Sentences with phrase «current social climates»

Although Black Star is not intended as a direct response to the current social climates in the UK and US, Clark says that a number of the films in the programme speak directly to what's happening today: «John Singleton's seminal Boyz n the Hood is a prime example: it's impossible to watch the film and not see very clear connections to contemporary issues of police brutality and gentrification.

Despite any clinical evidence for or against the therapy, the APA denounces such therapy because, «In the current social climate, claiming homosexuality is a mental disorder stems from efforts to discredit the growing social acceptance of homosexuality as a normal variant of human sexuality.

Seeing temper replace timidity, or passion override passivity, is a far more accurate representation of our emotions, particularly in the current social climate.

McDonagh's script certainly takes major jabs at the current social climate in America regarding law enforcement.

With that said, accounting for the current social climate, there are some moviegoers that will be unable to get on the same wavelength as the possibly offensive humor here.

Two Best Picture nominees in particular are a response to our current social climate.

It's a familiar trope — but do you think that in the current social climate this film will be received differently than it would have six months or a year ago?

You know Japan has to be spanking it pretty hard these days with the current social climate over there.

Tomorrow Is Another Day includes new essays by Zadie Smith, Anita Hill, and others about the importance of Bradford's work in the current social climate.

But most of them — including Currin, Carroll Dunham, Jeff Koons, and the young Mexican - American painter Alex Becerra (some of whose nudes are drawn from escort ads)-- declined to talk about their work's relationship to the current social climate.

I think the work I chose speaks to the current social climate and the demands of respectability politics, and how this «double - binds» African - Americans in the face of prejudices and racial violence.

Titles, such as September Elegy and The Day We Became People may be read as allusions to the current social climate.

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In the current political climate, Social Security as we know it is on the chopping block.

It will also provide an in - depth look into innovation and entrepreneurship opportunities, how to address common communication barriers between clinicians, healthcare executives, and IT, how the current social and political climates are impacting the industry, and much more!

We both feel that America because of the current political / social climate is on a precipice and likely to topple over at any time.

He added: «I pray that in our current political and social climate his message will reach those who support hate and division, and inspire them to a conversion of heart.»

The current political climate, influencing and being influenced by a social upheaval in a certain demographic circles, is characterized by «turning brown».

Unfortunately in this current political climate this film was always gonna be up against it, the moment the movie was announced you could literally hear the social justice warriors sharpening their knives.

This dogged attachment to a romanticized social conservatism may fit our current political climate and the retro fantasies of teenage girls, but it undermines the occasional charms of such a graph plotted romantic comedy, which suffers particularly in inevitable comparison with» My Best Friend's Wedding.»

In the current highly charged political climate, it's tempting to celebrate certain films as vehicles for social change while also dismissing, or ignoring, their deficiencies.

Multiple Emmy Award winners Candice Bergen and series creator Diane English reunite for MURPHY BROWN, the revival of the groundbreaking multi-camera comedy about the eponymous broadcast news legend and her biting take on current events, now in a world of 24 - hour cable, social media, â $ fake newsâ $ and a vastly different political climate.

Per the official show description, the revival centers on «the eponymous broadcast news legend, played by Candice Bergen, and her biting take on current events, now in a world of 24 - hour cable, social media, «fake news» and a vastly different political climate.»

A documentarian who is no stranger to the Tribeca Film Festival, director Bert Marcus is back at the fest this year with his latest outing, The American Meme, in which he takes on the bizarre current climate of social media, with a little help from Paris Hilton.

Multiple Emmy Award winners Candice Bergen and series creator Diane English reunite for Murphy Brown, the revival of the groundbreaking comedy about the eponymous broadcast news legend and her biting take on current events, now in a world of 24 - hour cable, social media, «fake news» and a vastly different political climate.

In an attempt to reflect on the current political and social climate in the United States, Reverend Jackson guided his audience through the last four centuries of plight for historically marginalized communities the United States, citing periods from Native American genocide and the enslavement of African - Americans to Japanese internment and Jewish persecution.

How a school operates is integral to the sort of education it provides and by addressing the challenges of the current education climate with a social business framing in mind, that sort of education is a very exciting prospect indeed.

The Dóchas EU Presidency Project will be working to ensure that the post-MDG framework does not simply articulate an extension of current practice, but rather captures an inclusive, sustainable and just set of solutions to some of the biggest global challenges that are facing mankind: economic inequality, social instability, environmental degradation, resource scarcity, climate chaos and political exclusion of vast numbers of people.

As a result of the current analysis and mandated Holocaust teaching standards, it is evident that particular attention needs to be paid to developing resources that help users locate and identify with information describing the social and political climate leading up to a catastrophic event like the Holocaust.

Building student agency beyond exercising grit and self - determination, to recognize injustice in current and historical contexts while building school climates that make it safe for students to employ SEL — empathy, perspective - taking, self - regulation, and social problem - solving skills — to humanely and effectively address injustice when they encounter it

This five - week online course explores the current research, trends, and innovations in social - emotional learning (SEL) and the foundational concepts associated with developing schools that are reflective of a positive culture and climate.

Her current interests include teacher support and professional development, school climate and culture, research to practice, academic and social - emotional interventions, and systematic review writing in related areas.

Large publishing houses are having to find more and more creative ways to reach out to readers, especially in the current climate in which readers are becoming accustomed to interacting with their favorite authors and with readers of similar genres on social media outlets.

In the current passive investment space, market participants can choose from a wide range of indices that relate to personal values, including human capital, climate change mitigation, long - termism, faith based, and social responsibility.

As it is, much of the current political climate is marked by intergenerational conflict, with Social Security viewed derisively as an old - age welfare plan.

The Untitled Space gallery is pleased to present exhibition, UPRISE / ANGRY WOMEN, curated by Indira Cesarine, featuring the work of 80 female contemporary artists responding to the current social and political climate in America in light of the recent presidential election.

Other canvases considered the current political and social climate.

As a response to the current social and political climate in the United States, the Strange Fire Collective is looking for work made by women, people of color, and LGBTQ artists that engages with issues of social justice and critically questions the dominant social hierarchy for our upcoming exhibition Call and Response: Art as Resistance.

Inspired by visual modes of social resistance, such as song lyrics and protest signs, Hutchins's works serve as a response to the current political and social climate.

The founding artists, along with contributions from Ambassador Andrew Young, Jesse Williams, Rashid Shabazz, and Delroy Lindo, will introduce and contextualize the body of the work and provide closing remarks on our current and future social climate.

Organizing art at a fair around social issues — particularly in our current fraught political climate — can be risky, but there is nevertheless something important about seeing work that addresses the issues that preoccupy us today.

Artists from various backgrounds, ages, and genders will respond to the current political climate and examine different social and political movements, like the #MeToo social media movement, Pussy Fights Back and Pussy Hat Project, the «post-Weinstein allegation» effect, among others.

They were loaded and significant works that delved deep into the current political, social, and economic climate of the globalized world.

Not only is the gallery located in a residence in Los Feliz — I had gratitude to be in a place with wooden floors, light switches, and the other trappings of domestic normalcy — the exhibition itself lent a humanness and an interest in the animal world, that I appreciated within the current political and social climate.

The story critiques the social factors that ignite war, and holds relevance for the artist given our current political climate.

In both pieces, Ward endeavors to bring the experience of living in a community surveilled by the police into the gallery, using everyday objects that create a tangible link to the reality of our current political and social climate.

The final section, «Mirror», looks at the ways in which film can be a reflection of the current political and social climate.

On view from September 13 through December 23, 2017, Speech / Acts brings together recent work and new commissions by six artists: Jibade - Khalil Huffman, Steffani Jemison, Tony Lewis, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Martine Syms, who reflect upon experiences growing up through the social upheavals of the 1990s and draw on the current sociopolitical climate and the preceding Black Arts Movement in their work.

Each artwork in the exhibition tells a story about how our physical and psychological environments are shaped by current climates, whether social, political or environmental.

ANGELL GALLERY is proud to present The Anxious Body, an exhibition featuring nine artists from Toronto and New York whose works reflect how social media and the current socio - political climate are influencing contemporary figurative painting.

Art and Social Activism investigates art's relationship to activism, creating a live forum in which to discuss the visual arts in our current climate of grassroots action, demonstrations, and international protest movements — with the goal of promoting awareness, increased involvement, and change.