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A 12-Foot Puppet of a Syrian Girl Will Travel 5,000 Miles This Summer as Part of a Wildly Ambitious Art Project About the Plight of Refugees

Good Chance theater company, The Walk , featuring the Little Amal puppet created by Handspring Puppet Company, as seen in London. Photo by Nick Wall, courtesy of Good Chance theater company.

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Arts & Culture·5 April 2021

The story behind our film: The Girl Who Built a Rocket

This February, three missions are going into Mars orbit with two landers reaching the surface of Mars in the second half of the month. Those missions aim to look for water on the planet.

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Education·19 March 2021

To build a better world from the Covid crisis, we need a global push to connect the world’s young people

Web Foundation Co-founders Tim Berners-Lee and Rosemary Leith

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Arts & Culture·1 February 2021

Curious Kids Live: join us to learn about rainforests

The Conversation’s series Curious Kids responds to children’s questions on all sorts of topics – ranging from why dogs are so cute to how much a cloud weighs . Now, we’re going live. Join us online to get answers from experts on a subject…

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Peace·15 October 2020

Atlas of the Future: School's out! This learning community is in

LEARNLIFE Catalonia (Barcelona) Maths. History. Science. Exams. Tests. Most schools focus on the acquisition of knowledge, facts and traditional disciplines. But, united by optimism, one adventurous group of innovators has recognised that a new way of learning is needed in today’s increasingly unpre

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Arts & Culture·11 October 2020

Conservation International - Nature is Speaking - Penelope Cruz is Water

Water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of population increase in the past century — to the point that now about 2.1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water; another 4.5 billion lack access to safely managed…

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Climate·21 September 2020

Conservation International - Imagine for a Minute

A film that asks viewers to take a minute to close your eyes and picture the future you want, featuring Pope Francis, Nobel prize winner Dr. Mario Molina, UN climate treaty negotiator Christiana Figueres, and Indigenous leaders Hindou…

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Arts & Culture·11 October 2023

Nations Skate Youth

Nations Youth Society was founded in early 2020, we’re are in the process of taking over the respected, “CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR KIDS ACHIEVING THROUGH EDUCATION AND CULTURE (CSKATEC)” they are incorporated as a non-profit organization under…

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Kids·13 April 2020

World's Largest Lesson: Animated Films - Parts 1, 2 and 3

End extreme poverty. Fight inequality and in

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Kids·20 March 2020

Jeremy Deller - Wir haben die Schnauze voll

Jeremy Deller - Wir haben die Schnauze voll (We‘re fed Up)

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Education·13 March 2020

‘No school, no skating’: the Indian skate park bringing children together

Children at Janwaar Castle in Madhya Pradesh have embraced skateboarding with relish, demonstrating the sport’s potential as a learning tool. Photograph: Matjaz Tancic

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New Museum·1 February 2020

Steve McQueen hopes Year 3 work will inspire art's next generation

McQueen with one of the school classes featured in the project. Photograph: Guy Bell/Rex/Shutterstock

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Arts & Culture·26 September 2019

Every child has a voice

by art.earth | Aug 30, 2019 | Our Events , our Exhibitions , Primary | 0 comments

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New Museum·21 October 2019

World's Largest Lesson - Project Everyone

World’s Largest Lesson is an on-going initiative from Project Everyone delivered in partnership with UNICEF and many other organisations to bring the Global Goals to children across the world.

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New Museum·10 March 2019

'Geek philanthropy': the gamers raising millions through marathon live streams

Gamers play the endurance driving game Desert Bus as part of Desert Bus for Hope, which launched in 2007 and has raised over $5m for the children’s hospital charity Child’s Play. Photograph: Kolin Toney/Desert Bus for Hope

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New Museum·15 February 2019

A personal and professional perspective on the school ‘climate strike’

At 11 o’clock this morning thousands of school students in the UK walked out of their lessons to demand increased action on climate change.

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New Museum·24 January 2019

Could this local experiment be the start of a national transformation?

‘Over the past year, Barking and Dagenham has started to become known as a global leader in taking back control.’ Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare

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New Museum·22 January 2019

Can Art Relax You?

Can art relax you? Sressed Millennials use galleries to unwind, research shows.

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New Museum·9 January 2019

Choose Love: The world's first store that sells real products for refugees

Every single purchase you make goes towards a similar item for a refugee, delivered via one of the 80+ projects Help Refugees support across the world.

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New Museum·8 January 2019

Beauty That Unites: Travels in the Marvelous Harmony of the Chinese people and Vatican Museums

Soft diplomacy between the two countries starts off with an exchange of art.

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New Museum·8 January 2019

Art can be a powerful medicine against dementia

People living with dementia discuss art at a Royal Academy InMind session. Photograph: Roy Matthews

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New Museum·8 January 2019

Forest Bathing Is the New Global Phenomenon in Nature Therapy

Shinrin Yoku means “forest bathing” or “taking in the forest atmosphere.” In 1982, the Forest Agency proposed Shrinrin Yoku as a different type of therapy which quickly took as picnicking under the cherry blossoms in April and March is a…

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New Museum·8 January 2019

Bee inspired: why Oslo has put ecological riches at the heart of the city

Kristina Bjureke, the chief botanist at the natural history museum in Oslo, examines a flowering plant with horticulturalist Tor Mjaaland. Bjureke wrote the plant management plan for city’s hay meadow campaign. Photograph: Jonathan Watts…

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New Museum·8 January 2019

15,000 at Glastonbury set record for biggest human peace sign

People form a giant peace sign at Glastonbury. Photograph: Andy Eliot/PA

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New Museum·18 September 2019

Emergency Architects & Human Rights

The building is 25 sqm classroom in a dome shape built to host Syrian and Jordanian children in Za’atari village, located just outside of the Za’atari refugee camp, 10 km from the Syrian border.

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New Museum·7 January 2019

COOL EARTH

Half the world's rainforest has been lost over the past forty years.

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New Museum·3 January 2019

Artist John Akomfrah Wins Artes Mundi Prize - his work feels particularly urgent.

His work, tackling migration, racism, and religious persecution, feels particularly urgent.

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New Museum·23 August 2024

Claudia Sings Sunshine On A Rainy Day | WaterAid

Claudia's village, Lubunda , is in a disadvantaged part of northern Zambia, where people once relied on dirty, distant and dangerous water sources.

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Education·23 September 2025

This Remote Pakistani Village Is Nothing Like You’d Expect

Above the village of Passu, a teenager checks his Facebook. Many residents here are Ismaili, followers of a moderate branch of Islam. A sign on the mountain slope commemorates the time in 1987, when the Ismaili imam, the Aga Khan, visited…

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New Museum·1 January 2019

EducAid - learning for life in Sierra Leone

What are the important skills, behaviours, and attitudes that students need to become contributing global citizens?

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New Museum·1 January 2019

A Sweet Gig: Danish Beekeeping Program Employs Refugees

By operating urban beehives year-round, Bybi helps the environment, gives training, and creates opportunity.

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New Museum·30 December 2018

Cahier Africain

In the beginning there was a notebook. A notebook about hundreds of broken lives and tragic fates. Director Heidi Specogna wastes no time and shows it to us in the very beginning. She uses the photos of men, children and teenagers, as well…

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New Museum·14 April 2026

Featured Story: A knowledge transporter in Afghanistan

School teacher Saber Hosseini from Bamyan, Afghanistan, cycles more than an hour to deliver books to children in remote villages in the province.

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New Museum·24 September 2019

Dancing out of poverty in South Africa

Taking the floor: Dane Hurst and the Rambert dance floor he moved to South Africa. Photograph: Karl Schoemaker for the Observer

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New Museum·16 May 2018

Global reasons to be cheerful - David Byrne

1. Healing the divide Georgetown is one of Texas’s most conservative suburbs, but gets all its electricity from renewable sources. Its mayor, Dale Ross, a Republican in what is considered oil country, made a decision in 2015. He ignored…

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New Museum·16 October 2025

Featured Archive Story: Ubuntu - I am because we are

An anthropologist proposed a game to children in an African tribe. He put a basket of fruit near a tree and told the children whoever got there first won the sweet fruits. When he told them to run they all took each others hands and ran…

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