Projects tagged
Community
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Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Read more: Detroit Black Community Food Security NetworkFrom the site’s “About Us:” The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN) was formed in February 2006 to address food insecurity in Detroit’s Black community, and to organize members of that community to play a more active leadership role…
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Center Portion
Read more: Center PortionSpace to Play by Rick Kogan Performance spaces come in all shapes and sizes and purposes, from the shabby basement blues bar to, well, the Auditorium Theater. This is a city that, in spite of shortsighted politicians and greedy developers,…
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Colombian Hip Hop Goes up a Stage in Morocco
Read more: Colombian Hip Hop Goes up a Stage in MoroccoThe Colombian hip hop had an outstanding representation with the C15 group in the Fabrica of Rimas International Festival, a gathering of urban cultures, sponsored by Morocco, Colombia and Spain. Enrolled in the Plan Colombia Promotion Abroad, sponsored by the…
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8-Year-Old Creates ‘Buddy Bench’ For His Classmates Who Don’t Have Playmates
Read more: 8-Year-Old Creates ‘Buddy Bench’ For His Classmates Who Don’t Have Playmates“Eight-year-old Christian Bucks from Roundtown Elementary School noticed that some of his classmates did not have any friends to play with during recess. His solution was to introduce a “Buddy Bench”, where lonely classmates could choose to sit if they…
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“Just Two of Us”
Read more: “Just Two of Us”Katharina Grosse’s public exhibition “Just Two of Us” consists of eight large meteor looking sculptures painted in bright technicolors. The sculptures, which have been placed in the public plaza at Metro Tech Commons, have transformed downtown Brooklyn. Grosse is a…
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Bus Shelter Ads Confront San Francisco Eviction Crisis
Read more: Bus Shelter Ads Confront San Francisco Eviction CrisisThe California Department of Corrections (CDC) has unveiled a new campaign of bus shelter ads to confront San Francisco’s eviction crisis. On February 11, 2014, the CDC successfully apprehended, rehabilitated and discharged bus shelter advertisements throughout San Francisco. The ads…
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LAMP
Read more: LAMPvia Detroit Future Youth: “Detroit Summer is [a] multi-racial, inter-generational collective in Detroit that has been working to transform communities through youth leadership, creativity and collective action since 1992. The Live Arts Media Project (LAMP) of Detroit Summer is a…
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The Merit Shop
Read more: The Merit ShopThis shop is more interested in people than it is in profits. If you’ve got some mad dance skills, or even just some mediocre ones, you can purchase a variety of goods at The Merit Shop in San Francisco. The…
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Call for Local Artwork Exhibition
Read more: Call for Local Artwork ExhibitionMIAMI — Officials at the recently inaugurated Pérez Art Museum Miami confirmed on Monday that a valuable vase by the Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei had been deliberately destroyed by a visitor in what appeared to be an act of…
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Object Orange
Read more: Object OrangeIn the “D”, “D” doesn’t really stand for “Detroit”, but “Demolition.” Take a look around and you’ll notice a great number of buildings marked on the front with a circled “D” in faint chalk. Off to the side, many of…