http://beckoningforchange.org Artists With a Cause Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:18:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Erika Banks is a singer and has been active in HIV/AIDS education and prevention since her college years.  She first became involved with LIFEbeat's Hearts & Voices program in 2005 when looking for performance opportunities for her church choir members to perform musical outreach in the community. A friend quickly recommended ... http://beckoningforchange.org/2010/08/erika-banks-hearts-voices/ Ramin Talaie is an Iranian born photojournalist based in Brooklyn, New York. Ramin is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg amongst others. His work has been published worldwide and was recently exhibition at the Fowler Museum at UCLA as part of a ... http://beckoningforchange.org/2010/06/photojournalist-ramin-talaie/ Sitting in a dusty refugee camp in Guinea in 2004, Reuben M. Koroma, the founder of Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, could not have imagined what the near future would hold for him and the members of his band. In just six whirlwind years, the group has gone from being ... http://beckoningforchange.org/2010/05/sierra-leones-refugee-all-stars/ “Hip hop Palestinian style with DAM the leading Arab rap group” CNN “Intifada Hip Hop” VIBE "Very impressive.  Hard to imagine how they managed to make such a good record in the current circumstances. Unlike many hip hop albums, each song is clearly different from its neighbour, some decorated with traditional ... http://beckoningforchange.org/2010/04/dam-palestinian-hip-hop/ Raoul Peck was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and studied film at the DFFB in Germany.  His films include Haitian Corner, Lumumba, Death of a Prophet, The Man by the Shore, Lumumba, and Sometimes in April.  In 2001, he received the Human Rights Watch Lifetime Achievement Award. Director Statement With this film I ... http://beckoningforchange.org/2010/04/moloch-tropical-by-raoul-peck/ Nelly Duff presents Jessica Albarn, their first print together sees a meeting of Jessica’s fine line drawing with a hidden geometry (gloss varnish that shines under direct light). She completed a series of portraits, which include the likes of Banksy, which was published in Marmalade Magazine, Brian Haw the peace protestor ... http://beckoningforchange.org/2010/03/jessica-albern/ Singer and songwriter Razia Said’s nomadic life has taken her across Africa to France, Italy, Ibiza, Bali and New York City, but despite these wanderings, her heart and soul remains inexorably tethered to Madagascar, the land of her birth. Her musical explorations have also been wide ranging, and over the ... http://beckoningforchange.org/2010/03/raiza-said/ A lifelong performer with his roots on stage and screen, Core Rhythm took NYC by storm with his fierce debut album NAT TURNER RELOADED (Voted #6 on the Rapreviews.com Top 10 list of 2006) and in a few short years has become a force in the New York Independent Hip ... http://beckoningforchange.org/2010/01/core-rhythm/ Vishavjit Singh found his love for arts at a very young age. He started doodling Sikh characters in his free time. But thanks to his South Asian heritage was encouraged to leave arts for the sciences in teenage years. He studied Biological Sciences at University of California, Santa Barbara and Biostatistics/Epidemiology ... http://beckoningforchange.org/2009/12/vishavjit-singh/ Painter, sculpture/installation and mixed media artist Regarded as a ' Vanguard' for his piece in the Vancouver Art Gallery's exhibit, How Soon Is Now?  Sonny Assu continues to push the boundaries of contemporary art by challenging the perception of Aboriginal art. A multi-disciplinary artist, Assu merges Northwest Coast Aboriginal iconography with the ... http://beckoningforchange.org/2009/11/sonny-assu/