Projects tagged
Environment
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Occupation of Alcatraz Island
Read more: Occupation of Alcatraz IslandThe beacon flashed incessantly. On. Off. On again. Like some sort of traffic light gone crazy, it pierced the thick nighttime mist hovering over San Francisco Bay. The light sent a message five miles across the dark waters from Ghirardelli…
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Photo: Mermaid Ocean Activist at a Climate Protest Against Fossil Fuel Donations & Subsidies at the Office of Far-Right Politician. Video: Displaced Mermaids Genetic Link To Bleached Reef Corals
Read more: Photo: Mermaid Ocean Activist at a Climate Protest Against Fossil Fuel Donations & Subsidies at the Office of Far-Right Politician. Video: Displaced Mermaids Genetic Link To Bleached Reef CoralsSandy of The Sea with Ocean News on the bleaching of marine species! This is an exciting yet troubling breakthrough for marine species. A new genetic study has proven that mermaids may be more closely related to fragile Branching Corals.…
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Art Not Oil: Ending Oil Industry Sponsorship of the Arts
Read more: Art Not Oil: Ending Oil Industry Sponsorship of the ArtsOn Sunday April 3rd, Art Not Oil coalition member group BP or not BP? occupied the Great Court of the BP-sponsored British Museum with a ‘disobedient exhibition’. Called ‘A History of BP in 10 Objects’, the exhibition featured artifacts submitted…
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Graffiti on Garbage
Read more: Graffiti on GarbageDelhi- based graffiti artist who goes by the name Daku went around South Delhi, one of the poshest places in the city, and painted on overflowing garbage cans. It is both a call to the civic bodies to clear the…
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Recycle Flash Mob
Read more: Recycle Flash MobA group of unidentified guerrilla activists staged a unique pro recycling flashmob in a Quebec mall in July 2015. An actor ‘forgot’ an empty water bottle on the ground in a food court a couple of feet from a recycling…
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Wake Up Masoala
Read more: Wake Up MasoalaIn an endeavor to raise awareness at the local and international level, Razia organized the Mifohaza Masoala (Wake Up Masoala) music and environmental festival, which took place at the edge of the Masoala Rainforest in October 2011. The concert featured…
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A Long March to Save Asia’s Largest Mangrove Forest In Bangladesh
Read more: A Long March to Save Asia’s Largest Mangrove Forest In BangladeshA group of women walked from Barisal, Bangladesh to Khulna to join up with the long march that was crossing the city that day. By long, I really mean long: this march traveled a distance of 145 kms, walking most…
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Life Pods
Read more: Life PodsIn Jan. 2016 Karl Mattson from Rolla, BC displayed some of his unique sculptures for exhibition at Lantern Gallery in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His ‘Life Pods’ are sculptures constructed using only found objects.Tools, metal fragments, debris, and fuel tanks are some…
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Arruinados
Read more: ArruinadosIn July and August 2013, O Teatrão, a Coimbra based theatre company, presented the project Arruinados, comprising three theatre performances in three abandoned spaces (‘ruins’), one in each of three cities in the Centre region of Portugal located along the…
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What If We Switch Positions With Whales?
Read more: What If We Switch Positions With Whales?What would it be like if we switched positions with whales in captivity? Nothing like this – but at least prankster Rémi Gaillard had some fun trying to recreate the scenario. The actor and some of his friends dressed up…