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The Flood: Gilgamesh and the quest of immortality
Read more: The Flood: Gilgamesh and the quest of immortalityFrom the two shores of the Mediterranean, Zoukak theatre company and cultural association (Beirut) and Center for cultural decontamination CZKD (Belgrade) collaborates by sharing their experiences and knowledge in working within sociopolitical contexts in the field of art and culture.…
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Mexico Burns Effigies of Donald Trump in Easter Celebrations
Read more: Mexico Burns Effigies of Donald Trump in Easter CelebrationsMEXICO-US-HOLY-WEEK-TRUMP Credit: YURI CORTEZ / Stringer Caption:Mexican’s hang an effigy representing US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump before being set on fire, March 26, 2016 in Mexico City during Holy Week celebrations. For many years Mexicans have made cardboard figures…
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#FreeNicoll
Read more: #FreeNicollNicoll Hernandez-Polanco, a Guatamalen transgender woman, came to the United States in October 2014 after surviving hate based harassment and violence in her home country. When she presented her case to the border patrol she was detained by Immigration and…
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Wallyball
Read more: WallyballThe frontier between the United States and Mexico is the busiest land border in the world. It is also among one of the world’s most heavily regulated and policed border zones—the arid climate of which is responsible for many migrant…
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Imaginary Activism: The Role of the Artist Beyond the Art World
Read more: Imaginary Activism: The Role of the Artist Beyond the Art WorldIn this solo work, Gómez-Peña tests brand new material dealing with radical citizenship and what he terms “imaginary activism,” combining live art, literature, theory, and pedagogy in a wonderfully strange mix. Not one solo performance is ever the same. Gómez-Peña…
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All of Us or None – Responses and Resistance to Militarism
Read more: All of Us or None – Responses and Resistance to MilitarismA CALL TO ARTISTS: The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has created a new, nationally touring poster exhibit called All of Us or None: Responses and Resistance to Militarism. The exhibit will launch in June and is already scheduled to…
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Design4Peace
Read more: Design4PeaceDesign4Peace is a collection of political posters created by Leslie Dwyer. Images speak to issues of war and peace, prisons, solidarity and movement, immigration, economy and class, violence against women, ecology, agriculture, racism, and gender. Leslie works with movement and…
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Contra-Tiempo Urban Latin Dance Theater in “Full Still Hungry”
Read more: Contra-Tiempo Urban Latin Dance Theater in “Full Still Hungry”Contra-Tiempo’s first Miami dance performance will bring Ana Maria Alvarez back to her roots. Her father’s family settled in Miami after leaving Cuba in the early ’60s. Most of them, including his four siblings and their spouses and children, still…
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Department of Invitations
Read more: Department of InvitationsFilling Stomachs to Open Minds on Immigration In Sweden, Dinners Melt Cultural Barriers STOCKHOLM — Last year, when Ebba Akerman, 31, was teaching Swedish to immigrants in the suburbs of this city, she ran into one of her students on…
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Mapping skin deep
Read more: Mapping skin deep“Mapping skin deep” is an audiovisual public installation consisting of portraits with testimonies from refugee/undocumented immigrants currently residing in Montreal and elsewhere. Their bodies have been scarred in post-production tracing the route they took from their homeland to Montreal, hence…