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  • Refugees tell their stories by starring in Danish ballet

    Refugees tell their stories by starring in Danish ballet
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    Jan 29 2016

    As Denmark moves to deter refugees from crossing its borders, a new theater production dramatizing their plight seeks to change how many in the country perceive their new neighbors. Uropa: An Asylum-Seeker’s Ballet, [is] a dance piece performed in part…

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  • #FreeNicoll

    #FreeNicoll
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    Jan 29 2016

    Nicoll Hernandez-Polanco, a Guatamalen transgender woman, came to the United States in October 2014 after surviving hate based harassment and violence in her home country. When she presented her case to the border patrol she was detained by Immigration and…

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  • Rhodes Must Fall

    Rhodes Must Fall
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    Jan 29 2016

    This series of protests began on the UCT campus in an effort to remove the bronze statute of Cecil Rhodes in the center of campus due to the belief that Rhodes represents the oppressive colonization of South Africa that eventually…

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  • Ex Libris

    Ex Libris
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    Jan 29 2016

    Recurrent themes in Emily Jacir’s practice—which spans a range of strategies including film, photography, interventions, archiving, performance, video, writing, and sound—are silenced historical narratives, resistance, movement, and exchange. Filmed in the days following the catastrophic loss of Iraq’s National Library…

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  • Visions from the Inside

    Visions from the Inside
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    Jan 29 2016

    Visions from the Inside is a project enlisting 15 artists from across the country to create a piece of art based off letters from women in detention. The initiative, a collaboration between CultureStrike, Mariposas Sin Fronteras and End Family Detention,…

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  • Mayday Space

    Mayday Space
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    Jan 29 2016

    Mayday is a neighborhood resource and a citywide destination for engaging programming, a home for radical thought and debate, and a welcoming gathering place for people to work, learn, drink, dance and build together. As an organizing center as well…

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  • Play Safe

    Play Safe
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    Jan 29 2016

    Play Safe is a documentary film series created and directed by NYU alum Eddie Einbinder. The film, much of which now appears for free on YouTube, was originally released in 2013 after being filmed between 2011 and 2012. It debuted…

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  • The Art of Heroin Bags

    The Art of Heroin Bags
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    Jan 29 2016

    Heroin sold in the northeast, specifically in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey tends to come in little glassine baggies. The art comes from the individual and unique “stamp” on said baggie sold to a user. Used for branding purposes,…

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  • Subversive Coloring Books

    Subversive Coloring Books
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    Jan 29 2016

    While adult coloring books are hitting a high note right now in 2016, this isn’t the first time this has happened. Back in the 1960s, coloring books were so popular that one of them even made it to the New…

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  • Border Crosser

    Border Crosser
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    Jan 29 2016

    ZERO1 is thrilled to commission artist Chico MacMurtrie/Amorphic Robot Works(ARW) Border Crosser during the week leading up to SB50. Rising 40 feet from the ground and arching across an imaginary border before forming a bridge and touching down on the…

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