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Art to the Rescue of the Planet

Posted on March 22, 2023March 25, 2023by JC AgidLeave a comment

ART TO THE RESCUE OF THE PLANET

– Inma Barrero will present the ‘co-created’ art installation Be the Drop that Shapes the Wave in New York on March 23rd, 2023 | for more information & to attend: email me jcagid@thirtyseveneast.com – limited space.
– LOVE by Alexander Zeldin at the Park Armory until March 25th, 2023 | for more information and tickets: click here

Somewhere among the routine schedule of meetings, the policy papers, and tightly scripted speeches of besuited officials gathering at the 2023 UN Conference on Water, one presentation stands apart. 

A vast dynamic piece of art proposes raising awareness about the urgent water situation in Latin America. Composed of 8,000 ceramic beads, each representing a drop of water, it is the imagined work of New York-based artist Inma Barrero and more than 100 entrepreneurs, leaders of corporations and governmental agencies, artists, activists, and children.

Its name is inspiring: Be the Drop that Shapes the Wave. Its reason for being, however, is frightening.

Over 2 billion people worldwide cannot access safe drinking water or sanitation. During the pandemic, many could not even wash their hands. Until and unless decision-makers act on the critical need to make safe water available for all, the situation will only worsen as the global population grows exponentially. This United Nations meeting in New York City was long overdue.

In Latin America alone, the water shortage affects seven out of ten people, according to the local not-for-profit Lazos de Agua program. That represents 160 million people—that is the populations of Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, and Peru combined! 

To face this challenge, an artwork co-created by a well-known artist and dozens of people spread out in 15 countries, including children from public schools in Manhattan and the Lycée Français de New York, might seem, at best, decorative.

Or is it?

Continue reading “Art to the Rescue of the Planet”

Posted in Amazing Women, ART, Byline JC Agid, Culture, New York
Tagged Alexander Zeldin, Alexandra Plat, Alyse Nelson, Artepreneur, Be the Drop that Shapes the Wave, David Schwimmer, Diane Von Furstenberg, DVF, Fanny Polly, Femsa Foundation, Guy Laiberté, Hillary Clinton, inma Barrero, JR, Lazos de Agua, Les Napoleons, LOVE, Melanne Verveer, One Drop Foundation, Seven, Shirin Neshat, UN 2023 Conference on Water, United Nations, Urban Shakers, Women's Forum for the Economy and Society, World Economic Forum

Biased? Certainly. But Working on It

Posted on March 7, 2023March 7, 2023by JC AgidLeave a comment

Biased? Certainly. But I’m Working on It
A conversation with Dr. Violetta Zujovic, Neuroscientist at the Paris Brain Institute

Talk at FIAF and meeting with Violetta Zujovic and Alyse Nelson
New York | March 15th | Decoding Gender Bias | Register Here

Everything that follows in this post is biased. 

I would like to write you the opposite, to reassure you, even to convince you of the authenticity of my words. But in the interests of sincerest dishonesty, and according to Violetta Zujovic, a doctor in neuroscience and team leader at the Paris Brain Institute, I am biased. 

I might as well accept it. Besides, I am not the only one. “We all are,” Violetta explains. 

“Everything around us is a reproduction that our brain creates to simplify our lives,” Violetta tells me. “Our brain spends its time storing information and sometimes reconstructing a reality that is sometimes an illusion.”

By simplifying, taking shortcuts, analyzing, and judging the other as quickly as possible, our conclusions are not based on the reality of a person or a situation. Instead they are the result of a narrowed perception influenced by our experiences, our culture, and our education.

I believe that I should also share here the motivation and context of this paper.

Continue reading “Biased? Certainly. But Working on It”

Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Fire Chat With, Gender Issues, New York, Uncategorized, Well Being, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment, Women Entrepreneurs
Tagged Alyse Nelson, Assouline, Contessa Brewer, Decoding Gender Bias, Gender Bias, Institut du Cerveau, Martine Assouline, Mathilde Augé, Maurice Levy, Paris Brain Institute, Tatyana Franck, Violetta Zujovic, Vital Voices

Listen to the Women and Girls of Iran

Posted on January 1, 2023January 13, 2023by JC Agid1 Comment

Listen to the Women and Girls of Iran

It was gigantic and staring at me. Everyone around seemed as mesmerized by it as I was: an eye, wide open. It was staring at the sky, too, and it covered most of the steps of Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park at the far end of the oblong Roosevelt Island on the East River, an unlikely urban cable car stop away from Manhattan. In the background, lurking in the shadows, stood the 39-story United Nations building, proud and self-confident. 

In that park, at the bottom of the steps that morning of November 28, 2022, every spoken word and every single stare were targeted at the United Nations, at the United Nations and Iran. 

Continue reading “Listen to the Women and Girls of Iran”

Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Gender Issues, Mujeres, New York, Politics, Society, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment
Tagged Alyse Nelson, Antonio Guterres, Christine Lagarde, Commission on the Status of Women, CSW, Delphine Schrank, Eyes On Iran, For Freedoms, Four Freedoms Park, Franklin Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton, Jacinda Ardern, Jîna Mahsa Amini, JR, Leymah Gbowee, Malala Yousafzai, Masha Amini, Melanne Verveer, Michelle Obama, Nika Shahkarami, Oprah Winfrey, Roosevelt Island, Shirin Neshat, United Nations, Vital Voices, Vital Voices for Global partnership, Women Life Freedom, Zainab Salbi

Letter to Angella Nazarian

Posted on March 3, 2021March 10, 2021by JC AgidLeave a comment

Letter to Angella Nazarian
On the eve of Visionary Women Summit 2021 – https://www.visionarywomen.com
(Quotes below, unless in italics, are invented, and the attribution to people is purely fictional)

Dear Angella;

Do you remember the cobblestone streets of Coyoacán in Mexico City, a far cry from the busy double deck jammed highways that drive across the megalopolis? I am sure you remember the first time you pushed the double green doors of the Blue House—Casa Azul, the home of Frida Kahlo. I do, and I have returned there so often.

Continue reading “Letter to Angella Nazarian”

Posted in Amazing Women, Byline JC Agid, Culture, Gender Issues, Marion Naufal, Society, Women can have it all, Women Empowerment, Women Entrepreneurs, Women in Africa, Women in Mexico
Tagged Alaa Salah, Alyse Nelson, Amanda Gorman, Angella Nazarian, Aretha Franklin, Assouline, Beijing UN Conference on Women, Betsabee Romero, Biden Administration, casa azul, Casa Estudio, Cheek to Cheek, Christane Amanpour, Condoleeza Rice, condoleezza rice, Creative Couples, Diego rivera, Ella Fitzgerald, Frida Kahlo, Hillary Clinton, Jacqueline Novogratz, Janacek, Janet Yellen, Joe biden, kamala harris, Kandisky, Katalin Kariko, Katie Couric, Leymah Gbowee, Madeleine Albright, Marie Curie, Marie-Agathe Charpagne, marionnillustrations, Martine Assouline, Mary Alice Williams, McKinsey, Melanne Verveer, Miró, Museo Frida Kahlo, Nancy Pelosi, Nickolas Muray, Nobel Peace Prize, Noguchi, O'Keefe, Pat Mitchell, Picasso, Pioneers of the Possible, Tehuana Dress, Tracy K. Smith, Trotzky, Twakkol Karman, Visionary Women, Viva la Vida, Women's Forum, Women's Forum for the Economy and Society, Women's Forum Mexico

The Colors of the Day: January 20, 2021

Posted on January 20, 2021January 20, 2021by JC Agid2 Comments

The Colors of the Day: January 20, 2021
French version available via Le Petit Journal. Click Here

If changing the destiny of a country could be as simple as changing the colors and message of a drawing, then words and political actions would not be necessary. 

Continue reading “The Colors of the Day: January 20, 2021”

Posted in Byline JC Agid, Marion Naufal, Politics, Society
Tagged Alexandra Morris, Alyse Nelson, Amanda Gorman, Assouline, Barack Obama, Betsabeé Romero, Betsabee Romero, Bill Clinton, Eric Mourlot, Father Leo O'Donovan, George Bush, George W. Bush, Jacqueline Franjou, Joe biden, kamala harris, Leah Pisar, Marc Lévy, Marc Levy, Marion Naufal, Martine Assouline, Olivier Cassegrain, Tom HAnks

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