Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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Kendrick Lamar Opens the 2018 Grammys with a Powerful and Political Performance
Read more: Kendrick Lamar Opens the 2018 Grammys with a Powerful and Political PerformanceDAMN. Kendrick Lamar opened the 2018 GRAMMYs with a powerful and political performance of his hit, “XXX.’” The rapper featured an army of face-covered soldiers marching in the background of an American flag, that quickly turned into a “satire” taking…
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FOKAL
Read more: FOKALARTS/CULTURE FOKAL is the hub in Haiti where locals and international visitors from all walks of life — artists, writers, citizens, activists– come together to discuss the most pressing nation- and community-building issues, enjoy cutting edge artistic expressions, and share…
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The Project Filoctetes
Read more: The Project FiloctetesThe protagonism of the body in the dramatization of marginalized groups is also central to Emilio García Wehbi’s Proyecto Filoctetes, an urban intervention staged November 15, 2002, on the streets of Buenos Aires. The project consisted in placing twenty-five lifelike…
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Indigenous Cooking
Read more: Indigenous Cooking“a dinner cooked by six indigenous chefs, members of tribes from around North America, who are meeting together for the first time this week to launch a new indigenous activist group, called the I-Collective. Thursday’s dinner will be at Dimes,…
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Umbrella Man – Occupy Central Hong Kong
Read more: Umbrella Man – Occupy Central Hong KongThe pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong have a new mascot: a roughly 12-foot-high figure of wood blocks holding a bright yellow umbrella in its outstretched right hand. The students call it Umbrella Man. Umbrellas emerged as a symbol of the…
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Sit-Down Strike for Rhythm
Read more: Sit-Down Strike for RhythmAt the New Orleans Swing Dance Festival the all African-American dance troupe The Rhythm Ambassadors were presented along side an African-American iteration of the Preservation Hall All-Star band with African-American vocalist Taryn Newborne to deliver the message that the African-American…
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Ai Weiwei launches controversial public art project focused on immigration
Read more: Ai Weiwei launches controversial public art project focused on immigrationThe artist has assembled a set of 300 installations around New York City, based around the concept of fences and borders, to showcase the ‘narrow-minded’ attempts used to ‘create some kind of hatred between people’ In 1937, French artist André…
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Reclaiming the Domestic
Read more: Reclaiming the DomesticThe work of South African artist Mary Sibande tells the tale of her alter-ego Sophie, a domestic worker who finds refuge in dreams where she emancipates herself from the ghoulish realism of an ordinary existence, cleaning other people’s homes. Exploring…
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Gay Rights Activists in Beijing Protest for Their Russian Comrades
Read more: Gay Rights Activists in Beijing Protest for Their Russian ComradesA small group of gay rights activists gathered outside the Russian Embassy in Beijing on Valentine’s Day to protest Russia’s antigay laws. Behind a rainbow banner that read “To Russia with Love,” a dozen activists cheered as three couples puckered…
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Rockers Unite for Haiti Benefits
Read more: Rockers Unite for Haiti BenefitsJay-Z rapped alongside side Bono, the Edge and Rihanna; Coldplay’s Chris Martin moonlighted as Beyoncé’s piano player; Justin Timberlake covered Leonard Cohen — and those performances, from January 22nd’s multinetwork, $66 million-grossing telethon for Haitian earthquake victims, were just the…
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Picha Mtaani
Read more: Picha MtaaniOn 7th December 2009, “Picha Mtaani” was launched at a colorful ceremony in Nairobi. “Picha Mtaani” in partnership with UNDP Kenya, was an initiative that seeks to create a platform for peace building, national healing and cohesion through street picture…
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New Erotica For Feminists
Read more: New Erotica For FeministsI get catcalled on the street by a construction worker. He says that he can see I’m smart because I have enormous books. He tells me he’s reading the latest Zadie Smith novel. I invite him to join my book…