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Music Industry's Unison Drums Up Mental Health Relief GoFundMe Campaign
Music Industry's Unison Drums Up Mental Health Relief GoFundMe Campaign photo credit: Sebastian Ervi, UnsplashCanadian musicians facing the loss of income, job security and anxiety over the their industry's future amid the global coronavirus pandemic has led the Unison Benevolent Fund to launch an Emergency Mental Health Relief GoFundMe charity…
Stella McCartney’s 2020 #NoLessAWoman Breast Cancer Initatives
Stella McCartney’s 2020 #NoLessAWoman Breast Cancer Initatives Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario and filmmaker/activist Alice Aedy captured 12 women of diverse ages and backgrounds through a film and photo series called “In A Letter to My Loved Ones” as part of Stella McCartney’s 2020 #NoLessAWoman campaign to raise awareness of…
Amazon Runs Consumer-powered Promos With Kelloggs and Food Network Kitchen For Feeidng America
Amazon Runs Consumer-powered Promos With Kelloggs and Food Network Kitchen For Feeidng America To mark World Food Day on Oct. 16, and extending to Nov. 1, e-commerce giant Amazon has resurrected its Stream it Forward promo using the Food Kitchen Network app, as well as partnered with Kellogg's to raise funds for Feeding America by asking the public to…
Holy Calamavote! Look Who's On The Get-Out-And-Vote Concert with Run The Jewels
Holy Calamavote! Look Who's On The Get-Out-And-Vote Concert with Run The Jewels In an effort to get people out to vote, Adult Swim, the young adults animated network and ice-cream manufacturers Ben & Jerry’s, have partnered to host the channel’s first-ever musical performance by Grammy-nominated hip-hop powerhouse Run The Jewels. Holy Calamavote…
New HireBIPOC Online Registry Includes 500 Members of Canadian Screen-Based Industry
New HireBIPOC Online Registry Includes 500 Members of Canadian Screen-Based Industry Photo credit: HireBIPOC.More than 20 Canadian media organizations are working with BIPOC TV & Film to try and eradicate systemic racism in the media and entertainment industries with HireBIPOC, a push to encourage the industry to hire more Black, Indigenous and people…
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Receives Another $600K From AEPF For Digital Education Platform
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Receives Another $600K From AEPF For Digital Education Platform Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — photo provided.American Electric Power Foundation (AEPF) has given the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame a second $600,000 grant for its free digital learning platform, Rock Hall EDU. Rock Hall EDU is an online portal and resource guide…
Sinéad O’Connor Gospel Song Raising Money for Black Lives Matter Charities
Sinéad O’Connor Gospel Song Raising Money for Black Lives Matter Charities Sinéad O’Connor — photo credit: Donal MoloneySinéad O’Connor has recorded an interpretation of “Trouble Of The World” and is donating all of the profits from its digital release through Heavenly Recordings to Black Lives Matter (BLM) charities. “Trouble Of The World” is a…
Bowie, Dylan, Springsteen, Hendrix Photos Part of Animal Charity Auction
Bowie, Dylan, Springsteen, Hendrix Photos Part of Animal Charity Auction Debbie HarryKeith Richards, Stevie Nicks, Debbie Harry and Pete Townshend are among the music stars who’ve signed photographic prints for an online fundraiser by Morrison Hotel Gallery in support of animal charity Rational Animal. The fundraiser, being held in celebration of Oct. 4…
Pearl Jam, Arcade Fire Among Acts on 77-Song Compilation To support U.S. Voting Rights
Pearl Jam, Arcade Fire Among Acts on 77-Song Compilation To support U.S. Voting Rights Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy Volume 2, a compilation of 77 previously unreleased recordings from a wide variety of artists, will be available for just 24 hours via Bandcamp, starting at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 2. Pearl Jam, David Byrne, The Postal…
Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation Publishes Channel Kindness Book
Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation Publishes Channel Kindness Book Stefani and Cynthia Garmanotta — photo credit: Born This Way Foundation.The Lady Gaga co-founded Born This Way Foundation has created its first book, Channel Kindness: Stories of Kindness and Community. “I wish I had a book like Channel Kindness when I was younger to help me feel…
Royal Ontario Museum Creates Curatorship of Climate Change, Scours Globe To Fill Curator Job
Royal Ontario Museum Creates Curatorship of Climate Change, Scours Globe To Fill Curator Job The Royal Ontario Museum natural history exhibits — photo credit: Paul Orenstein. In a first of its kind for a major Canadian museum, Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) has established the Allan and Helaine Shiff Curatorship of Climate Change, which aims to…
Addiction Film Sno Babies Donates to Amy Winehouse Foundation and Global Recovery Initiatives
Addiction Film Sno Babies Donates to Amy Winehouse Foundation and Global Recovery Initiatives The Amy Winehouse Foundation in the U.K. and Global Recovery Initiatives elsewhere are the charities chosen to benefit from sales of the Sept. 29 digital release of the opiod addiction drama Sno Babies, available for rent or purchase on Amazon, Apple TV, iTunes,…
Canadian Lung Association Celebrates 120 Years with Charity Single by Country Singers Eric Ethridge and Kalsey Kulyk
Canadian Lung Association Celebrates 120 Years with Charity Single by Country Singers Eric Ethridge and Kalsey Kulyk The Canadian Lung Association, which provides information on everything from quitting smoking to cystic fibrosis to breathing issues due to pollution, is celebrating its 120th anniversary with “Breathe Again,” a fundraising song from…
Dolly Parton's Swarowski Crystal-studded Dulcimer Among Items for Covid Response Fund Auction
Dolly Parton's Swarowski Crystal-studded Dulcimer Among Items for Covid Response Fund Auction Dolly Parton performing with the dulcimer at her 50th Anniversary concert at the Grand Ole Opry — photo credit: Chris HolloACM Lifting Lives is holding an online charity auction of items donated by country music stars, including Dolly Parton's highly valued…
Emmy Award Round Up of Comments About BLM, Social Justice, Diversity, Mental Health
Emmy Award Round Up of Comments About BLM, Social Justice, Diversity, Mental Health Jimmy Kimmel, Emmy Awards, Sept. 20, 2020 — screenshot. During the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards last night, hosted at the Staples Center in Los Angeles by Jimmy Kimmel with just a few socially distanced guests popping in and out and a giant digital backdrop displaying 130…