Genuine Connects

Where Art Engages Good Causes & Good Causes Engage Art

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Call for the design and creative community

Your goal is to create a print ad that will be displayed on over 300 subway platforms throughout New York City. Submit a design that captures the importance of C/I for underserved students. The winning entry will create awareness of C/I and inspire socially minded New Yorkers to donate their voice, their time and their money to help diversify technology. Judging will take place in early May.

GRAND PRIZE Your work featured in a transit campaign around New York’s metro area—on over 300 subway platforms—with credit in the footer, $1,000 cash and more!

Submission deadline: April 17, 2015

Learn more here

Presented by Fiverr, AdvertisingAge, Creativity, Internet Week New York

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Call for artists interested in sustainability and connection to the land

Wormfarm Institute is accepting applications for the 2015 season of its foundational Artist Residency program. Running from May through October, this residency offers immersion in the life of a working farm. Artists, writers, and musicians in all stages of their careers are encouraged to apply.

The Wormfarm Institute is a non-profit working to build a sustainable future for agriculture and the arts by fostering vital links between people and the land.

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15 artists commissioned by Vital Arts collaborate to make London children’s hospital cozier for kids

Vital Arts is a British art organization funded to deliver art projects for the well-being of patients, staff and the wider hospital community. Read more here:

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São Paulo water crisis is source of wave of Brazilian art activism

Artists like André D’Elia and Thiago Mundano compensate for what they believe is a lack of media coverage by using their art to raise awareness of the water crisis. Read more here: 

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To all women who have the genuine power to inspire!

This film was recorded in1896 when women still filled conventional roles as wives and mothers. Although at this time women increasingly ventured into public activities once thought only appropriate for men. Can you imagine how these artists inspired other women?

Loie Fuller - Danse Serpentine by Lumière Brother

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Art inspiring Real Causes and Real Causes inspiring Art

Genuine Connects believes that art has the power of affecting positive changes, addressing and vocalizing social issues in the world. We intend to connect and inspire genuine artists with genuine social causes.

  Genuine is original, real, authentic Not pretending; frank; sincere Is free from pretense, affectation, hypocrisy Is sincere

"I will not dance to your war drum…I will not kill for you. Especially, I will not die for you"  Suheir Hammad – Poems of War, Peace, Women, Power

These impassioned odes to the suffering of women worldwide echo the hurt Suheir Hammad has witnessed and the knowledge she has gained through her Palestinian-American heritage. Her poems are a voice for all women who suffer such pain.