Global Lives Project

A video library of life experience produced by volunteers for empathy & global citizenship. #GivingTuesday:

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This giving season, we are excited to announce our fundraiser: Global Lives Through Our Eyes. Right now, our in-person exhibits are quarantined in museums. Now more than ever, we need your support to bring our exhibits onto your feed and foster global empathy.

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Flashback Friday!The Global Lives Project exhibit hosted at San Francisco State University in 2019.“You develop not only a deeper understanding, but real empathy, which is something that we clearly need more of in the world.” JD Beltran, San Francisco Arts Commission

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Throwback Thursday!
Student visiting the Global Lives exhibit hosted at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Berkeley in 2017.

Wako Morimoto, 19, UC Berkeley student.

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Flashback Friday! In 2014, our event series, Global Wednesdays, drew thousands of people to the Folsom Street Foundry in San Francisco.
One Wednesday night, the “Work Locally, Act Globally” panel discussion and reception gathered more than 200 globally-minded professionals.

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Throwback Thursday! The Global Lives Project exhibit in UC Berkeley’s Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute’s Tech Museum in 2017
David Harris, Daniel Chein. 2nd photo: Lubna Sebastian, Gina Kotos, and Daniel Chein.

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Flashback Friday! The Global Lives World Premiere video installation at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco in 2010. More than 1,000 people attended the opening night celebration pictured in this image—at the time the most tweeted event in @YBCA history.

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The Global Lives exhibit hosted at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) in 2017. University of California Berkeley students as well as the general public attended this exhibit.

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A Happy Mother’s Day from Global Lives to all of the wonderful mothers around the globe !

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“I brought you some pictures for you to look at—Mom’s pictures. Take a look.”

-Ivan Montaño, horse cart driver and tailor, Cali, Colombia | 2013.6.4 • 4:31 PM | CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Hot off the presses on the Global Lives blog: “Building our Open Source Exhibit Kit.” Get a view into the process of creating our exhibit kit – a do-it-yourself kit for anyone who wants to to create their own immersive multi-screen Global Lives exhibit.
https://t.co/tI80orO0tW

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“The one with the spool is not here. Where do you have it? Are there any with thread?”

Ivan Montaño, horse cart driver and tailor, Cali, Colombia | 2013.6.4 • 4:53 PM | CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

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“My dad’s greatest teaching was to respect others. Every single person deserves to be respected. Regardless of what they are, even good for nothing. Everyone deserves to be respected.”

-Ivan Montaño, horse cart driver and tailor, Cali, Colombia | 2013.6.4 | CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Ivan: “Martha, can you do me a favor and check the lock on this gate, please?”

Martha: “Let’s go Mateo, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go!”

-Ivan Montaño, horse cart driver and tailor, Cali, Colombia | 2013.6.4 • 2:55 PM | CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Luis : “I think my presence bothers Daniel.”
Ivan : “Why? He’s over there and you’re over here.”

-Ivan Montaño, horse cart driver and tailor, Cali, Colombia | 2013.6.4 • 7:35 PM | CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Ivan : “It'll be midnight and he is still playing with the cellphone in bed… I'm not going to skip my sleep to play with that cell phone in bed.”

- Ivan Montaño, horse cart driver and tailor, Cali, Colombia | 2013.6.4 • 8:03 PM | CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Ivan: “It is not about what one learns at school but about what you learn at home.”
Ivan with his nieces, Martha Cecelia and Sandra, and wife Martha.

Ivan Montaño, horse cart driver and tailor, Cali, Colombia | 2013.6.4 | CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

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“All the work that one has to do in a day. All the dangers ahead. You have to believe that there is a God, of course.”

Ivan Montaño, horse cart driver and tailor, Cali, Colombia | 2013.6.4 | CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

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“Regardless of the need, people have to be helped. Today for me, tomorrow for you.”

Ivan Montaño, horse cart driver and tailor, Cali, Colombia | 2013.6.4 | CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

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“I’ll stop him [the horse] so I can guide him! He thinks he knows everything. On top of that, I have to pay for all her damages.”

Ivan Montaño, horse cart driver and tailor, Cali, Colombia | 2013.6.4 • 10:09 AM | CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Ivan to his wife, Martha: “Ah, first tangle of the day, see? Hold this before you get off.”

Ivan Montaño, horse cart driver and tailor, Cali, Colombia | 2013.6.4 • 9:42 AM | CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Ivan to his horse: “Let’s go Mateo, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go!”

Ivan Montaño, horse cart driver and tailor, Cali, Colombia | 2013.6.4 • 2:57 PM | CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0