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Youth Speaks produces youth poetry slams, festivals, and reading series, alongside arts-in-education programs and theater and digital programming. It also has helped launch a national network of more than 70 programs addressing the power of youth.
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Stagebridge, the nation’s oldest theater company of older adults, provides professionally taught classes for adults over 50, entertainment and hands-on classes brought to community venues that serve both active and frail elders, and performance-based
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Created by the Pima Association of Governments, the Transportation Art by Youth Program serves 40-50 students each summer, allowing students to acquire artistic and work experience. The goal of the program is to humanize the roadway system, enhance urban
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The Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation was established to further the unique cultural character and creative assets of the Roosevelt Row Artists’ District, to advocate for the continuing presence and role of the arts, particularly individual
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The city used public art to help revitalize Roosevelt Row during the 2008 financial crisis. It resulted in increased pedestrian traffic and partnerships between city organizations and businesses, along with blankets for the homeless.
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A two-year initiative (2014-15), 100 Stone Project was a state-wide, community-based effort to give physical form to the grief, trauma, struggle, and isolation that leads some individuals to suicide. The sculptures created by the initiative were displayed
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Cognitive Dynamics is a program that uses various artforms to work with people with cognitive disorders, such as Alzheimer’s, and their caregivers. The program provides education, research, and supportive, innovative care models that promote human dignity
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Re-Locate Kivalina is a collective of ethnographic artists and Inupiaq Alaska Natives working to help the Inupiaq people, some of the world's first climate refugees, prepare for a community-led and culturally specific relocation. It is building artistic
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Conflict Kitchen serves cuisines from countries with which the United States is in conflict. It integrates food culture with programming that helps diners connect with the experiences of those often misrepresented and marginalized by the government and
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Freedom of Expression National Monument, a collaborative public artwork by architect Laurie Hawkinson, performer John Malpede, and visual artist Erika Rothenberg was a modern-day soapbox consisting of an enormous red megaphone, which was to encourage
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