Projects tagged
Education
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Taller Nube
Read more: Taller NubeTaller Nube is an activist art-education program in Los Condes, Chile where artists work collaboratively with children to navigate an open learning environment in public spaces. In Nube’s philosophy, a park is a school, a museum is a school, the…
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Bringing Safe Sexy Back
Read more: Bringing Safe Sexy BackIs there a way to make sex ed, big, scary, nasty, icky, sex ed, fun again? In the Spring Quarter of of 2013, UCLA students in the Sex Squad, a performance troupe dedicated to injecting a dose of humor into…
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Weapons Of Mass Instruction
Read more: Weapons Of Mass InstructionIf you’re a bibliophile you’ll get a kick out of the car-turned-library that can be found in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Artist Raul Lemesoff took an old 1979 Ford Falcon, a popular mode of transport amongst the military forces of its…
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The time when Colombian students hugged and kissed the police
Read more: The time when Colombian students hugged and kissed the policeDuring 2011, students around Colombia decided to create a National Student organization that would organize thousands of them to reject a harmful educational reform (Reforma a la ley 30). Before this year, student organizations were characterized by their segmentarity and…
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826 Valencia
Read more: 826 Valencia826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting students ages six to eighteen with their creative and expository writing skills and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Their services are structured around the understanding that great leaps…
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Inmates Perform Valmiki Pratibha
Read more: Inmates Perform Valmiki PratibhaAlokananda Roy walked into Calcutta’s Presidency Jail on International Women’s Day, 2007. The Indian classical dancer had been invited to watch female inmates perform, but it was the men who caught her eye. “They shook me,” she says. “Their body…
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#IHaveADream
Read more: #IHaveADreamI really enjoy the events that we host at The Sanctuaries. They’re well planned but not over-planned, so there’s space to just be yourself. On Monday, January 19th, we held a wonderful event that celebrated the teachings and life of…
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Liberation Caravan
Read more: Liberation CaravanMukti Caravan, the Campaign on Wheels, is a mobile cultural group of former child bonded labourers. Started by the Bachpan Bachao Andolan (Save Childhood Movement), a movement started by now Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, it involves activists visiting villages to…
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ButActually | The Hashtag Activist Dictionary
Read more: ButActually | The Hashtag Activist DictionaryButactually.com is a new kind of online dictionary created by a team of students at NYU Gallatin who seek to document, organize, and provide a platform for anyone to share new activist hashtags. Since 2009 hashtags have been used to…
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A Picture is Worth
Read more: A Picture is Wortha picture is worth… provides youth with the opportunity to find their voice, surface their values and connect with others in creative and affirming ways. The project integrates academic skills such as literacy, the development of critical thinking, communications, community…