Projects tagged "Education"

Theatre. Immersion. Education. [T.I.E.]
Practitioner:
Nandita Dinesh
Date:
Jul 1 2017
T.I.E. is a residential, 24-hour, intensive experience during which participants will be: introduced to aesthetics of Immersive Theatre, guided through a practical exploration of these strategies, and mentored in the creation of an immersive, theatrical experience about a social justice issue -- a piece that can be shared at the end of the workshop with an invited audience of their choice
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A Handmaid’s Tale of Protest
Practitioner:
women's rights activists
Date:
Jun 25 2017
In state capitals and street protests, women’s rights activists have been wearing red robes and white bonnets based on “The Handmaid's Tale,” the 1985 novel that is now a series on Hulu. Silent, heads bowed, the activists in crimson robes and white bonnets have been appearing at demonstrations against gender discrimination and the infringement of reproductive and civil rights.
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Representing Disability in an Ablest World: Essays on Mass Media
Practitioner:
Beth Haller
Date:
Nov 12 2010
As an add-on to my 2010 book, Representing Disability in an Ableist World. Essays on Mass Media, I have created this online resource site. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Representing-Disability-in-an-Ableist-Wor...
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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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Trivia Site
Practitioner:
Sporcle
Date:
Jan 2 2010
Sporcle is a website deisgned with an endless array of trivia games that aim to boost your knowledge and perhaps increase your useless information understandings. These games, designed rather simply in most cases, were actually very useful in getting me to learn things like maps, countries, cities, populations, and beyond.
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AXS Lab
Practitioner:
Jason DaSilva, Alice Cook, Kevin Bluer, Simeon Hutner, Stephen Duffy, Jason Lemon and Elizabeth Daniels
Date:
Jan 1 2012
People with disabilities often suffer a ‘civil death’ due to exclusion primarily related to physical barriers of the built environment. AXS Map is building a social movement around inclusion for people with physical disabilities. AXS Map is a crowd-sourced platform for mapping wheelchair accessibility of buildings and places, and sharing that information across a network.
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Ayti: Youth-Produced Game about Haiti
Practitioner:
Global Kids and Microsoft
Date:
Sep 15 2006
From Games for Change site:
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How Art Gives Shape to Cultural Change
Practitioner:
Thelma Golden
Date:
Jul 2 2009
Thelma Golden, curator at the Studio Museum in Harlem, talks through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The "post-black" artists she works with are using their art to provoke a new dialogue about race and culture -- and about the meaning of art itself.
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Ghetto Film School
Practitioner:
Joe Hall
Date:
Sep 2 2000
The mission of The Ghetto Film School is to educate, develop and celebrate the next generation of great American storytellers.
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Untitled - Ongoing series
Practitioner:
JillisBlack
Date:
May 7 2018
Sarcastic delivery spoken to black people talking about issues regarding black "progress" , media, consumption among other things https://www.instagram.com/jillisblack/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/p/Bb3Y-bQFc2a/?hl=en&taken-by=jillisblack
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The Freedom Trail on Trial
Practitioner:
Urbano Project
Date:
Nov 20 2011
In 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, and impartiality of public presentations of the city’s
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Inmates Perform Valmiki Pratibha
Practitioner:
Calcutta Presidency Jail, Alokananda Roy
Date:
Jul 7 2007
Alokananda Roy walked into Calcutta's Presidency Jail on International Women's Day, 2007. The Indian classical dancer had been invited to watch female inmates perform, but it was the men who caught her eye. "They shook me," she says. "Their body language — it was as though they had no future, nothing to look forward to."
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Outrage in China over pressure on student to stop activism amid growing Me Too movement
Practitioner:
Yue Xin
Date:
Apr 26 2018
BEIJING – Before Yue Xin became a central figure in China’s burgeoning movement against sexual harassment, she recorded herself singing a revamped version of the 1960s pop classic “Que Sera Sera.” “Will we be equal? Will we be free?” sang the Peking University senior in a voice clip posted online, putting her own spin on Doris Day’s “Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?”
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Free University New York City
Practitioner:
Free University NYC
Date:
Mar 1 2012
If you headed into the West 4th St. Subway Station on March 9, 2014, you may have seen a group of people writing on cardboard, taping it to the walls, and seemingly holding a small class in the underground space. Those were some of the members of Free University NYC, a radical educational project started during May 2012 as a form of educational strike. They hold classes in public spaces like parks and subway stations, and are entirely free.
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Thriller Protest
Practitioner:
Chilean students
Date:
Jun 24 2011
The following is a description of the action that Huffington post published online on 6/25/2011: "Student demonstrators took to the streets of Santiago dressed as goblins and ghouls from Michael Jackson’s 'Thriller' video in their latest spirited pursuit of higher education reforms."
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No Fly on the Wall
Practitioner:
Siana Bangura
Date:
Sep 1 2016
Our key beliefs and principles are the very pillars that form the backbone of our movement: ‘Taking Up Space’: We believe marginalised voices must take up their rightful space in this world and deserve to have their voices heard, lived experiences believed, and should be visible in a world of constant erasure.
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Foreclosure Series
Practitioner:
Kathryn Clark
Date:
May 4 2012
"It was important to me to present the whole story in a way that would captivate people’s attention and make a memorable statement. Making quilts seemed an ironic solution. Quilts act as a functional memory, an historical record of difficult times.  It is during times of hardship that people have traditionally made quilts,
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The Protest Banner Lending Library
Practitioner:
Aram Han Sifuentes
Date:
Jan 1 2017
The Protest Banner Lending Library is a space for people to gain skills to learn to make their own banners, a communal sewing space where we support each other’s voices, and a place where people can check out handmade banners to use in protests.
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FOKAL
Practitioner:
UNESCO, the French Institute, Fondation Culture Création, and Africamérica
Date:
Apr 1 1995
ARTS/CULTURE FOKAL is the hub in Haiti where locals and international visitors from all walks of life -- artists, writers, citizens, activists-- come together to discuss the most pressing nation- and community-building issues, enjoy cutting edge artistic expressions, and share their ideas.
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Bruce High Quality Foundation University
Practitioner:
Bruce High Quality Foundation
Date:
Sep 19 2009
The Bruce High Quality Foundation University (BHQFU) is an unaccredited, free collaborative school founded by the eponymous artist collective and presented by Creative Time.
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Colorful pianos in the summer
Practitioner:
Sing For Hope
Date:
Jun 5 2017
Sing for Hope is bringing its renowned Sing for Hope Pianos back to the streets of New York City this summer. From June 5-25, as a celebration of the work Sing for Hope does in communities year-round, 60 Sing for Hope Pianos will be placed in parks and public spaces in high traffic locations across all five boroughs in New York for anyone and everyone to play.
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The Sacred Art of Ori
Practitioner:
Laolu Senbanjo
Date:
Apr 27 2017
The story of an artist. Laolu Senbanjo grew up surrounded by the culture and mythology of the Yoruba, an ethnic group from the southwest of Nigeria, but he never imagined how it would influence the artist he is today. After a career as a human rights attorney, Senbanjo moved to New York City to pursue art full time. “With my art, I like to tell stories, I like to start a conversation,” says Senbanjo, but life as an artist in New York was tough.
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Education for all in Public Space
Practitioner:
The Free University
Date:
May 13 2014
If you headed into the West 4th St. Subway Station on March 9, 2014, you may have seen a group of people writing on cardboard, taping it to the walls, and seemingly holding a small class in the underground space. Those were some of the members of Free University NYC, a radical educational project started during May 2012 as a form of educational strike. They hold classes in public spaces like parks and subway stations, and are entirely free.
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Art Therapist for Human Rights
Practitioner:
Art therapists
Date:
Jan 13 2017
We demand that AATA respond to Karen Pence's stated commitment to our field by asking her to publicly take action for the rights of LGBTQIA people, Native people, Black and Brown people, Muslims, survivors of sexual assault, people with disabilities, immigrants, refugees and all people who are in danger as a result of the policies of the current administration.
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Ayiti: The Cost of Life Video Game
Practitioner:
Global Kids Youth Leaders in the Playing for Keeps program
Date:
Jan 1 2005
Part of the following description is taken from an article posted on the website of Digital-Is National Writing Project (link below):
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