letters from Windsor CA
vanguards of trans-atlantic community, media and curriculum development
A group of 95 students at the University of Windsor CA are currently engaging with the DURBAN SINGS project as part of their Intercultural Communication Course. The students are required to deliver a written assignment about the project and produce an audio letter in response to recordings from the DURBAN SINGS on-line archive. The aim of this pilot is to test the limits and possibilities of on-line communication tools as platforms of productive activist exchange across the fields of community, media and curriculum development for local groups of possibly very diverse social and cultural backgrounds. The curriculum of the course is being re-written in on-line transit and correspondence as the recordings of two skype lecture sessions on 29th May and 5 June 2009 can document :
http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_642
http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_5
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Audio Letters from Windsor CA to Durban SA
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from: Angad Chahal, June 09
http://www.archive.org/details/NationalAthems This is a piece I compiled to bring together the national anthems of Canada, South Africa and the United States. The recording closes off with a remix of the famous speech by Dr. Martin Luther King
From: Nazaneen Dizai, 17 June 09
http://www.archive.org/details/DurbanSings_425 The Voice of a Minority
From: Andrzej Kedzior, 22 June 09
http://www.archive.org/details/AndrzejKedziorsDurbanSingsLetter Andrzej Kedzior’s letter to Durban Sings
DURBAN SINGS 
I have posted a letter in response to cultural diversity.
many thanks, Nazaneen; and also many thanks to you, Angad!
it’s a great pleasure receiving your postings. we’ll be able listening to them with the entire editorial team on monday.
warm greetings from Durban
I have posted a letter at
http://www.archive.org/details/VoicesToAfricaJuxtaposingFragileCommunities
Voices to Africa – Juxtapopsing Fragile Communities
Greetings Collette! wonderful and invocative piece, lovely to hear your musical mixing of factory machines with those very woried voices of ordinary workers of Windsor. The a selection from the text that acompanies Collette’s piece reads:
Sobering and universally relevent in these precarious times. All the Love from the Southern Tip of Africa. Strength and Peace.