Diego Stocco & his custom built orchestra
If you’ve never heard of Diego Stocco, it’s about time you emerged from the rock you’ve been living under to check this out. Stocco is a visionary for creative instruments and sound, and since he started putting the two together, he has been unstoppable. Check out these ridiculously awesome instruments below and watch the video […]
Showing up to DC: why it matters
Do Washington DC marches have any real impact? Great question. Let’s discuss. It all began with a man named Jacob Coxey. Feeling defeated during the economic depression of the 1890’s, the Ohioan business man led approximately 500 men to the capital in 1894. They demanded work from the government, but were arrested for “walking on […]
Fruitport High School fundraising to get to MOVE:DC
This is the ideal situation: Our Roadies screen our new film MOVE, talk about our upcoming historical event MOVE:DC, answer any questions, give breakout sessions on youth activism, and just generally hang out with students to have quality time. This all successfully played out recently when our Great Lakes Roadie team went to Fruitport High […]
Tom Hanks & the spoken word
On Wednesday night, Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks was featured on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. While his main duty was to promote his new movie “Cloud Atlas,” Hanks offered up something unexpected: a spoken word performance about “Full House.” Yes, the man famous for portraying a castaway, astronaut and prison guard took to the stage with only a mic and got quite poetic […]
Teacher Exchange: Meet Jackie
Adong Jacqueline, or Jackie, is currently a teacher at Gulu Senior Secondary school. She has been teaching for the past 12 years, mostly in Kampala, but also for a brief time at an international school in Khartum. “I love traveling because you meet people, see new places, and get to learn new things,” she says. […]
Come together to work together
In 2002, Marie Da Silva wanted to make a difference in the lives of children who had been orphaned by AIDS in her native country of Malawi. At the time, she was working as a nanny in Los Angeles, so with limited resources she did what anyone else would do—she started a school. The Jacaranada School was created […]
Roy Lichtenstein: A retrospective
Perfectly timed with MOVE:DC, you’ll have the opportunity to see some amazing work by Roy Lichtenstein. From now until mid-January, Washington DC’s National Gallery of Art will showcase Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, the artist’s biggest showing since his death in 1997. The 100+ collection spans several decades and showcases how he became a leading man in the Pop […]
It’s how you finish
We love kids and we love football (ok, only some of us love football.) The below video is a 5th grade football game. The red team is down by two points with just seconds left. This just goes to show – it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. You know, sort of like […]
Tuesdays are more than just hanging with Morrie
In two weeks, the whole United States of America will be doing the same thing at the same time: voting for the next President. It’s a big deal. As a result, the elections are meticulously planned out and always fall on a Tuesday – the day after the second Monday in November. But it hasn’t […]
Protesting beyond the streets and into the sky
Hoping to reach out to the North Korean population, South Korean activists soldiered past a government ban and successfully sent thousands of leaflets and CDs denouncing Pyongyang into North Korea—via balloons. Similar protests in the past were met with hostility from the North but after they recently threatened to retaliate with military force, the South closed off areas […]