TakingITGlobal: Inspire, Inform, Involve

ActALIVE (which stands for "Arts for Creative Transformation: Activism, Lifeline, Inspiration, Vision, Education") is an international arts coalition whose 300 members in 30 countries use the arts and media to address HIV/AIDS and the MDGs.

Central to our individual and collective...
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ActALIVE (which stands for "Arts for Creative Transformation: Activism, Lifeline, Inspiration, Vision, Education") is an international arts coalition whose 300 members in 30 countries use the arts and media to address HIV/AIDS and the MDGs.

Central to our individual and collective vision is the belief that arts/media and the creative spirit are crucial to the prevention, amelioration, and eradication of HIV/AIDS, as well as to the realization of the MDGs, and education and awareness about them.
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Members include development nonprofits, artists and educators, social-change advocates, youth, women, members of the media. Each member--whether individual or group--has their own arts-related educational and development activities, which they share with other members.

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Members include development nonprofits, artists and educators, social-change advocates, youth, women, members of the media. Each member--whether individual or group--has their own arts-related educational and development activities, which they share with other members.

ActALIVE also engages in projects as a collective, with members and other partners. Some of our activities include co-creation of the first African Youth HIV/AIDS Best Practices Handbook, with many arts practices included (http://www.developmentpartnership.org); co-sponsorship of an HIV/AIDS-themed music CD for youth, produced by iEARN Sierra Leone (http://www.iearnsierraleone.org); co-editorship of the arts and MDGs journal, art'ishake (http://www.art4development.net); and partnership with the Global Peace Tiles Project (http://www.peacetiles.net) on tile-making and mural creation for World AIDS Day and other development-related events.
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Youth--as both individuals and members of groups--are active and essential to the work of ActALIVE. The nonprofit and its forum have a number of GYCA and TakingITGlobal members, in additional to other regional and international groups, and many community-based and nationally-focused...
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Youth--as both individuals and members of groups--are active and essential to the work of ActALIVE. The nonprofit and its forum have a number of GYCA and TakingITGlobal members, in additional to other regional and international groups, and many community-based and nationally-focused organizations.

Youth can and do take an active role in any and all of our activities, and we welcome their central involvement and leadership in our work and networking worldwide.
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