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LC Global Exchange @LCGX

Moving Art to the center of international discourse by showcasing effective arts-based solutions to the world’s most pressing issues.

Joined May 2016
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"Technology...magnifies our best traits, and it magnifies our worst." Can art help us navigate tech's effects? bostonglobe.com/ideas/2017/0…

How tech created a global village — and put us at each other’s throats - The Boston Globe

We live in a time defined not by concord, but by conflict.

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GX food for thought: "Has the push towards STEM inadvertently stymied women in the arts and humanities?" #artforgood theatlantic.com/education/ar…

What the Push for Women in STEM Means for Female Artists

There is already a substantial gender gap in the arts, and President Trump’s proposed budget cuts could exacerbate the problem.

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GX friends from @NEAarts and @NICoEPage featured in @nytimes about expanding their essential arts therapy programs. nytimes.com/2017/03/27/arts/…

Can Programs That Help the Military Save the Federal Arts Agencies? (Published 2017)

Backers cite projects like expanding arts therapy for veterans to rebut calls for defunding the agencies.

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Proud of @LincolnCenter standing up for the @NEAarts. #artforgood Full Statement here: aboutlincolncenter.org/press… nytimes.com/2017/02/28/arts/…
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Great thought leadership from @danlevitin about music, technology, and taking a break from your screens #artforgood fastcompany.com/3068037/crea…
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“So much of the technology our kids use removes empathy. [Virtual reality] breaks that distance down.” #artforgood slate.com/articles/technolog…

Can Virtual Reality Teach Empathy?

In November 2015, middle school students from Westchester County, New York, found themselves on a windswept field in South Sudan mingling with a crowd...

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Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra at @LincolnCenter #artforgood nytimes.com/2017/02/08/arts/…

An Orchestra Triumphs Over Trump’s Travel Ban (Published 2017)

The Budapest Festival Orchestra has continued its American tour, intact, after finding one of its musicians temporarily barred from the United States.

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Powerful example of the @MuseumModernArt using their #artforgood. x.com/MuseumModernArt/status…

MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
@MuseumModernArt
3 Feb 2017
In response to last week's travel ban, we have installed works by artists from the nations denied entry to the US: mo.ma/2l524Wk
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Lincoln Center Education@LincolnCenterEd
22 Sep 2016
Happy b'day @AndreaBocelli, one of @LCGX participants & great advocate of #arts & #education. @abfoundation youtu.be/pwp1CH5R-w4
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John Kounios@JohnKounios
22 Sep 2016
Honored to meet brilliant dancers @gillianemurphy of @ABTballet & @btperry at @jmschert @LCGX talk-dancers' creativity can inform biz world.
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WME Books@WMEBooks
20 Sep 2016
Catch @JohnKounios on Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman tonight! #TheEurekaFactor bit.ly/2cy6na2 @ScienceChannel
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Penny Abeywardena@PAbeywardena
16 Sep 2016
Reflecting on experience of watching play "eclipsed" w female #UN ambassadors - #ARTFORGOOD @AmbassadorPower @LCGX
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jamie bennett@sarmoti
16 Sep 2016
"Ppl need 2 understand women can do things.” -Yemeni rapper @amaaniyahya #ArtForGood ow.ly/oAMB304hjyj

Amani Yahya, Yemen’s first female rapper: I will find a way, I will shine

The 22-year-old singer, who has had to flee her troubled homeland, is determined to use her music to highlight women’s rights, child marriage and sexual harassment in the Arab world

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Samantha Power
@AmbPower44
16 Sep 2016
Shakespeare challenged anti-refugee mob to see “strangers’ case” as their own – an important lesson in face of current crisis. #ARTFORGOOD
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Brian Stokes Mitchell@bstokesmitchell
17 Sep 2016
I just Had 2 amazing days at #LincolnCenterGlobalExchange. Artists, philanthropists, policy makers. #ARTFORGOOD
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Michael Berkowitz@Berkmic
16 Sep 2016
Great to work with @100ResCities family on Art and Resilient Cities @LCGX @resilient_NOLA @arnoldomatus
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John Kounios@JohnKounios
19 Sep 2016
.@LCGX A very important and necessary message: #ARTFORGOOD. Thanks for an inspiring conference.
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Dava Newman@DavaExplorer
18 Sep 2016
At @LCGX Global Exchange w/astronaut Piers Sellers, @xjbgx, @_jacobward_ connecting art & NASA science & technology.
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Karim Nagi كريم ناجي@karimnagi
17 Sep 2016
Replying to @NileProject
@NileProject by @minagirgis musicians from Egypt Ethiopia Burundi performed at @LincolnCenter @LCGX Global Exchange
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John Kounios@JohnKounios
17 Sep 2016
Andrea Boccelli speaking about his foundation's work with the children of Haiti at @LCGX
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