10,000 Reasons To Believe in the Power of Art in Public Space: Yazmany Arboleda at TEDxUNC

Multimedia artist and activist Yazmany Arboleda gave us "10,000 Reasons to Believe" in new realities. His life has been raised by two balloons from his birthplace, Colombia- the murder of his father and the beauty of the Andes mountains from his mother. His 10,000 balloon project sought to disrupt the average Monday morning commute in Afghanistan, where on May 25, 2013, one hundred thousand activists shared their balloons in Kabul. It was a movement to reimagine Afghanistan. "If we stick together and plan strategically we will create our living sculpture successfully in the face of violence," he said on the power of art in public space.

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