Projects tagged
Activates (people)
Energizes and organizes people into action. Can include emotion work
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Antigone
Read more: AntigoneAntigone, written by Sophocles approximately 441 BC, is the third of the three Thebans plays. Antigone is the daughter of the infamous Oedipus and Jocasta. Thebes has suffered from a plague, scandal, and civil war. Antigone’s brothers, Eteocles and Polyneices…
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Self-barricading for Free Education
Read more: Self-barricading for Free EducationEleven students have locked themselves in the Peter Cooper Suite of the eighth floor of the Cooper Union building to protest the institution’s decision to charge graduate students tuition. “We’re hoping this will show the administration that they aren’t able…
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Bailando en el banco
Read more: Bailando en el bancoUnas clientas esperan tranquilamente en un banco, cuando empieza a sonar una extraña canción en el hilo musical. Una clienta se sale de la cola y comienza a bailar con brío flamenco, y sorprendentemente el resto de clientes se le…
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Arabian Nights
Read more: Arabian NightsThe development of the Nights from the oriental oral and literary traditions of the Middle Ages into a classical work for Western readers is a fascinating one. The notebook of a Jewish book dealer from Cairo around the year 1150…
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269
Read more: 269On October 2nd, three animal rights activists shocked the world with an extraordinarily bold act, organized by Alex Bojour. They all were branded alive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA4q1pU957c) as a symbolic act of identification with the animals that are branded and used by…
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Feminist Theatre!
Read more: Feminist Theatre!WOW started as an international women’s theatre festival in October of 1980 in NYC. Within 18 months Wow found a permanent location and produced works by women and trans people all year around. In 1984 it moved into its current…
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Dumping Tea into the Sea – the Boston Tea Party
Read more: Dumping Tea into the Sea – the Boston Tea PartyForget Sarah Palin. And take a history class and learn from the daring early settlers! The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, a city in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the…
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The Dark Side: O’Keefe
Read more: The Dark Side: O’KeefeTrickery and disguise, usually followed by revealing the truth, are often tactics used by liberal activism, like the Yes Men for example. When used by the right, however, it can have different implications. Pretending to be a CEO or billionaire…
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Manifa de Dibujeros
Read more: Manifa de DibujerosLa huelga general europea del #14N no sólo nos dejó un importante seguimiento y abrumadora movilización en España y otros PIG’s, sino que también desplegó la habitual fuerza y originalidad creativa de la cual se vienen dotando las protestas en…
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HarassMap
Read more: HarassMapAcknowledging that sexual harassment is a serious problem in Egypt, the volunteer based organization HarassMap has created a series of strategies -both on site and online- to stamp out the social acceptability of sexual harassment in the country. The aim…
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Un-dividing the House
Read more: Un-dividing the HouseAbout 6 months before the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, installation artist Marc Thompson began conceptualizing and constructing an installation that would reflect the absurdities of the divided city. Thompson´s work was part of the Ressource Kunst…