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Projects tagged "Strengthens (community)"

Strengthens, builds and celebrates community through ritual and/or symbol.

Butterflies for Bealtaine
Practitioner:
Amelia Caulfield, Sinead Cullen & Margaret Organ
Date:
May 1 2020
*We would like to thank everyone who who participated in a very successful first Butterflies for Bealtaine* For the month of May, we invited all ages to creatively respond to the theme of The Butterfly and to share a change they wish for on a personal, community or global level. In Ireland as in many parts of the world we have been in a quarantine situation because of the global pandemic. This environment informed our project.
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“Un violador en tu camino” (“A rapist in your way”)
Practitioner:
LASTESIS
Date:
Nov 1 2019
Last month, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, dozens of women gathered outside the supreme court building in Santiago, Chile—a country now beset by popular uprisings against inequality—for a feminist flash mob.
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MASK art exhibit
Practitioner:
Yahn Gallery in the St Charles County Arts Council
Date:
Aug 31 2020
"MASK" is an art exhibition that explores the uses and meanings of masks, and ones feelings about them. Masks throughout history have taken many forms and have served many purposes. They have been used in construction, scientific research, technical manufacturing, medicine, the theater, and warfare.
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Waffles + Mochi
Practitioner:
Michelle Obama/ Netflix
Date:
Feb 9 2021
"Michelle Obama’s mission of encouraging kids to eat healthier is getting a global spin — and a few puppet allies. The former first lady is launching a kids’ cooking show on Netflix as part of the production deal between Netflix and the production company she founded with her husband, former president Barack Obama.
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Black Lives Matter Plaza in DC
Practitioner:
Rose Jaffe
Date:
Jun 5 2020
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser renamed a street in front of the White House “Black Lives Matter Plaza” and had the slogan painted on the asphalt in massive yellow letters, a pointed salvo in her escalating dispute with President Trump over control of D.C. streets.
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TIME OF THE POET:Second Name of Earth is PEACE.
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha
Date:
Jan 16 0020
MOTHER EARTH is broken from incessant decadent wars carelessly perpetuated by mindless ,vicious political imbeciles. Our natural wealth plundered by greedy ,gluttonous economic dare-devils, imbibing crude oil and fresh blood . Warlord-ism set the suns of our freedom, our earth is torn naked . War is ravaging the beauty of African diamond fields ,We are now Wretched Vagabonds . Warlords are frying peace in oil springs of the Gulf.
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La Radical Gai & Lesbianas Sin Duda: Spreading Awareness to the AIDS Epidemic in Spain
Practitioner:
La Radical Gai & Lesbiana Sin Duda
Date:
Dec 1 1994
On December 1, 1994 also known as World AIDS day, participating members from LSD (Lesbianas Sin Duda), La Radical Gai, and other allies sought out to protest against the push back of rejection that many of them were receiving from the medical and social perspective.
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Stonewall Protest Action
Practitioner:
Stonewall Protest
Date:
Nov 7 2020
This action took place on the Saturday after the 2020 US election when Joe Biden was named the president elect. While many were celebrating, the Stonewall Protests led up to march and remind ourselves + others that our fight was still far from over, and that the Democratic party is not a savior of marginalized populations. There were moments of celebration during the march, we paused in Soho and had a dance circle.
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Global Poetry Response#blacklivesmatter
Practitioner:
Mbizo Chirasha
Date:
Jul 7 0020
To state or chant ‘BLACK LIFE’S MATTER’ is not to say other lives don’t matter, it’s a reminder that four hundred years and counting, black lives didn’t matter enough. Not during the dark era of slave trade and its horrors on the African, not after slavery ended and blacks were left holding the short end of the stick.
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Thousands of Shoes Honor Hurricane Maria’s Victims in San Juan
Practitioner:
Rafael Acevedo, Puerto Rican citizens
Date:
Jun 1 2018
Walking the rows of shoes—favorite slippers, old Army boots, gold stilettos—it’s the baby shoes that stop you cold. Shoes began to fill a plaza opposite Puerto Rico’s Capitol building, and by Sunday morning, there were more than 3,000 pairs, a growing memorial to the roughly 4,645 people estimated to have died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
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Myanmar coup: How citizens are protesting through art
Practitioner:
Myanmar's citizens
Date:
Feb 7 2021
"An atmosphere of fear and anger spread across Myanmar this week as millions of people awoke to find out the military had taken control, ousting the elected government. But how do you fight back in a country where protests have been violently suppressed before? For some, it has meant putting pen to paper and taking the battle online.
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WomXnish
Practitioner:
Dionna and Daynelle Gray
Date:
Mar 24 2020
a month-long interactive art exhibition in the heart of downtown Chicago celebrating women and gender nonconforming folks.
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Immigrant Yarn Project
Practitioner:
Cindy Weil, Enactivist
Date:
Mar 8 2019
The Immigrant Yarn Project (IYP), organized and created by Cindy Weil was a massive work of public and democratic (crowd-sourced), yarn-based art honoring our immigrant heritage and promoting tolerance, difference, and community. Weil reached out across the state and beyond to collect yarn-based creations by immigrants and their descendants.
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#TeamTrees
Practitioner:
MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson) and Mark Rober
Date:
Oct 25 2019
When And Where Will #TeamTrees Plant 21.5 Million Crowdfunded Trees? Two months after reaching one of the most ambitious crowdfunding goals in YouTube history, #TeamTrees is getting closer to delivering on behalf of its 800,000+ unique donors.
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"That's not art it's Victorian porn!" - how one small Barbie doll took on the art world
Practitioner:
Sarah Williamson
Date:
Feb 10 2020
Museums and art galleries are not usually the sites of feminist political protest. Yet over the past couple of years, before the lockdown, gallery visitors all over the UK had noticed a small, determined activist whose modus operandi is “Small signs, big questions, fabulous wardrobe”.
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Oakland Teachers and Community Members to Protest School Closures and Co-locations
Practitioner:
Oakland Teachers and Community
Date:
Mar 31 2020
Oakland public school teachers and community members held a virtual protest on Tuesday March 31st seeking to halt permanent school closures and charter school co-locations that they say would further destabilize students during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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Mr Triton France Competition
Practitioner:
Merman Ludo, Ingrid la Sirène, Aurélien, Alexandre, Kewin, Chris, and other participants
Date:
Jun 30 2019
At the end of June of this year, as France sweated through record high temperatures, a group of men took a moment to escape the heatwave and compete in the inaugural Mr Triton France competition. Organised by Merman Ludo, the event – which organisers believe might be the first of its kind in the world – saw ten competitors from all over the country face off in a battle to be the best merman France has ever seen.
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MeToo movement takes hold in South Korea
Practitioner:
Korean Feminists
Date:
Mar 8 2018
Young women in South Korea are fighting for a new future. The #MeToo movement which has highlighted sexual harassment and abuse around the world has taken a surprising hold in this socially conservative country.
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P.A.I.N.
Practitioner:
Nan Goldin
Date:
Mar 10 2017
Anti-opioid activists unfurled banners and scattered pill bottles on Saturday inside the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which is named for a family connected to the powerful painkilling drug OxyContin. The protest, which was organized by a group started by the celebrated photographer Nan Goldin, started just after 4 p.m., when several dozen people converged at the Temple of Dendur inside the wing.
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‘Memorial’
Practitioner:
Cheril Linnett and woman activists
Date:
Mar 8 2020
Cheril Linett is a female artist from Chile, with a background in performance art and stage performance, who primarily focuses her artwork on feminist issues in Chile, especially ones involving violence, murder, hate crime and different kinds of oppression and assault, but also creates artwork reflecting issues in other parts of Latin America.
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Climate strikes continue online: 'We want to keep the momentum going'
Practitioner:
Climate Activists
Date:
Apr 22 2020
The large crowds and brightly coloured placards of the school climate strikes became some of the defining images of 2019. “There would be lots of chanting and the energy was always amazing,” says Dominique Palmer, a 20-year-old climate activist from London who has been involved with the strikes for more than a year. “Being there with everyone in that moment is truly an electrifying feeling. It’s very different now.”
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Work Ideology
Practitioner:
Madison Liao
Date:
Apr 15 2022
Work ideology centers around sustainable work. Through fifteen interviews, workers and prospective workers were interviewed about their experiences with work and the job search. Those interviews are analyzed and compiled on work ideology. However, work ideology goes further than showcasing the interview results, it allows for anonymous responses to be entered as well, expanding the research’s accessibility to every worker.
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Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
Practitioner:
Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin, NAACP
Date:
Dec 1 1955
In 1900, Montgomery, Alabama had passed a city ordinance to segregate bus passengers by race, and conductors were empowered to assign seats to achieve that goal. The first four rows of seats on each Montgomery bus were reserved for whites, and buses had "colored" sections for black people generally in the rear of the bus, although blacks composed more than 75% of the ridership.
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Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election
Practitioner:
Patricia Dahlman
Date:
Jul 3 2020
“Artists React to the Pandemic, George Floyd and the Election”
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In music video, seminarian at Belen Jesuit Prep uses rap to tackle coronavirus, global concerns
Practitioner:
Brother Michael Martinez
Date:
Apr 6 2020
WEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) - A seminarian and faculty member at a South Florida school is taking a creative approach to engaging with students about challenging issues during this time of uncertainty, including the coronavirus pandemic. He made a rap video.
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