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		<title>OneVoice Interview with Robbie Schaefer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How was the concept born? The concept for OneVoice was born out of an urge. I have great faith in that feeling of being moved toward something, and that is what I felt when I first encountered Samite. Samite is a Ugandan musician living in New York, and when I first heard his music I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beckoningforchange.org/2011/06/onevoice-interview/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;DIGNITY&#8221; BY DANA GLUCKSTEIN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dana Gluckstein has photographed iconic figures from Nelson Mandela to Muhammad Ali and produced award winning campaigns for Apple.  But her inner vision is most revealed through her photographs of Indigenous Peoples.  Dana grew up in the Jewish “tribe,” steeped in knowledge of the Holocaust.  She was fortunate to grow up knowing all of her great [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beckoningforchange.org/2010/11/dana-gluckstein-dignity-book/</link>
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		<title>ARTPORT-Making Waves, UN Climate Conference, COP16 Mexico</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“ARTPORT_MAKING WAVES BUILDS BRIDGES NOT ONLY BETWEEN DIFFERENT CULTURES, BUT BETWEEN THE ARTS, SCIENCE, AND POLITICS. I AM DELIGHTED TO BE PART OF SUCH A VISIONARY PROJECT.” &#8212;SANTIAGO CALATRAVA ARTPORT_making waves is an international art and sustainability project that raises awareness about climate change through theme-oriented exhibitions, residency programs, and artists collaborations.  ARTPORT_making waves was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beckoningforchange.org/2010/10/artport-making-waves-cop16-mexico/</link>
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		<title>Sarah McLachlan Music Outreach &#8211; An Arts Umbrella Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The hope for our world is in these young children who come to us, because they will make the future good and wonderful&#8230;.That&#8217;s what it is all about.&#8221;  - Carol Henriquez, O.C., cofounder of Arts Umbrella, honorary chair of the Arts Umbrella board of directors. The Story of Arts Umbrella Arts Umbrella began as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beckoningforchange.org/2010/10/sarah-mclachlan-music-outreach-an-arts-umbrella-project/</link>
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		<title>FRIDA KAHLO RETROSPECTIVE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This autumn, the Bank Austria Kunstforum is presenting the first ever comprehensive Frida Kahlo retrospective in Austria.  Frida Kahlo is a global icon artist, an identification figure of Mexican culture and the forerunner of the feminist movement.  Kahlo’s art is intertwined with the truth in her life. Her paintings and drawings were not only the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beckoningforchange.org/2010/09/frida-kahlo-retrospective/</link>
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		<title>TIBET IN SONG BY NGAWANG CHOEPHEL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ngawang Choephel has a lifelong passion for Tibetan music, and has devoted his life to its preservation and dissemination. He was born in Tibet, and grew up in exile in India, where he discovered his talent for music at an early age. He received a degree in Tibetan Music from the Tibetan Institute of Performing Arts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beckoningforchange.org/2010/09/tibet-in-sony-by-ngawang-choephel/</link>
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		<title>IDAN RAICHEL PROJECT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“This one-man Middle East peace accord makes music that is an ambitious celebration of multicultural diversity. The ethnic elements are cleverly rewired with modern grooves to create an ambient journey that thrillingly bridges the traditional and the modern.”&#8211;The Times (London, UK) The architect of this unique recording project, is keyboardist, producer and composer Idan Raichel.  Originally from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beckoningforchange.org/2010/09/idan-raichel-project/</link>
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		<title>ERIKA BANKS-HEARTS &amp; VOICES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s Hearts &#38; 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 LIFEbeat&#8217;s Hearts &#38; Voices [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beckoningforchange.org/2010/08/erika-banks-hearts-voices/</link>
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		<title>PHOTOJOURNALIST RAMIN TALAIE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 group documentation on Iranian-Americans living [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beckoningforchange.org/2010/06/photojournalist-ramin-talaie/</link>
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		<title>SIERRA LEONE&#8217;S REFUGEE ALL STARS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sitting in a dusty refugee camp in Guinea in 2004, Reuben M. Koroma, the founder of Sierra Leone&#8217;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 unknown musicians languishing in various [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beckoningforchange.org/2010/05/sierra-leones-refugee-all-stars/</link>
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