On June 20, 2020, more than 150 artists from around the world will come together virtually in a completely unprecedented and unique initiative to support the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM) in France.
The goal is for the artistic community to raise public awareness, support the scientific community, and donate to medical research, which is working tirelessly to develop treatments and a vaccine for COVID-19. Since the beginning of the crisis, the Fondation pour la Recherche Médicale (FRM) has committed to supporting no fewer than 24 promising research projects for a total of €4 million in order to better understand, listen to the needs of researchers, and cure COVID-19 in the weeks and months to come!
For 24 hours on June 20, more than 150 street artists will broadcast live via Instagram from their workshops, studios, or the streets the creation of a work. Although physically distant from one another, across several continents, we will come together to lend our talents and resources to help end the COVID-19 crisis.
So, the artists:
– will make appeals for donations which will be collected by the solidarity fundraising platform Gandee, partner of the operation, fundraising already open and ready to collect donations.
– will donate the works they have created, which will be sold through our partner Monart, a platform using blockchain technology for total ease and security of transactions (which is also unprecedented).
Monart.art and Gandee.com have partnered with Carpe Diem to provide their platform services free of charge, meaning that 100% of donations go directly to the FRM.
In addition to the artists' Instagram streams, their YouTube channel will live stream the performances taking place simultaneously, capturing the artists' feeds from their Instagram accounts switching between them, thus providing a representation of this global event.
In the spirit of pooling our collective resources, we believe that the artistic community, through its mobilization, its unfailing generosity, the powerful works it will produce, together with donors and collectors, will provide the support that researchers and the FRM so desperately need.
For further information and updates on the progress of this operation please contact either Ed die Colla or Frederic Steimer .