An innovative, impassioned approach to education.
The official website for the book wasn’t finished at the time of writing, but there’s a good write-up on “The Husslington Post,” (yes, you read that correctly) a website made by the author dedicated to hip-hop and educational innovation.
A few months ago, Thambo ran an article on the French Burqa Ban and its implicit blow to women’s rights.
One French citizen, Kenza Drider, stood against the ban, which went into effect today.
Here is the deeply inspiring video of her elegantly going about her normal day, defending a lifestyle choice which is now considered a criminal offense in France.
Via Democracy Now
“Palestinians, artists and peace activists worldwide are mourning the loss of a leading figure in Palestinian creative nonviolent resistance. Juliano Mer-Khamis, the founder of a theater for Palestinian children, was killed Monday by masked assailants in the West Bank town of Jenin. He had received a number of death threats from extremist Palestinians for his work with the Jenin Freedom Theatre. The theater has helped Palestinian youths deal with the hardships of life under Israeli occupation by expressing themselves through the arts—film, photography, art and theater.”
“What do you make?”
This spoken word piece by Taylor Mali is honestly one of the most inspirational pieces on teaching that I have ever come across:
Now Barry University is pairing him with social justice theatre director Elena Garcia for a project in South Florida.
“Through dynamic sound, choreography and spoken word, the Taylor Mali project focuses on the simple yet inspiring words, “What do you make?” to elevate the vocation of teaching and the love of learning.”
Check out the project here.
Last month, Chris Hughes—who helped to found Facebook and headed Barack Obama’s online campaign—unveiled his newest endeavor. Jumo.com aspires to be a social network that “connects individuals and organizations working to change the world.” As that’s right up our alley, I’ve opened a Thambo page on the site and have been trying it out for the last few weeks.
Though the side is in its beta stages, it is tantalizingly user friendly. You need a Facebook account to sign up, then it automatically uploads your Facebook info to the site (profile pic, basic info, and Facebook friends who are using Jumo already). You can “follow” a variety of issues, like human rights or educational reform, then choose “projects” (basically organizations that work with those issues) to follow as well. Read the rest of JUMO, Social Networks for Non-Profits »
Happy Holidays from those of us at the Thambo Project.
If you have not yet received this video in a holiday email chain, be sure to check it out.
650 shoppers-turned-singers suddenly burst out into a rendition of Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus, delighting Macy’s shoppers in Philadelphia.
Actually, the performance is only one installment of what will come to be 1,000 “Random Acts of Culture” over the next 3 years funded by the James S. and James L. Knight foundation. Cities on the list include Akron, Charlotte, Detroit, Macon, San Jose, St. Paul and Miami. Read the rest of Random Acts of Culture »
The Thambo Project has been featured on the popular feminist blog Gender Across Borders. The complete transcript of Thambo Artistic Director’s interview with GAB can be found by following the link below. Check it out!
From GenderAcrossBorders.org…..
Announcer: Welcome to the Gender Across Borders Podcast.
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Kyle: Welcome to the Gender Across Borders Podcast. I’m here with Evan Hilsabeck, of the Thambo Project, joined with a colleague, Colleen, and I guess to start things off, Evan, would you be able to tell us a little bit about your group?
Evan: Sure. Well, the Thambo Project has been around for about five years now and it grew out of a group that was doing work in colleges, well, in one college in Southern Minnesota, as a way of using theatre and performance for exploring ways that we can build justice in communities and really address issues of justice and privilege in a very direct way, and the members who eventually formed the Thambo Project thought that was pretty useful and very powerful and sort of unique to the work that was going on there, and so we’ve since then founded a non-profit organization to expand that work and have been doing workshops and performances in schools and communities for the last five years, so it’s been an, it’s been an exciting, exciting adventure…
Read the complete transcript here!
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Friends of the Thambo Project at The Studio: A School for the Performing Arts in New Canaan, CT have recently put together a great video inspired by The Trevor Project. Students and teachers collaborated to produce the video, which has since been featured on Broadwayworld.com and Towleroad.com. It serves as an inspiring message for peace and a great reminder that we can begin to make a small difference in the world very easily. We hope you’ll take a moment to watch it.