Projects tagged
Violence & War
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‘Once in a generation moment’ — Zelensky, Ukraine’s partners gather for key London summit after White House fallout
Read more: ‘Once in a generation moment’ — Zelensky, Ukraine’s partners gather for key London summit after White House falloutUkraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and other top Western officials gathered on March 2 for a London summit to discuss support for Kyiv. They are among the…
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Missing Faces for Missing Girls
Read more: Missing Faces for Missing GirlsBorn in Nigeria in 1975, Péju Alatise, is a multimedia artist focusing on the experience of women and girls, particularly in her native country but with resonance across the world. Missing (2014), by Peju Alatise, is a series of panels…
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Myanmar’s Artists Captured the Spirit of the Resistance. Now They’re Continuing the Fight from Abroad
Read more: Myanmar’s Artists Captured the Spirit of the Resistance. Now They’re Continuing the Fight from AbroadChuu Wai Nyein felt an overwhelming sense of guilt when she first arrived in Paris from Myanmar at the end of April. “I was pushed to leave the country, but it was not how I wanted to leave,” says the…
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Social change through music
Read more: Social change through musicEl Sistema, also known as The National System of Youth and Children’s Orchestra and Choir, was established in Venezuela in 1975 by José Antonio Abreu, a Venezuelan educator, musician and activist. The music education program operates within the voluntary sector…
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Daughter of a Temple
Read more: Daughter of a Temple“I sing because I genuinely think that if I don’t, I will die…The only thing that gives me relief is this.” – ganavya doraiswamy I’ve been fortunate to witness New York-born, Tamil Nadu-raised, Queer musician ganavya’s work a handful of…
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U.S./Iraq War Memorial
Read more: U.S./Iraq War MemorialThe U.S./Iraq War Memorial is an augmented reality public art project and memorial, dedicated to the thousands of individuals who have died on both sides of the conflict. The public can simply download and launch the Layar Augmented Reality Browser…
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Odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi verse
Read more: Odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi versePranksters reveal odes to Putin were Russian translations of Nazi verse Patriotic poems published under invented name of Gennady Rakitin were embraced as examples of ‘Z poetry’ The patriotic poetry of Gennady Rakitin has won him quite a following in…
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Kurdish Artist Zehra Doğan Has Been Freed in Turkey After 3 Years for Illustrating Turkey’s Violence
Read more: Kurdish Artist Zehra Doğan Has Been Freed in Turkey After 3 Years for Illustrating Turkey’s ViolenceThe Kurdish journalist and artist Zehra Doğan was freed yesterday after nearly three years in prison, Hyperallergic reports. Doğan first caught the attention of the Turkish authorities back in 2017 with a watercolor that depicted a Kurdish district after Turkish…
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Can Art Change the War? An Update on the Solidarity NFT Project for Ukraine
Read more: Can Art Change the War? An Update on the Solidarity NFT Project for UkraineIn March of 2022, JR, with the help of 100 volunteers, unfurled the portrait of five-year-old, Ukrainian refugee Valeriia in Lviv, Ukraine. Leaving Ukraine, JR saw firsthand how difficult it was for women and children to get to safety due…
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MESOAMÉRICA RESISTE
Read more: MESOAMÉRICA RESISTEThe Beehive Design Collective is a wildly motivated, all-volunteer, activist arts collective dedicated to “cross-pollinating the grassroots” by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images for use as educational and organizing tools. We work as word-to-image translators of complex global stories, shared with…