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Running and Singing to Improve Maths and English

Dougal Shaw

September 18, 2018 |

BBC |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Scotland, Edinburgh

Two innovative solutions in Great Britain in education are proving to be highly successful in improving students' performances in math and reading. A school in Edinburgh uses the Daily Mile (spending 15 minutes a day running 6 laps around the school at each student's own pace) as a tool to get students physically fit and intellectually engaged. In Bradford, England, a failing school centered musical education (with a minimum of 3 hours a week in music class) as part of an overhaul of their curriculum, which has been successful in fulfilling students spiritually and strengthening key skills to use elsewhere.

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Alternative museum tours explore colonial loot, biased narratives

Aditya Iyer

September 16, 2018 |

Al Jazeera |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: England, London

Uncomfortable art tours, long-term loans, and code of conducts, are all methods Europeans museums are using to confront the racist history behind paintings and artifacts in their exhibitions. They’re also trying to confront the unjust methods in which some artifacts have been taken from non-European countries. “While museums continue to argue that they are neutral spaces, the fact is that they are not. There is always one side of the story that has been privileged over the other in these spaces, and we need to be more honest and open about that.”

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Between haram and halal: British Muslims explore the grey area

Olivia Cuthbert

September 11, 2018 |

The National |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: England, Reading

Popping up in various places around England is a performance space for young British Muslims to create and share their uniquely intersectional experiences with identity. The organization, operated as a non-profit collective, is called Makrooh and serves to bring together Muslim artists for open-mic performances, workshops, and other gatherings. While the location changes, underscoring each space is a feeling of safety and welcoming for all.

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Silo art becomes national movement and this is how it all began

Ellie Honeybone

September 09, 2018 |

ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Australia, Northam

A project to paint murals on silos across Western Australia has brought artists from around the world for work. These murals--some 36 meters high--have created stunning public art and cultural tourism for often struggling small towns.

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The searing photos that helped end child labor in America

Jessica Contrera

September 03, 2018 |

The Washington Post |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

In the 1900s Lewis Hine posed as a bible salesman so he could get inside factories and take pictures of child workers. At the time children from 10-15 were put to work, and had no legal protections. Years later his pictures became a catalyst for passing child labor laws.

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What If All Community Development Started with Local Arts and Culture?

Jared Brey

August 30, 2018 |

Next City |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania

An Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania art project "gently" demolished a historic, vacant building and reassembled it as a communal space. This is an example of "creative placemaking," a method to both preserve the character of a community and help address vacancies and the need for development.

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This Street Artist is Using A.R. to Challenge What Graffiti Can Be

Jacqui Palumbo

August 30, 2018 |

Artsy |

Text |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: France, Paris

Through augmented reality (AR) effects, street artists have created surprising, novel experiences in museums and in public. Using an app, viewers can see murals in motion, art floating in the air, and new ‘additions’ to a museums holdings.

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Conserve the Sound, an Online Museum Preserves the Sounds of Past Technologies–from Typewriters, Electric Shavers and Cassette Recorders, to Cameras & Classic Nintendo

Josh Jones

August 28, 2018 |

Open Culture |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Germany

An online German museum is collecting and creating access to the sounds of obsolete technology such as portable cassette players, modems, and rotary phones. Through this collection, the museum preserves a tangible physical history that would be otherwise lost.

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A New Orleans Museum Is Now Mobile, Transforming How People See Art

Erica Rawles

August 28, 2018 |

Hyperallergic |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

The New Orleans Museum of Art is taking its holdings out of the museum and into public space through the use of a custom-built trailer. Called NOMA+, the trailer’s walls fold out creating walkways while interior walls create an exhibition space for an intimate, self-contained way for the public to engage with the art.

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Why your favorite bench might be there to thwart a terrorist attack

Katherine Shaver

August 27, 2018 |

The Washington Post |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

How do you make a public space inviting so people will gather, but also safe from the growing danger of attackers using vehicles to ram large numbers of people? Many cities have responded to such attacks with concrete bollards and other barriers. But designers and architects are increasingly innovating other options that protect people via planters, fountains, trees, bike racks, steps and traffic calming designs to stop or slow down vehicles.

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