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Periplus
Practitioner:
Comusitària
Date:
Oct 1 2013
PERIPLUS is a transoceanic route through community arts (music, performing arts and interdisciplinary projects) across five continents. It aims to disseminate knowledge and enhance the visibility of education, social and artistic initiatives by critically analysing the synergies which arise from connections in these three fields. ​
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Mandala and Cross / blackness, refugees and economic gamble
Practitioner:
Zoran Naskovski
Date:
Dec 30 2015
Artist Zoran Naskovski continued his project "Mandala and Cross / farewell to arms” with analysis of media representations of social processes in 2015, that resulted with a new installation: “Mandala and Cross / blackness, refugees and economic gamble”.
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Angered by Unsafe City, Gurgaon Women Call for a ‘Girlcott’
Practitioner:
Gurgaon Girlcott
Date:
Apr 4 2012
India Ink [Blog] The New York Times Global Edition April 4, 2012 By Neha Thirani The women of Gurgaon, angered by the recent incidents of violent crimes against women in the outsourcing boom town, are calling for a “Girlcott.”
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Deep Listening Post
Practitioner:
Connection Action Project
Date:
Jan 17 2013
The Deep Listening Post is a place where people can come to be heard about what's important to them in a safe and respectful environment. Empathetic volunteers lend an ear so that people can share about what's happening in their lives and in their hearts.
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WeTOPIA, Delivering "Joy" In a Real Way
Practitioner:
Sojo Studios
Date:
Nov 29 2011
Sojo Studios, a new entertainment company, made plenty of headlines this week with its first social game, WeTopia. The studio is gaining plenty of attention with news of its $8 million arsenal, a roster of partnerships with non-profits like Save the Children, Children’s Health Fund and buildOn, consumer brand advertisers, and Ellen DeGeneres as one its business investors and partners. 
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Anonymous in Mexico
Practitioner:
Anonymous
Date:
Feb 27 2013
The notorious, wanted, and merciless leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico,"Jouquin "El Chapo" Guzman, was captured by Mexican Marines last month. This marked a small victory for Mexico's fight to rid the country of its corrupted drug trade. How did this happen? Through intelligence of course, but let us remember Anonymous in Mexico.
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Doll Protest / Mini Protest
Practitioner:
Lyudmila Alexandrova
Date:
Jan 7 2012
This demonstration was in response to a new law (as of June, 2012) imposing fines for unauthorized protest of up to $20,000 for organizers and $10,000 for participants. After activists were turned down for a more traditional protest, Lyudmila Alexandrova and others set up small dolls, teddy bears, and figurines with demonstration slogans. Two mini protests took place in January 7 and January 14, 2012.
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Cob Houses, Kitchens, Showers for Homeless People
Practitioner:
Artists Building Communities, Essential Food and Medicine, and Living Earth Structures
Date:
May 1 2021
Members of three organizations – Artists Building Communities, Essential Food and Medicine, and Living Earth Structures – have built a kitchen, clinic, free store, stage, toilet, oven, and shower with and for a homeless community near Wood Street in West Oakland.
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Turkish men don mini skirts to campaign for women's rights
Practitioner:
Turkish men
Date:
Feb 21 2015
How did men in miniskirts become a protest meme on social media?
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De-Cruit
Practitioner:
Stephan Wolfert
Date:
Jan 1 2018
The failure of the United States to adequately meet the mental health needs of its military veterans has been identified as a national crisis.
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Hoodies and Hijabs at Amnesty International General Meeting
Practitioner:
#MillionHijabMarch
Date:
Apr 11 2012
"At the recent Amnesty International Annual General Meeting, we decided to do an action stating we stand with Shaima Alawadi and Trayvon Martin. Check out the action, even Asma Mahfouz, one of the founders of the April 6th Movement in Egypt and nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize participated in the action." -#MillionHijabMarch
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On Campus, Opening Up Conversations About Sex
Practitioner:
Sex Week at Harvard
Date:
Apr 16 2012
By DOUGLAS QUENQUA CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — For a table set up by a campus student group, this one held some unusual items: a gynecologist’s speculum, diaphragms, condoms (his and hers) and several packets of lubricant. Nearby, two students batted an inflated condom back and forth like a balloon.
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AnAbhainnÁlainn
Practitioner:
Creativity and Change
Date:
Mar 22 2021
We designed a WaterWaysWalk with interactive activity suggestions linked to both a Website and a hardcopy Zine, either of which could be utilised on the walk to raise awareness about Water Sustainability. Below is an extract from the website explaining what the focus was:
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Two Female Graffiti Artists in Afghanistan
Practitioner:
Shamsia Hassani and Malina Suliman
Date:
Apr 3 2013
Meet Shamsia Hassani. At age 24, she is one of Afghanistan's first female graffiti artists. An associate professor of sculpture at Kabul University, she was first introduced to graffiti in 2010 by British artist, Chu, during a week-long course in street art. Meet also Malina Suliman, 23, who has been receiving threats from extremists due to her work in graffiti.
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Unspeakable
Practitioner:
Vicente Ovalle
Date:
Jul 20 2017
As a visual art student, I’m interested in hearing your feedback about this project. Thanks We need to make a call to awaken humanity from their passivity and social indifference and acceptance of criminals who did commit crimes against humanity. When a human suffers we also suffer. Is only one Humankind I’m not from a different species.
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$100 bills try to rush the White House
Practitioner:
Represent.us
Date:
Apr 13 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_wlSzkOlFE Anti-corruption activists unite: The Tea Party and Bold Progressives fighting side-by-side On Saturday, April 13, 2013 at 2 p.m., hundreds of activists marched K Street in Washington D.C. (aka “Influence Alley”) dressed as giant $100 bills.
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Latino Punk Festival NYC
Practitioner:
punk bands from the Americas
Date:
Aug 7 2015
Promoted as a DIY festival with no corporate sponsorship, the 2015 Latino Punk festival in Brooklyn, NY featured bands from all over the Americas. With an emphasis on local bands supporting each other and nurturing local scenes, this festival functions in reference to the ideals of the punk and Riot Grrrl movements in the 1990s.
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Spectres of Liberty
Practitioner:
Dara Greenwald and Josh MacPhee and Olivia Robinson
Date:
May 1 2008
Spectres of Liberty is an on-going public, hybrid media project about the history of the movement to abolish slavery in the United States. Through this project we explore the following questions: How do we make visible histories of people and movements which resisted a status quo of oppression? What are the best forms to manifest submerged and complex
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NYC Artist Is Using Her Unapologetically Brown Identity to Empower Others
Practitioner:
Johanna Toruno
Date:
Jul 1 2017
You’ll find Johanna Toruno on the streets of NYC plastering pictures of her flower-filtered poetry, Kendrick Lamar, and Selena on blank walls, street lights and buildings. When I came across The Unapologetically Brown Series on Instagram I was intrigued not only by the name but by the concept of being unapologetic and brown as the premise for a body of street art.
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Action Day Against Racism and Xenophobia in Spain - No Hate Speech
Practitioner:
Spanish Institute for Youth
Date:
Nov 12 2017
The No Hate Speech campaign has come to its fourth anniversary this week, because it was on the 18th of March 2013 when the Spanish Institute for Youth IMG_9707(INJUVE) officially launched the campaign in Spain, to commemorate the 21st of March, declared by the UN as Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination of that year.
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