Projects tagged
Activates (people)
Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
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A ‘new poetry’ emerges from Syria’s civil war
Read more: A ‘new poetry’ emerges from Syria’s civil war“Today there is literature coming out of Syria that we could have never even dreamed of just a few years ago,” Atrash says.Rather than relying on metaphors and allegorical images, these new poems rely on literal, visceral descriptions, with a…
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HeadSpace Magazine
Read more: HeadSpace MagazineExpress and Create, Solidarity and Support” is a slogan that summarises the aims of HeadSpace, a new, non-profit, artistic magazine that accepts submissions on the theme of mental health. It is entirely run by volunteers and mostly distributed for free…
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Bon Appetit
Read more: Bon AppetitCreative Graffiti at the Urban Culture Festival in Germany By Loredana Loy A street art project by by KD Key Detail from Minsk, Belarus–created and featured at the IBUg 2013 Urban Culture Festival in Zwickau, Germany. The project is entitled…
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Activist Performance
Read more: Activist PerformanceThe Activist Performance blog – documenting protest gestures past and present We are responding to a century that has witnessed a proliferation of theatrical forms of activism perhaps unprecedented in its global scale, from the occupation of Seattle by an…
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Animal rights activists march in downtown L.A.
Read more: Animal rights activists march in downtown L.A.Animal rights activists march in downtown L.A. By Kelly Goff Ann Bradley is a passionate vegan. The 60-year-old Silver Lake resident said she wasn’t always, though. “I ate it, I wore it, I sat on it, I went to circuses,…
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Greenpeace Action at F1 Grand Prix in Belgium
Read more: Greenpeace Action at F1 Grand Prix in BelgiumGreenpeace Action at F1 Grand Prix in Belgium By Marc van Gurp An effective little action from Greenpeace at the F1 Grand Prix in Belgium. A reminder about the role of Shell in the destruction of the artic. A few…
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Artist Wages Drone War on Thomas Kinkade
Read more: Artist Wages Drone War on Thomas KinkadeThere are few artists more innocuous, more neutered, more universally loved and reviled than Thomas Kinkade. His soft-focus images present an idyllic vision of America and of Christianity, like Norman Rockwell without the blue-collar populism, where everything is beautiful, nothing…
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Corrected Billboard Applauds NSA Prior to Congressional Vote
Read more: Corrected Billboard Applauds NSA Prior to Congressional VoteThe California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new billboard campaign to defend the domestic spying operations of the National Security Agency (NSA). On July 23, 2013 the CDC successfully apprehended, rehabilitated and discharged a billboard at Bayshore Boulevard…
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Life Line Booth
Read more: Life Line Booth3-part webseries where Life Line Booths are set up with donated items in homeless communities for anyone’s taking. In addition to practical aid, we provide blank canvases, paper and markers for visitors to express their thoughts and share their stories.…
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BUFFALO BLOOD
Read more: BUFFALO BLOODA series of performances orchestrated by Lila Roo, to bring awareness to the past, present and future issue of the physical and energetic violence against the First Nation of the native buffalo and peoples of the United Sates of America…
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Pedestrian Critical Mass
Read more: Pedestrian Critical MassINVITATION Pedestrian Critical Mass We walk for pedestrians rights Saturday, June 29th @ 3:33 pm From Plaza Venezuela to Chacaíto Caracas, Venezuela We invite you to walk for a human Caracas where car driver and motorized respect pedestrian. Enough of…
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Real Life Barbie
Read more: Real Life BarbieWe have learnt that Barbie’s body is literally unattainable, but in a role reversal, Pennsylvania-based artist Nikolay Lamm shows us what Barbie would look like if she had the body of a real woman. Using the measurements of an average…