Projects tagged "NY"

RAISE IT UP, MAKE AN IMPACT!
Practitioner:
IMPACT Repertory Theatre Performance Company
Date:
Jan 12 2018
IMAPCT are youth activists who view the creative arts and leadership training as a way to develop ourselves and change the world in a positive way. They believe that they must be the message that bring through hardwork, focus, discipline, unity and the principles of S.O.S. safe space, outstanding effort and service to their family friends and community.
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Arcadia Earth
Practitioner:
Valentino Vettori
Date:
Sep 10 2019
At ‘Arcadia Earth,’ Dazzle Illuminates Danger Using augmented reality, virtual reality and installations of light and art, the creators of this pop-up exhibition hope to inspire action on climate change. By Laurel Graeber Oct. 23, 2019 The creators of “Arcadia Earth” want to awaken your conscience. But they also plan to make that guilt trip extraordinarily fun.
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The Art of Heroin Bags
Practitioner:
VICE
Date:
Mar 28 2012
Heroin sold in the northeast, specifically in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey tends to come in little glassine baggies. The art comes from the individual and unique "stamp" on said baggie sold to a user.
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Artist Wages Drone War on Thomas Kinkade
Practitioner:
FredaTheArt
Date:
Jul 15 2013
There are few artists more innocuous, more neutered, more universally loved and reviled than Thomas Kinkade. His soft-focus images present an idyllic vision of America and of Christianity, like Norman Rockwell without the blue-collar populism, where everything is beautiful, nothing hurts, and there’s always a warm fire going in the Lincoln-Log cabin just down the trail.
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Bernie Sanders Gets His Own Video Game
Practitioner:
Illuminator, Act.TV, NYC Light Brigade
Date:
Apr 17 2016
Bernie Sanders supporters know how to bring the party! And they did it big time for the Democratic Debate in New York this week, with help from The Illuminator & the NYC Light Brigade. They installed an interactive video game featuring Bernie jumping over obstacles and WINNING!
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Thrive Collective
Practitioner:
Jeremy R. Del Rio, Esq
Date:
Jan 1 2011
Thrive Collective mobilizes students, parents, artists, and community stakeholders to partner with public schools for transformational change. They function both as a matchmaker and direct service provider of arts and mentoring programs that cultivate the character and competencies necessary for students to thrive in today’s world.
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Activists fight the intrusion of camera surveillance in New York City
Practitioner:
Surveillance Camera Players
Date:
Dec 10 1996
"The Surveillance Camera Players (SCP) is a small, informal group of people who are unconditionally opposed to the installation and use of video surveillance cameras in public places.
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‘Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues’ Review: In His Own Words
Practitioner:
Louis Armstrong
Date:
Feb 13 2023
In Louis Armstrong’s study in the Queens home he shared with his fourth wife, Lucille, bookshelves were filled with reel-to-reel recordings he made as a sort of audio diary. Those tapes and his letters — read by the rapper Nas — lay the foundation for the director Sacha Jenkins’s documentary “Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues.”
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Unknown
Practitioner:
Unknown
Date:
Apr 21 2015
I've decided to post about a recent experience, considerable an "action" in its nature, and how it felt, which was comparable to solicitation rather than activism. However, there was a sense for consciousness-raising regardless of any tangible outcome.
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Russell Brand Mocks MSNBC News Anchors and the Mainstream Media on Live Television and in Print
Practitioner:
Russell Brand
Date:
Jun 17 2013
On June 17, 2013, Russell Brand (a stand-up comedian and actor) visited MSNBC’s 'Morning Joe' news show to promote his international stand-up tour, 'The Messiah Complex', but he also managed to mock the 'Morning Joe' news anchors, as well as the mainstream media. Clips of this particular interview immediately went viral on YouTube, and one of the videos is linked to this page (see the first link below).
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A Teen Convinces Seventeen to Stop Using Photoshopped Images
Practitioner:
Julia Bluhm
Date:
May 2 2012
Julia Bluhm told The Huffington Post: “I’ve always just known how Photoshop can have a big effect on girls and their body image and how they feel about themselves”. So on May 2, 2012, 14-year-old Bluhm lead an anti-Photoshop protest in front of the Hearst Tower, which is home to Seventeen Magazine. Other protesters included her mother and members of the SPARK movement (Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance, Knowledge).
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Urbaneer
Practitioner:
Terreform ONE
Date:
Mar 6 2013
Whose job is it to create a city? Our intention is to jumpstart a new profession that can re-invent and negotiate the complex mix that encompasses a city. We have defined a radical new occupation to regenerate, pioneer, and sustain the future urban realm. These innovative multi-disciplinarian advocates are called Urbaneers. Their immense task is to manifest and facilitate the next expression of city across the globe.
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Activists and Residents Light Up Bushwick with Anti-Gentrification Signs
Practitioner:
NYC Light Brigade
Date:
Dec 31 2015
Since Christmas Eve, some lights along the streets and in the houses of Bushwick have spelled out a number of messages quite different from the festive wishes one usually finds during the holiday season. “GENTRIFICATION IS THE NEW COLONIALISM,” “NOT 4 SALE,” and “NO EVICTION ZONE,” some read.
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#SaveNYC
Practitioner:
JEREMIAH MOSS, new yorkers
Date:
Mar 23 2015
#SaveNYC is a grassroots, crowd-sourced, DIY movement to protect and preserve the diversity and uniqueness of the urban fabric in New York City. As our vibrant streetscapes and neighborhoods are turned into bland, suburban-style shopping malls, filled with chain stores and glossy luxury retail, #SaveNYC is fighting for small businesses and cultural institutions to remain in place.
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Women In the Making (WIM)
Practitioner:
Desi K. Robinson
Date:
Jan 1 2009
Desi is giving all she has to the project Women In the Making (WIM). From rooftop farming and summer education, to her radio show and online presence. She is an advocate for better health, food, and policy in Brooklyn, and nurturing young activists.
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New York City Food Not Bombs
Practitioner:
Food Not Bombs
Date:
May 19 2014
New York City Food Not Bombs Food Not Bombs--NYC is now working out of a kitchen provided by the Catholic Worker: 36 East First Street, between First and Second Avenues. Every Sunday they start cooking around 1:00pm and are in Tompkins Square Park to serve around 3:30pm.
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This Ain't a Eulogy: A Ritual for Re-Membering
Practitioner:
Taja Lindley
Date:
Apr 30 2016
"This Ain't a Eulogy" is both a staged performance and a durational, outdoor, public performance that reclaims and takes public space. The artist statement is as follows:
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