DJ Freedem
"I’LL HOST PLANT WORKSHOPS FOR HEALING AND TRANSFORMATION, AND EXPAND THE UNDERGROUND PLANT TRADE"
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For 2020, Dazed and Converse created the £50k Dazed 100 Ideas Fund to support a new generation of talent. Meet the four Dazed 100ers awarded a grant to bring a project to life, and four talents set to lead digital workshops at the first-ever Dazed 100 Academy.
Henrie Kwushue
"I’LL CREATE A VIDEO SERIES OF ‘UNTOLD STORIES’, HIRING MARGINALISED CREATIVES WHO STRUGGLE TO GET INTO THE INDUSTRY"
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Alfie White
"I’LL SHOOT A UK PHOTO ESSAY ABOUT COVID-19, AND CURATE A GLOBAL DOCUMENT BY SENDING DISPOSABLE CAMERAS TO COLLABORATORS"
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Ella Snyder
"I’LL CREATE A PHOTO BOOK FEATURING MY TRANS COMMUNITY, DONATING TO THE CAMP I WENT TO FOR TRANS KIDS."
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Dazed 100 Academy
Four days of talks and workshops ft. Beabadoobee, Danika Magdelena, Joy Crookes and Deba
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The world’s changed and the Dazed 100 is changing too. For 2020 it’s not just about the names, but their ideas – here, Dazed and Converse present 100 manifestos to create, inspire, connect, and power change.
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“I want to document the stutter therapy camp I visited when I was younger, and interview the children and their parents”
Anton Gottlob
“I want to publish a poetry book about the emotions of adolescence and organise a launch with young, local, queer artists”
Arlo Parks
“I would like to create a ‘physical’ garment version of each track on my upcoming album, using recycled materials”
girl in red
“I would like to host pop-up workshops in LA for people to learn new skills, create, and collaborate ”
LoveLeo
“I want to create a self-sustaining business that creates artistic projects, serving a global community remotely”
Fredrik Tjærandsen
“I want to finalise the development of an idea for a concept supermarket, focused on circular-living”
Jobe Burns
“I would love to direct a short film about a young girl based on me growing up in the Bronx”
Renell Medrano
“I’ll create a video series of ‘Untold Stories’, hiring marginalised creatives who struggle to get into the industry”
Henrie Kwushue
“I want to make a documentary about the NiNE8 collective and the underground music scene around us”
Lava La Rue
“I would love to buy a film camera and photograph some real, raw, and transparent people that we don’t see in magazines.”
Indira Scott
“I would put on an exhibition that considers the function of photography in domestic and everyday spaces”
Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
“I’d love to finally be able to make my secret short film idea”
Aidan Zamiri
“I would donate the money to an animal shelter to ensure the animals receive more care and re-homing”
Ana Takahashi
“I would create a series of queer-prioritised parties that are inclusive and safe ”
Claud
“If we could record a symphony orchestra for our next project, that would be GREAT ”
Jockstrap
“I would like to donate to the Trevor Project helping LGBTQ+ youth and make a TikTok to highlight young LGBTQ+ artists”
Abby Roberts
“I want to start a mentoring program for teens and young adults in the UK wanting to crack the creative industries”
Georgia Moot
“I want to produce my first feature film, telling a joyful story of black triumph”
Fenn O’Meally
“I would fund, create, and shoot a video and photography project that centres queer women of colour”
Jamie Margolin
“I want to see people like me on screen, so I would make a beautiful short film and street-cast it”
Bukky Bakray
“I’d make a short film about the real-life anxieties trans people face, with an all-trans cast and crew”
Theo Germaine
“I want to host a free youth activist summit to teach kids how to start their own social action projects”
Marley Dias
“We want to create and develop an open-source forum where our members can curate information, tools and support”
Digi-Gxl
“I would help out ArtYard – a Brooklyn-based philanthropic art programme providing materials and holding virtual classes”
Ajani Russell
“I want to develop and fund a series of creative direction workshops given to young, queer POC in Los Angeles”
Quinn Whitney Wilson
“I’d like to make and score a short film highlighting the beauty of ‘aloneness’”
Sudan Archives
“I’d like to make a short film portraying the friendship between two sex workers working together in the industry ”
Netti Hurley
“I want to create a series of short films about the lives of our shoes, inspired by my experience as an identical twin”
Diana ‘Didi’ Rojas
“I’d like to set up a film house in my local community in Lagos, where everyone can come together to watch films ”
Dafe Oboro
“I want to put on a group art show, inspired by work that moves people, with free materials to use during the show”
Lulu Bonfils
“I’ll shoot a UK photo essay about Covid-19, and curate a global document by sending disposable cameras to collaborators”
Alfie White
“I want to create an Instagram Live show called ‘Eats N Beats’, raising money for kids who rely on free school meals”
AUDREY NUNA
“I would love to create a collection using the techniques of a community of artisans in Spain to showcase their work”
Paula Canovas del Vas
“I’d set up workshops and classes with Southwark Youth Offending Service around drama, storytelling and writing”
Archie Madekwe
“I want to put the money back into my art, creating a video project for my first album”
Jazmin Bean
“I want to bring people together from all over the globe and provide a platform to feel joy through dance”
Donté Colley
“I want to launch a web talk show which spans art, culture, and fashion, with a sense of humour and inclusive perspective”
Agusta Yr
“I want to record my queer DIY band, and support Girls Rock NC to bring music to disenfranchised youth”
Lachlan Watson
“I’m going to make a full-scale video installation project back home in New Orleans”
Phillip Youmans
“I want to fund visual and performing arts classes at an agency providing food and shelter for homeless youth”
Sofia Bryant
“I would start a ‘creatives chat’ where people in the industry can discuss the highs and lows of their careers”
Georgia Palmer
“I want to open up an IRL and URL community studio and workspace for working class queer creatives”
Tori West
“I’d develop events for my Girls Don’t Cry project, promoting empowerment, mental health awareness and self-expression”
Danika Magdelena
“My plan would be to rent a studio for a year where artists can come in and create free of charge”
Master Peace
“I’d host a workshop for WOC with fashion experts, to encourage, connect and help women into the industry”
Deba
“I want to put on my first solo show and host photographic workshops and talks in Jamaica”
Amber Pinkerton
“We would fund a year of O-zine’s work, to continue representing Russia’s LGBTQ+ youth”
O-zine
“I would dedicate myself to finding new ways to create sustainable collections, rent a studio, and hire assistants”
Ancuta Sarca
“I want to create a three-day performance with dancers and musicians – audiences can tune in from home ”
Saul Nash
“I would love to make an album with videos from different places around the world showing different people’s perspectives”
J Rick
“We would like to produce a new zine, and give more opportunities to those in our communities”
Muslim Sisterhood
“I’d create a documentary on the mental health crisis in marginalised communities, with all the film’s proceeds helping those affected”
Jahi Di’Allo Winston
“I would like to donate it to a non-profit that works to protect abused, abandoned, ill, and in-danger dogs”
Devon Lee Carlson
“I want to organise an entirely sustainable group exhibition, creating a platform for artists I admire to showcase inspiring work”
Alexandra Leese
“I’d photograph how our most popular national parks have been impacted by climate change and urban development”
Diana Silvers
“I would donate to the LGBTQ+ civil rights organisation Human Rights Campaign”
Josie Totah
“We want to put on workshops to inspire the next batch of creatives who will be shaping dancefloors across the world”
6 Figure Gang
“I’d love to build a community school for kids who don’t have access to creative things”
Deb Never
“This grant would help me complete the sequencing and publishing of my first monograph, Oklahoma”
Rahim Fortune
“I would create a group show featuring marginalised artists who need a platform to express themselves freely ”
Hatti Rees
“I’d love to create a collection of augmented accessories to encourage people to think about tech and sustainability”
Autonommy
“I’ll host plant workshops for healing and transformation, and expand the Underground Plant Trade”
DJ Freedem
“This grant would help me to obtain sustainable materials and get production of my fashion line started ”
Bria Scott
“I would put the grant towards creating a fully sustainable, zero-waste line of products designed for the kitchen”
Phoebe Joseph
“I want to create a fashion film with a brand that I love – direct, edit, style, and cast the entire thing”
Parker Kit Hill
“I’d do a songwriting school of rock for girls – strictly girls – to help them come out of their shells ”
Beabadoobee
“I want to complete my sophomore album and create accompanying music videos, photographs, and other visual content ”
LA Timpa
“I want to organise a big group show for the Brazilian QTPOC creative community”
Pedro Ferreira
“Four days of talks and workshops ft. Beabadoobee, Danika Magdelena, Joy Crookes and Deba”
Dazed 100 Academy
“I want to expand my intersex portrait series and work on a documentary to represent our diverse stories and experiences”
Inter_sexy
“I want to organise a group show in Brazil for the QTPOC dissident creative community”
Enantios Dromos
“I want to collaborate with young designers to promote sustainable textile innovation”
Ding Yun Zhang
“I want to make a short film I’ve been writing that would give hope to children from underprivileged backgrounds”
Heather Glazzard
“I want to produce a publication of my own that would cover writing, art, film, and fashion ”
Marcus Cuffie
“I’d love to set up a creative scholarship and mentorship programme for young people of South Asian heritage in the UK”
Joy Crookes
“I want to continue my exploration of wetness through a live performance by a breastfeeding choir, as part of a project designed to dispel the shame of breastfeeding in public”
Di Petsa
“I would fund a film I have been developing which follows a young boy through the hurdles of trying to conform”
Marcelo Gutierrez
“I would love to put on an interactive, public performance art show ”
Madrona Redhawk
“I would make a film focusing on my own community, followed by a group show involving creatives around me”
Alima Lee
“I want to support the next generation of musical youth in Benin City”
Rema
“I want to partner with an institution to curate an exhibition on a black moment in fashion”
Shelby Ivey Christie
“I’ll create a photo book featuring my trans community, donating to the camp I went to for trans kids”
Ella Snyder
“I would work on a redistribution art project, commissioning other black queer artists to make work”
Ama Elsesser
“I want to create a work space for young Berlin-based artists, and to make ceramics inspired by my Chinese heritage”
Kicki Yang Zhang
“I would like to create a futuristic fashionable accessory line of electronic devices that could augment the body ”
Johanna Jaskowska
“I want to create a short film series highlighting true stories of young women who have felt they were not heard”
Talia Ryder
“I’m opening a hospital in Rwanda; I’m going to open my first small clinic in January 2021”
Lous and the Yakuza
“In light of coronavirus, I would donate funds to a foodbank network like Feeding America”
Myha’la Herrold
“I want to build a platform online where I can show my own work and highlight queer people and their creative practices”
Ella Boucht
“I would divide the grant money between ten organisations that support the trans and queer community”
Gray Wielebinski
“I want to facilitate the development of SON.’s South Central-based barbershop/programming space”
Justen LeRoy
“We would fund a meditation program we started at the local public elementary school in our neighbourhood”
Total Luxury Spa
“I want to start a non-profit giving sustainability-focused design resources to young people”
Nicole McLaughlin
“We would love to see some money go towards Feeding America, a charity to help put food in the mouths of underprivileged people”
100 gecs
“I would develop an accessible website for Able Zine, giving our community the empowering platform it needs to thrive”
Claudia Walder
“The grant would allow me to buy the land in Gambia where I want to build a school”
Pa Salieu
“I want to take an artistic step around Senegal. Invest there locally for music and bands, and eventually do a tour ”
Le Diouck
“I’d run a class for aspiring beauticians from disadvantaged backgrounds and showcase their work ”
Evanie Frausto
“I want to create a set of open-source lectures and code to teach traditional artists about AI”
Robbie Barrat
