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Provisions Library - The Arts of Social Change Provisions will be reporting this week and next from both the Istanbul and Tirana (Albania) biennials, as part of our ongoing Balkan American Project. Updates coming soon!!
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Provisions Library - The Arts of Social Change Call for submissions! Have your artwork be a part of an online show for health care reform. Deadline is September 7, 2009!
Source: www.justseeds.org
Two artists with prints in the Paper Politics show, Patricia Dahlman and Michael Dal Cerro, are organizing an online art show of art works for health care reform. Here's what they sent me:
Provisions Library - The Arts of Social Change Check out Don's visit to an autonomous zone in California. This former dumping ground for demolition debris is now a post-industrial park.
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Provisions Library - The Arts of Social Change Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower by Emily Pilloton | This new book emphasizes the positive change that good, socially conscious, eco design can have.
Source: www.coolhunting.com
Cool Hunting: Design Revolution: 100 Products That Empower People
Provisions Library - The Arts of Social Change Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America | This EarSay project uses images, sound & monologues to introduce a new view of immigrants & refugees living in Queens.
Source: www.earsay.org
Crossing the BLVD is an interactive documentary website featuring stories of new immigrants and refugees as well as resources on immigration law and policy, organizations and a story archive where you can add your grandparents, parents or your own story of migration.
Provisions Library - The Arts of Social Change Forgotten Gateway: Coming to America Through Galveston aims to promote dialogue between past & present attitudes toward immigration.
Source: forgottengateway.com
Forgotten Gateway: Coming To America Through Galveston Island. Opening February 21st, 2009. The introduction for this exhibit is shown with a tan time period logo. The logo features a large ship travelling across the ocean ebmossed in the background.
Provisions Library - The Arts of Social Change Project H Design's Learning Landscapes- Used for elementary math education, these outdoor classrooms promote fun, participatory learning. Their pilot installation was @ Kutamba School for AIDS Orphans in Uganda.
Source: projecthdesign.org
Project H Design - Learning Landscape Project Description: A grid-based math playground system for active learning that can be built anywhere in the world.
Provisions Library - The Arts of Social Change Dedicated to the cause- take a closer look at this protester's sign!!
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| Ffffound | Flickr | del.icio.usRead me:Art:21Land, Art: A Cultural Ecology Handbook (Royal Society of Arts/Arts Council England)
Provisions Library - The Arts of Social Change Maker Faire Africa is a celebration of ingenuity, innovation, & invention. Find out more about this year's event that will take place 8/14-8/16 in Ghana!
Source: makerfaireafrica.com
George Odhiambo runs a metal fabrication business in Gikomba. There, he has a bicycle-turned-to-bellows that keeps the fire going that heats the metal rods. It’s a fairly simple, yet an ingenious contraption that utilizes old materials with a little bit of engineering. ...
Provisions Library - The Arts of Social Change Here are a few works from guerrilla street artists Mark Jenkins and Vhils from the FAME Festival in Grottaglie, Italy
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We continue to get excited about what's happening at FAME Festival in Grottaglie. Here are a few pics to illustrate what Mark Jenkins and Vhils, two of our
Provisions Library - The Arts of Social Change Be sure to check out Art Threat's new facebook page!
Art Threat is a blog about art and politics. We write about political art of all genres, and discuss public policy as it pertains to culture.
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Provisions Library - The Arts of Social Change The ColaLife campaign is urging Coca-Cola to use its existing distribution channels in developing countries to change lives by delivering much needed products like oral rehydration salts. Great idea!
Source: www.colalife.org
What a great day it was!Last Friday, ColaLife supporter Russell Tanner climbed on to the fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square for ColaLife with our giant aidpod. The Twittersphere went mad and this website crashed!Image: Russell tweets from the plinthMore pictures and video to follow
Provisions Library - The Arts of Social Change If you haven't already, be sure to check out ArtBabble, your source for videos on art, museums and artists!
Source: www.artbabble.org
ArtBabble is a new kind of video site dedicated to art and artists. It offers high definition video that features content ranging from contemporary to classical. Babble on.
Provisions Library - The Arts of Social Change The Yes Men target Dow Chemical with their B'eauPal designer water (via The Groundswell Collective)
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