upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Yowei Shaw
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2009 Art and Change Grant – $2,500
- Neighborhood: West Philadelphia
- Change Partner: WXPN 88.5
- Discipline: Media Arts
Using audio recordings gathered from meetings, protests, and interviews with members of a Philadelphia-based socialist group, the People’s Revolutionary Party (PRP), Yowei will develop an audio documentary that examines the voices of the PRP activists as they organize for social change. Her work will address their motivations, the obstacles they faced when pursuing large-scale change in the face of considerable resistance, and provide an up-close look at a marginalized group not normally considered by the media or mainstream society. The documentary will challenge listeners to think seriously about alternative voices in the movement for social change. This work is especially relevant to the artist, a Chinese-American whose grandparents fled from China in the face of communism. Once completed, the documentary will be available as an online podcast and will be submitted to local broadcast and online outlets.
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