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performance
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The Grace Period Blog/Performance
Read more: The Grace Period Blog/Performance“The Grace Period” is a live blogging platform with seven anonymous contributing bloggers called: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Through, videos, writings, and visuals they present multiple perspectives of landing/creating a meaningful job after school in a…
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BUFFALO BLOOD
Read more: BUFFALO BLOODA series of performances orchestrated by Lila Roo, to bring awareness to the past, present and future issue of the physical and energetic violence against the First Nation of the native buffalo and peoples of the United Sates of America…
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Missile Dick Chicks Take America
Read more: Missile Dick Chicks Take AmericaShortly after the events of 9/11, a group of NYC women came together in protest of the Bush Administration’s use of the terror attacks to justify war. Seeking out a new form of political protest, the women decided to respond…
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Circus Amok
Read more: Circus AmokCircus Amok is a New York City based circus-theater company whose mission is to provide free public art addressing contemporary issues of social justice to the people of New York City. Directed and founded by Jennifer Miller, the group has…
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Lambrakis LivZ
Read more: Lambrakis LivZThe performance, “Lambrakis LivZ”, concerns the re-enactment of the political speech of Grigoris Lambrakis given in Athens in 1962. Grigoris Lambrakis was a peace-activist, assassinated by a paramilitary plot on June 1963 at Thessaloniki, Greece. The title denotes the first…
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Miss Rockaway Armada
Read more: Miss Rockaway ArmadaThe Miss Rockaway Armada is both a collection of individuals and an idea. At its most basic, the idea is this: we’re going to float down the Mississippi River from Minneapolis to New Orleans on rafts that we built ourselves.…
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The Freedom Trail on Trial
Read more: The Freedom Trail on TrialIn the fall of 2011, Urbano’s teen artists and artist-in-residence Neil Horsky partnered with professional artists, educators, librarians, and historians to undertake a critical investigation of Boston’s Freedom Trail. During the investigative process teen artists questioned the assumptions, accuracy, comprehensiveness,…
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Theater for Incarcerated Women
Read more: Theater for Incarcerated WomenCreative Time, Social Practice Archive: In 1989 actress/writer Rhodessa Jones was conducting classes at the San Francisco County Jail. Working with female inmates, she developed material for a performance piece called Big Butt Girls, Hard-Headed Women based on their lives…