by Lori Hepner | Feb 20, 2020 | Blog Kosovo, Featured, Kosovo, Lori Hepner, Youth Empowerment, ZERO1
National Museum of Kosovo. Photograph by Bujar Imer Gashi – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30814712 In a few weeks, I will be arriving in Pristina, Kosovo on the somewhat magical-feeling, transient leap year day, February...
by Maya Holm | Jul 31, 2019 | Blog, Featured, ZERO1
American Arts Incubator (AAI) is an international new media and digital arts exchange program developed by ZERO1 in partnership with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. AAI was created to support the collaboration of...
by zeroone | Jul 15, 2019 | Blog Mexico, Brittany Ransom, Cultural Identity, Featured, Mexico, ZERO1
At the end of May, I completed my ZERO1 American Arts Incubator exchange in Pachuca, hosted by CITNOVA. I arrived in Mexico City a few days prior to the beginning of my exchange, where I spent five days exploring museums, historical and cultural sites, and learning as...
by zeroone | Jul 15, 2019 | Blog Nepal, Featured, Gender Equality, Jennifer Berry, Nepal
I awoke my first morning to the sound of bells ringing and birds singing. Somehow, my driver had found my little apartment the night before, though this part of Kathmandu, Old Patan, is so ancient that it has no street signs, no street names, and there are no numbers...
by zeroone | Jun 24, 2019 | Blog South Korea, Featured, Lauren McCarthy, Social Inclusion, South Korea
Last month wrapped up the ZERO1 American Arts Incubator in Gwangju, South Korea in partnership with the Gwangju Cultural Foundation. Gwangju is widely known as the site of the Gwangju Uprising (or May 18 Democratic Uprising), when the public responded to martial law...
by zeroone | Jun 14, 2019 | Blog Turkey, Featured, Gender Equality, Heidi Boisvert, Turkey
What an exhilarating and whirlwind of a month in Istanbul! 16 participants (across a wide range of disciplines) and I explored gender equity and women’s empowerment through participatory design, movement, writing, drawing, skill-building workshops employing different...
