Using mediums of art to share an impactful social message. Explore revolutionary music videos, murals, dance, poetry, and more.

Ancestral Threads follows Joleen Mitton on her mission to use fashion as medicine for Vancouver's Indigenous community. A former fashion model, Joleen is now a community leader and founder of Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week.

Ancestral Threads

Breaking Barz is a short documentary about regular musical events held in Manchester, UK, that celebrate the life and legacy of Len Johnson (1902-1974). Len was a UK midweight boxing champion and activist who was denied his title due to his racial identity. The film highlights Len's protest against the colour bar in Manchester, where signs read, "No Dogs, No Blacks, No Irish."

Breaking Barz

Dayna Reggero has been listening along the beaches and the bayous of the Gulf Coast to artists who are remembering, healing, and building a safe movement to vision a better future in the dangerous world of oil and gas. Call to Action:﻿Sign this petition to halt oil and fracked gas https://addup.sierraclub.org/campaigns/tell-federal-officials-act-to-halt-crude-oil-and-fracked-gas-exports-immediately. Visit the website for murals at https://gulfcoastmurals.com/art-activism

Gulf Coast Love Story

He Had Wings presents a portrait of the prolific artist, Ronnie Goodman, and the impact of his creative activism for social justice. He Had Wings provides insight into the trauma and resilience of Ronnie's journey as one of the thousands experiencing homelessness in San Francisco. The film shows how people like him, and his friend, Alton “Coach" McSween can have a positive impact on those who stand up for others in the crisis currently affecting the wealthy City by the Bay. Call to Action:﻿https://www.kiranaproductions.org/ KIRANA PRODUCTIONS empowers human rights advocacy and support through documentary filmmaking and workshops built around those films. This is their website.

He Had Wings

During a mass shooting at its annual 4th of July parade in 2022, a Chicago suburb found itself thrust into the headlines. Within hours, a temporary memorial in the center of town used community art to bring the grieving community together and find purpose and healing. Call to Action:https://www.hpcfil.org/july-4th-highland-park-parade-shooting/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Highland Park Shooting Recovery Fund accepts donations that will be used to address continuing needs of victims for mental health and other services resulting from the shooting. The Highland Park Community Foundation is administering the Fund and will distribute the donations as grants to organizations that are addressing ongoing needs of victims and community members.&nbsp;

Highland Park Strong

IF LIGHT CLOSED ITS EYES is a film of a verbatim documentary play, created from 100 interviews, exploring the criminal justice system and shared humanity. This production was performed, designed, and produced with over 100 incarcerated artists, with the guidance of the University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative faculty, in Sterling Correctional Facility in the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) and is the culmination of over two and a half years of work by the creative team. The live theatre production was performed for over 1,200 people (CDOC Staff, Residents, and the public) in the summer of 2022 in a cell house in Sterling Correctional Facility. The DU Prison Arts Initiative filmed this production to share its impact more broadly. Call to Action:The DU Prison Arts Initiative generates creative and collaborative learning experiences that enrich the lives of incarcerated people and shift the conversation about prison. We create high-quality therapeutic arts programming across Colorado. Our work empowers individuals to improve the quality of their lives and prepare to make positive changes in their communities upon release. We are a nonprofit organization that uses donations and grants to help fund and provide programming for those impacted by the criminal justice system. If you are interested in donating and helping our cause, please follow the link: https://liberalarts.du.edu/prison-arts/give

If Light Closed Its Eyes

The purpose of this documentary short is to explain my definition of "America's 3rd World" – the marginalized, largely ignored communities within America’s borders that operate under de-facto laws, codes of ethics, and institutions, such as the incarcerated, homeless, those battling mental health, the poor, black and brown communities, and more.With this project we aim to humanize the current and formerly incarcerated, centering the narrative around our common humanity, which we view as divine. We will highlight the necessary resistance and joy that I've found characterizes the citizens of America’s 3rd World, myself included.The film will juxtapose the struggle of constant resistance with the joy of having a dream you are willing to take a risk and go after, even in the face of consequences as severe as loss of freedom. It thus repositions “criminals” as dreamers, people no different from entrepreneurs or even Dr. King – someone willing to risk it all for the life they envision for themselves and those they love.This, we hope, will intrigue viewers to new perspectives on how our society can engage our [criminal] dreamers and better align resources. And, most importantly, we hope to intrigue viewers to reimagine the divinity inherent in all humans, including residents of America’s 3rd World. Call to Action:https://linktr.ee/3rdworldletters

Letters from America's 3rd World

"Speak" is a dance short film about being vulnerable as a man. Torn between the "Alpha Man" on the outside and the softness inside, the two characters embody a man's struggle with his feelings. Uri Eugenio is interpreting the man that society sees from the outside: strong, tough and in control. Lisa Frey dances his feelings: soft, vulnerable, sometimes out of control. Together they have a challenging dance of pulling and pushing. Can the male character hold the pressure or does he surrender to his feelings? Call to Action:Website: lisafrey.nl SUPPORT CHANGE: lisafrey.nl/pages/support-change SHARE YOUR VOICE: https://lisafrey.nl/pages/share-your-voice&nbsp;

Speak

A vibrant film using art, music, and poetry to tell the story of hope and sustainability. In a world crushed by pollution, conflicts, eco anxiety, alienation of the individual and fear of the future, a human being is lying down, hopeless and surrounded by shadow. Yet, anger and refusal of the disaster to come will ignite in him/her - and in us all - a flame of life, carrying the hope of a better tomorrow. Call to Action:﻿Follow announcements on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100081614124353&nbsp;

We Are The Earth

A by-the-book young man with a severe nut allergy attempts white-collar crime to cough up cash for healthcare when he bumps into a Russian woman with schemes of her own, in this romantic musical that aims to wake up U.S. citizens to the need and possibility for Universal Healthcare as a human right. Call to Action:﻿https://www.healthcare-now.org&nbsp;&nbsp;This group started in 2007 and develops national strategies meetings, volunteers, road shows to promote single payer reform.

Whatever It Takes

Tiny Gray-Garcia's heartbreaking story about growing up on the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco &amp; Oakland. Call to Action:Buy the book the film was based off of and support Poor Press. Very low and no income adults and youth are given the opportunity to create a book from start to finish, beginning with creative writing, narrative essays and poetry and then progressing to graphic design and layout publishing and promotion. https://www.poorpress.net/product-page/when-mama-and-me-lived-outside-cuando-mam%C3%A1-y-yo-viv%C3%ADamos-afuera

When Mama & Me Lived Outside: One Family's Journey Through Homelessness

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