Projects tagged
Sustains (change)
Support and celebrate change that has already been won and needs to be sustained.
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Art Behind Bars: Prison Art by Soudabeh Ardavan
Read more: Art Behind Bars: Prison Art by Soudabeh ArdavanCharged with participating in demonstrations against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Soudabeh Ardavan was held for eight years (1981-1989) in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison. She found sanity and solace through the forbidden activities of drawing and painting, secretly producing paint…
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LGBT Activists Hijack McDonalds’ Hashtag and Create a Parody #CheersToSochi Website to Raise Awareness about Russia’s anti-LGBT Laws
Read more: LGBT Activists Hijack McDonalds’ Hashtag and Create a Parody #CheersToSochi Website to Raise Awareness about Russia’s anti-LGBT LawsOn January 21, 2014, McDonald’s asked its customers to tweet supportive messages to the Olympians who would compete in the Sochi Games, along with the hashtag #CheersToSochi. However, within a couple of days, LGBT activists essentially hijacked the hasthtag from…
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Street Art Critiques Car Culture
Read more: Street Art Critiques Car CultureIn 2001, Peter Gibson, a street artist, began by painting bike additional bike lanes onto the streets in Montreal because he was tired of how cars dominated the road. This transferred into more works criticizing car culture in general. Some…
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Banksy in Brooklyn
Read more: Banksy in BrooklynEnterprising Brooklyn men CHARGING people to see the new NYC Banksy street art by hiding it behind cardboard. Some men in the tough Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York decided to charge admission when a Banksy piece showed up on…
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Oppressed Majority (Majorité Opprimée)
Read more: Oppressed Majority (Majorité Opprimée)On what seems to be just another ordinary day, a man is exposed to sexism and sexual violence in a society ruled by women… Eléonore Pourriat’s short film imagines how a man might experience a sexual assault in a matriarchal…
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Haircuts By Children
Read more: Haircuts By ChildrenHaircuts by Children is a whimsical relational performance that playfully engages with the enfranchisement of children, with trust in the younger generation, and the thrills and chills of vanity. Haircuts By Children involves children between the ages of 8-12 are…
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Fat Barbie
Read more: Fat BarbieFor those of you unfamiliar with the wonderful Worth1000, it’s a website that hosts creative contests of all kinds, most notably for photoshoppers who are outstanding at what they do. Hell, just look at the first question on the site’s…
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#NotYourAsianSidekick
Read more: #NotYourAsianSidekickSuey Park (@suey_park) is the 23-year-old freelance writer and organizer behind the hashtag #NotYourAsianSidekick, which quickly became a trending topic on Twitter Monday with thousands of Asian American women and others from around the world adding their 140 characters to…
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Lagos in the Red
Read more: Lagos in the RedMade by Danish filmmakers Lotte Løvholm, Karen Andersen & Nanna Nielsen, Lagos in the Red follows Nigerian performance artist Jelili Atiku. Atiku uses his body as a prop as a means of sensitizing people to the problems that Nigeria –…
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Young Activists Use Art to Fight for the DREAM Act
Read more: Young Activists Use Art to Fight for the DREAM ActThe federal DREAM Act is back. This week Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, the longtime champion of the bill, chaired the first ever Senate hearing on the narrow legalization effort that would allow a select population of undocumented youth a pathway…
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Theatre for Humans
Read more: Theatre for HumansSpecial Report from the War on Women This groundbreaking play will offer an in-depth look at the world as seen through the eyes of women and girls from various cultures and countries. The play will highlight the struggles females face…
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Rwanda Cinema Centre & Rwanda Film Institute
Read more: Rwanda Cinema Centre & Rwanda Film InstituteThe Rwanda Film Institute dedicates a lot of its energy to the education of individuals in the field of filmmaking. Through our Kwetu Film School, we look to consistently breed the next generation of Rwandese filmmakers. This is an essential…