Human Rights and Civil Liberties
A Step Beyond is a nonprofit organization that provides economically disadvantaged youth with the skills and habits to reach their fullest potential. We do this through a unique approach that combines rigorous, professional dance training...
Last Updated: January 10, 2017
Welcome to Camp America is a conceptual documentary photo book and touring exhibition combining vivid, unexpected imagery, original government documents and first-person texts to convey the absurdity and disorientation of Guantánamo Bay, America's...
Last Updated: December 1, 2017
We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit cultural arts advocacy organization with a mission to 1. Use the arts as a vehicle for greater harmony and understanding between cultures 2. Develop new platforms and opportunities for immigrant cultural arts and...
Last Updated: December 30, 2017
The CrossCurrents Foundation was established in late 2006 to promote social, environmental and economic justice. The work of the Foundation is rooted in the idea that there are times when ordinary people can make significant change if advocates for...
Last Updated: January 9, 2018
I am from a non-federal treaty tribe. In 2001, Gov. Jeb Bush signed legislation abolishing all state recognition for tribes in Florida. This left thousands of people, and over 500 non-recognized tribes, alone and oppressed. Artists could no longer...
Last Updated: March 12, 2018
Founded in 2000 by Noel “Paul” Stookey (of the 1960’s folk trio Peter, Paul & Mary) and his daughter, Elizabeth Stookey Sunde, Music to Life builds on the strong historical legacy of social movements’ intentional use of music to educate, recruit...
Last Updated: April 24, 2018
As a Jew I grew up with the knowledge of the Holocaust and visiting memorials. Memorials that were meant to remind us of what had happened so we should never repeat. I am working on a memorial to commemorate all those who perished in the immigration...
Last Updated: August 19, 2019
I am a first-generation American. My parents were exiled during the Soviet Union and we were lucky that they were offered to work for the American government in Germany. More than a decade ago I arrived in Vermont, fleeing an abusive relationship...
Last Updated: August 19, 2019
The Clemmons Family Farm uses creative placemaking and mobilizes the power of African-American and African diaspora people, arts, culture and history to foster loving and supportive multicultural communities in Vermont. Through our network of more...
Last Updated: December 28, 2019
Liz Green designs audience engagement programs and directs performances with people who might not consider themselves to be performers. She is currently the director for OnStage Seniors: A Community Project of McCarter Theatre, and the community...
Last Updated: April 2, 2020
Byron Au Yong (歐陽良仁) composes songs of dislocation prompted by a broken lineage. Upcoming projects include Activist Songbook, 53 raps and songs to counteract hate and energize movements (Asian Arts Initiative, International Festival of Arts &...
Last Updated: May 31, 2020
Activist Songbook is a collection of 53 songs and raps to counteract hate and energize movements. The material is based on interviews of Asian American, immigrant and refugee organizers. The project began in Lenapehoking (Philadelphia) and continues...
Last Updated: May 31, 2020
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