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Youth
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Imagination Playground
Read more: Imagination PlaygroundWhen award-winning architect David Rockwell started spending time in playgrounds with his young children, he was disturbed by the lack of imagination and variation in the way kids interact with standardized playground equipment. He spent five years developing the Imagination…
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Student flash mobs in Thailand
Read more: Student flash mobs in Thailand“Thai artists and art students are on the frontline of their country’s swelling pro-democracy movement, calling for reforms of Thailand’s military-backed government, and breaking both taboo and national law to criticise the nation’s monarchy. The near-daily flash mobs numbering in…
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Remember The Glaciers
Read more: Remember The GlaciersRaising awareness about climate change; adapting he aesthetic of ‘eco-friendly’ to appeal to the iGeneration and uncountable generations to come. External sources: http://glacier996girl.tumblr.com https://instagram.com/glacier996girl/ https://www.facebook.com/remembertheglaciers
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Taller Nube
Read more: Taller NubeTaller Nube is an activist art-education program in Los Condes, Chile where artists work collaboratively with children to navigate an open learning environment in public spaces. In Nube’s philosophy, a park is a school, a museum is a school, the…
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They Shoot Horses
Read more: They Shoot HorsesText taken from website: Phil Collins’s work often originates in areas of conflict, shifting the focus away from sensationalist news coverage to reveal unexpected aspects of life in contested territories – from Belfast to Belgrade to Baghdad and Bogotá. they…
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Ghetto Film School
Read more: Ghetto Film SchoolThe mission of The Ghetto Film School is to educate, develop and celebrate the next generation of great American storytellers. External sources: http://www.ghettofilm.org/
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Y’en A Marre
Read more: Y’en A Marre“Y’en a Marre (“We’re Fed Up”) first emerged in 2011 as a grassroots campaign against injustice and inequality in Senegal. Spearheaded by the hip hop group Keur Gui Crew in response to local power outages, the nascent protest movement went…
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Silent Strikes in Venezuelan Universities
Read more: Silent Strikes in Venezuelan UniversitiesIn Venezuela, the far right opposition has protested against the leftist regime of Maduro. Violence has swept through the capital, Caracas, and other cities throughout the country. Meanwhile, the Western world has had its eye on Ukraine, and received relatively…
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It Gets Better
Read more: It Gets BetterAfter a spate of bullying-related suicides of LGBT youth, gay columnist Dan Savage and his partner Terry Miller decided to launch the It Gets Better project to see what they could do about it. They began with a simple YouTube…
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Project Impact
Read more: Project ImpactBy Lauren Hersh, with Katie Cappiello, Artistic Director, The Arts Effect. It’s dark outside, 20 degrees, and we’ve taken to Super Bowl Boulevard in NYC with a team of teen girls who are passionate about ending modern day slavery. They’ve…