Genius Urban Design: Farm in a Box
Why didn’t someone think of this before? You put dirt and plants in a modular growing container, put it on your wall, and feed yourself. Best of all, it waters itself. Says inventor Douglas Busch: “I...
View ArticleRevengeance Funded: Congrats to Bill Plympton and Jim Lujan!
Traditional Animation Is Alive and Well Revengeance Feature Film a Go. Raises Over $90,0000. Bill Plympton going for the Stretch! It is with great pleasure that we report that Revengeance, a new...
View ArticlePacifism21
“Who says peace is not possible?” Levi Asher, whose excellent blog LitKicks will be familar to Cultural Weekly readers, asks all of us. He also asks us to take a look at Pacifism21, a nascent...
View ArticleCrowdfund This: Fanny’s Oral History Project
The focus of this week’s crowdfund project is on an amazing person about to work on an amazing and necessary project. We met Franny Garcia when she was still at UCLA, getting her degree and working as...
View ArticleGood Guys With Guns
The proliferation of gun violence in this country is out of control. Filmmaker Jordan Ancel and his team believe they have a responsibility to help change the culture of violence through storytelling....
View ArticleSHAPE OF MEMORY
Like life itself, dance is ephemeral and fleeting… As an anecdote to the unstoppable passage of time, my aim is to make powerful site-specific spectacle and dance work that creates a new memory – what...
View ArticleNow and Again
“Ever since I can remember, Grandpa Mel would tell me the story of his 1945 bike ride adventure from his childhood home in Brooklyn to the city of Philadelphia,” explains filmmaker and Cultural Weekly...
View ArticleThe Often Forgotten Explores Trafficking and Activists in Thailand
Independent filmmaker and co-founder of blindfoldmag.com, Jacqueline Romano and Anti-Trafficking Expert and Activist Alezandra Russell are turning to the internet to raise funds for their first feature...
View ArticleMelissa Center is…Marrying Jake Gyllenhaal
Artists make Art — especially now. We’re especially proud to share this Crowdfund of the Week, because it is fun, funny, and all about the persistence of theatre and theatre-makers. Actor and...
View ArticleOur Editor is Launching a Patreon
Hello, readers. This is Chiwan Choi. I am one of the editors of Cultural Weekly. I am also a poet, with three books published, currently working on the fourth. I have also written here on these pages....
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