Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) promotes the creation, exhibition and distribution of new films/videos that address the vital social justice issues that concern queer women of color and our communities, authentically reflect our life stories, and build community through art and activism. We actively invest in, develop and nurture the creativity of emerging media artists who are Asian/Pacific Islander, Black/African American, Chicana/Latina, Native American and Mixed-Race lesbians, bisexual, queer and questioning women in the Bay Area.
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Question Bridge: Black Malesis a project that critically explores challenging issues within the Black male community by instigating a transmedia conversation among black men across the geographic, economic, generational, educational and social strata of American society. Question Bridge provides a safe setting for necessary, honest expression and healing dialogue on themes that divide, unite and puzzle black males in the United States.
Santa Fe, NM
Ancient Greece is believed to be the template for Western Civilization. This is the reason I use the Greek flag as a template - to show people that these paintings are images of concepts. They are not pictures, interpretations, abstractions or non-objective artworks. The paintings are the ideas themselves. I don’t improvise. I take an image and imagine it painted on the template. It is then painted (as imagined) directly and perfectly as possible. The method of painting is precise, nearly eliminating gesture and the action of painting from the completed work.
Oakland, CA
The Racial Justice Poster Project of the Akonadi Foundation encourages a creative outpouring of poster art that reflects the lives of people in communities of color, their movements for social change, and their vision for a world without racism.
Dearborn, MI
The goals of this online exhibit are to convey that: 1) Arab Americans have been an integral part of U.S. society since its inception; 2) there is a discrepancy between who Arab Americans are and how they are generally perceived by the U.S. public; 3) this discrepancy is the result of Orientalism: over generalized and distorted images and ideas produced by U.S.
Delaware, OH
Reconnecting, a new musical composition for full orchestra and drum circle, was conceived and developed by composer Ben Goldberg and Central Ohio Symphony Executive Director Warren Hyer to create a musical dialogue about a unique local rehabilitation program for juvenile offenders with mental illness or substance abuse issues. The piece will be a single movement work of approximately 10 to 15 minutes, to be premiered during the Symphony’s 2014-15 concert season.
Springdale, UT
In 1997 Bimstein was awarded Meet The Composer's largest grant, the three-year New Residencies, during which he composed music that celebrates and explores the intimate relationship between the landscapes of the desert southwest and the many cultures that have inhabited the area. Bimstein received a second Continental Harmony grant in 2005 to compose Red Rock Rondo, a song cycle based on the historical and contemporary stories of the communities near Zion National Park.The chamber folk ensemble also offer keynote speeches and workshops.
ReEntry, a play by Emily Ackerman and K. J. Sanchez, is composed entirely from the words of Marines and their families. The play is considered “documentary theater” in its re-telling of actual events and personal perspective. In addition to addressing the issues and experiences of service members and their families, ReEntry also explores the relationships between Marines and the civilians they fight for overseas and must contend with when they return home.
Brooklyn, NY
“Referendum on the American Dream” (working title) is a temporary public artwork to be sited in prominent public locations in Cleveland, Ohio, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the first days of the Republican and Democratic conventions in July 2016. These installations incorporate video, photography and public interaction.
Whitesburg, KY
RFK in EKY, The Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project, was a series of public conversations and activities centered around the real-time, site-specific intermedia performance that recreated, on September 9 and 10, 2004, Robert Kennedy’s two-day 200-mile “poverty tour” of southeastern Kentucky in 1968. The project is partnering with Head Start to organize dialogues about the impact of drugs in Eastern Kentucky as well as developing in-depth documentation of the 2004 RFK Performance Project. Ultimately RFK in EKY hopes to generate a complete documentary film on the project and a book.
Washington DC, DC
Risers is a film and photography series focused on America's undocumented immigrant youth. The short film centers around Brenda Perez and Gerson Quinteros as they deliver a presentation on how to navigate challenges facing young undocumented immigrants. Their lives and stories are emblematic of the mission for immigration reform. As of 2012, they are in the United States as DACA recipients. This allows them to live without fear of deportation.
Santa Fe, NM
From May 17-20, 2012, a small group of artist/activists will walk the length (46 miles) of the Santa Fe River. This four-day journey will serve as a deep exploration of our river and the Santa Fe Watershed and is designed to create art, promote awareness, engage community, and illuminate our relationship with river systems, earth and water.
Whitesburg, KY
The Center for Rural Strategies produced, as part of the Rural Desk News Initiative, video news pieces about issues that face today's rural Americans. The videos were distributed for free to local television stations across the country, so that they could provide their viewers with compelling, accurate, and balanced information about rural issues. They were produced and aired in the fall of 2003.
Saratoga Book Festival
Saratoga Springs, NY
Saratoga Book Festival (SBF) is a new organization founded in partnership with the Friends of the Saratoga Springs Public Library to encourage people of all ages, abilities, and backgrounds to read books. The annual festival will present a workshop each year to delve into a topic related to civic engagement, conflict resolution, and the media.
New York, NY
Artist Jamie Crooke invites participants on an interactive
performance throughout 14th street as part of the Art in Odd Places Festival. Maps will be available
throughout the festival to participate by collecting health
information from businesses at your own pace. Performances
will be held on Oct. 5-9th from 12-4pm along 14th Street. "Save
Yourself: Relay" was inspired by a 2012 study conducted that
Brisbane, CA
In Seats of Power, artist and activist Beth Grossman invited ten public officials in Brisbane, California to immortalize their derrieres in the name of art and civic engagement. Asked to create an art exhibit to honor the opening of a new civic center in Brisbane, Grossman wanted to use the installation to make people think about leadership and civic responsibility, and to humanize the other side of the podium.
Portsmouth, NH
The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange’s Shipyard Project explored memories and issues – historic and contemporary – of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, and their significance to the lives of people in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Music Hall of Portsmouth, New Hampshire sponsored the project as a way to address the high community anxiety around recent downsizing and two efforts to close the naval shipyard.
Sia orginazation Project designs
SIA Organization is working with The Hitting Stops Here! to spread awareness about opposing corporal punishment in the private and public school systems. We believe this behavior should stop. Education policymakers need work to get “Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act,” HR 5628 was first introduced (June 2010; same legislation as HR 3027):www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/111/hr5628/text reintroduced and passed. The Hitting Stops Here! and their advocacy that led to HR 5628/ 3027.
Baltimore, MD
Sending out our healing love and energy for the suffering populations across the globe... through community singing, dancing and drumming. This is the primary intention of the SING! DANCE! DRUM gatherings to be offered throughout the year in different venues in Baltimore. Maria Broom who offers DANCE MEDICINE and Sahffi Lynne who offers her SINGING FROM THE HEART will lead the gathering to use their collective singing and dancing as an effective means to energetically lift up and help heal... Women, children, elders who are abused, violated or sold...
Antioch, CA
In a world of uncertainty and uneasy policies, laws, regulations, biases, stereotypes, assumptions, and prejudices what are we to do? In a world full of isms: racism, sexism, ableism, classism and so much more, what are we to do? The Social Justice Sewing Academy empowers young people to use their experiences and intelligence and creativity to sew their worlds showing how they see problems and opportunities for growth and change.
To contribute to this project please visit our Instagram (@sjsacademy) and send us a DM or message us through the website!