Dear Wilna,

Thanks for the greats news.  You will have much support from all to make it
happen in Ghana, please feel free to contact any of us directly, for
specific issues. Once your local committee is formed and we  can interact
with them to search for a firm date for Our Media 7, the ball will start
rolling, and also the calendar...

Best regards,

Alfonso



On 08/05/07, Wilna Quarmyne <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>  8 May 2007
>
>
>
> LETTER FROM GHANA (with acknowlegments to the drafters of the "Letter from
> Sydney")
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>
>
> Dear OM Friends
>
>
>
> This is Wilna QUARMYNE from the Ghana Community Radio Network.  I start
> out with this introduction not out of a desire for self-promotion but
> because my surname has been entered in some OM "dispatches" as "Quagmyre" –
> apt perhaps, as in a play on the word "quagmire"J, but not quite accurate.
> [Whoever entered the name first in "dispatches", hey, no need for
> apologies; thought it was rather cute.]
>
>
>
> It was exactly a month today that we met at OM6.  I didn't quite know what
> to expect – a "worthy" conference, but fairly ho-hum perhaps.  Struggling
> with others for years to widen the space for Community Radio in Ghana, I was
> rather battle-weary when I came.  What a joy then to find a gathering
> where, to use Clemencia's words, "finally we do not need to convince
> anybody. Where the conversation can start beyond the convincing."
>
>
>
> And what a conversation it was!  A word that was used several times sums
> up the conference for me – "imaginary".  It had been buried so deep inside
> me – so obfuscated (!) with terminology (see what I mean) – that I didn't
> grasp its meaning at first.  At the end of one session - the absolutely,
> joyously, self-tumbling workshop by Clemencia and Amparo on memory and
> evaluation - I had to ask Alfonso:  "This use of the word 'imaginary'?  Is
> it being used for 'concept'?  'mind-set'?"  "No," Alfonso said, "more like
> world view."  But, of course!  In the Land of the Dreaming, what could be
> more resonant than "imaginary"?  Reflecting later, I thought, this is what
> we are about: reclaiming/reawakening/reigniting the imaginary, the
> spirit-world, of the forgotten, the overlooked – and our own forgotten and
> overlooked imaginaries.
>
>
>
> Though not really a conference-hopper, I join myself with those who say
> OM6 was the best conference I have ever, ever been to.  A month later, I
> still tingle from it.
>
>
>
> Many Thanks, Muchas Gracias.  To the Maestro – our master organizer and
> hombre bueno, Juan.  To Alfonso, for encouraging me to come and to Jethro
> for making it possible.  To Clemencia and John and the rest of the
> founders, for bringing OM about and continuing to make it
> happen/vibrate/radiate.  To the rest of the organizing committee.  To Lena
> and ICE.  And because it is impossible to detail the imprints you left -
> To All.
>
>
>
> Finally - the Council of the Ghana Community Radio Network met on 30 April
> and the AGM on 5 May.  Hosting OM7 was placed on the agenda at both
> meetings.  They caught the spirit at once.  Various potential co-hosts
> have also registered their excitement….
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> People, we're on!  If you want it, the Imaginary moves next to Africa – to
> Ghana.
>
>
>
> Wilna
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