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    The Yes Men Present: The Yes Lab for Creative Activism by The Yes Lab

    The Yes Men are launching The Yes Lab so activist groups and individuals can carry out creative, media-getting actions of their own!

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    • 142% funded
    • $14,234 pledged
    • Funded Oct 17, 2011

    Help launch The Yes Lab for Creative Activism! The Yes Men are 2000 Emerging Fields grantees for their documentary film, "The Yes Men."

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    I Am Secretly An Important Man - theatrical distribution by Pete Sillen

    I Am Secretly An Important Man is a documentary film about Seattle writer, Jesse Bernstein.

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    • 116% funded
    • $7,545 pledged
    • Funded Aug 10, 2011

    2000 Film/Video grantee Peter Sillen is raising funds for the theatrical distribution of "I Am Secretly An Important Man," a documentary portrait of Jesse Bernstein, one of Seattle’s most important underground literary voices.

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    MY REINCARNATION by Jennifer Fox

    Be the CATALYST. Spread MY REINCARNATION, an epic documentary about spirituality, family and destiny...

    Successful!
    • 300% funded
    • $150,456 pledged
    • Funded May 28, 2011

    Jennifer Fox is a 2000 Film/Video grantee for "FLYING: Confessions of a Free Woman." Her campaign to raise funds for her new documentary "My Reincarnation" was one of the most successful in Kickstarter's history!

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    GOING GREEN THE WONG WAY-- SAN FRANCISCO STYLE! by Kristina Wong

    Kristina Wong's hilarious fifth solo show about the triumphs and pitfalls of sustainable living goes up in San Francisco July 14-17.

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    • 128% funded
    • $1,933 pledged
    • Funded Jul 14, 2011

    Help 2006 Performing Arts grantee Kristina Wong get to San Fran--the Wong way!

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    WeOwnTV - Picturing Independence: A Positive Revolution by Banker White

    WeOwnTV presents the work of talented young Sierra Leonean storytellers who are creating a new national identity through film.

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    • 120% funded
    • $18,115 pledged
    • Funded Jun 08, 2011

    2008 Film/Video grantee Banker White's WeOwnTV is truly an amazing project!

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    COLORMEAMERICA multimedia performance by Salt Farm

    COLORMEAMERICA is a multimedia project developed by SALT FARMBUTOH VÉRITÉ, based in San Francisco and traveling to the Big Apple.

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    • 112% funded
    • $1,350 pledged
    • Funded Apr 10, 2011

    Ledoh is a 2006 Performing Arts grantee for "COLORMEAMERICA." We are thrilled to support this incredible work.

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    GRAB: The Exhibition by Idris + Tony / Cybelle Codish

    Help us fund our first ever exhibition to be held at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

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    • 452% funded
    • $22,606 pledged
    • Funded Jan 13, 2011

    Billy Luther is a 2008 Film/Video grantee for the film GRAB. We are thrilled that his photography exhibition was such a success on Kickstarter!

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    "IdEgo" 20th anniversary season by Project Bandaloop

    Premiering in San Francisco in 2011, Project Bandaloop is creating a major new, highly collaborative, vertical dance work titled "IdEgo

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    • 105% funded
    • $10,529 pledged
    • Funded Dec 31, 2010

    Project Bandaloop's Amelia Rudolph is a 2000 Performing Arts grantee for the troupe's piece "Crossing," a site-specific performance in the Sierra Nevada range.

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    TAKEN BY STORM: A FILM ABOUT STORM THORGERSON AND HIPGNOSIS by Roddy Bogawa

    Real? Surreal? Iconic? The album art of Storm Thorgerson is so far deeply embedded in our psyche it's hard to believe it all came from one mind...

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    • 106% funded
    • $21,317 pledged
    • Funded Jul 06, 2010

    Roddy Bogawa is a 2000 Film/Video grantee for his film "I Was Born, But...," an experimental narrative film exploring the abstract notion of assimilation and the contradictions of those born into the ‘melting pot’ culture of America.

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    The Rafiq Bhatia Collective Debut Album feat. Vijay Iyer, Billy Hart, members of ICE by Rafiq Bhatia

    We have the opportunity to record our debut album with some of the leading lights in contemporary music; support us in making it a reality!

    Successful!
    • 104% funded
    • $10,474 pledged
    • Funded Jun 25, 2010

    Vijay Iyer is a 2002 Performing Arts grantee for his collaboration with Mike Ladd, "In What Language?" The piece explored individual identity in this era of globalization through monologues of travelers in an airport.

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    PIG DEATH MACHINE, a new Jon Moritsugu + Amy Davis feature movie, has just been shot! by Jon Moritsugu

    PIGDEATHMACHINE, newest feature by JON MORITSUGU, has been shot! See AMY DAVIS eat bad meat and TRANSMOGRIFY! Horror+screwball collide!

    Successful!
    • 109% funded
    • $5,460 pledged
    • Funded Nov 20, 2010

    Jon Moritsugu is a 2001 Film/Video grantee for "Scumrock," his first feature-length work shot on Hi-8 video.

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    Summer Projects by Marina Zurkow, Joe Winter, Thom Kubli by Marian Spore

    We are raising funds for new projects - including a flotation tank - at Marian Spore, a unique art museum in Industry City (near Sunset Park, Bklyn).

    Successful!
    • 110% funded
    • $4,403 pledged
    • Funded Jul 14, 2010

    Marina Zurkow is a 2001 Visual Arts grantee for her project "Nicking the Never," a multi-linear installation that incorporated screen-based animated narratives into a sculptural interface.