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Emojis to stop teen drinking and drugs
Read more: Emojis to stop teen drinking and drugsThe Partnership for Drug-Free Kids, a national nonprofit dedicated to reducing substance abuse among adolescents, launched a new multimedia campaign for teens that uses emojis to communicate the challenges of negative influences, empowering them to live Above the Influence. The…
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Endangered Species Take Over Empire State Building
Read more: Endangered Species Take Over Empire State BuildingIn July 2015, the Empire State Building’s famous light displays were used to draw attention endangered wildlife. Along with Cecil, whose death has sparked international outrage, a snow leopard, tigers, lemurs, and various snakes, birds and sea creatures were projected…
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Good Chance Theatre
Read more: Good Chance TheatreSurrounded by a jungle of tents and mud, the Good Chance Theatre was set up last year by British playwrights Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson. The refugee camp theatre has been derided by many, but for the thousands of migrants…
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Guerrilla Girls- Twin Cities “takeover”
Read more: Guerrilla Girls- Twin Cities “takeover”A project as expansive as the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover is a first for them. Kicking off on January 21, the festival will comprise a series of events by 30 different groups, which will take place until March 6…
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“From Wall Street to Cairo”, featuring Fire in Cairo
Read more: “From Wall Street to Cairo”, featuring Fire in CairoMatthew Connors spent much of 2012 in Lower Manhattan making portraits of the protesters in the Occupy Wall Street movement. But a chance encounter during the course of that project made him do a 180-degree turn after meeting some Egyptian…
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Life Pods
Read more: Life PodsIn Jan. 2016 Karl Mattson from Rolla, BC displayed some of his unique sculptures for exhibition at Lantern Gallery in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His ‘Life Pods’ are sculptures constructed using only found objects.Tools, metal fragments, debris, and fuel tanks are some…
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#YesAllWomen
Read more: #YesAllWomenIn May, the horrific mass shooting in Isla Vista, CA, triggered national conversations about violent misogyny. After some Twitter users began using the hashtag #NotAllMen to defensively derail the conversation, the hugely popular hashtag #YesAllWomen emerged, getting tweeted over 1…
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#EverydayIran
Read more: #EverydayIran“Everyday Iran”, inspired by “Everyday Africa”, is the most widespread mobile photography project based on social networks in Iran which started since early in 2014. We in Everyday Iran ask the whole people who live and work in Iran to…
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#LikeAGirl
Read more: #LikeAGirlThe #LikeAGirl campaign was aired as a commercial during the 2015 SuperBowl. In the commercial, young girls were asked to act out certain phrases. They were told to “fight like girl”, “throw a ball like a girl”, “run like and…
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Meet to Sleep
Read more: Meet to SleepMeet To Sleep, a campaign started by Blank Noise, asks citizens from all across India to come to different public spaces like parks, and sleep there in order to take back free spaces without being afraid for their safety. The…
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Arruinados
Read more: ArruinadosIn July and August 2013, O Teatrão, a Coimbra based theatre company, presented the project Arruinados, comprising three theatre performances in three abandoned spaces (‘ruins’), one in each of three cities in the Centre region of Portugal located along the…
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The “marriage effect”
Read more: The “marriage effect”Rights activists in Mozambique have marched through the capital Maputo to protest a colonial era law still included in new legislation that allows rapists to go unpunished if they marry their victims. The “marriage effect” clause sees convicted rapists given…