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  • In Massachusetts and elsewhere, youngsters find healing through art

    March 24, 2025 |

    Capital News Service Maryland |

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    Response Location: United States, Lynn, Massachusetts

    Raw Art Works is a nonprofit youth development organization that provides art therapy services to 290 youth each week. Studies show art therapy can reduce psychiatric readmission rates for patients, and those who participated in the program say it has been life-changing, teaching them coping skills that supported them into adulthood.

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  • Building for the climate: How it's done in Switzerland

    November 24, 2024 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Switzerland

    A cooperative in Switzerland is building sustainable apartments using recycled materials and green building practices to create carbon-neutral communal living spaces. These “cluster apartments” cut down on living space per person and save energy.

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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 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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