How is your community celebrating Pride Month? Share your community with ours!
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"Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called Jazz, there is a stepping stone towards all of these." - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Happy International Jazz Day!
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Can art really better the community? Project for Public Spaces says yes! "Civic institutions, like museums, public galleries, community art organizations, performing art institutions, arts councils and public arts organizations have a rare opportunity to lead significant change by engaging specific groups to help devise and carry out creative community-building neighborhood programs. But it needn’t always be the institution that takes action. The selected stories shown below offer inspiring examples of how individual artists can also make a difference."
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“Given our current administration’s insistence on demonizing and maligning the bodies of women and Muslims, among others, I wanted to get this song out as soon as possible...I hoped that a pregnant woman who is obviously Muslim [and] creating art and speaking truth would inspire people and offer some levity, joy and hope.”“Given our current administration’s insistence on demonizing and maligning the bodies of women and Muslims, among others, I wanted to get this song out as soon as possible,” Haydar, who now lives in New York, told The Huffington Post. “I hoped that a pregnant woman who is obviously Muslim [and] creating art and speaking truth would inspire people and offer some levity, joy and hope.”
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March 21 is World Poetry Day! Are you teaching or promoting poetry in your community? Tell us about your work! We would also love to hear your favorite poet/poem!
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March 21 is the Day of Nowruz! Not sure what that is? Visit the UN website to learn more!
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