Projects tagged "Venezuela"

Silent Strikes in Venezuelan Universities
Practitioner:
Autonomous universities in Venezuela
Date:
Mar 5 2014
In 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 little news coverage of what is actually going on in Venezuela. An epidemic of misinformation has spread as a result.
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No Soy Tu Chiste. I Am Not A Joke.
Practitioner:
Daniel Arzola
Date:
Oct 1 2013
Daniel Arzola, a digital artist and activist originally from Maracay, Venezuela, began his series, 'No Soy Tu Chiste' ('I Am Not A Joke') in 2013 intent on combating the stereotypes and cruelty so often facing LGBT identifiers; youth in particular. The project went viral in 2014, around the same time it teamed up with the It Gets Better Project based in the United States.
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South American Traffic Mimes
Practitioner:
Venezuelan Government
Date:
Oct 7 2011
"Mimes gesture as they stand in a crosswalk in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday Oct. 7, 2011. The mayor of the city's eastern district of Sucre has launched a unique program aimed to encourage civility among reckless drivers and careless pedestrians, putting 120 mimes at intersections to politely and silently scold violators"
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I'm Not A Joke
Practitioner:
Daniel Arzola
Date:
Aug 1 2015
The "I'm Not A Joke" campaign from Daniel Arzola is a series of images inscribed with compelling truths about human diversity that encourages individuals to live as their authentic selves. He wants the images to eventually appear on buses and subways, exposing audiences to the realities of queer experiences in an attempt to break down prejudice in a form of activism that he calls "Artivism."
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Pedestrian Critical Mass
Practitioner:
Ser Urbano, Caracas a Pie, Various individuals
Date:
Jun 29 2013
INVITATION Pedestrian Critical Mass We walk for pedestrians rights Saturday, June 29th @ 3:33 pm From Plaza Venezuela to Chacaíto Caracas, Venezuela
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Un-Daily Bread
Practitioner:
Gregg Segal
Date:
Dec 30 2019
In response to an earlier project called "Daily Bread, Gregg Segal collaborated with the United Nations Refugee Agency to bring awareness to the crisis of refugees fleeing Venezuela through his project "Un-Daily Bread."
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