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Maboneng Township Arts Experience

Date:
Jan 1 2001

At the age of just 30, Palesa Ngwenya is helping transform these areas through her position as development coordinator of Maboneng Township Arts Experience. “We turn homes in the townships into art galleries,” says the young South African woman, who…

Black Superheroes Matter

Practitioner:
Disney/Marvel Studios

Date:
Jan 1 2001

Watch Chadwick Boseman’s Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War, and you’ll see a charismatic character who fills a void in the conflicted do-gooder group. This T’Challa is accessible, awe-inspiring and perhaps most importantly, human. “I think the question that…

Wirikuta Fest

Practitioner:
Mexican Rock Bands

Date:
Jan 1 2001

It was a long time coming – but it was worth the wait. Nearly two years ago, more than a dozen of Mexico’s biggest performing artists came together in a mega-event aimed at saving Wirikuta, one of the country’s most…

Drake Donates $1 Million Budget for Music Video God’s Plan to Schools in Impoverished Areas

Practitioner:
Drake

Date:
Jan 1 2001

Drake has released an emotional video for “God’s Plan” in which he donates the music video budget to people in need. Shot in Miami and directed by Toronto’s Karena Evans and Jordan Oram, the video features a bunch of generous,…

Hundreds of ‘honey bears’ posted all over SoMa in street art protest

Practitioner:
fnnch

Date:
Jan 1 2001

Local artist fnnch wants San Francisco to decriminalize certain types of art. You’re not seeing things: A whopping 450 “honey bears”—variations on the immediately recognizable and widely imitated bear-shaped honey bottles sold in seemingly every store in America–appeared all over…

Artists mark Trump’s inauguration anniversary with day of protest art

Practitioner:
a volunteer-run arts organization spearheaded by artist Laurie Anderson and producers Tanya Selvaratnam and Laura Michalchyshyn, The Federation

Date:
Jan 1 2001

This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump’s inauguration. It also marks the one-year anniversary of the Women’s March his election inspired, the largest single-day protest in the nation’s history. To memorialize the occasion, artists across the country are…

Kendrick Lamar Opens the 2018 Grammys with a Powerful and Political Performance

Practitioner:
Kendrick Lamar

Date:
Jan 1 2001

DAMN. Kendrick Lamar opened the 2018 GRAMMYs with a powerful and political performance of his hit, “XXX.’” The rapper featured an army of face-covered soldiers marching in the background of an American flag, that quickly turned into a “satire” taking…

FOKAL

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

Date:
Jan 1 2001

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…

The Project Filoctetes

Practitioner:
Emilio García Wehbi

Date:
Jan 1 2001

The protagonism of the body in the dramatization of marginalized groups is also central to Emilio García Wehbi’s Proyecto Filoctetes, an urban intervention staged November 15, 2002, on the streets of Buenos Aires. The project consisted in placing twenty-five lifelike…

Indigenous Cooking

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

Date:
Jan 1 2001

“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,…