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Inmigrantes Unidos de Shelton, Shelton WA
Click for Audio Inmigrantes Unidos Mission To unite immigrant community in Shelton, foster mutual support, and enhance quality of life through education, knowledge, relationships and leadership development. Click here For More Information about YAYA; The Youth and Young Adult Network of the National Farm Worker Ministry! On March 30th 2011, Evergreen YAYAs, along with the…
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Sama sama/Together
Sama-sama/Together Collaboration Apotik Komik, Yogyakarta, Indonesia and members of Clarion Alley Mural Project, SF CA conceived/directed Megan Wilson http://www.meganwilson.com/related/Curatorial/Sama-sama.php Yogyakarta Indonesia (2003), catalogue cover The catalogue Sama-sama/Together An International Exchange Project between Yogyakarta-San Francisco is currently available at Intersection for the Arts!! Catalogues are $30/each and all proceeds are going towards earthquake relief for the…
Read MoreFertile Ground Community Center and Guesthouse
Fertile Ground Community Center and Guesthouse ~ 311 9th Ave SE ~ Olympia, WA 98501 ~ 360.352.2428 curator@fertileground.org http://fertileground.org Since 2005, we’ve been serving the Olympia community as a non-profit. We exist to demonstrate sustainable technology and provide meeting space for creation, education and celebration. Our mission is to provide access to resources that enhance…
Read MoreHani Abu Amara, Rafah, Gaza
Artist from Rafah, Gaza Strip. Member of Palestine Artists’ Union, Rafah Branch.
Read MorePalestine Youth Center and Majed Shala, Gaza
MAJED SHALA http://www.artwfg.ps/cv.php?id_artist=3&op=index Born in 1960 in Gaza, Shala graduated with a Master of Arts from Scranton University, USA in 2001. Shala’s work has been shown in a number of solo exhibitions, including Suwar min Gaza, in Beirut, Lebanon (2004) and Gaza Hanin il Makan, at the Arts and Crafts village in Gaza (2003). Between…
Read MoreHandala, Naji Al Ali, Palestine
Naji Al-Ali on Handala “The child Handala is my signature, everyone asks me about him wherever I go. I gave birth to this child in the Gulf and I presented him to the people. His name is Handala and he has promised the people that he will remain true to himself. I drew him as…
Read MoreProject Souarna, Wehdat Refugee Camp, Amman, Jordan
http://projectsouarna.wordpress.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Project-Souarna-mshrw-suarna/119269821417389 Project Souarna (Soo-War-Na) = Our Photos Project Souarna is a photography program designed to foster youth leadership and creativity. We conduct workshops for displaced youth living in and near al Wehdat refugee camp in Amman, Jordan. Background: The U.S. media continually portrays Arabs in the Middle East through one lens; therefore Project…
Read MoreAsamblea de Artistas Revolucionarios de Oaxaca (ASARO), Mexico
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Read MoreChito, Chiapas, Mexico
Chito, artist from Chiapas, Mexico Film: “Zapatistas” by Big Noise Productions Produced/Directed: Benjamin Eichert, Richard Rowley, State Sandberg Editors: Media Boutique Narrators: Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah, Geronimo Pratt, Mumia Abu-Jamal January1, 1994. The day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) comes into effect. A few minutes after midnight in Southeastern Mexico,several thousand Mayan…
Read MoreEdward Said National Conservatory of Music, West Bank, Palestine
http://ncm.birzeit.edu/new/page.php Background In 1990 five Palestinian musicians and music teachers conducted a study on the status of music in Palestine. They concluded that there is an urgent need to establish a music school and to fill the huge gap in music education in the Palestinian society. It took the pioneering group three years of work…
Read MoreAdrian Carrasco Zanini and AIM, American Indian Movement-Film: "El Salvador: I Want My People to Live",
“El Salvador: I Want My People To Live/El Turno Del Ofendido” directed by Adrian Carrasco Zanini. Produced by Adrian Carrasco Zanini and AIM-West, 2009. http://aimwest.info/ This 30-minute documentary follows the story of the FMLN victory in the 2009 Salvadoran presidential elections through interviews with voters, electoral officials, and members of the competing parties. Seventeen years…
Read MoreThurston-Santo Tomás Sister County Association, Olympia WA and Santo Tomás, Nicaragua
Thurston Santo Tomás Sister County Association PO Box 561, Olympia WA 98507 (360) 943-8642 Olympia’s sister city relationship with Santo Tomás, Chontales, Nicaragua, has its roots in the era of the Contra War in the 1980s. It strives to engender peace and heal the effects of U.S. aggression and economic oppression through people-to-people exchanges and…
Read MoreOlive Tree ~ Carrie Ziegler with Darien Brown, Alicia Martinson
http://imeu.net/news/article006919.shtml PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR ARTIST BIOS Hitham I. Kayali, This Week in Palestine, Nov 4, 2000 The Israeli occupation has specifically targeted this plant due to its symbol of identity for Palestinians and its economic benefits. Since the second Intifada, more than half a million olive trees have been uprooted from Palestinian lands. Palestinian…
Read MoreJohn Halaka
http://www.johnhalaka.com/ Artist Statement I consider myself an activist artist whose creative work serves as a vehicle for meditation on personal, cultural and political concerns. I create allegorical images in my paintings and present personal narratives in my films, in order to raise questions, for myself as well as for the viewer, about some of the…
Read MoreNipponzan Buddhist Temple
l http://www.dharmawalk.org/ http://nichirenscoffeehouse.net/directory/U-W.html http://faculty.washington.edu/kendo/myohoji.html http://katzjustice.com/DojoDC.htm INTRODUCTION TO NIPPONZAN MYOHOJI Nipponzan Myohoji was founded by the Most Venerable Nichidatsu Fujii, known as “Fujii Guruji”. He was born on August 6, 1885 in Japan, and was ordained a Buddhist monk of the Nichiren sect when he was seventeen years old. Until the age of thirty-one years, Fujii…
Read MoreJoe Sacco
Please Click to enlarge http://www.fantagraphics.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=267&Itemid=82 Interview: Joe Sacco By Laila El-Haddad Ajazeera.Net When it comes to the world of cartooning, Joe Sacco is considered a luminary. Sacco, who is hailed as the creator of war-reportage comics, is the author of such award-winning books as Palestine and Safe Area Gorazde. His latest work, Footnotes in…
Read MorePeter Schumann of Bread and Puppet Theater
http://breadandpuppet.org Cheap Art Philosophy The Cheap Art movement was launched in 1982 by the Bread and Puppet Theater in direct response to the business of art and its growing appropriation by the corporate sector. With this fact taken into account art becomes: “political whether you like it or not…” Cheap Art hopes to reestablish the…
Read MoreRichard Castaneda
http://www.richardcastaneda.com/ Richard Castaneda’s work exhibits the uneasy tension of cultural identity, living within a paradoxical paradigm of what it is to be “Native American” in a pan-American landscape. His personal experiences as a Pima Indian roaming to and from his reservation and observing everything else in between, informs his art and cultural perspective. As a…
Read MoreHOMEY, SF, CA
http://www.homeysf.org/ What is HOMEY’s? The mission of HOMEY remains to transform the lives of at-risk youth and community members in San Francisco, inspiring them to not only choose a path of education, self-sufficiency and non-violence, but to also strive towards stability in their physical, mental and emotional well-being. HOMEY fulfills its mission by providing participants…
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