Projects tagged
Performance
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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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Good Chance Theatre
Read more: Good Chance TheatreSurrounded by a jungle of tents and mud, the Good Chance Theatre was set up last year by British playwrights Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson. The refugee camp theatre has been derided by many, but for the thousands of migrants…
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Meet to Sleep
Read more: Meet to SleepMeet To Sleep, a campaign started by Blank Noise, asks citizens from all across India to come to different public spaces like parks, and sleep there in order to take back free spaces without being afraid for their safety. The…
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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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Bread and Puppet Theater Founder Peter Schumann on 50 Years of Art and Resistance
Read more: Bread and Puppet Theater Founder Peter Schumann on 50 Years of Art and ResistanceThis year marks the 50th anniversary of one of this country’s most beloved theater companies. Founded in New York City in 1963, the Bread and Puppet Theater’s first productions ranged from puppet shows for children to pieces opposing poor housing…
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What the Skirt Lifts
Read more: What the Skirt Lifts“What the Skirt Lifts”, created by a student in France, is a day long protest against gender discrimination where male and female students were encouraged to wear skirts to school. External sources: https://actipedia.org/project/lift-skirt-what-skirt-lifts-what-skirt-raises https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10834551/French-schoolbo… https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/lift-skirt-causes-french-boys-drop-trousers-day-1448851 https://www.rt.com/news/159380-boys-skirts-france-protest/
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Ask a Muslim
Read more: Ask a MuslimMona Haydar knows the way some people feel about Muslims in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Just weeks after the horrific San Bernardino, Calif., shooting in December, where Islamic extremists killed 14 people and wounded 22 others, Haydar was…
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Unwrapped
Read more: UnwrappedThis performative art took place at a series called SUBLIME at the Brooklyn Museum, curated by the collective SAWCC (pronounced saucy)- South Asian Women’s Creative Collective. Monica Jahan Bose is a Bangladeshi-American artist and activist whose work includes painting, printmaking,…
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Queering Utopia: Circus Amok at the Scholar & Feminist Conference on Utopia
Read more: Queering Utopia: Circus Amok at the Scholar & Feminist Conference on Utopia“Stay cool, stay calm, you have the right to remain silent. / Don’t run, don’t resist, and get that badge number.” So goes the catchy and campy tune performed by Circus Amok! that teaches people what to do when they…