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April 11, 2015. Boston, MA.
Fenway Health Women's Dinner Party 2015.
Fenway Health is proud to present Judith B. Bradford, PhD, Director of the Center for Population Research in LGBT Health and Co-Chair of The Fenway Institute, with the Dr. Susan M. Love Award. Dr. Bradford is being honored for her longstanding commitment and contributions to the health of sexual and gender minorities.
© 2015 Marilyn Humphries
MANILA, Republic of the Philippines (March 7, 2013) Rear Adm. John Weigold, deputy commander, U.S. 7th Fleet, is greeted by a member of the Republic of the Philippines navy as U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) arrives in Manila for a port visit. U.S. Navy port visits represent an important opportunity to promote peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region, demonstrate commitment to regional partners and foster growing relationships. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Jared Harral/Released)
Organized by Reverend Al Sharpton and the National Action Network.
(night photos are from the noise demo during Trumps Acceptance speech)
GET YOUR KNEE OFF OUR NECKS Commitment March Start along 23rd Street at Independence Avenue, SW, Washington DC on Friday morning, 28 August 2020 by Elvert Barnes Photography
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Visit Commitment March website at nationalactionnetwork.net/commitment-march-on-washington-dc/
Elvert Barnes 57th Anniversary of 1963 March on Washington COMMITMENT MARCH docu-project at elvertbarnes.com/57MOW2020
Google.org Announcement of MultiMillion Dollar Commitment, Grant and Pilot Program held at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy on March 19, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, United States (Photo by Jc Olivera/Google)
KP Krishnakumar
Brush and ink on paper
The events of the Emergency spurred K. P. Krishnakumar to create art which directly addressed conditions of marginality and oppression. A commitment to Marxist politics was also central to his work, shared by fellow artists of the Indian Radical Painters’ and Sculptors’ Association (the Radical Group). Among them were Anita Dube and C. K. Rajan, whose works are also on display later in the show.
With his charm and charisma, Krishnakumar galvanised the group’s resistance against the narrative, figurative approach to painting that came to be associated with the Baroda Faculty of Fine Arts. Searching for a more “international” art, the group was particularly interested in inter-war German Expressionism. This influence can be discerned in Krishnakumar’s drawings, which utilised a brush dipped thickly in black India ink for bold mark making.
These wild and frenzied drawings, some of which are self-portraits, depict muscular figures, animals, rural landscapes and domestic interiors caught up in the rhythms of daily toil. Anita Dube described them as projecting “an abjection” and strongly communicating a “lack in terms of class, race and sexual difference”, where “human dramas unfold within this ‘unhomely’ world”. The Radical Group disintegrated upon Krishnakumar’s death by suicide in 1989.*
Over the course of the 1970s and 1980s, a mode of figurative narrative painting gained prevalence as a second generation of post-independence artists grappled with the changing urban landscape and various social issues. There were also artists who worked outside of and at times rallied against these aesthetic parameters. Though they attested to the diversity of artistic practices operating in India at the time, not all received equal visibility or commendation. The Indian Radical Painters’ and Sculptors’ Association, formed at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Baroda (Vadodara), had misgivings about the “bourgeois-centred Indian art world”. The association was led by K. P. Krishnakumar and most of its members had been initiated into leftist politics in their home state of Kerala. In Delhi, activist Safdar Hashmi, murdered in 1989, used street theatre as a form of protest and act of resistance. Savindra Sawarkar was unique in forming a distinct visual iconography to address the plight of the Dalit community. The motivation behind these artists’ practices was to expose the pervasive oppression and discrimination in Indian society, based on class and caste.*
Taken from the exhibition
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998
(October 2024 — January 2025)
The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975-1998 surveys artistic production from across the Indian subcontinent during a 23-year period marked by social upheaval, economic instability and rapid urbanisation. The exhibition unfolds in a loosely chronological manner, framed by two significant national events in the history of independent India: the declaration of the Emergency in 1975, when democratic rights were suspended, and the nuclear tests of 1998, when the country relinquished its non-violent ideals to assert its place in a new global order. Some artists responded unequivocally to developments in the public arena, while others captured shared experiences and private moments. Amongst the 30 artists featured in this show some committed themselves to representational painting; others evolved personal iconographies in a variety of mediums, including employing installation in the 1990s. All of them combined social observation with individual expression and innovative forms to make work about friendship, love, desire, family, religion, violence, caste and community. This has determined the four axes that shape the exhibition: the rise of communal violence; gender and sexuality; urbanisation and shifting class structures; and a growing connection with Indigenism.
The exhibition takes its title from Sudipta Kaviraj’s essay The Imaginary Institution of India, in which he writes persuasively about the intellectual process of conceptualising the Indian nation. Artworks consider the state’s inability to abide by the progressive character of its Constitution, conceived as an instrument for radical social transformation. They also confront government failure to uphold secularism, social justice, welfare, minority rights and affirmative action in the face of a rising Hindu right wing and pro-capitalist economic agendas. They demonstrate that solidarity and protest existed, and were expressed in many registers, from the strident or intimate to the despondent or poetic, both anguished and hopeful, in the street and in the home. We witness the quiet defiance and resilience which truly defines this imaginary institution of India. In the words of B. R. Ambedkar, the Indian Constitution’s main architect, “Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy.".
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Taken in the Barbican
A few images from a fantastic season's end party at the Brightlingsea Lido in Essex. With only a few missing faces, this year was celebrated with a traditional fish & chip supper and a few bottles and cans. The Trustees thanked everyone for their hard work, commitment and continued support of one of the few surviving Lido swimming pools left in the country. Jane put it best when she said she was 'proud to be a part of the Lido Family'.
So am I.
"Civil marriage is at once a deeply personal commitment to another human being and a highly public celebration of the ideals of mutuality, companionship, intimacy, fidelity, and family. It is an association that promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects.
Because it fulfills yearnings for security, safe haven, and connection that express our common humanity, civil marriage is an esteemed institution and the decision whether and whom to marry is among life's momentous acts of self-definition. Tangible as well as intangible benefits flow from marriage. The benefits accessible only by way of a marriage license are enormous, touching nearly every aspect of life and death.
It is undoubtedly for these concrete reasons, as well as for its intimately personal significance, that civil marriage has long been termed a civil right."
Douglas A. Bowen, President & CEO (left), and Sheila King-Goodwin, Senior Vice President (center), accept a Community Commitment Award in the Sustainable Banking category from American Bankers Association Chairman Matt Williams.
Nearly 150 U.S. Airmen from AvDet Rotation 15-3, volunteered to plant trees as a beautification project for a local art and culture center in Łodz, Poland, June 14, 2015. The city mayor, local volunteers from area schools, and reporters from national and local television, radio and newspaper outlets participated in this charitable event. U.S. Air Force Airmen from Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany and the South Carolina Air National Guard’s 169th Fighter Wing from McEntire Joint National Guard Base, are deployed to Łask Air Base in support of Operation ATLANTIC RESOLVE, during the month of June. These training missions, called Aviation Detachment Rotations, pair U.S. fighter pilots and maintenance crews with their Polish Air Force counterparts at Łask Air Base. This bilateral training, hosted by permanently assigned USAF service members assigned to Poland, has taken place since 2012. Through strengthened relationships and engagements with our allies, the U.S. and NATO demonstrate their shared commitment to a peaceful, stable and secure Europe. (South Carolina Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Edward Snyder / RELEASED)
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Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, President, African Development Bank Group during the event of "Moving from Commitment to Action with NDCs in Africa" at Conference of the Parties (COP 22) - Africa Day, on November 16, 2016, in Marrakech, Morocco.
On December 13, 2006 the USGLC hosted an event honoring Senators Chuck Hagel and Paul S. Sarbanes for their dedication and steadfast commitment to American global engagement and the U.S. International Affairs Budget.
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Many thanks to all who supported the Nasher Museum’s 2012 benefit gala, Salon d’Automne, our celebration ofthe opening of Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore and served as a final farewell to Kimerly Rorschach, the Nasher Museum’s Founding Director. We had an excellent response, selling 199 tickets and raising nearly $105,200. All proceeds from the gala help support the museum’s commitment to serving the Triangle area through dynamic exhibitions, and free K-12 educational programs. Photos by J Caldwell
Organized by Reverend Al Sharpton and the National Action Network.
(night photos are from the noise demo during Trumps Acceptance speech)
Secretary Price visited Liberia to highlight the United States’ role in and commitment to global health security and to discuss the partnership formed between Liberia and the United States to strengthen capabilities to prevent, detect, and respond to potential health emergencies. During his visit, Secretary Price met with survivors of the 2014 Ebola outbreak, visited facilities that cared for Ebola patients and are continuing efforts to prevent future outbreaks, laid a wreath on the grave of an unknown Ebola victim at Disco Hill, and more. Learn more about Secretary Price’s visit to Liberia: www.hhs.gov/about/news/2017/05/19/secretary-price-visits-.... Monrovia, Liberia. May 17-18, 2017. Photo Credit: U.S. Embassy Monrovia.
During community time on Sept. 22, the Upper School students learned about The Wildcat Way, the athletic department's mission statement, and signed a poster as a sign of commitment.
April 11, 2015. Boston, MA.
Fenway Health Women's Dinner Party 2015.
Fenway Health is proud to present Judith B. Bradford, PhD, Director of the Center for Population Research in LGBT Health and Co-Chair of The Fenway Institute, with the Dr. Susan M. Love Award. Dr. Bradford is being honored for her longstanding commitment and contributions to the health of sexual and gender minorities.
© 2015 Marilyn Humphries