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BENEFIT TOUR
project ONE America
Design Typography Activism And Social Justice
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T n E c N i V BENEFIT TOUR This summer, St. Vincent is joining forces with the Human Rights Campaign for the benefit tour that will get everyone talking. The tour is a part of the Human Rights Campaign’s Project One America, focusing on raising awareness of the inequality that the LGBTQ community still faces in the southern states in America. The tour covers the four states of Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas. The Human Rights Campaign and the Human Rights Campaign Foundation together serve as America’s largest civil rights organization
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project ONE America working to achieve LGBTQ equality. By inspiring and engaging individuals and communities, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBTQ people and realize a world that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all. The Human Rights Campaign Fund was founded by Steve Endean in 1980 as one of the first gay and lesbian political action committee in the United States. In an unprecedented effort to bring equality to Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi, HRC launched Project One America, a comprehensive campaign to dramatically expand equality in the South
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Unprecedented efforts for LGBTQ Rights through permanent campaigns in Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas. Project One America is the first of its kind campaign to work exclusively in Arkansas. The existing patchwork of legal protections for LGBTQ people in the United States leaves millions subject to uncertainty and potential discrimination. That’s why the Human Rights Campaign is continuing the fight on the local, state and federal levels for full LGBTQ equality. The Tour will visit Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas and spread awareness and raise funds for LGBTQ campaigns. Each state will have it’s own marketing campaign built to appeal to each state. The concerts are expected to be highly controversial.
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The musician St Vincent, a 34-year-old Texan whose real name is Annie Clark. After studying at Berklee College of Music for three years, she began her music career as a member of the Polyphonic Spree. Clark was also a member of Sufjan Stevens’s touring band before forming her own band in 2006. St. Vincent’s work has received consistent praise for its distinct musical style, which blends soft rock, experimental rock, electropop, and jazz influences. Her debut album was Marry Me (2007), followed by Actor (2009), Strange Mercy (2011), St. Vincent (2014), and Masseduction (2017). She released a collaborative album with David Byrne in 2012 titled Love This Giant. Clark also contributed backing vocals for Swans on their 2014 album, To Be Kind. Her fourth solo album, the eponymous St. Vincent, was named album of the year by The Guardian, Entertainment Weekly, NME, and Slant Magazine, as well as second best album of the year by Time magazine. The album won her a Grammy for Best Alternative Album, her first Grammy award. She was the first solo female performer in 20 years to win a Grammy in that category.
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When asked during an interview with Rolling Stone whether she identified as gay or straight, Clark responded, “I don’t think about those words. I believe in gender fluidity and sexual fluidity. I don’t really identify as anything. [. . .] I think you can fall in love with anybody. I don’t have anything to hide but I’d rather the emphasis be on music”. In a 2014 interview with the UK’s The Sunday Times, Clark further elaborated,
I’m not one for gender or sexual absolutism in the main, I fully support and engage in the SPectrum.
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A benefit concert or charity concert is a type of musical benefit performance (e.g., concert, show, or gala) featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis. Benefit concerts can have both subjective and concrete objectives. Subjective objectives include raising awareness about an issue and uplifting a nation after a disaster. Concrete objectives include raising funds and influencing legislation.
Benefit concerts are an effective form of gaining support and raising funds for a cause because of the large media coverage that they usually receive. In addition to the results they generate themselves, benefit concerts also generate a kind of cascading effect. That is, larger benefit concert motivate smaller concerts and other kinds of charity initiatives.
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Large-scale benefit concerts attract millions of viewers and are usually broadcast internationally. As powerful means of mass communication, they can be highly effective at raising funds and awareness for humanitarian causes. Media scholars Dayan and Katz classify benefit concerts as “media events”: shared experiences that unite viewers with one another and their societies. Dayan and Katz define media events as shared experiences that unite viewers and call their attention to a particular cause or occasion. They argue that media events interrupt the flow people’s daily lives, and that such events create a rise of interpersonal communication or “fellow feeling”. The Project One America beneit concert featuring St. Vincent is highly anticipated and is expected to make a large impact on the political temprement in the south surrounding LGBTQ issues and legislation. If you would like to get involved visit the HRC website or St. Vincent’s tour webpage.
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