Projects tagged
Strengthens (community)
Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.
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The Monument Quilt
Read more: The Monument QuiltThe Monument Quilt is an on-going collection of stories of survivors of rape and abuse. By stitching our stories together, we are creating and demanding public space to heal. We are building a new culture where survivors are publicly supported…
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Mapping skin deep
Read more: Mapping skin deep“Mapping skin deep” is an audiovisual public installation consisting of portraits with testimonies from refugee/undocumented immigrants currently residing in Montreal and elsewhere. Their bodies have been scarred in post-production tracing the route they took from their homeland to Montreal, hence…
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Salvage Supperclub
Read more: Salvage SupperclubLast month, a graduate student by the name of Josh Treuhaft set up the Salvage Supperclub in New York City—an establishment where diners pay US$50 to eat a six course meal made from food scraps salvaged from the dumpster. Chefs…
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ScareMail
Read more: ScareMailScareMail is a web browser extension that makes email “scary” in order to disrupt NSA surveillance. Extending Google’s Gmail, the work adds to every new email’s signature an algorithmically generated narrative containing a collection of probable NSA search terms. This…
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Pro-Choice Trolling
Read more: Pro-Choice TrollingFun Craft Idea: Pro-Choice Trolling in Hobby Lobby Aisles Jezebel By Callie Beusman Hobby Lobby is a large corporation-person whose interests include crafting, God and denying women affordable contraception access. If you’re miffed that this chain retailer is a more…
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3,000 Candles at the Lincoln Memorial #SoAllCanVote
Read more: 3,000 Candles at the Lincoln Memorial #SoAllCanVoteAt the same site where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, we lit thousands of candles – one for each signature on our petition – to commemorate the legacy of brave freedom fighters Andrew…
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ACTIVISTS POUR CONCRETE OVER ‘ANTI-HOMELESS’ SPIKES
Read more: ACTIVISTS POUR CONCRETE OVER ‘ANTI-HOMELESS’ SPIKESThe war against London’s “anti-homeless” spikes escalated today from sign-waving to radical criminal action In the small hours of the morning, some activists dressed as builders poured concrete over the metal spikes outside a Tesco Metro on Regent Street, before…
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#BringBackOurGirls
Read more: #BringBackOurGirlsOn April 15 in northern Nigeria, 200 school girls aged 15-18 were kidnapped by an extremist Muslim group called Boko Haram, whose name in the Hausa language means “Western education is a sin.” In hopes of viral pressure on Nigerian…
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China’s Underground Hiphop
Read more: China’s Underground HiphopChina’s underground hiphop became an art movement since early 2000s. With characteristics of self-expression, localization and social criticism, Chinese hip hop music quickly gained popularity among students and working-class Chinese. Some notable music groups from Beijing include Yin Ts’ang (隐藏)…
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Performance Art Feminism in Beijing
Read more: Performance Art Feminism in BeijingXiao has organized and participated in a series of activities that combine performance art with a strong social message. Despite a well-known Chinese maxim expounding that women “hold up half the sky,” feminism has largely been an underground movement in…
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Poop Protest
Read more: Poop ProtestA mainland couple allowed their 2-year-old son to relieve himself by the road at Mangkok, Hong Kong and conflicted with local pedestrians who took photos of the child caused quite a stir among Chinese netizens. While the majority of mainland…
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Lyrical Thirst
Read more: Lyrical ThirstWithout water, life would not exist. And yet, those of us in developed countries take it for granted; our shelves are stocked with hundreds of branded bottles, and it is freely given at restaurants, at schools, and even in parks.…