Projects tagged
Activates (people)
Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
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Yomango Fashion Show
Read more: Yomango Fashion Show“On July 5, 2002, a strange new brand began cropping up in the streets of Barcelona. That day, at the height of sales season, more than fifty people rushed through the center of Barcelona to the Bershka clothing store to…
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Project Row House
Read more: Project Row HouseProject Row Houses (PRH) is a neighborhood-based nonprofit art and cultural organization in Houston’s Northern Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest African-American communities. PRH began in 1993 as a result of discussions among African-American artists who wanted to establish…
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White Walls Say Nothing (Film)
Read more: White Walls Say Nothing (Film)This film is being produced by White Wall Industries in association with graffitimundo. graffitimundo is a Buenos Aires based arts organisations, dedicated to promoting the city’s urban art culture and supporting its artists. For the past four years graffitimundo have…
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16 days of activism against gender violence-global movement
Read more: 16 days of activism against gender violence-global movementSince 1991, approximately 1,700 organizations in 130 countries have participated in the 16 Days Campaign, which originated from the first Women’s Global Leadership Institute sponsored by the Center for Women’s Global Leadership. During 16 days, participators are encouraged to organize…
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There’s So Much I Want to Say to You
Read more: There’s So Much I Want to Say to YouAt the press preview for Sharon Hayes’s new full-floor exhibition “There’s So Much I Want to Say to You” at the Whitney Museum there was a podium and a microphone set up in the center of the gallery that would…
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Women Are Heros
Read more: Women Are HerosFilm correlating to the project of the same name by JR – a french street artist who works with large scale photography and wheat-paste. External sources: https://www.womenareheroes-lefilm.com/site_womenareheroes/ https://vimeo.com/15686678
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Graffiti campaigns bring women and children into street art
Read more: Graffiti campaigns bring women and children into street artBy Maha ElNabawi It was a landmark day when prominent women’s rights activist Doria Shafiq bravely led a march of 1,500 women to storm the gates of Parliament on 19 February 1951. After several hours of unrelenting protest, Shafiq was…
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Lixo Extraordinário
Read more: Lixo ExtraordinárioOver the course of 3 years, from 2006 until 2009, the production team behind the film Wasteland (2010), also known as “Lixo Extraordinário” followed Brazilian, Brooklyn-based mixed-media artist, Vik Muniz, as he traveled back to Brazil to create self portraits…
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Tactical Ice Cream Unit – Selling Ice Cream, With Sprinkles of Anarchism
Read more: Tactical Ice Cream Unit – Selling Ice Cream, With Sprinkles of AnarchismBy COREY KILGANNON There was something odd about the ice cream truck that pulled up to the curb on Park Avenue near 67th Street on Friday, with its proletarian color scheme and its overdressed driver with the subversive grin. He…
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UndocuNation gathers artists at International House
Read more: UndocuNation gathers artists at International HouseUndocuNation, a performance and visual art conglomeration, took place this past Friday at International House. The Center for Race and Gender at Berkeley, CultureStr/ke, and the Theater and Dance Performance Studies department here at UC Berkeley helped put on the…
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Occupy Small Street
Read more: Occupy Small StreetFirst Inspired by a doll-sized action in Siberia, #occupysmallstreet staged its first little protest in Melbourne’s City Square, as part of #F12, International Art + Occupy Day. Signs are made collectively, by regular Arts x Activism and members of the…
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Real Democracy Australia – Viral Participatory Poster Project.
Read more: Real Democracy Australia – Viral Participatory Poster Project.Do we need to crowdsource a new Australian Constitution? Does anything matter more than the environment? Should Australia become a republic with an Australian head of state? Should whistleblowers be protected? Is representative democracy antiquated? Controversial artist Carl Scrase is…