During the first sixteen years of its existence, the Transformance Institute has dedicated itself to the development of an eco-pedagogical paradigm project of ‘Good Living.’ In this video, watch AfroRaiz young dance-percussion artists from Marabá in the Brazilian Amazon perform 'Flying River.’ The piece defends the River Tocantins, anticipates pandemic like COVID-19, and advocates a Good Living future for all!
Read moreWords Matter: Young Creatives Launch Gender and Sexuality Inclusive Campaign
This spring, Teaching Tolerance – a program of the Southern Poverty Law Center – provided a platform for educators and young creatives to make art and build campaigns in their schools and communities through the #USvsHate project. We were thrilled to see the several winners announced last week and to feature some of their work on our blog. We got a chance to catch up with SJ Hemmerich who is an art teacher and GSA advisor at Randall Elementary School in Madison, WI to learn about the project.
Read moreSocial Justice Art: Learning from Youth Artists at the Southern US Border
This spring, Teaching Tolerance – a program of the Southern Poverty Law Center – provided a platform for educators and young creatives to make art and build campaigns in their schools and communities through the #USvsHate project. We were thrilled to see the several winners announced last week and to feature some of their work on our blog. We got a chance to catch up with Monix Williams-Garcia, an 8th grader at Bell Middle School in San Diego Unified School District to learn about the project.
Read moreThe Nose Mask Entrepreneurship of Women Creatives in Calabar
The producing and enforcing the use of nose masks has had a most unintended consequence in the city of Calabar. Dozens of young creative people, whose livelihoods were “taken away” by the pandemic, are now making income from the same masks instituted to keep the virus out.
Read moreResponding and Imagining School Theatre in Buenos Aires
The National State took quick measures in the face of the COVID-19 crisis: closing borders and schools, compulsory quarantine, guaranteeing food. COVID-19 has spread strongly, also in the vulnerable neighbourhoods of the capital (55 in total), and has killed a social worker of the 31st neighbourhood, Ramona Medina, who denounced the lack of water. The Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires is trying to prevent this situation from being replicated in the vulnerable neighbourhoods of the Province (more than 1700). Apart from Covid, there are also many cases of dengue fever.
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