Projects tagged
Demonstration & Protest
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This Was The Year “Girl’s Day” Really Stopped Being Cute
Read more: This Was The Year “Girl’s Day” Really Stopped Being Cute“Girl’s Day” in China was supposed to be a way for boys on college campuses to show the girls how much they care. This year it went too far. Have you heard about “Girl’s Day?” It’s a big holiday for…
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Bread and Puppet Theater
Read more: Bread and Puppet TheaterThe Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side. Besides rod-puppet and hand puppet shows for children, the concerns of the first productions were rents, rats, police, and other problems…
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UCT Students Strip Down to Highlight Concerns Over Rape Culture
Read more: UCT Students Strip Down to Highlight Concerns Over Rape CultureStudents have accused university management of having a lack of concern about the issue. CAPE TOWN – University of Cape Town (UCT) students have stripped to their underwear to highlight their concerns over rape culture on campus. Dozens of students…
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Faced with Brooklyn Museum Inaction, Protesters Target Two Exhibitions
Read more: Faced with Brooklyn Museum Inaction, Protesters Target Two ExhibitionsClose to 100 artists and activists staged a protest at the Brooklyn Museum yesterday afternoon in response to displacement — both in Brooklyn and Palestine. Organized by the Decolonial Cultural Front and Movement to Protect the People, the catalysts for…
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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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Feminist protest against Fujimori and forced sterilization
Read more: Feminist protest against Fujimori and forced sterilizationThousands took to the streets in Lima, Peru, on March 11 to protest conservative presidential frontrunner Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, and demand that her candidacy be revoked amid accusations of vote buying. Protesters called attention to…
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Paremos el acoso sexual callejero
Read more: Paremos el acoso sexual callejeroThis is an organization and online platform that registers cases of street harassment in Peru and disseminates information about the subject. People can report cases and get in touch with the organization to talk or learn more about what to…
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Colectivo Sublevarte Retrospective
Read more: Colectivo Sublevarte RetrospectiveSublevarte, a Collective of Mexican artists, was born out of the ENAP (National School of Fine Arts) of UNAM (the National Autonomous University of Mexico), during the student strike of 1999-2000, the longest student strike in history. With more than…
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Primavera Violeta en Mexico
Read more: Primavera Violeta en MexicoEl acoso sexual a las mujeres en México, no es novedad. Desde un chiflido o grito de “mamacita” en la calle hasta una alarmante cifra de seis feminicidios diarios, la violencia machista es un asunto cotidiano. Lo que sí es…
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This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering
Read more: This Ain’t a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering“This Ain’t a Eulogy” is both a staged performance and a durational, outdoor, public performance that reclaims and takes public space. The artist statement is as follows: “Moved by the non-indictments of the police officers responsible for the deaths of…