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Short on time & funds!

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Heya all,

I haven’t been able to update the blog and our events after being super tied with school and a list of other work propping up. Since we are scaling our work it means more work and less time for me to do anything else I was otherwise doing – until I find others who can do it for me.

We’re really hoping to raise some funds so that we can cover much of what we are doing at the least since we are really short on time and personal funds to keep up with the demands of the work.

This is the link to our online campaign:

https://www.ketto.org/TheRedDoorPuneSF

Do share it with others in your network too! It would really help us continue the work we are doing.

Thank you so much for your ongoing support and encouragement.

Peace & Colour,
TRD

p/s: OH! did you know that TRD holds a ™? so we are actually The Red Door™ and all of what we do is protected including what we create through our events, names, word mark, art, writing, etc. :))

Art, Event, Projects, Stories

#redefiningmadness – self portraits

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Hey Folks!
 
It’s that time of the year where you participate in another exciting global TRD event which questions and challenges normalcy and madness.
 
We are all too familiar with the depiction of madness and the stereotyping of mental illness or how a mentally ill is supposed to look like. I’m sure each one of you would have had to hear comments like ‘But you look fine’, ‘You don’t look depressed’, ‘You don’t look schizophrenic’, ‘I don’t see anything wrong with you’, ‘You’re always so happy’ so on and so forth.
 
Mainstream cinema and media haven’t really done any of us any justice. Nor does society stand up to look beyond the labels and the face and see just the person.
 
So to address this, The Red Door is now participating in the Inside Out Project which is a global art project transforming messages of personal identity into works of art. All you got to do is get a self-portrait of your’s clicked which shows your identity of madness or what it means to you. You could choose to make faces, use props, or an action but it has to show your FACE (front view not side or back). This will then be printed into LARGE posters which will be pasted on walls.
 
Note: You don’t have to be someone with a mental illness label to participate. Your participation in this is equally necessary in redefining what and how madness is perceived.
 
Here are the guidelines for participation:
1. You may submit your self-portrait, find us a huge wall, make donations, or help us out with media, and contribute to helping us paste once the posters are printed. (We will need access to pasting them and this can be anywhere including rooftops, windows, doors, parking lots, restaurants, anywhere where the posters can stay)
2. The portraits do not need to be professional quality but they have to be 1MB in size at 100 dpi which captures your face. (pets, back of heads, inanimate objects, groups of people don’t count) Please do not send us pictures to convert sizes for you as we don’t have anyone working on that. You can click it yourself or get someone else to photograph you.
 
Click here to check other portraits out from other causes to get an idea of it: http://www.insideoutproject.net/en/best-of
The best portraits are emotional, captivating and reflects your story.
 
3. Attach a personal statement with your photograph. It can be a sentence, paragraph or a story. TRD will share this around all social media platforms.
 
and then
send your picture (.jpeg), statement, and release form to theculturedculture@gmail.com
 
It costs USD 20 per participant for Inside Out to print the posters and ship them back to us. Our subsidized rate or if it’s free will be confirmed after submissions. However, TRD still needs to work around this project for coordination, logistics, social media, marketing, and creating the neccessities. Inside Out will only send the posters across to us. Do your bit please by supporting this here: https://thereddoorproject.wordpress.com/699-2/
 
Get started now!
 
 
Art, Event, Projects

Attic Inauguration!

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Hey all you beautiful people of The Red Door!

As you all know The Red Door has no physical office and over the past 4 years has been purely operating through our community here and the travels we make.
However, this year we have finally found ourselves a little cozy space above a tattoo studio where we get to relive moments with our imaginary friends, have mad hatter tea parties, and likely bump into each other’s attic-cal antiques!

But the space needs YOU to help us build. It has white washed walls as you will see in the video posted on our page. We have furnishing and all those decorative stuff to complete – but before any of that happens WE NEED TO PAINT/SKETCH our walls!

So drop in between the timing mentioned below and leave your mark on our now physical wall.
PLEASE do confirm your participation so that we can make arrangements for tea & snacks.

It will be held on the 24th & 25th of October from 12pm – 4pm at Shiv Hari Complex Premises, VImannagar, Pune.
This space is shared with our partner team bikers of the Coffin Cheaterz Motorcycle Club (CCMC).

Materials will be provided by us. You are FREE to sponsor them if you want otherwise 🙂 Or maybe sponsor our flooring after the paint job!

Join our event on facebook and let us know if you are popping by! Check our crazy videos out on our Facebook Page!

Peace & Colour!

Art, Event, Projects

Blog update!


Hey all our wonderful supporters. Our blog has been updated and our 4 year report is up.

Have a look around before we add more stuff —-> https://thereddoorproject.wordpress.com/our-stuff/

We have just covered one Travelling Red Door to Matheran Green Festival and spent an incredible long week there speaking to many people. Videos and pictures will be posted soon.

Peace & Colour!