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2016
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Projects tagged "Worldwide"

With the Help of Social Media, the Asian Ballet Community Is Speaking Out Against Anti-Asian Violence
Practitioner:
Prominent Asian Dancers and Allies
Date:
Apr 1 2021
"Amid a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes around the world, Singapore-based dancewear company Cloud & Victory posted a video on March 18 calling for a stop to the hate against the Asian and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. It features prominent Asian dancers and allies, including former professional dancer Miko Fogarty, The Joffrey Ballet's Jeraldine Mendoza and Boston Ballet's Lia Cirio and Paulina Waski.
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Tiny Pricks Project
Practitioner:
Diana Weymar
Date:
Jan 8 2018
Tiny Pricks is a public art project created and curated by Diana Weymar. Contributors from around the world are stitching Donald Trump’s words into textiles, creating the material record of his presidency and of the movement against it. Tiny Pricks Project holds a creative space in a tumultuous political climate.
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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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MIS(S)PLACED WOMEN?
Practitioner:
Tanja Ostojić
Date:
May 10 2009
Mis(s)placed Women? (2009-2022), is a collaborative art project, consisting of performances, performance series, performance art workshops and delegated performances, including contributions by over 180 individuals from six continents. Many of them are artists, mainly identifying themselves as women from diverse backgrounds. Mis(s)placed Women?
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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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Cruel
Practitioner:
Sue Coe
Date:
Aug 2 2012
"Cruel" is a book written by Sue Coe, an activist illustrator known for her dedication to animal rights. It continues her mission of shedding light on how animals are mistreated in the food industry. The book is filled with striking paintings and drawings that vividly portray both the beauty and suffering of these animals and the workers who handle them.
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Radio Ambulante
Practitioner:
Radio Ambulante
Date:
Apr 10 2015
Radio Ambulante is an award-winning podcast and audio series co-founded by novelist Daniel Alarcón in 2012. Described by many commentators as a Spanish-language This American Life, Radio Ambulante publishes stories from “everywhere Spanish is spoken,” reaching as many as 60,000 listeners worldwide per episode.
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Benetton 'Unhate' Campaign Ads: White House Issues Statement on Obama Kiss
Practitioner:
United Colors of Benetton
Date:
Nov 17 2011
It seems a lot of powerful people hate Benetton's new 'Unhate' Campaign ads. The recently unveiled images show world leaders like the Pope and U.S. President Barack Obama kissing their perceived enemies. On Thursday, the White House issued a statement condemning Benetton for its provocative campaign.
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One World: Together At Home
Practitioner:
Global Citizen
Date:
Apr 18 2020
Global Citizen arranged a virtual concert to celebrate all those who are working during the COVID-19 epidemic, from the healthcare workers to essential workers. The lineup included Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Jennifer Hudson, and over 30 more artists. The concert took place live on Youtube and ran for around 6 hours.
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Project Ukko
Practitioner:
Moritz Stefaner, FutureEverything Festival, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Euporias
Date:
Mar 30 2016
Alex King describes Project Ukko in detail for Huck Magazine (March 17, 2016): "Moritz Stefaner’s Project Ukko turns climate and wind data into an immersive art installation that allows viewers to explore the future of the planet."
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TOMS One Day Without Shoes 2012
Practitioner:
TOMS Shoes
Date:
Apr 10 2012
One Day Without Shoes. It's that time again. We're going barefoot on April 10 and we hope you'll join us. 
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Waste Land Project
Practitioner:
Vik Muniz
Date:
Feb 5 2008
The project involved creating portraits of garbage pickers from the Jardim Gramacho landfill near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, using materials found in the landfill itself. Muniz worked with the garbage pickers to create the portraits, which were then photographed and exhibited in galleries around the world. The project aimed to raise awareness of the plight of the garbage pickers and the environmental issues associated with landfill waste.
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Lady Gaga Delivers Emotional Performance of ‘Til It Happens to You’ at the 2016 Oscars
Practitioner:
Lady Gaga
Date:
Feb 28 2016
http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/lady-gaga-performs-til-it-h...
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Daughter of a Temple
Practitioner:
ganavya doraiswamy
Date:
Mar 16 2024
“I sing because I genuinely think that if I don’t, I will die...The only thing that gives me relief is this.” - ganavya doraiswamy
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Daughter
Practitioner:
Audi
Date:
Feb 5 2017
Audi of America is committed to supporting pay equality, inclusivity, and the growth and development of all employees. The company has publically pledged to support ongoing commitment to women’s pay equality in the workplace and to foster a work environment that drives equality for all employees. Audi also instituted a graduate internship program where 50 percent of enrollment must be female establishing greater equality for our future workforce.
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Cats Against Cat Calling
Practitioner:
Hollaback!
Date:
Mar 20 2012
"Cats Against Cat Calling" began online as a movement under same slogan, powered through Hollaback! Hollaback! is an activist collective seeking to end street harassment. Working through a network of activists in various locations, Hollaback! encourages individuals to stand up for themselves against uncomfortable interactions in public.
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#NoMásMáscaras - campaña contra ataques con ácido
Practitioner:
Fundación Natalia Ponce de León
Date:
Mar 29 2016
Entre el 2004 y el 2014 se registraron 982 víctimas de ataque con ácido en Colombia. En el 41 por ciento de los casos, el agresor no fue identificado. El aumento de casos llevó a que en enero pasado se promulgara una ley que endurece los castigos contra ese flagelo y con la que se busca reducir al máximo esta situación en todo el país.
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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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All in the Family Parts 1 & 2
Practitioner:
IDEAS producer Mary O'Connell
Date:
Apr 14 2016
The link between early trauma and ill health later was untilled soil in the world of medicine. But the possibility of a connection captured the interest of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. And it was the beginning of a 25-year odyssey for Vincent Felitti when he teamed up with researchers to study the health of 17,000 members of a preventive care program at Kaiser Permanente, a private insurer.
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Art AIDS America traveling exhibition
Practitioner:
Jonathan David Katz and Rock Hushka
Date:
Jun 1 2015
If you visit the Art AIDS America exhibition expecting to see activist slogans and memorial pieces along with some art-world superstars, you won’t be disappointed—Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe and the “Silence = Death” slogan are present and accounted for—but you might also walk through the show scratching your head in confusion.
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Yoga Joes
Practitioner:
Dan Abramson
Date:
Sep 9 2015
If something is a total opposite to war, that is the practice of yoga. Concentrating or relaxing your muscles and mind in order to release tension, is something a soldier would never have the luxury to do under the dangerous circumstances of war. Inventor Dan Abramson thought of a amazingly creative and beautiful way to connect the two, by creating “Yoga Joes”, a series of simple green plastic army men that have some killer… yoga moves.
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American Born Chinese
Practitioner:
Gene Yang
Date:
Jul 6 2006
American Born Chinese is a graphic novel published in 2006 by the American author and illustrator Gene Luen Yang. Through three interweaving stories that span from the 16th century to the present, the novel explores issues of Chinese American identity, anti-Asian racism, and assimilation. American Born Chinese is the first graphic novel to be nominated for a National Book Award.
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The Danish Girl
Practitioner:
Tom Hooper
Date:
Sep 1 2015
The trailer for The Danish Girl, released Tuesday, introduces the world to Lili Elbe and her wife, Gerda Wegener. Elbe was a transgender woman and one of the first recipients of transition-related surgeries, which she received over a course of two years starting in 1930 in Germany.
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Ice Watch
Practitioner:
Olafur Eliasson and Minik Rosing
Date:
Dec 14 2018
Does it vex you, the environmental impact of Olafur Eliasson’s Ice Watch? Do you hear about the transportation of 30 icebergs from the Nuup Kangerlua fjord in Greenland to be displayed in London as a memento mori for our inhabitable environment and judge the project a bit of an own-goal, sustainability-wise? You would not be alone – on personal evidence, this seems a popular response.
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calling to the creative community
Practitioner:
walk free
Date:
May 10 2015
Creative Leaders Walk Free is a movement of millions of people everywhere, fighting to end one of the world’s greatest evils: Modern Slavery. Every person in our community has something unique and valuable to add in the fight to ending modern slavery – will you help?
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