

Countryside, The Future, A UN75 Dialogue, hosted by Koolhaas and Samir Bantal, and presented in collaboration with the Guggenheim, will address urgent environmental, political and socio-economic issues in rural contexts. This special panel is convenining as part of the United Nations 75th Anniversary Commemorations and to coincide with the reopening of AMO's seminal exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York: Countryside, The Future. Panelists include: Etta Madete, Architect an...d Lecturer at University of Nairobi Dr Linda Nkatha Gichuyia, Department of Architecture, University of Nairobi Matthew Mazzotta, Social See more

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Follow link in bio to join tomorrow’s very special #countrysidethefuture UN75 Dialogue, hosted by #remkoolhaas and #samirbantal - presented in collaboration with #guggenheimmuseum - The panel will discuss urgent environmental, political and socio-economic issues in rural contexts, as part of the United Nations 75th anniversary commemorations and to coincide with the reopening of AMO's seminal exhibition @guggenheim in New York: Countryside, The Future. Dialogue Moderated by: ...Rem Koolhaas, Founder of OMA and curator of Countryside, The Future Samir Bantal, Director of AMO, the research and design studio of OMA Panelists include: Etta Madete, Architect and Lecturer at University of Nairobi Dr Linda Nkatha Gichuyia, Department of Architecture, University of Nairobi Matthew Mazzotta, Social Practice Artist and Founder of The Main Idea Lenora Ditzler, Agricultural systems scientist; PhD candidate at Wageningen University Going live 10:30AM EST

#thefutureisunwritten - join @create2030 Founder, Lisa Russell, for this @join_un75 Webinar for artists, arts organizations, policy and programme experts to share and discuss the UN International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development in 2021. The dialogue will highlight creativity's contribution to the SDGs and feature Create2030's new single and music video "Imagine" with youth artists who produced and recorded the song for the UN75 Youth Plenary: The Future of Multilateralism. Follow link in bio to register.