For Freedoms

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For Freedoms is an artist-led organization that models and increases creative civic engagement, discourse, and direct action.

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  1. 21 hours ago

    Our Jubilee will feature roving live music, themed open-air art installations, and more, celebrating radical creativity, love and the pursuit of freedom across the Black Diaspora. Visit for Juneteenth events happening across the country.

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  2. 21 hours ago

    This , in the spirit of centering Black women, the and collaborate to bring another year of Black Joy, liberation, and resilience to Downtown Brooklyn. Sign up to volunteer in New York!

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    21 hours ago

    On the Absolut Art Journal, we talked with artist Kenneth Tam and Co-Founder of , Michelle Woo about the ways they are employing art to combat racism toward Asian Americans. Read the full interview:

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  4. Jun 14

    UPDATE ☔️ due to weather, Re:VISIONING HISTORY on the has been postponed to Thursday, June 17!

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    Jun 13

    Meet us at Astor Place tomorrow on for Re:VISIONING HISTORY with . Utilizing a call and response methodology, For Freedoms takes Red Stage beginning at noon in the lead-up to the New York City primary elections on June 22:

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  6. Jun 13

    Tomorrow on Monday, June 14, join us on the to revise the Declaration of Independence to reflect your values, participate in political training workshops on rank-choice voting information, and an epic play-in led by Djoré Nance 🎶

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  7. Jun 13

    Meet us tomorrow at the 🚩 In the lead-up to the New York primary elections, which holds an historic number of seats up for election, and present Re:VISIONING HISTORY.

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  8. Jun 11

    📢 Calling all singers 🎙 musicians 🎹 brass 🎺 wind 🎷 percussion 🥁 and string performers 🎻 and invite you to bring your voices and instruments to the this Monday, June 14 at 6:30 pm for , an epic play-in led by Djoré Nance.

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    Jun 10

    In partnership with , and inspired by 's billboard for , we asked more than 20 artists and writers: WHO TAUGHT YOU TO LOVE? We collected their answers in the pages of a printed tabloid. →

    Person with long hair and yellow skirt opens a yellow newspaper box, to pick up a print edition of WHO TAUGHT YOU TO LOVE, a printed tabloid part of Pop-Up Magazine's Sidewalk Issue.
    [image description: photographs of tabloid newspaper spreads on a wooden surface taken from directly above.]
    [image description: photographs of tabloid newspaper spreads on a wooden surface taken from directly above.]
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  10. Jun 10

    reveals the invisible labor inside America's lactation rooms. In a country that does not guarantee paid leave after the birth of a child, the pandemic underscored the failings and barriers that largely effect women—especially women of color.

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    Jun 8

    At , find a yellow newspaper box and pop in four quarters for a copy of this print collaboration with the artist-led collective . It’s part of ’s Sidewalk Issue, unfolding across Fort Greene through June 20.

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  12. Jun 8

    Every night this month 11:57pm – midnight, the screens in Times Square will light up with "Silent Spikes" by artist , presented by :

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  13. Jun 7

    "Art helps me heal every day," says filmmaker and writer . In this interview for , our For Freedoms collaborator talks about her new book and the power of art:

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  14. Jun 7

    Long before immigrants sought fortune during the Gold Rush, Asians have been on the land we now call the United States. In collaboration with Stop DiscriminAsian, this billboard featuring the work of has been installed in LA as part of our campaign.

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  15. Jun 5

    would have turned 28 years old today. On her birthday, we join and to always demand justice, always remember her story, and forever .

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  16. Jun 5

    It's the weekend! Grab 4 quarters and pick up your copy of featuring our collaboration with artists, available in: 💛 SAN FRANCISCO Nabila’s Naturals, 559 Hayes St 💛 LOS ANGELES The Blackstone, 901 S. Broadway St 💛 NEW YORK 647 Fulton St

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  17. Jun 4

    Who taught you to love? Inspired by the billboard by artist , we collaborated with to invite artists share their own meditations on love and creativity in the new Sidewalk Issue—out today!

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  18. Jun 3

    For Freedoms artist and filmmaker Bayeté Ross Smith revisits scenes from the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, an act of terrorism which took place 100 years ago this week.

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  19. Jun 2

    As Asian Americans, For Freedoms co-founder and artist explore the meaning of solidarity, interconnected struggles, and the power of art in public spaces, in this interview with :

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  20. Jun 2

    When Oklahoma artist began thinking of the centennial of the , she started writing a letter to the Black Tulsans of today. In collaboration with the , this public art installation is now on view on Tulsa's historic Greenwood Avenue.

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