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  • South Asian arts group shines light on queer, neurodiverse stories

    Myah Goff

    August 21, 2024 |

    Sahan Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Minnesota

    The Minnesota-based South Asian Arts and Theater House is a safe space for the South Asian artist community to get together and create performance art that raises awareness of social justice issues within the South Asian diaspora.

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  • How Asia's 5,000-year-old rice terraces are inspiring modern flood control

    Xiaoying You

    August 06, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Thailand, Bangkok

    Architects across Asia are taking inspiration from a traditional form of agriculture called rice terraces to create flood-resilient infrastructure in cities that lack places for excess water to go. In Bangkok, for example, a university’s roof mimics the step-like design, and the water it holds is used to grow rice.

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  • How Frankfurt Harnesses Local Wind Currents for Urban Cooling

    Jana Randow Laura Millan

    August 03, 2024 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: Germany, Frankfurt

    Frankfurt is changing the way it designs its buildings to adapt to extreme heat. The city works with urban climatology researchers to ensure new housing and skyscrapers won’t impact the wind corridors that keep residents cool, and it promotes practices like installing green roofs.

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  • How Chicago's DanceChance is reimagining the artist grant

    Makeda Easter

    July 31, 2024 |

    The Art Rebellion |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    A bi-monthly gathering in Chicago called DanceChance showcases local choreographers and provides a $4,500 grant to an audience member by random draw to fund their work and perform at the next session. It’s part of a push to democratize funding in the arts and reach more artists.

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  • Songs for saving

    Tanka Dhakal

    June 28, 2024 |

    Asia Democracy Chronicles |

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    Response Location: Nepal

    A nonprofit conservation organization, Greenhod Nepal, works with local musicians to create songs inspired by traditional Nepali music about the consequences of poaching. The songs tell stories of real-life events or use the imagined perspectives of animals to educate the public in an accessible way.

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  • Virtual reality experience promotes understanding of challenges faced by transgender individuals

    Jose Mayorquin

    June 28, 2024 |

    WTVD-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Long Beach, California

    An interactive virtual reality experience developed with transgender individuals called Body of Mine VR is fostering empathy and understanding by sharing personal narratives and anecdotes that demonstrate their journeys, struggles, and triumphs.

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  • As temperatures in India break records, ancient terracotta air coolers are helping fight extreme heat

    Kamala Thiagarajan

    May 31, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: India

    Artists, architects, and urban designers in India are reimagining the ancient practice of cooling water in terracotta pots to create terracotta structures that cool the air nearby during extreme heat.

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  • One Strategy for the Arts to Beat Gentrification: Buy the Building

    Anjulie Rao

    May 19, 2024 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Arts nonprofits across the U.S. are using creative, often complex, financial and organizational models to continue to provide a stable place for artists to thrive despite high real estate prices. In one example, a gallery director in Chicago created a nonprofit and a noncharitable LLC to purchase and redevelop a building that will have space for a retail tenant on the first floor.

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  • The WPA-inspired, living wage program for artists offering much needed stability and support

    Makeda Easter

    May 08, 2024 |

    The Art Rebellion |

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    Response Location: United States

    The workforce resilience program Artists at Work is helping artists continue focusing on their practice by providing them with a stipend, benefits, and stability. Participants are required to log their working hours, which must include working with a local social impact organization for about a third of their week alongside their own projects.

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  • 'It's about the process': Art therapy provides creative outlet as mental health care

    Mila Mascenik Sophia Melin

    March 09, 2024 |

    The Daily Tar Heel |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Art therapy is a growing practice that helps people access and assess their emotions through visual and performing arts like painting and dancing.

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