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  • What If Hip Hop Can Make Architecture and Planning Better?

    November 06, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Madison, Wisconsin

    Kids will be the ones carrying out the effects of current city planning efforts. To get kids involved in city planning at a young age, Michael Ford started a series of “Hip Hop Architecture Camps.” By teaching about building, development, and neighborhoods through the lens of hip hop music, young people could engage creatively and connect to the process. The camps now takes many forms and have spread internationally.

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  • Taking Your Child to Work, When Your Job Is Making Theater

    November 06, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    For women working in theatre, child care remains one of the biggest barriers to advancement, but groups of mothers are working to change that and make a more welcoming work place. These solutions include work breaks long enough to accommodate breast-feeding, rooms designated for that purpose, options for babysitting during auditions, and long work hours.

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  • After decades of silence, L.A.'s Triforium becomes the 'pipe organ of light' its creator meant it to be — for three nights

    November 02, 2018 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In Los Angeles, three young creatives tried to bring a renewal to the public art building the Triforium, aiming to “signal the flickering of a new movement.” They were met with limited success, in the form of a grant that sustained their project for just three nights. Though the project was not sustainable, the young idealists jump-started a project in an area of town that many had forgotten. The progress they made may inspire others to pick up where they left off.

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  • Artists Are Painting Trompe L'Oeil Murals to Soothe People with Dementia

    November 01, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Canada, Ottawa

    Diversion murals—trompe l’oeil paintings on doorways—are being used in long-term care facilities to quell dementia patients’ exit seeking behavior. Rather than using stop signs or tape, the murals are a way to address this behavior in a way that also improves residents’ quality of life.

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  • Can Engaging with Contemporary Social Issues Save the Opera?

    October 31, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Opera theaters are struggling to sell tickets, but some productions are taking it as an opportunity to reinvent the way viewers experience Opera, bringing rise to a new opera. The University of California San Diego presented two new operas that dealt with gun violence and sex trafficking, while in New York the “The Mile-Long Opera” featured choir singers lined along the 1.45-mile elevated Highland park, while the audience walked freely amongst them. “An estimated fifteen thousand people attended “The Mile Long Opera.”

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  • After speaking out against Harvey Weinstein, two actresses join forces to protect others in Hollywood

    October 29, 2018 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Created by three actors who are sexual assault survivors, Voices In Action is a secure and private system to report abuse. Those that report abuse can be connected to legal representation through the site as well as receive notification if a report is made against their abuser.

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  • Femmes dans le jeu vidéo: «l'association Women in Games met une claque à tout le monde»

    October 26, 2018 |

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    Response Location: France

    Cette association de promotion de la mixité dans l'industrie du jeu vidéo mènent de multiples actions pour rendre les professionnelles françaises plus visibles.

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  • Dancing through Gunshots in Brazil's Favelas

    October 25, 2018 |

    Vice |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

    The ballet program “Na Ponta dos Pes” (On Tiptoes) uses the teaching of ballet to girls ages 4-15 to inspire hope among the youth living in one of Rio de Janeiro's most violent favelas. Tuany Nascimento is not trying to turn all the girls into professional ballerinas, as she once was. Instead, she uses the discipline of dance lessons to show girls their lives can transcend their surroundings. Says one of the girls who attests to the power of the lessons, "They think we're only girls from a favela. Being poor, being black, being a woman ... We are people looking for hope."

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  • Lafayette Trades Oil for Cajun Songcraft to Drive Economy

    October 19, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Lafayette, Louisiana

    Layette is replatforming itself to embrace local culture over a dangerous oil dependency. CREATE, a voter-approved initiative in the city, funds cultural events and festivals to create new economic drivers and to promote the cultural legacy of the region. The fund draws upon money designated from a larger pool of surplus property tax revenue, as well as from philanthropic donations.

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  • St. Louis Wants More Artists to Drive Civic Engagement

    October 18, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    Funded by earmarking hotel and motel occupancy taxes, the St. Louis Regional Arts Commission is funding projects focused on telling the story of the regions people and places. Through this process, the Arts Commission is providing artists with the opportunity to drive civic engagement.

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