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Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the
world's bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same
issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a
global discussion.

This Year's Theme: Poverty

In 2008, the Blog Action Day theme is Poverty. Bloggers are free to
interpret this as they see fit. We invite bloggers to examine poverty
from their own blog topics and perspectives, to look at it from the
macro and micro, as a global condition and a local issue, and to
bring their own ideas, views and opinions on the subject.

One Issue, Thousands of Voices

Global issues like poverty are extremely complex. There is no simple,

THE NEW MILLENNIUM PAPER AIRPLANE CONTEST
By Klara Hobza
November 1, 2008 / 1-5pm
In the Great Hall at the
New York Hall of Science

… followed by…

THE NEW MILLENNIUM PAPER AIRPLANE BOOK
Coming Spring 2009

Call for entries: Pre-register online now at http://www.publicartfund.org

THE NEW MILLENNIUM PAPER AIRPLANE CONTEST by Klara Hobza is a multifaceted artwork inspired by a historic paper airplane contest that took place in 1967 at the Great Hall in what is now the New York Hall of Science. Built by Wallace K. Harrison to display rockets in the 1964 World's Fair, the Great Hall is a secular cathedral of concrete and colored glass, and for Hobza's one-day event, this unique location will harbor aircraft of a different scale.

Vol. 5, Issue 14 of The Poetry Victims is now online at...

http://thepoetryvictimsvol5.blogspot.com

Featuring art by Amy Kohut
and poetry by Jared Smith

Enjoy!

ink and paint.

ink and paint. Then I painted out the one on the left (next)

ink and paint

As always, I MEANT to draw something of great social import...

GREAT LEAP announces

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: COLLABORATORY VI

Seeking artists* with a committed spiritual practice to develop a
collaborative
performance based on the theme of INTERFAITH COALITION-BUILDING
Founded in 1978 by Artistic Director Nobuko Miyamoto, Great Leap is a
non-profit performing arts organization that aims to deepen relations
between diverse peoples. In 2005 Great Leap introduced COLLABORATORY, a
free mentorship residency program to nurture cross-cultural
inter-community artistic collaboration and develop community leadership.
Previous rounds of COLLABORATORY have focused on themes such as
immigration, democracy, and care for the environment.

Led by Project Director Dan Kwong and Co-Facilitators Young-Ae Park and