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What is the Ideas Fair?
Sign up today for Ideas Fair 2001!
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The Ideas Fair at Amnesty International USA's Annual General Meeting (AGM) is a standing exhibit of displays submitted by AI Local Chapters, Campus Chapters, Co-Groups, Regional Offices, exceptional individual AI activists, specialty Task Forces and Steering Committees, and staff. Do you find yourself on this list?
The "idea" of the AGM "Ideas" Fair is to engage the viewer with "visuals": posters, photographs, graphs and charts, newspaper clippings, "how-to" recipes for successful events, video or audio tapes. Hundreds of members and AGM visitors take time each year to absorb the beautifully displayed materials, photos, and art work. The Press often uses it as a rich and meaningful background for photos and interviews. Plan to mount a display celebrating your group's, or your own, note-worthy human rights activities!
Ideas Fair exhibits can be interactive: you may post materials to share, or ask viewers to sign-up for later contact. Ideas from your exhibit could be carried home in hundreds of pockets to hundreds of pockets of local human rights activism here in the US and abroad! Think about sharing your group's newsletters or other publications at the AGM Ideas Fair 2001. No idea is too modest or too grandiose.
Highlights from Past AGM's
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AIUSA's Legislative Program's Raise the Roof Ideas Fair display is visited by 2-year-old Virginia Barrett-Rendler and her mother Ruth, who serves on the AIUSA Board of Directors.
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Past AGM Ideas Fairs have featured memorable exhibits.
In San Francisco in 1998 Martha Ter Matt introduced the Prayer Flag Project and dozens, perhaps hundreds of AGM attendees created and displayed prayer flags at the Cathedral Hill Hotel.
USA Archives at the University of Colorado - Boulder, put together a wonderful display explaining and promoting the archives.
In 1996 DC staffer Carlos Salinas and DC area activists put together a breath-taking exhibit documenting human rights abuses in Columbia allegedly under-written with anti-drug funds from the United States. Group #122 - Santa Fe's - Children for Children exhibit included a powerful editorial from The New Mexican extolling the virtues of advocacy letter-writing for children, the Urgent Action Program showed-off UAs in French and Spanish and simply-written Children's Edition UAs, and former Guatemala co-group leader Heather Wiley highlighted the Indigenous Peoples' Campaign with large, exquisite photos of endangered villagers. Also,
Lisa Berg's "AI Publication Through the Years," was an eye-opener and Lisa gave away hundreds
of reproduction copies
AI Group 133 members are posed here with their huge Human Right Monopoly floor game created for Ideas Fair 2000.
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of AI's first Annual Report! Jack Rendler, former AIUSA Campaigns Director and Scott Harrison, Urgent Action Coordinator, exhibited their photographs of Rwandan children from the UN Refugee Camps in Goma, Zaire.
Members of Somerville Group #133 created a life-size playable Human Rights Monopoly at the Providence AGM in 2000.
Guidelines
Displays, audio-visual requirements, and content will be reviewed by the AGM Planning Committee for compliance with Amnesty International's mandate and the AGM budget. No valuable, one-of-a-kind materials should be displayed and AIUSA is not liable for damage or loss.
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