Projects tagged "CA"

Getting Your Sh*t Together/GYSTInk
Practitioner:
Karen Atkinson and the GYST Team
Date:
Mar 7 2013
"Making Life Better For Artists" (on ongoing project) http://www.gyst-ink.com
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Life Line Booth
Practitioner:
Life Line Booth
Date:
Jan 1 2013
3-part webseries where Life Line Booths are set up with donated items in homeless communities for anyone's taking. In addition to practical aid, we provide blank canvases, paper and markers for visitors to express their thoughts and share their stories. Through these shared stories, we hope to shatter the stigmas about homelessness at large.
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Silent River Film Festival
Practitioner:
Kalpna Singh-Chitnis
Date:
Oct 10 2011
Cinema is a popular medium for people to escape the real world. It provides comedy, drama, and endless entertainment. But Kalpna Singh-Chitnis saw an even greater potential for film. She believed that this art form could be utilized as a means to highlight social causes, so she created the Silent River Film Festival.
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The Merit Shop
Practitioner:
Daniel Soares, Pedro Sampaio, Joao Stein
Date:
Jan 1 2014
This shop is more interested in people than it is in profits. If you've got some mad dance skills, or even just some mediocre ones, you can purchase a variety of goods at The Merit Shop in San Francisco.
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Call out sites displaying ICE recruiitment adverstising
Practitioner:
Various independent actors in Santa Cruz, CA.
Date:
Sep 8 2025
ICE [Immigration & Customs Enforecement] is now heavily recruiting, in part with offers of a $50,000 signing bonus. ICE has run roughshod over the Constitution, targeting people via racial profiling, failing to give people their constitutional rights of due process, and whisking them off to prisons abroad.
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Artist Replaces Billboards with Photos of the Landscapes They’re Blocking
Practitioner:
Jennifer Bolande
Date:
Mar 14 2017
Visible Distance / Second Sight is an art installation by Jennifer Bolande for DesertX. The temporary artwork can be found along the Gene Autry Trail near Vista Chino (33°50’41.70”N 116°30’21.02”W), where a series of consecutive billboards have been replaced by perfectly aligned photos of the landscapes they are blocking. From the DesertX project page:
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Compton's Cafeteria Riot
Practitioner:
Costumers at Compton's
Date:
Aug 2 1966
Compton's Cafeteria, 24 hour diner in S.F.'s Tenderloin was a hang out spot for trans women, drag queens, and sex workers. It was a place for the community to meet up for an expensive meal, a place to chit chat, and let each other know they made it through the night alive. They were often harassed by police and arrested for female impersonation. Finally one night in August the Compton's costumers weren't going to take it anymore.
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10 Rappers Turned Social Activists-Vince Staples
Practitioner:
Vince Staples
Date:
Jul 11 2016
Vince Staples mentioned Long Beach's Ramona Park approximately 80 times on his debut album Summertime '06 and even allotted the park two of its own tracks: "Ramona Park Legend Pt. 1" and "Ramona Park Legend Pt. 2." "The sun come down and guns come out, you know Ramona Park."
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