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Provides a useful social service.
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SUNO-ethical fashion
Read more: SUNO-ethical fashionSUNO is one of the few luxury fashion brands that has been born out of a social cause. Max Osterweis and designer Erin Beatty launched their first collection in the spring of 2009, ” after post-election violence threatened to damage…
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Artbus
Read more: Artbus“Artbus is a non-profit organization devoted to the promotion and dissemination of contemporary art. Supported by contributions from individuals, foundations and corporations Artbus facilitates public access to current artistic expressions and fosters creativity and production by living artists. Artbus offers…
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GuggenSITO
Read more: GuggenSITOEl Antimuseo es un proyecto curatorial que questiona los mecanismos de legitimación del arte. El grupo considera su trabajo ” el proceso social donde se produce el valor simbólico y económico de la obra de arte, así como en el…
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Social ID Bureau
Read more: Social ID BureauIntro The Social ID Bureau is handing-out personal identification cards for a limited number of Facebook Social Network citizens, interested in alpha testing. Be the first among your friends to pick-up your social identification card and explore the future. What…
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Nuns and Shareholder Advocacy
Read more: Nuns and Shareholder AdvocacyThese Nuns mean business! Like most Nuns, the Sister’s of St. Francis in Philadelphia fight for causes in social justice, from fighting for farm worker’s rights to battling McDonald’s over childhood obesity. However, these nuns have recently taken it to…
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Two Female Graffiti Artists in Afghanistan
Read more: Two Female Graffiti Artists in AfghanistanMeet Shamsia Hassani. At age 24, she is one of Afghanistan’s first female graffiti artists. An associate professor of sculpture at Kabul University, she was first introduced to graffiti in 2010 by British artist, Chu, during a week-long course in…
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Will Work for Empty Wallets
Read more: Will Work for Empty WalletsA mixture of a social cause with a creative vision, this visual art exhibit is dedicated to the millions of unemployed citizens and veteran’s in the United States. Constructed out of 1284 used empty wallets from over 2,000 donated nation…
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Add-Art
Read more: Add-ArtAdd-Art is a free Firefox add-on which replaces advertising on websites with curated art images. Created with the support of Eyebeam, Rhizome, Add-Art releases new art shows every two weeks and strives to feature contemporary artists and curators. The plugin…
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Max Factor 26 billboard improvement campaign launches the Billboard Liberation Front
Read more: Max Factor 26 billboard improvement campaign launches the Billboard Liberation FrontFor 35 years, the Billboard Liberation Front have been altering public advertisements in San Francisco under the cover of night, strategically changing words or phrases to invert the intended message of corporate sponsors. Considering their guerrilla reclamation of public space…
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Men in Grey
Read more: Men in GreyFrom Media Facades Festival website: MEN IN GREY A public wireless access point would be set up in the area of a media façade so that people can browse, chat and surf on their smartphones, laptops and netbooks. Men in…
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Brazil Introduces Stipend for Culture Spending
Read more: Brazil Introduces Stipend for Culture SpendingWhile governmental support for arts and culture is often meager, the Brazilian national government has recently demonstrated great interest in the industry. They’ve just introduced a “cultural stipend,” which provides workers with 50 real (roughly $25) per month for arts…
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Who killed Rodrigo Rosenberg?
Read more: Who killed Rodrigo Rosenberg?In May of 2009 lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg was murdered in Guatemla City. A video was released of Rosenberg directed to the Guatemalan public. If you are watching this, he said, I have been murdered by the president Alvaro Colom. The…