Artist brightens up her city's drab streets
A British artist paints the facades of some of her city’s rundown and neglected houses, transforming them into a rainbow of colours.
- May 27
Festivals offer long-lasting connection
People who go to festivals feel more connected to other people and more willing to help strangers for at least six months after the event.
- Feb 16
Exhibition challenges stereotypes of sex work
A new art exhibition in London explores the humanity, hypocrisy and — sometimes — humour of the much-maligned sex work industry.
- Dec 5, 2021
Art makes cents (and other good things)
Investing in public art can improve street safety, provide tourism and new jobs, and combat social isolation and anxiety.
- Oct 7, 2021
TV shows reinventing on-screen bromance
The TV sitcoms Ted Lasso and Sex Education are recasting male friendships, showing there are different ways of ‘being a man’.
- Sep 10, 2021
Ten-year-old Texan collects 500,000 books for kids
A 10-year-old Texan boy is spreading the gift of reading to other children by collecting 500,000 books.
- Jul 14, 2021
Street art repairs potholes
A French street artist is repairing the many potholes in roads and gaps in footpaths and crevices in walls with colourful tile mosaics.
- Apr 25, 2021
France legally protects accents
A groundbreaking new law aims to let the French speak freely and without fear of discrimination.
- Feb 4, 2021
When you go down to the woods today
Japanese creatives build a giant wooden xylophone in the middle of a forest. And it plays Bach, well ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’.
- Dec 11, 2020
Circus is a lifesaver for vulnerable kids
When the pandemic hit, Lolly Jar Circus closed for four months, sending the small Adelaide community circus into a spiral. Now it's back,
- Oct 1, 2020
Internet reviving India's folk arts
Thousands of marginalised folk and tribal artists silenced by covid are now able to earn a living thanks to the internet.
- Jun 19, 2020
Sales of Indigenous titles 'skyrocket'
Bookshops in Australia have seen a surge in readers seeking books on race and racism following the recent Black Lives Matter protests.
- May 11, 2020
Retiree DJs keeping elders connected
Inside his room at a senior care facility, Bob knew he couldn't go out during the lockdown. But he could share his love of country music.
- Apr 13, 2020
Reclaiming a lost language
A nearly extinct Aboriginal language has been reclaimed.
- Mar 16, 2020
Film festival goes online
When the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights was disrupted by COVID-19, they had to think up an alternative program fast.
- Feb 17, 2020
The benefits of the Big Screen
New research has revealed that spending just a couple of hours watching a flick in the cinema gives your mental and physical health a boost.
- Dec 29, 2019
Heavy metal in hijabs
As unlikely as it would seem, three Muslim schoolgirls have come to prominence across Indonesia playing, of all things, heavy metal music.
- Dec 28, 2019
Keeping a language alive
A workshop in Mexico is solely dedicated to documenting and safeguarding the endangered Tzotzil language, culture, and oral history.
- Nov 20, 2019
No touring till they're green
British band Coldplay have put plans to tour their new album on hold due to concerns over the environmental impact of concerts.
- Oct 24, 2019
Uluru closed to climbers
After a decades-long campaign by Indigenous Australians, visitors to the Northern Territory’s red centre are no longer able to climb Uluru.