Blog Updates and inspiration

Next week, the Invisible Children Music team will be making the cross-country journey to New York City for CMJ Music Marathon 2012. On Thursday, October 18, we’re partnering with top-rated concert discovery app Bandsintown for an old-timey Americana throwdown party following our showcase. Here are all the details you need: WHERE: The Jalopy Theater Bar 315 Columbia […]

[The Teacher Exchange is a program that allows Ugandan and international educators to form teaching partnerships while exposing their students to a world outside their borders. International educators team-teach in northern Uganda each summer for six weeks, and, in a reciprocal exchange, Ugandan educators visit the schools of the international educators each winter. Learn more […]

Want to know what 65,000 old CDs look like? Take a look at Bruce Munro’s Water Lilies to get an idea. The CDs are placed on foam discs, then netted together to make this beautiful madness. Munro usually works with LED lights to create his projects, but he decided to go with a more recycled […]

Sometimes you just want to get away. India, perhaps. Maybe ride on a motor-rickshaw with your three best friends across 2500+ miles of rough Indian terrain in the span of 2 weeks. Not your cup of tea? Just our graphic designer Drew Schafer, then? Good to know. Drew is partaking in The Rickshaw Run. Yes, […]

Our partners at Resolve published the below article regarding the announcement of the United States’ innovative program to protect people from LRA attacks. As always, well-written & incredibly insightful. On October 3, the U.S. announced the release of up to 15 million dollars to help protect communities being targeted by LRA attacks in southeast Central African Republic (CAR). […]

A little competition pervades the IC office. At month’s end, the person who gets the most people into a theater to see “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” wins. A coming of age story, the film follows the intensely introverted Charlie through his freshman year of high school. New found friends — his advanced English teacher and a pair […]

Uganda celebrated 50 years of independence on Tuesday. There is much to celebrate, from heroes like Stephen Kiprotich who took the gold in the Olympics in August, to being ranked the “top travel destination for 2012” by Lonely Planet, to major successes in economic development. According to the World Bank, “Uganda has surpassed the 2015 […]

[Invisible Children Music: We firmly believe that music has a necessary role in giving social movements tremendous amounts of momentum. It is a universal language, and at Invisible Children, it’s important for us to be a part of that language.] [ photo by Catherine Bradshaw ] Jedidiah Jenkins has worn many metaphorical hats at Invisible […]

London’s Design Festival annually brings together innovative architects and designers to amplify the city’s imaginative borders and to recreate the city’s most notable places. In September, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) was invaded by a mysterious structure that lived off an invisible force. Prism, designed by London artist Keiichi Matsuda, was one of several large-scale interactive installations presented by […]

CNN iReport is always incredibly reliable at bringing those work-hour doses of raw humanity. One of this week’s features continues the trend of blatant emotion  – it’s a touching story from Florida’s Sea Turtle Tri-Kids Triathlon. A young boy who was struggling to finish the race was picked up and helped to the finish line […]