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The Black Cinema House
Practitioner:
Theaster Gates
Date:
Oct 2 2013
Black Cinema House hosts screenings and discussions of films by and about people of the African diaspora, and offers video classes to neighborhood youth, teaching the next generation to make their own films and tell their own stories.
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Bridgetown DiY
Practitioner:
Bridgetown DIY
Date:
Jan 2 2011
Bridgetown DIY is a not-for-profit social center and music/art space. We are dedicated to empowerment through education, collaboration, and sharing.
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Freedom of speech Lecture to a university occupation
Practitioner:
Raymond Geuss
Date:
Nov 29 2011
On November 29th 2011 Proffessor of Philosophy Raymond Geuss relocated a lecture he was scheduled to give to an occupied lecture hall on the campus of cambridge university.
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INTERNATIONAL LINK BEETWEEN FEMALE VIDEO ARTISTS
Practitioner:
FEMLINK
Date:
Jun 7 2012
WHAT IS FEMLINK Who we are ? We are Independent visual artists.
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#ProjectTMI
Practitioner:
Facebookers
Date:
Mar 15 2012
Project TMI: The Feminist Humor Defense Against the Assault on Our Bodies
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Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land
Practitioner:
Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land
Date:
Sep 13 2011
Crocodile in Water, Tiger on Land
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Printing a Revolution: The Posters of Paris ’68
Practitioner:
École des Beaux-Arts
Date:
Jan 1 1968
During the major strikes and student uprisings in France that year, the École des Beaux-Arts turned itself into a workshop for revolutionary messages.
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The Fearless Collective – Public Art for Social Change
Practitioner:
Bangalore
Date:
Dec 8 2012
Founded in India, this collective creates participatory murals that transform public spaces into affirmations of love and resistance. Collaborating with marginalized communities, they co-create artworks that challenge narratives of fear and oppression
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In Our DNA
Practitioner:
Shooting Without Bullets
Date:
Jan 8 2022
Shooting Without Bullets incubates young artist activists and eliminates systemic barriers in art and society for Black and Brown youth, all while spreading bold messages of justice and equity across Northeast Ohio and beyond. In Our DNA, their new public art initiative, uplifts Cleveland’s Black history to catalyze present and future racial equity, social justice, and civic engagement efforts across Cleveland communities.
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Discwoman
Practitioner:
Discwoman
Date:
Sep 1 2014
Founded by Frankie Hutchinson, Emma Burgess-Olson and Christine Tran, Discwoman is a New York-based platform, collective, and booking agency—representing and showcasing cis women, trans women and genderqueer talent in electronic music. Started as a two-day festival in September 2014 at Bossa Nova Civic Club Discwoman has since produced and curated events in 15+ cities—working with over 150 DJs and producers to-date.
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'Once in a generation moment' — Zelensky, Ukraine's partners gather for key London summit after White House fallout
Practitioner:
Martin Fornusek
Date:
Mar 2 2025
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, and other top Western officials gathered on March 2 for a London summit to discuss support for Kyiv.
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Dying to Breathe: The Unseen Cost of Gold Mining
Practitioner:
Sim Chi Yin
Date:
May 15 2015
Photographer Sim Chi Yin spent more than three years documenting a Chinese gold miner who is suffering from the deadly lung disease silicosis. Despite the odds, his loving relationship with his wife has kept him alive much longer than anyone expected.
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AIDS Memorial Quilt
Practitioner:
Cleve Jones
Date:
Nov 1 1985
In June of 1987, a small group of strangers gathered in a San Francisco storefront to document the lives they feared history would neglect. Their goal was to create a memorial for those who had died of AIDS, and to thereby help people understand the devastating impact of the disease.
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Covert Gay Representation in Video Games
Practitioner:
Jacques Servin
Date:
Dec 15 1996
Upon the release of the 1996 Maxis Inc. computer game SimCopter, the company discovered programmer Jacques Servin had secretly added scantily clad male CPUs to appear in the game and make out with the player character.
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Celebrating the history of black creativity
Practitioner:
Lubaina Himid
Date:
Jan 1 1991
"A Tanzanian-born, Preston-based artist, curator and cultural activist, Lubaina Himid aims to 'fill in the gaps of history', giving representation to marginalised histories and to what was previously invisible or silenced. Significantly, Himid's art reinserts black narratives into the forefront of cultural practice and conversation.
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Illuminating Rana Plaza: NYFW Protest and Projection
Practitioner:
99 Pickets, The Illuminator art collective, Ismail Ferdous
Date:
Feb 6 2014
To protest unethical labor practices in Bangladesh, specifically unsafe working conditions, 99 Pickets, The Illuminator, and Ismail Ferdous took action during New York Fashion Week.
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Rain of Poems over London
Practitioner:
Colectivo Casagrande
Date:
Jun 26 2012
Rain of Poems took place over London on Tuesday 26th June 2012 at 9pm. One hundred thousand poems printed on bookmarks by over 300 contemporary poets from 204 countries fell from a helicopter over Jubilee Gardens during Poetry Parnassus as the sun sets. 
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Ausencias
Practitioner:
Gustavo Germano
Date:
May 18 2014
"On 17 December 1976, 18-year-old Eduardo Raúl Germano was abducted in Rosario, Argentina. Following the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the 1976 coup d’état, Gustavo Germano, Eduardo’s brother, began working on the photography exhibition "Ausencias" (Absences). Born in 1964 in the Argentinean Province of Entre Río, Gustavo Germano started taking photographs of the journeys he made across Latin America in 1987.
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The T Party
Practitioner:
The Forum Theatre, Natsu Onoda Power
Date:
Jan 2 2015
Even if the idea of interactive theater gives you hives, you can still find amusement, and perhaps enlightenment, at Forum Theatre’s “The T Party,” a bold and inventive exploration of gender identity by local writer-director Natsu Onoda Power. The play begins as a progressive party you’ll be encouraged to join, but fear not. You can remain a mere observer.
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Bringing Art and Change to Bronx
Practitioner:
Thomas Hirschhorn
Date:
Sep 15 2013
New York Times By Randy Kennedy
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