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Artists and Scientists Team Up to Highlight Indy Waterways

Jen Kinney

September 09, 2016 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

Collaborations between artists and scientists can lead to unique, engaging, and educational programming highlighting important issues. In Indianapolis, the StreamLines collaboration highlighted issues related to city waterways through dance, sculpture, and outdoor installations.

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What It Takes for an Independent Record Store to Survive Now

Joel Oliphint

August 03, 2016 |

Pitchfork |

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Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

As popular music has become digital and immaterial in the twenty-first century, record stores are hard to find and those in business struggle to be commercially viable. Used Kids record store in Columbus, OH has been in business for thirty years and is perhaps even more popular now that it was ten years ago. The current management treat the medium of vinyl not as a museum artifact, but rather as a commodity in demand by selling online, holding private events with collectors, and selling the materiality to young people.

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Actor's Gang: How Tim Robbins has cut reoffending rates

Kate Bissell

March 14, 2016 |

BBC |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

For many offenders, prison can be a tense, divisive, and anger-inducing environment, fueling the negative influences that landed them there in the first place and leading to high recidivism rates. Actor Tim Robbins - who once famously portrayed a prisoner himself - started a program called The Actors Gang to bring theater to inmates as an outlet for emotion and expression, breaking down barriers between former gang members and helping individuals to process their troubles.

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It Takes A Village to Not Marry A Girl

Didem Tali

February 25, 2016 |

Bright Magazine |

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Response Location: Malawi

Some communities in Malawi are beginning to fight child marriage their own way—with music, dance, and a few tears, using theater to motivate cultural change.

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When Opera Meets Autism

Amanda Aronczyk Mary Harris

February 23, 2016 |

WNYC |

Radio |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

A neuropsychologist and opera singer teamed up to create a form of vocal training for people on the autism spectrum.

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Police and the Public Bridge Gap on Stage

Thomas MacMillan

February 05, 2016 |

Wall Street Journal |

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Response Location: United States, Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York

An ensemble of New York Police Department officers and members of the public are participating in a theater program designed to bring together the opposite sides of the nationwide debate on interactions between police and minority communities.

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How to Teach Kids Empathy Through Dance

Audrey Cleo Yap

January 22, 2016 |

The Atlantic |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Dancing promotes strong social-emotional development. In areas of Los Angeles where arts education has disappeared due to cuts in school funding, a New York-based non-profit organization has stepped in to teach kids to dance. The program, launched in Los Angeles County, brings dance to socio-economically disadvantaged students, growing to include hundreds of middle school and high school students. Cognitive benefits for students go beyond improved respect, teamwork, and cooperative skills observed in the classroom; dancing provides a therapeutic outlet for children in difficult circumstances.

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Waging Life in a War Zone

Jen Marlowe

January 12, 2016 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: Palestine

Mohammed al-Saedi painted the corridors of his neighborhood with beautiful bright colors to create a sense of hope amidst the chaos that surrounds the life of Palestinians who live in the Gaza Strip. He is not alone. “Throughout Gaza Strip, painters, photographers, theater artists, musicians, and filmmakers are using their art not just as a form of therapy, but also as a tool of resistance.” “More than anyone else, artists must have hope and must create hope for the people,” he says. “[My art] is community resistance and political resistance—resistance by insisting on life.”

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How Seattle Made Dark Alleys Safer—By Throwing Parties In Them

Araz Hachadourian

August 26, 2015 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Alleys in Seattle were once places of illicit, illegal, and unsanitary activity. The International Sustainability Institute in Seattle began organizing music and art events to bring in people, which, in turn, cleaned-up the crime and garbage. As an urban development strategy, adjacent vacant storefronts re-opened for business and beautification could be seen in new gardens.

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San Francisco Arts Groups on Path to Becoming Property Owners

Cy Musiker

June 17, 2015 |

KQED |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

In order to provide arts organizations with stable homes in the midst of rising property costs, the Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST) has purchased properties in San Francisco. These properties are sold to the arts organization, and the organization pays in the form of long term loans that carry no interest.

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