Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
-
Afropunk: Feeling Black Activism’s Joy, and Its Pain
Read more: Afropunk: Feeling Black Activism’s Joy, and Its PainAs Black History Month commemorations start to wind down, one festival is just gearing up. Afropunk the Takeover — Harlem, running from Tuesday through Feb. 25, will celebrate black culture with music, art, film screenings, discussions and comedy. Co-produced by…
-
DR Congo: performing for change
Read more: DR Congo: performing for changeDriving along an ordinary dirt road, it’s hard to miss the Goma Cultural Centre with its bright blue gate, emblazoned with the Congolese flag. “As you can see, we are proud to be Congolese around here,” said Belamy Paluku, a…
-
Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied
Read more: Power: From the Mouths of the OccupiedStatistics are easy to remove ourselves from. A story, you are implicated in, and you have to choose what side you are going to be on. Patrisse developed Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied in 2015 while she was…
-
Beethoven’s 200-Year-Old ‘Fidelio’ Enters Today’s Prisons
Read more: Beethoven’s 200-Year-Old ‘Fidelio’ Enters Today’s PrisonsFew opera choruses are as moving as the one a group of prisoners sings in Act I of Beethoven’s “Fidelio.” Released temporarily from their cells, the inmates almost whisper a hymnlike paean to liberty: “Oh, what a joy to breathe…
-
Thrive Collective
Read more: Thrive CollectiveThrive Collective mobilizes students, parents, artists, and community stakeholders to partner with public schools for transformational change. They function both as a matchmaker and direct service provider of arts and mentoring programs that cultivate the character and competencies necessary for…
-
Finding Black Owned Businesses
Read more: Finding Black Owned BusinessesAn inspired story of artists who have made millions engaging their communities of using their artistic influence to create change for others! **** Over the last few years or so, Diddy and Jay-Z have continually found themselves near the very…
-
This is America
Read more: This is America(NEWS 8) — A day after pulling double-duty as both the host and musical guest on “Saturday Night Live,” actor-writer-comedian-musician Donald Glover was garnering attention on Sunday for another reason. Social media blew up this weekend with reactions to Glover’s…
-
RAISE IT UP, MAKE AN IMPACT!
Read more: RAISE IT UP, MAKE AN IMPACT!IMAPCT are youth activists who view the creative arts and leadership training as a way to develop ourselves and change the world in a positive way. They believe that they must be the message that bring through hardwork, focus, discipline,…
-
The SOA Cycle
Read more: The SOA Cycle“SOA Cycle, and what it later became, which is called the Democracy Cycle, is a group of seven large works that approach the question of democracy. What is democracy? How is it constructed? How is it implemented? Is it something…
-
Untitled – Ongoing series
Read more: Untitled – Ongoing seriesSarcastic delivery spoken to black people talking about issues regarding black “progress” , media, consumption among other things https://www.instagram.com/jillisblack/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/p/Bb3Y-bQFc2a/?hl=en&taken-by=jillisblack External sources: https://www.instagram.com/p/BYJs31VFV9G/?hl=en&taken-by=jillisblack https://www.instagram.com/jillisblack/?hl=en
-
STYLELIKEU
Read more: STYLELIKEUElisa and Lily chose to create StyleLikeU as an alternative to this disempowering status quo. In 2009, the duo picked up a home video camera and launched their “Closet” series, documenting diverse individuals who were challenging fashion industry norms in…
-
Michelle Wolf got it just right
Read more: Michelle Wolf got it just right“Thank you!” That’s how comedian Michelle Wolf answered Sean Spicer’s declaration that her headlining stand-up set at the the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was “a disgrace.” Her response is instructive: To Wolf, an insult from Spicer is an accolade…