Projects tagged
Shifts (culture)
Shifts the cultural landscape in order to imagine and enable change.
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Free Hugs Campaign
Read more: Free Hugs CampaignThe Free Hugs Campaign is a social movement involving individuals who offer hugs to strangers in public places.The hugs are meant to be random acts of kindness – selfless acts performed just to make others feel better. International Free Hugs…
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SuperBarrio runs for PRESIDENT!
Read more: SuperBarrio runs for PRESIDENT!“Superbarrio Gomez and his journey in the construction of a “politics of the possible” (1) , an alternative political imaginary constituted via popular culture and the construction of a national and transnational social movement. Superbarrio makes evident the collapse between…
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Puppets Against AIDS
Read more: Puppets Against AIDS“Puppets Against Aids was launched by Gary Friedman on 1st December 1988 in time for ‘World Aids Day’ in Johannesburg, South Africa. During 1987, Friedman had been studying with Muppet master, Jim Henson, in Charleville-Mézières, France. Henson provided the initial…
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Lysistrata
Read more: LysistrataLysistrata, by Aristophanes, was first performed in Athens in 411 BC. The play, while fictional, can be read as an early example of creative activism. It is about Lysistrata’s quest to end the war between Athens and Sparta. She gathers…
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Much Ado About BP
Read more: Much Ado About BP“Members of the Reclaim Shakespeare Company jumped on stage at the Noël Coward theatre to deliver another surprise anti-BP performance. Just before the second half of a BP-sponsored Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) performance of Much Ado About Nothing was due…
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Run #4AllCauses
Read more: Run #4AllCauses“Lincoln Square — The runners tossed blankets, gloves, jackets and other gear onto the pile, each leaving a piece of where they came from. A French man donated his running shirt and pants, and noted that they were designer wear.…
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Suffrage
Read more: SuffrageAlice Paul, along with Lucy Burns, joined the National American Woman suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1912. They were allowed to take over the NAWSA Congressional Committee in DC but were given no office or funds. For months Paul and Burns…
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Asgarda: Amazons of the Ukraine
Read more: Asgarda: Amazons of the UkraineIn the Ukraine, a country where females are victims of sexual trafficking and gender oppression, a new tribe of empowered women is emerging. Calling themselves the “Asgarda”, the women seek complete autonomy from men. Residing in the Carpathian Mountains, the…
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Activists fight the intrusion of camera surveillance in New York City
Read more: Activists fight the intrusion of camera surveillance in New York City“The Surveillance Camera Players (SCP) is a small, informal group of people who are unconditionally opposed to the installation and use of video surveillance cameras in public places. The SCP was formed in New York City in November 1996 by…
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Walk in Their Shoes
Read more: Walk in Their Shoes“Hundreds of children’s shoes create stunning memorial of Iraqi children dead through war. NEW YORK — A small manila card, tied to a tiny pair of dirty white shoes, reads “Son of woman killed in Al-Dawr. Age six months.” These…
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Lambrakis LivZ
Read more: Lambrakis LivZThe performance, “Lambrakis LivZ”, concerns the re-enactment of the political speech of Grigoris Lambrakis given in Athens in 1962. Grigoris Lambrakis was a peace-activist, assassinated by a paramilitary plot on June 1963 at Thessaloniki, Greece. The title denotes the first…
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Pilobolus Vote Project
Read more: Pilobolus Vote ProjectThe Pilobolus Dance company, famous for their beautiful aesthetics of shadow play formed out of the dancer’s bodies, started the #PilobolusVOTEproject, encouraging people to form the words VOTE with whatever material they had around them, take a picture of it…