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FOKAL

Practitioner:
and Africamérica, Fondation Culture Création, the French Institute, UNESCO

Date:
Apr 1 1995

ARTS/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…

Indigenous Cooking

Practitioner:
American Indian Community House, Dr. Elizabeth Hoover, Nuestra Comida Project, The I-Collective

Date:
Apr 1 1995

“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,…

Umbrella Man – Occupy Central Hong Kong

Practitioner:
Milk

Date:
Apr 1 1995

The 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…

Sit-Down Strike for Rhythm

Practitioner:
Rhythm Ambassadors

Date:
Apr 1 1995

At 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…

Reclaiming the Domestic

Practitioner:
Mary Sibande

Date:
Apr 1 1995

The 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…

Rockers Unite for Haiti Benefits

Practitioner:
etc., Jay-Z, Radiohead, Springsteen

Date:
Apr 1 1995

Jay-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…

Speech/Acts at ICA Philly

Practitioner:
and Martine Syms, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Steffani Jemison, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Tony Lewis

Date:
Apr 1 1995

In “Speech/Acts,” a group exhibition organized by Meg Onli at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Tiona Nekkia McClodden stood out as artists who take up voices, histories, and experiences that can help audiences move…

John Luther Adams: Inuksuit – A Border-Crossing Presentation

Practitioner:
San Diego Symphony Orchestra

Date:
Apr 1 1995

The San Diego Symphony performs John Luther Adams piece “Inuksuit” at the U.S.-Mexico border. Premiered in the Canadian Rockies, John Luther Adams’s outdoor masterpiece, Inuksuit, is a mirror of the landscape in which it is performed. We’ll play the piece…

FESPACO

Practitioner:
The Pan-African Festival of Cinema and Television

Date:
Apr 1 1995

Fespaco is a meeting place put to good use to promote the development of black cinematography. From 1973, topics of discussion are introduced at each edition. The general theme of the sessions is chosen taking into account the concerns of…

Dismaland

Practitioner:
Banksy

Date:
Apr 1 1995

“He describes it as a “family theme park unsuitable for small children” – and with the Grim Reaper whooping it up on the dodgems and Cinderella horribly mangled in a pumpkin carriage crash, it is easy to see why. Banksy’s…