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  • Standup comedy course for men at risk of suicide wins NHS funding

    May 09, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: England, London

    Comedy on Referral is a course that teaches trauma survivors how to do standup comedy, giving them a new way to process their trauma and feel empowered.

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  • U.S. orchestras are still mostly white. Here's how to change that

    May 05, 2022 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Since 1990, the Detroit Symphony's African American Orchestra Fellowship has offered two-year stints to Black musicians in an effort to diversify the group's membership. Fellows have gone on to join top-25 orchestras, win jobs around the world, and work as teachers, freelancers, and arts administrators, but racial disparities still persist in orchestras across the country.

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  • Moda sostenible: Vestir bien sin dañar al planeta

    April 28, 2022 |

    El Otro País |

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    Response Location: Paraguay

    Emprendimientos sostenibles, asociaciones de confeccionistas, sellos de sostenibilidad, son acciones específicas tomadas en los movimientos de moda y creación de ropa y accesorios en Paraguay, para que esta industria pueda tener un impacto en positivo en medioambiente, la economía local y la sociedad.

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  • Jukyty: Una lucha ciudadana por la memoria histórica

    April 25, 2022 |

    El Otro País |

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    Response Location: Paraguay

    Asociación Cultural Jukyty, formada principalmente por docentes e historiadores, logra reinvindicar las tierra de su comunidad que fueron testigos de una histórica y heróica batalla de más de 3000 niños en 1869. Pero además, convierten esta iniciativa inicial en una manera de revalorizar y organizar el aservo cultural de su comunidad, a pesar de la falta de apoyo político y ciudadano.

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  • In this Mississippi city, public art points a way forward

    April 12, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    The Hattiesburg Alliance for Public Art has designated the city as a public art city, with as many as 46 public art installations across the city, including 35 murals. It intends to grow to 100 public art murals. The city hopes that the public art will attract tourists and economic development, but the primary goal is to develop and beautify communities for the people who live there. Public art raises morale and connects people to one another. It also creates a shared sense of pride in the city and rises the collective mood.

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  • Could Sacramento's Surreal Estates experiment be the key to more housing for the creative economy?

    March 10, 2022 |

    Sacramento News & Review |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Surreal Estates, a tiny housing community in a city block, gives creatives a place to own homes and studios near like-minded people.

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  • A Program for Youth Is Reshaping Arts Education in Chicago

    February 21, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The National Museum of Mexican Art’s Yollocalli Arts Reach provides space for young people to collaborate with each other, work with mentors, and gain exposure to different art forms and creative skills. Yollocalli serves Chicago’s youth in predominately Latino neighborhoods and focused on free art programming, mentorship, and career support. The programming emphasizes creativity as a tool for youth to learn to express their needs, share their ideas, and influence their environment. Nearly 3,000 teenagers and young adults have participated in Yollocalli’s programs with forty lead artists.

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  • Off the coast of Italy, a radical approach to battling illegal fishing: a seafloor sculpture museum

    February 07, 2022 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Italy

    An unlikely sculpture museum is helping to battle illegal fishing off the coast of Italy, but this one museum you'll have to dive to see. Over 39 sculptures make up this underwater exhibit and serve as a physical barrier to seafloor trawling.

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  • Five years after Ghost Ship: How local organizations are fighting artist displacement

    December 16, 2021 |

    Oakland North |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Local art organizations seek to provide safe and affordable space for Oakland’s artists to live and work. The Community Arts Stabilization Trust uses creative financing to purchase a building and stabilize the rent, usually below market value. Buildings are then rented only to arts and culturally focused organizations for use. O2 Artisans Aggregate is a small-business incubator with warehouses and shipping containers that are used as fabrication studios, test kitchens, and maker spaces.

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  • What Happens When Brazil's Favelas Take On The World Of Online Gaming?

    November 23, 2021 |

    World of Us |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

    AfroGames offers young people aged 12 and over with classes in game programming, bringing the world of gaming to the lower-income communities in Brazil, or favelas, allowing youth to explore their culture, technology and potential job opportunities through game design.

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