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  • What Greek Festival Dancers Can Teach Faith Communities

    September 09, 2022 |

    Interfaith America |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral's folk dancing program and Greek Festival involve more than 450 dancers and roughly 500 volunteers. Faith leaders credit the festival with helping to build a sense of community that has kept engagement steady while other faith groups have seen a drop in participation.

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  • How Thai Activists Troll the Monarchy

    August 20, 2022 |

    Foreign Policy |

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    Response Location: Thailand

    Constrained by the threat of lèse-majesté, a prohibition against insulting the monarchy, Thai protesters have turned to a genre of humor and satire called "kuan teen" to spark discussions about social change in their country. The campy protests, which often feature elaborate skits and over-the-top costumes, have helped normalize critical conversation around LGBTQ issues, education, and beauty standards.

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  • Shakespeare in Prison program offers far more than an escape

    June 14, 2022 |

    Model D |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    The Detroit Public Theater's Shakespeare In Prison (SIP) program allows incarcerated people the opportunity to learn about and perform Shakespeare. The program helps to foster communication but also allows participants to express themselves and build self-confidence. It’s also been found that SIP participants experience long-lasting effects even outside their sentence, like a positive sense of community, self-efficacy, and increased empathy for themselves and others.

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  • Standup comedy course for men at risk of suicide wins NHS funding

    May 09, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: England, London

    Comedy on Referral is a course that teaches trauma survivors how to do standup comedy, giving them a new way to process their trauma and feel empowered.

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  • U.S. orchestras are still mostly white. Here's how to change that

    May 05, 2022 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Since 1990, the Detroit Symphony's African American Orchestra Fellowship has offered two-year stints to Black musicians in an effort to diversify the group's membership. Fellows have gone on to join top-25 orchestras, win jobs around the world, and work as teachers, freelancers, and arts administrators, but racial disparities still persist in orchestras across the country.

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  • Raising the curtain on sex and sexism in Italian theatre

    May 13, 2021 |

    News48 |

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    Response Location: Italy

    Amleta combats gender inequality in the theater industry on several fronts. The group, which began with 28 founding members and quickly grew to almost 400, conducted the first survey of the industry, finding a significant pay gap for women, who make up only about 15% of playwrights and directors and 37% of actors. Gender Wednesdays, weekly online trainings by experts in the field, is one way they support women’s professional development. They also provide economic, legal, and emotional support for women whose nude images were lifted from videos of theatrical performances and posted on pornographic websites.

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  • Will This Impact Fund Save America's Music Venues?

    April 30, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

    The Live Venue Recovery Fund offers a path for independent music operators to purchase their venue. The fund buys the properties, and collects rent, but are limited to a 12% return rate and the contract lays out a path and timeline of operator ownership. Any additional funds are donated to the National Independent Venue Association. Eligible venues must be seen as culturally significant to the community and vulnerable to redevelopment, as well as show strong financial statements from before COVID-19. The fund forgave a year of rent to some venues hurt by the pandemic, allowing them to get back on their feet.

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  • The Unscripted Project uses improv to boost confidence among local youth

    April 27, 2021 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The Unscripted Project in Philadelphia is helping middle schoolers learn valuable life skills an unconventional method—improv. During a workshop, participants learn to persevere in the face of adversity, equipping them to succeed within and beyond the classroom.

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  • UGA Multicultural Organizations Find Success With Drive-Ins for In-Person Events

    April 27, 2021 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    To maintain community connections, University of Georgia’s Multicultural Services and Programs hosted socially-distanced drive-in events on UGA fields. The Vietnamese Student Association hosted its annual Night In Saigon, where attendees could watch the performances from their cars, with masks on if their windows were down. Over 200 people attended the Black Affairs Council’s BACYard Bash event celebrating Black culture. A COVID-19 committee walked around the event to ensure people wore masks and remained six feet apart. Food trucks served attendees to comply with food preparation restrictions.

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  • How therapeutic clowning injects humour for a different kind of healing

    March 05, 2021 |

    Broadview Magazine |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    A growing therapeutic clowning community is helping to bring emotional relief to children and the elderly who are in hospitals and eldercare facilities. While not all patients are receptive to this play therapy, of those who are, some have shown both emotional and medical improvements in their conditions.

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