Projects tagged
Music & Sound
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Dance for George
Read more: Dance for GeorgeWhen dancer Sheen Jamaal saw a video of protestors doing the Cupid Shuffle in New Jersey, inspiration struck to do something similar in New York. He immediately called his friend and collaborator Allison “Buttons” Bedell, and the seed for the…
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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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American Indian artist Brian Larney uses a mix of art, activism to chronicle Indigenous history
Read more: American Indian artist Brian Larney uses a mix of art, activism to chronicle Indigenous historyBrian Larney is an AI.tivist or American Indian artist. He is also an Artivist where he performs Artivism, a concept that includes art as a form of activism. Larney uses his unique artistry to tell the stories of American Indian…
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Pantomime for Climate CHange
Read more: Pantomime for Climate CHangeReplete with an unmistakable look, intense silence, and mime-like moves, the Red Rebels are, quite intentionally, riveting. In the words of artist and activist Doug Francisco, founder of the Red Rebels Brigade: “We divert, distract, delight, and inspire the people…
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Raise Your Umbrellas: How Denise Ho went from Cantopop queen to pro-democracy activist
Read more: Raise Your Umbrellas: How Denise Ho went from Cantopop queen to pro-democracy activistIn Hong Kong in 2014 the song Raise Your Umbrella by Denise Ho and Anthong Wong became an anthem for the pro-democracy movement known as the Umbrella Revolution. The song was written after police fired tear gas into the crowds…
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Four Dead in Ohio
Read more: Four Dead in Ohio“Tin Soldiers and Nixon’s Coming. We’re finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming. Four Dead in Ohio.” Inspired by the events that unfolded on the campus of Kent State University on May 4, 1970, the folk-rock group…
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Act ii: COWBOY CARTER
Read more: Act ii: COWBOY CARTERFollowing her sensational first ablum dedicated to the Black queer community via house and dance music, act i: RENAISSANCE, Beyonce released act ii: COWBOY CARTER in late March . The album is speculated to have come from her 2017/2018 performance…
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Pussy Riot Bring Their Music and Activism To Montreal
Read more: Pussy Riot Bring Their Music and Activism To MontrealPussy Riot are spreading their protests and activism beyond Russia. Away from Vladimir Putin’s censorship, they’re bringing their voices to Canada – a place where their message of resistance is resonating. On Nov. 1, as a chilling cold filled the…
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Embarking on a journey through a sea of theater
Read more: Embarking on a journey through a sea of theaterChina’s only seaside theater festival has been held in the resort town of Aranya in north China’s Hebei Province. Artists from around the world traveled there to take deep dive into the world of dramatic performance. For theatergoers, there were…
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This Historic Marian Anderson Performance Made Her an Icon of the Civil Rights Movement
Read more: This Historic Marian Anderson Performance Made Her an Icon of the Civil Rights MovementMarian Anderson, the legendary African American contralto, sang at the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday in 1939 after she was refused a performance at Washington’s Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution because she was black. Over 75,000…