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Hearing impaired man is moved to tears after discovering his entire neighbourhood has learned sign language so they can talk to him

Practitioner:
Samsung

Date:
Apr 28 1991

A deaf man was moved to tears after learning that his neighbourhood had learned sign language just for him to promote the heartwarming message: ‘A world without barriers is our dream’. Muharrem was unwittingly placed at the centre of an…

The Sahmat Collective

Practitioner:
The Sahmat Collective

Date:
Apr 28 1991

In 1989, playwright, actor, and activist Safdar Hashmi was fatally attacked by political thugs while performing a street play outside of Delhi. His death led to the founding of Sahmat, an influential artist collective that has taken a consistent stance…

Farmer’s Haat (Market)

Practitioner:
Shweta Bhattad

Date:
Apr 28 1991

Farmer’s Haat As a part of the two weeks “Khoj International Art Residency” and “Good Artists of Pune,” Shweta Bhattad, along with others, organized a community art project, titled “Farmer’s Haat.” With the help of students from medical and engineering…

The Quenelle

Practitioner:
Dieudonné M’bala M’bala

Date:
Apr 28 1991

The quenelle (French pronunciation: [kə.nɛl]) is a gesture created and popularized by French political activist and comedian Dieudonné. He first used it in 2005 in his sketch entitled “1905” about French secularism, and has used it since in a wide…

Activists Use Balloons to Drop 10,000 Copies of The Interview Into North Korea

Practitioner:
Park Sang-Hak

Date:
Apr 28 1991

A group of South Korean activists is determined to send copies of The Interview across the North Korean border, despite threats from the state to respond with “cannons or missiles” if the plan succeeds. Around March 26, the dissidents will…

Josep Renau Berenguer (Valencia, Spain, 1907 – Berlin, Germany, 1982): Art and political engagement

Practitioner:
Josep Renau Berenguer

Date:
Apr 28 1991

Josep Renau Berenguer was a Spanish painter, photomontager, muralist and communist militant. Renau was the son of an Art teacher. Due to his father’s low income, he had to work various jobs during his youth and teenage years to maintain…

Environmental protection is the greatest religion, says Chinese artist

Practitioner:
Yuan Xikun

Date:
Apr 28 1991

By a pond inside one of the entrances to Beijing’s Chaoyang Park lies a cluster of one and two storey red pyramid-shaped buildings. Sculptures of Gandhi and Lincoln and other famous figures sit in the quiet woods nearby. This is…

What I Couldn’t Say In Public

Date:
Apr 28 1991

“What I Couldn’t Say in Public” transforms individual secrets into a public, anonymous spectacle. While origins and exact location of the “What I Couldn’t Say in Public” project are unknown, awareness about the project has grown over the micro-blogging platform…

Love Has No Labels: Rethink Bias

Practitioner:
Ad Council

Date:
Apr 28 1991

R/GA AND THE AD COUNCIL CREATE “LOVE HAS NO LABELS” CAMPAIGN by IPG R/GA and the Ad Council, along with several top global brands, have launched “Love Has No Labels,” a public service campaign aimed at promoting diversity, inclusion and…

#DearMe

Practitioner:
YouTube users

Date:
Apr 28 1991

From Variety: YouTube launched a campaign with the hashtag #DearMe — encouraging users to upload “video letters” with advice to their younger selves, aimed at helping girls deal with problems — and within an hour it became the No. 1…

Art for Social Change Project (ASC!)

Practitioner:
International Centre for Art and Social Change (ICASC), Judith Marcuse Projects, Simon Fraser University

Date:
Apr 28 1991

What is Art for Social Change? There are many ways of defining art for social change. In each of these cases, art for social change strives toward effective engagement with social issues that integrate and celebrate imaginative thinking, helping people…

826 Valencia

Practitioner:
Dave Eggers and Nínive Calegari

Date:
Apr 28 1991

826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Their services are structured around the understanding that great leaps…