Category: Uncommon Ground
The Afghanistan and Central Asian Association will be holding an art exhibition at the Royal Albert Hall to showcase their new project: Refugee Women’s Art.
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A women's rights activist group called Bangkok Rising will perform "The Vagina Monologues" for the United Nations on Tuesday.
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Afghanistan and Central Asian Association celebrates Refugee Week with their annual Summer Festival
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Olivia DeLaurentis, 22-year-old writer, actor and director, is interviewed by Madelaine Hanson for Conatus News about her new film This Gets Ruff.
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Luc Besson’s 2014 film Lucy garnered criticism even before it premiered. This criticism stems from the movies foundational claim that “we only use 10% of our brain.” It is an obvious myth that anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of neuroscience could debunk. The famous case of railroad construction foreman Phineas Gage is enough to debunk […]
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In a status-oriented culture do awards encourage people to achieve greater heights, or are they the engine of human creativity's decline?
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The world of entertainment is experiencing a renaissance, as artists, musicians and comedians rush to fight back against the forces of populism.
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Alida Tomas founded Eighty Wings Productions. She is a comedian, commentator, and producer. Here she talks to Conatus News about some of her work.
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Adalet R. Garmiany is a British & Kurdish Iraqi artist, curator and Chief Executive/Founder of ArtRole, an International based contemporary arts organisation developing international cultural exchanges with the Middle East. Adalet has been forging important cultural and artistic relationships between Iraq, Middle East, UK, across Europe, USA, and the rest of the world facilitating artistic dialogue, […]
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Ali Raza is an artist from Kurdistan. Ali Raza talks about growing up in the Iraqi-Iranian war, and how human rights can be ratified in art.
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