Art Feeds June 30, 2011

Founded in 2009 by Meg Bourne, Art Feeds is dedicated to empowering children through creativity. In collaboration with schools and after school programs Art Feeds uses music, art, writing, and performing arts for the development and creative expression of children. We are here to help children explore their love of Art and better express themselves [...]

June 20, 2011

DreamYard’s A.C.T.I.O.N. Project (Art Community Teams in Our Neighborhoods) is our 4-year arts activism and youth development program for Bronx teenagers. Its mission is to develop young people as effective social leaders and active civic participants through challenging artistic projects. A.C.T.I.O.N. participants explore social issues through a rigorous, engaging process that focuses on the root [...]

Life Drama February 22, 2011

Ba Futura December 7, 2010

Ba Futuru, meaning ‘for the future’, is Timor-Leste’s preeminent national peace building organization. Ba Futuru staff are renowned for their quality training skills and have provided educational training programs to more than 20,000 children, youth, teachers and community leaders since 2004.

Free Dimensional December 7, 2010

fD supports culture in the service of free expression, justice & equality. The Creative Resistance Fund provides small distress grants to people in danger due to their use of creativity to fight injustice.

VicHealth – Building health through arts and new media December 4, 2010

The greatest social impacts of the participation in the arts… arise from their ability to help people think critically about and question their experiences and those of others… with all the excitement, danger, magic, colour, symbolism, feeling, metaphor and creativity that the arts offer. It is in the act of creativity that empowerment lies, and [...]

Staying Alive October 10, 2010

Staying Alive Foundation give out small sums of money to young people who we believe in – who we trust – and who we are genuinely inspired by. These young people have one thing in common – they’re fighting to conquer HIV and AIDS in their local communities in the most creative and innovative ways.

Wan Smolbag Theatre October 10, 2010

Wan Smolbag Theatre is a non-government organisation based in Vanuatu but operating all over the South Pacific. We started as a group of 15 voluntary actors in 1989, then 5 paid actors, and we celebrated 20 years in 2009 and now have a staff of around 100 full- and part-time staff and over 400 volunteers. [...]

Freedom To Create October 10, 2010

Freedom to Create was founded in 2006 to foster prosperity in the developing world by investing in the creative foundations of society. The Freedom to Create Prize was added in 2008 to support and recognise artists who strive for social change on the frontlines of poverty, conflict and suffering. The arts have a unique ability [...]

my search to define & list the conventions of political theatre continues… November 2, 2009

Philosophy, politics, literary studies, sociology et al have always offered theatre interesting material; methods to speak about life without stepping down to the level of the everyday. Art has that right – perhaps even obligation – but it only becomes political when the creator does not fear losing the immunity of the artist and offers [...]