Day: 13 July 2019

British master silversmith launches ambitious new project with Stonewall at the British Museum during Pride Season

Stuart Mitchell

One of Britain’s most exceptional young silversmiths has today launched an ambitious global project at the British Museum’s historic Enlightenment Gallery to celebrate LGBTQ rights and to draw attention to the issues still affecting the LGBTQ community. Hal Messel has teamed up with the British Museum and Stonewall, Britain’s leading charity for lesbian, gay, bi and trans equality, for the project which sees him creatively reimagine and recast the famous Warren Cup – a Roman artefact, thought to originate from 1st century AD – and part of the British Museum’s…

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Jennifer Garner and Walmart Team Up to Inspire Acts of Kindness

Stuart Mitchell

Walmart and top actor Jennifer Garner have got together to inspire acts of kindness and they posted a blog by Janey Whiteside, Chief Customer Officer, Walmart U.S. and Walmart U.S. eCommerce which I have reproduced below: One by one, acts of kindness make our neighborhoods better and bring us together, making us a stronger community. Walmart is part of so many neighborhoods across America and around the world — about 11,000 of them. Our customers and associates are already doing so many incredible things each day to make their neighborhoods…

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IIX and UN Women partner to empower millions of women through innovative finance

Stuart Mitchell

UN Women—the UN organization dedicated to gender equality—has partnered with Impact Investment Exchange (IIX)—a global organization dedicated to changing financial systems and creating innovate solutions to women’s empowerment—to mobilize large-scale capital to empower underserved women through innovative finance. With the shared goals to close the funding gap for advancing gender equality and the dedicated Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5, IIX and UN Women will collaborate on a series of activities including the development of financial instruments that leverage public funding to unlock greater private capital for women; the engagement of…

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UNESCO launches new publications on media and gender

Stuart Mitchell

Academics from around the world snapped up copies of two new UNESCO publications this week, in a well-attended session organised at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Mass Communication Research. E-copies are available at this link. The books are titled “Setting the gender agenda for communication policy- new proposals from GAMAG”, and “Gender, media and ICTs – new approaches for research, education and training”. The first is published in association with the Global Alliance for Media and Gender (GAMAG) (link is external), and the second with…

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Glastonbury stars donate festival outfits in stand against throwaway fashion

Stuart Mitchell

Kylie Minogue and The Cure’s Robert Smith are among the artists who donated clothing to Oxfam following Glastonbury festival. Kylie, who performed in front of thousands of people on the Pyramid stage, donated her sun visor, while Robert donated a Disintegration Era shirt, as worn in 1989 and again at Sydney Opera House earlier this year. Bastille, Billie Eilish, Frank Turner, Gabrielle Aplin, Johnny Marr, Lewis Capaldi, Loyle Carner, The Lumineers, Pond, The Proclaimers, Sheryl Crow, Tame Impala and The Wombats also joined in by donating their festival outfits to…

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