Projects tagged
Education
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‘I, Too, Am Harvard’: Black students show they belong
Read more: ‘I, Too, Am Harvard’: Black students show they belonghat’s it like to be black at Harvard? Students at the Ivy League university are offering a picture of their experiences there with a play and a photo campaign called “I, Too, Am Harvard,” a nod to the famous Langston…
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A street art project paints a brighter future for Syrian refugee camps
Read more: A street art project paints a brighter future for Syrian refugee campsFollowing on from Ruben Shanchez’s mural on the Syrain boader, we head back to the same subject with Awareness & Prevention Through Art (AptART) is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to give vulnerable children an artistic experience with an opportunity…
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Artists Activists
Read more: Artists ActivistsArtistsActivists is a youth empowerment and advocacy organization started in 2011 by graduate students at Yale University. Through the various ArtistsActivists programs, artists and designers share their skills with young people around the world. Since more people are joining our…
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Projeto Axé
Read more: Projeto Axé“Children and youngsters who are invisible to society are made visible through Art” Projeto Axé is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 1990 in Salvador, Bahia (Brazil), by Cesare de Florio La Rocca, a lawyer and educator from Florence. Its goal…
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It Gets Better
Read more: It Gets BetterAfter a spate of bullying-related suicides of LGBT youth, gay columnist Dan Savage and his partner Terry Miller decided to launch the It Gets Better project to see what they could do about it. They began with a simple YouTube…
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The Spring 2014 Talks Series: Sam Durant
Read more: The Spring 2014 Talks Series: Sam DurantSam Durant is an LA based artist who engages in social, cultural and political issues through his interactive public sculptures. Durant is interested in investigating historical narratives and their contemporary communities. From 2005-2010 Durant was part of the collective Transforma…
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Free University New York City
Read more: Free University New York CityIf you headed into the West 4th St. Subway Station on March 9, 2014, you may have seen a group of people writing on cardboard, taping it to the walls, and seemingly holding a small class in the underground space.…
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Creative Activism in the Service of Corporations
Read more: Creative Activism in the Service of CorporationsMcDonald’s wanted children in Hong Kong to spend more time with their imagination after a study showed that children spend an average of 5 hours studying per day. In its new ‘I’m Amazing’ campaign, the fast food chain challenges these…
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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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Haircuts By Children
Read more: Haircuts By ChildrenHaircuts by Children is a whimsical relational performance that playfully engages with the enfranchisement of children, with trust in the younger generation, and the thrills and chills of vanity. Haircuts By Children involves children between the ages of 8-12 are…