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2016
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Projects tagged "Violence & War"

Out in Schools
Practitioner:
Out on Screen
Date:
Jan 1 2004
Out in Schools is a high school outreach initiative that has received acclaim from parents and educators across British Columbia since 2004. The Out in Schools program uses age-appropriate film and video presentations to engage youth and educators on issues related to homophobia and violence.
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Marisela Escobedo and the quest for justice
Practitioner:
Marisela Escobedo
Date:
May 11 2010
Marisela Escobedo was 52 when she was shot dead on a sidewalk outside of the Government Palace of Chihuahua City, northern Mexico. She had set up camp in one of Mexico’s most dangerous cities – a place where people won’t leave their homes at night to protest day and night against corruption and impunity in her daughter’s murder case.
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Everything She Says Means Everything
Practitioner:
Spencer Tunick
Date:
Jul 17 2016
Calling all feminist activists, nudists, Cleveland-based Democrats, and people overdue for a laundry day. Photographer Spencer Tunick is looking for 100 bold women to pose nude for a Cleveland-based photo shoot on July 17, 2016. Also — you’ll be baring all at the Republican National Convention.
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Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 1964
Practitioner:
Yoko Ono
Date:
Jan 1 1964
In Cut Piece—one of Yoko Ono’s early performance works—the artist sat alone on a stage, dressed in her best suit, with a pair of scissors in front of her. The audience had been instructed that they could take turns approaching her and use the scissors to cut off a small piece of her clothing, which was theirs to keep. Some people approached hesitantly, cutting a small square of fabric from her sleeve or the hem of her skirt.
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The Great Migration Series
Practitioner:
Jacob Lawrence
Date:
May 12 1941
National Public Radio (NPR): There's no historical marker outside Jacob Lawrence's childhood home in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. But Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, has an idea of what it might say: "Here lived one of the 20th century's most influential visual artists, a man named Jacob Lawrence, who was a child of southern migrants."
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A Night Of Philosophy And Ideas
Practitioner:
various
Date:
Jan 27 2018
"A Night of Philosophy and Ideas is a thinker’s lollapalooza. The free, 12-hour weekend lyceum at the Brooklyn Public Library includes spirited debate, live music, theater, performance art pieces, and film screenings. At any given hour, five or six different events will be taking place simultaneously. Visitors are encouraged to come and go as the spirit moves them.
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For Warmth
Practitioner:
Thich Nhat Hanh as featured at onbeing.org
Date:
Apr 1 2016
Thich Nhat Hanh reads his poem "For Warmth" in Vietnamese, Krista Tippett reads the translation in English, excerpted from the episode "Mindfulness, Suffering, and Engaged Buddhism."
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Morocco protest against rape-marriage law
Practitioner:
We are all Amina Filali
Date:
Mar 17 2012
By Nora Fakim, BBC News Several hundred women's rights activists have demonstrated outside Morocco's parliament to demand the repeal of a law on sexual violence. Morocco's penal code allows a rapist to marry his victim if she is a minor as a way of avoiding prosecution. A 16-year-old girl, Amina Filali, killed herself a week ago after being severely beaten during a forced marriage to her rapist.
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Bread and Puppet Theater Founder Peter Schumann on 50 Years of Art and Resistance
Practitioner:
Bread and Puppet
Date:
Dec 26 2013
This year marks the 50th anniversary of one of this country’s most beloved theater companies. Founded in New York City in 1963, the Bread and Puppet Theater’s first productions ranged from puppet shows for children to pieces opposing poor housing conditions. The group’s processions, involving monstrous puppets, some about 20 feet high, became a fixture of protests against the Vietnam War. "We don’t have playwrights in the theater.
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'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' inspires real-life billboards
Practitioner:
avaaz, Justice 4 Grenfell
Date:
Feb 20 2018
A pair of activist groups have taken a tactic straight from the Oscar front-runner “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.”
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Lil Baby “The Bigger Picture”
Practitioner:
Lil Baby
Date:
Jun 12 2020
Lil Baby, a popular American rapper, released a song titled "The Bigger Picture" in 2020 in response to the Black Lives Matter movement and the protests that took place following the murder of George Floyd by a police officer.
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A Call to Action
Practitioner:
Unknown
Date:
Jul 1 2022
This piece is fascinating because of its use of just a few words and country names, muted colors, and the recreation of famous art. The artist used this canvas to depict a concern about events happening in the Gaza strip.
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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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Why Prince is a Powerful Example of Artistic Activism
Practitioner:
Prince
Date:
Apr 21 2016
From calling out poverty in his lyrics to his support of coding, the legendary artist pushed the world to care about more than music.
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Women are Heroes Project
Practitioner:
JR
Date:
Jan 1 2008
In Women Are Heroes, JR introduces women who sometimes look death in the face, who go from laughter to tears, who are generous, have nothing and yet share, who have had a painful past and long to build a happy future.
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A Performance workshop “Misplaced Women?”
Practitioner:
Tanja Ostojic and participants of the workshop
Date:
Oct 29 2015
“Misplaced Women?” is an art project-workshop by Tanja Ostojic in which she and project`s participants – artists , art students , cultural workers and activists: Nela Antonovic, Gorana Bacevac, Nadezda Kircanski, Tatjana Beljinac, Milica Jankovic, Tamara Bijelic, Irena Djukanovic, Bojana Radenovic, Marija Jevtic, Irena Mirkovic, Jelena Dinic, Sanja Solunac and Suncica Sido showed the everyday life activities that are characteristic for migrants, refugee
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Israel, Palestine groups clash on College Walk
Practitioner:
Student for Justice in Palestine - Columbia University
Date:
Nov 20 2010
Students dressed as Israeli soldiers stopped other students, ordered them to the ground, and blindfolded them in a demonstration that drew multiple campus groups to a standoff on College Walk Thursday afternoon. The Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine set up mock checkpoints—to resemble those manned by the Israeli army in the West Bank—drawing crowds and counter-protests for several hours.
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Mother’s Day Eve Noise Demo Against the Prison Industrial Complex
Practitioner:
NYC Anarchist Black Cross
Date:
May 12 2012
WHAT: Noise Demo WHEN: 8:00pm, Saturday, May 12th WHERE: Bayview Correctional Facility – West 20th Street & 11th Avenue New York, New York COST: Free
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Semper Fi
Practitioner:
Bill Fisher
Date:
Sep 23 2007
The motivation for this action came from the profound sadness felt at seeing a Marine Recruitment booth in the middle of our campus on an otherwise pleasant day in September. Legally we have no choice, but it seems antithetical to the stated mission of the university, and to all we, as an institution, are praised for among our communities. Though one could argue they are
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Marriage to Peace
Practitioner:
Ning Kong
Date:
Nov 19 2016
At 12:00 noon (New York time) on November 19, 2016, Chinese artist Ning Kong, wearing a wedding dress with hundred dove, appeared at the 911 site in New York. Even though the theme of performance art is calling for peace, the police banned it and showed the handcuffs because doing performance art was not allowed at the 9/11 site. So Kong Ning turned to Times Square, New York, successfully completing her performance art.
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Cuckooed
Practitioner:
Mark Thomas
Date:
Nov 10 2015
Theater as investigative reporting or investigative reporting as theater, however you cut it, Mark Thomas, a British TV actor/comedian and activist has created a fascinating show. It's by him and about him: how he ran stings that put some illegal arms traffickers out of business or in jail and how he was deceived and betrayed by a "comrade" who turned out to be a spy for BAE Systems, the UK's largest aerospace and weapons company.
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Disasters of War
Practitioner:
Dmitry Borshch
Date:
Nov 23 2020
"Disasters of War" 335 Nassau Boulevard, Garden City Park, New York 11040 November 23, 11 am – December 19, 7 pm Monday – Saturday, 11 am – 7 pm, free admission Please write to racc.ny@mail.ru or call (347) 662 1456 The artist is available for interviews
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Unpacking the 21st Century: Artists Engaging the World
Practitioner:
Aliza Augustine, Aileen Bassis, Patricia Cazorla, Patricia Dahlman, Nancy Saleme
Date:
Jun 4 2016
The exhibition "Unpacking the 21st Century: Artists Engaging the World" included work by five New York City area artists that examined a range of social and political issues and offered companion special events.
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A Map of Error
Practitioner:
The Errorist Movement
Date:
Jan 15 2005
Buenos Aires in Argentina is the only city in the world where streets named Palestine and Israel intersect on the city grid. Taking advantage of this situation, The Errorist Movement decided to protest against the conflict in Gaza in that location in Buenos Aires.
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Art activist group Led by Donkeys paints Ukrainian flag in front of Russian embassy
Practitioner:
Led by Donkeys
Date:
Feb 23 2023
Wheelbarrows full of washable paint were poured along the Kensington road to mark a year since Russia launched its invasion. Four people have been arrested for the protest.
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