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Culture

Culture

The Survival of the City of the Dead in Cairo

Volunteers in Cairo are racing against time to preserve the city's historical memory while bulldozers demolish parts of the City of the Dead to construct new highways

CAIRO, EGYPT

Europe

Culture

The Gift of Cultural Participation

The nonprofit KulturRaum München enables access to culture for low income residents in Munich – but cultural participation often requires more than a free ticket

MUNICH, GERMANY

Cohesion

Bookstore’s Business Is Culture Towards a More Democratic City

The Tucholsky bookstore in Berlin sells more than just books. Over the years, its owner, Jörg Braunsdorf, has created a community around culture for neighbours and regular customers who meet at the bookstore periodically. Culture has energized a collective force with the civil courage to face up to the far right in their neighbourhood towards ...

BERLIN, GERMANY

US

Culture

A House in Philadelphia and the Truth About US History

Without having to step foot inside, award-winning artist Sonya Clark’s new exhibit at Declaration House in Philadelphia engages passers-by with the entangled legacies of the United States’ founding

PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA

Culture

Poetry Finds A Home in South Los Angeles

Award-winning poet Chisara Asomugha on the creation of the first library of poetry in Los Angeles and how poetry spaces humanize us

LOS ANGELES, CA, USA

Cohesion

Artist Lee Mingwei Creates Moments of Change in Cities

Lee Mingwei has transgressed the walls of museums. His participatory art provokes human connectedness among strangers. These moments of change are evidence of how museums could embrace new approaches to advance social value.

NEW YORK, NY, USA

Culture

Saving Jazz to Save the City. From New York to the World

Mitchell Borden, founder of legendary Smalls and Fat Cat clubs, and his wife, jazz musician Rie Yamaguchi-Borden, hold on to the unifying power of music to revive the jazz community and local businesses of New York.

NEW YORK, NY, USA

world

Culture

A Jazz Corner to Find the Beat in Havana

Over the years the jazz dancers of Santa Amalia have forged a dancing community in their neighbourhood that has become a philosophy of life in Havana.

HAVANA, CUBA

Culture

Street Artists Spearhead a Cultural Transition in Muscat

Abdulmalik Sultan Al Maskari, one of Oman’s most recognisable graffiti artist, has been finding legal ways to pursue his passion for street art, which has always been prohibited in public spaces in Muscat. By painting in legal spaces like old busses and old houses he and other street artists are slowly unleashing the street art ...

MUSCAT, OMAN