We celebrate you, Woman of AfricaHalala, Halala ! We celebrate you !! From ‘A Brighter Dawn for African Women’, by Gcina Mhlophe   Women's Worldwide Web pays tribute to Gcina Mhlophe—celebrated South African poet, director,[...]

Founded in 1993 by a French musician, Antonin Maurel, and a Spanish clown, Tortell Poltrona, Clowns Without Borders (CWB)—Clowns Sans Frontières, CSF—is an international non-profit organization (based in Paris, with offices in nine[...]

At age 14, Sarah Kay was the youngest spoken word poet at New York City’s Bowery Poetry Club and, in 2004—at only 16 years old—she founded her own national movement, Project V.O.I.C.E (Vocal Outreach Into Creative Expression): a campaign[...]

Self-proclaimed “photograffeur” JR uses art to bring women to the international stage and to promote positive change worldwide   JR is an anonymous French street artist (and 2011 TED Prize winner) who regards art as “a neutral place[...]

I consider Joan of Arc to be one of the greatest heroines in history. In the fifteenth century, heroism was defined in terms of masculinity, and yet Joan of Arc defied the social rules of her era and fought—literally and figuratively—to[...]

Monkeywood theatre was established in 2003 and has been producing acclaimed and popular productions ever since. Their newest piece, Once in a House on Fire, is based on the prize-winning and internationally bestselling memoir by Andrea Ashworth[...]

“Books open up new worlds for us emotionally, geographically, culturally; by encouraging understanding, they help us to develop more compassionate, rational, tolerant societies, giving rise to a more broad-minded world.”   Irene[...]

Maureen McLane is the author of two volumes of poems, Same Life (2008) and the newly released World Enough, as well as a prose study, Romanticism and the Human Sciences: Poetry, Population, and the Discourse of the Species. Formerly the chief[...]

Founded in 2006 by Cyndie Bellen-Berthézène, Time In is a pioneering, non-profit venture dedicated to bringing children out of at-risk schools and into HiArt! (a successful arts program founded by Bellen-Berthézène in 1997) as part of[...]

At three o’clock each morning, Chen Shu-Chu rises to prepare for work.  As a seller of vegetables in Taitung Central Market in Eastern Taiwan, Chen’s income is modest.  But, out of her income, she has managed to donate over NT$ 10 million[...]