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  • How musicians are helping western North Carolinians replace instruments lost in Helene

    November 19, 2024 |

    Citizen-Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Asheville, North Carolina

    Restring Appalachia matches people who lost their instruments to Hurricane Helene with donors offering up instruments of similar quality. So far, roughly 175 people have signed up to donate about 400 instruments, with about 20 delivered to Asheville so far, though the need still outpaces the supply.

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  • Nonprofits fill a gap for offering arts and culture in local schools and beyond. They rely on philanthropic support.

    November 14, 2024 |

    Monterey County Weekly (Monterey County Now) |

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    Response Location: United States, Seaside, California

    California nonprofits are stepping up to provide young people with arts education opportunities in light of the lack of arts funding and programming at schools. In Seaside, the multicultural organization Palenke Arts offers classes in a variety of dance, visual arts, and a Spanish book club that are accessible to many ages.

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  • Le pass Culture, un dispositif qui prend de l'ampleur en Guyane

    October 01, 2024 |

    Guyane 1ère |

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    Response Location: French Guiana

    Le passe Culture permet aux jeunes de participer à des événements culturels et artistiques, tels que des festivals, des concerts et des expositions. L'initiative soutient également des programmes scolaires, notamment des résidences d'artistes et des salons du livre. En 2023, 9 373 jeunes ont utilisé leur passe Culture en Guyane et plus de la moitié des élèves ont bénéficié du programme lors de sorties scolaires.

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

    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

    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

    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

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

    June 28, 2024 |

    WTVD-TV |

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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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  • Songs for saving

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

    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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