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Any company, cooperate, organization initiative, network or platform created by RUNFREE is aimed at educating and providing entrepreneurial opportunities for individuals and/ or groups for the youth making efforts to re-instill the idea of change in this country. THE GALLERY initiative/organization; About: An organization of artists whose focus is the support and advancements of local arts and artists throughout the community Mission: To support the growth and development of artists community and expand awareness of visual arts through education, exhibitions and special programming Vision: Our vision is that THE GALLERY in Lesotho be a multidisciplinary place of creativity and growth regionally recognized as a leader in the representation and support of artists and emerging visual art forms. In doing so it will explore and involve the diverse culture of our community History: THE GALLERY started off as a no name platform but using the ‘mother brand’ name RUNFREE exhibiting arts around the country first in 2017 expo at the mall at Botha Bothe on an exhibition titled “ BOTHA BOTHE ASPIRES ARTS EXPO” later was showing at THABA BOSIU CULTURAL VILLAGE 2018 showing the” AFRICAN WOMAN EXPO ” following that showing at CAFÉ WHAT? The “AFRICAN WOMAN EXPO 2019” didn’t show in 2020 showed 2021 “COMMON GROUNDS EXPO and ART TALK, worked with a few independent organizations including JCI, LCCI, SELEMELA, and MINISTRY OF TOURISM as one of the government organizations. 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Disability inclusion programs (2022-2023) Accessibility to arts for all audience, including children and youth who have special needs Green art initiative (2022- 2023) A goal to make sales on arts and crafts on art made from wastes or recycled material to drive control, awareness and environmental preservative movements Available companies and/or organizations of interests on this initiative BEDCO- MEADA HOUSE GALLERY- MORIJA ARTS CENTER - THE HUB - UNICEF Lesotho - JCI Lesotho - LCCI - MINISTRY OF TOURISM - OFFICE NATIONAL - AMERICAN PEACE CORP- ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE - LEHAKOE - 5981 1540 About EVENTS and SIGNATURE PROGRAMMING COMMON GROUNDS ART TALKS About Art Talk Common grounds is known amongst the ones who coined the phrase as “a state of agreement among two or more groups or individual” Type of Talk Meetings, Lunches, sittings, sit ins, residencies Engage with the active art markets, art enthusiasts, art collectors, art curators, students and other artists. 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THE AFRICAN WOMAN ART EXPO About Exhibition: The African Woman Art Exhibition/ Mosali Oa Moafrika Art Exhibition is an event launched on August 9th 2018 (Thaba Bosiu Cultural Village) by RunFree, with intentions to inspire, empower and celebrate women, as this day is known as the national women’s day. The theme is created to reach the minds and hearts of those belonging to this day and Month through fine works of our local artists, as they create and embody the idea of what being a woman means today, articulating these through their different perceptions. Creating a space that sparks and brings up different conversations between artists and audience. This Annual show has taken its second turn in 2019 and will continue to go on following the 2021 exhibition. Theme: The artworks created are to personify the idea of an African woman, her beauty, her smile, her pain or otherwise, whether physical, visual, or symbolic, cultural or cross-cultural, lyrical or poetic, these ideas are to show or reveal the African woman of our times as per each individual artist’s choice. Type of exhibition: Commercial Sell ART WORKS and catalogs themed under “ AFRICAN WOMAN” HAE LESOTHO About Exhibition: *missing* Theme: *missing* Type of expo: Commercial Sell ARTWORKS depicting the look, the feel, the culture, the history the heritage and the people of the mountain kingdom. 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Management/chief curators Co curators Communications and networking Social media content Events and Marketing Funding, financing and sponsorships Research and Archives MANAGEMENT Set events and programs Manage events and programs Supervises Approve/disapprove exhibitions, programs and social media contents Takes interviews CO CURATOR Manage events and programs Set dates and meetings Supervises Work critics COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING Schedules and coordinate every meeting, events, programs and tasking Responsible for all internal and external networking Updates and informs members on all and every internal and external events and or other opportunities locally and internationally EVENTS AND MARKETING Advertises Poster designs, invitations and flyers Ensures programming and events are dated, funded and scheduled Events and program records, reports and minutes SOCIAL MEDIA Building content (video and image contents) Posting contents Pages and online information updates Consumes, share and comments on eternal comments FUNDING, FINANCING AND SPONSORSHIP Oversees every payments, funding, financing of all internal initiatives Records all payments made Finds and make proposals to all possible art and artists sponsorships Please refer to the follow chart PDF provided separately ***** This copy is property of RunFree. 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Any company, cooperate, organization initiative, network or platform created by RUNFREE is aimed at educating and providing entrepreneurial opportunities for individuals and/ or groups for the youth making efforts to re-instill the idea of change in this country. THE GALLERY initiative/organization; About: An organization of artists whose focus is the support and advancements of local arts and artists throughout the community Mission: To support the growth and development of artists community and expand awareness of visual arts through education, exhibitions and special programming Vision: Our vision is that THE GALLERY in Lesotho be a multidisciplinary place of creativity and growth regionally recognized as a leader in the representation and support of artists and emerging visual art forms. In doing so it will explore and involve the diverse culture of our community History: THE GALLERY started off as a no name platform but using the ‘mother brand’ name RUNFREE exhibiting arts around the country first in 2017 expo at the mall at Botha Bothe on an exhibition titled “ BOTHA BOTHE ASPIRES ARTS EXPO” later was showing at THABA BOSIU CULTURAL VILLAGE 2018 showing the” AFRICAN WOMAN EXPO ” following that showing at CAFÉ WHAT? The “AFRICAN WOMAN EXPO 2019” didn’t show in 2020 showed 2021 “COMMON GROUNDS EXPO and ART TALK, worked with a few independent organizations including JCI, LCCI, SELEMELA, and MINISTRY OF TOURISM as one of the government organizations. Gallery Team Signature workshops and exhibitions: THE AFRICAN WOMAN EXPO annual AFRICAN WOMEN 2019 CATALOG COMMON GROUNDS EXPO quarterly COMMON GROUNDS 2021 COMMON GROUNDS ART TALK monthly COMMON GROUNDS ART TALK 2021 HAE LESOTHO concept Teaching programs (NEW INITIATIVE) HOMESCHOOL ART PROGRAMS ART EDUCATOR PROGRAM SCHOOL TOURS Specialist programs (NEW INITIATIVE) ART FROM RECYCLED OR REPURPOSED MATERIAL NEW INITIATIVES Artists Agents programs (2022-2024) An initiative to build a network of agents who will work on day to day basis to promote the runfree artist work by also creating a sustainable flow of income in between the artists, the clients and the agents ABOUT AGENTS Expanding education programs (2021-2022) A plan to expand educational programming and community outreach to support the early development of arts education for children and youth within the community, Plans are underway for reaching children of low-income areas; providing free creative excursions, and affordable educational opportunities in visual arts. Disability inclusion programs (2022-2023) Accessibility to arts for all audience, including children and youth who have special needs Green art initiative (2022- 2023) A goal to make sales on arts and crafts on art made from wastes or recycled material to drive control, awareness and environmental preservative movements Available companies and/or organizations of interests on this initiative BEDCO- MEADA HOUSE GALLERY- MORIJA ARTS CENTER - THE HUB - UNICEF Lesotho - JCI Lesotho - LCCI - MINISTRY OF TOURISM - OFFICE NATIONAL - AMERICAN PEACE CORP- ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE - LEHAKOE - 5981 1540 About EVENTS and SIGNATURE PROGRAMMING COMMON GROUNDS ART TALKS About Art Talk Common grounds is known amongst the ones who coined the phrase as “a state of agreement among two or more groups or individual” Type of Talk Meetings, Lunches, sittings, sit ins, residencies Engage with the active art markets, art enthusiasts, art collectors, art curators, students and other artists. Solve Issues on copyrights, authenticating and art licensing. Explore, advertise and materialize our most immediate ART SHOW. Artists relieve activities COMMON GROUNDS EXHIBITIONS About Exhibition: Showing a variety of artists, different in styles, understanding and approach to art, Common Grounds, a relaxed yet a moving platform, explores unity in diversity with vivid artworks bringing local artists and their audience to a single space of common or similar goals. Where perspectives whether parallel, contrasting, subtle or extremely obvious are broken down to more relatable ideas or concepts as a way to broaden understanding within the audience, the artists, the art market and the art community as a whole. Theme: Flexible Type of Exhibition: Commercial Sales on small collective art works from various local artists. Advertise the next available show. Sell catalogs for the PREVIOUS and NEXT available shows. Find and register more artists for our next COMMON GROUNDS quarter. THE AFRICAN WOMAN ART EXPO About Exhibition: The African Woman Art Exhibition/ Mosali Oa Moafrika Art Exhibition is an event launched on August 9th 2018 (Thaba Bosiu Cultural Village) by RunFree, with intentions to inspire, empower and celebrate women, as this day is known as the national women’s day. The theme is created to reach the minds and hearts of those belonging to this day and Month through fine works of our local artists, as they create and embody the idea of what being a woman means today, articulating these through their different perceptions. Creating a space that sparks and brings up different conversations between artists and audience. This Annual show has taken its second turn in 2019 and will continue to go on following the 2021 exhibition. Theme: The artworks created are to personify the idea of an African woman, her beauty, her smile, her pain or otherwise, whether physical, visual, or symbolic, cultural or cross-cultural, lyrical or poetic, these ideas are to show or reveal the African woman of our times as per each individual artist’s choice. Type of exhibition: Commercial Sell ART WORKS and catalogs themed under “ AFRICAN WOMAN” HAE LESOTHO About Exhibition: *missing* Theme: *missing* Type of expo: Commercial Sell ARTWORKS depicting the look, the feel, the culture, the history the heritage and the people of the mountain kingdom. About LEARNING and TEACHINGS PROGRAMMING HOMESCHOOL ART PROGRAMMES Provide home schooling for kids, students, adults who are interested in learning or improving on their artistic skills ART EDUCATOR PROGRAM Arm and provide registered artists with tools for their teaching endeavors SCHOOL TOURS Provide and assist teachers on teaching arts in government and private schools Instill ideas of quality art and exhibitions and other art culture with pupils in schools country wide. AVAILABLE NAME SELECTIONS RunFree galleries O1o galleries Sees galleries ***** Tasking and executive team stand. Management/chief curators Co curators Communications and networking Social media content Events and Marketing Funding, financing and sponsorships Research and Archives MANAGEMENT Set events and programs Manage events and programs Supervises Approve/disapprove exhibitions, programs and social media contents Takes interviews CO CURATOR Manage events and programs Set dates and meetings Supervises Work critics COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING Schedules and coordinate every meeting, events, programs and tasking Responsible for all internal and external networking Updates and informs members on all and every internal and external events and or other opportunities locally and internationally EVENTS AND MARKETING Advertises Poster designs, invitations and flyers Ensures programming and events are dated, funded and scheduled Events and program records, reports and minutes SOCIAL MEDIA Building content (video and image contents) Posting contents Pages and online information updates Consumes, share and comments on eternal comments FUNDING, FINANCING AND SPONSORSHIP Oversees every payments, funding, financing of all internal initiatives Records all payments made Finds and make proposals to all possible art and artists sponsorships Please refer to the follow chart PDF provided separately ***** This copy is property of RunFree. 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