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Listen to Keane Southard’s Requiem for Animals
Composer Keane Southard‘s 50-minute major choral-orchestral work (for which Keane received a CAF grant) is now available in a live recording. For interviews with Keane on Requiem for Animals and its effect on the performers, click here, and here.
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Remembering John Robbins and Paula Sparks
Martin Rowe reflects on the passing of John Robbins and Paula Sparks.
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The Naked Philosopher Encounters the Gaze of His Cat
“Before the cat that looks at me naked, would I be ashamed like a beast that no longer has the sense of its nudity? Or, on the contrary, like a man who retains the sense of his nudity? Who am I, therefore? Who is it that I am? Whom should this be asked of if not of the other? And perhaps of the cat herself?”—Jacques Derrida, The Animal That Therefore I Am
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A Very Long Production about a Lonely Shrimp
Filmmaker Matt Maraynes received a 2024 CAF grant to shoot a documentary short about a shrimp, Vincent. But he found himself in a dilemma . . .
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CAF Announces Its 2025 Grantees
In the year in which CAF celebrates its 40th anniversary, we’re pleased to announce our 2025 grantees. They encompass a range of disciplines and artistic practices from many different countries.
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Marine Lercier and Gal Nissim Join the CAF Board
The Culture & Animals Foundation is delighted to welcome “scienartist” Gal Nissim and legal scholar Marine Lercier to its administrative board.
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News and Announcements from Our Grantees
Our grantees are busy completing their projects and venturing onto new ones. Here’s a digest of some of their more recent achievements.
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Marta Bogdanska: What If the Animals Always Fought Back?
Polish multimedia artist and Marta Bogdanska received a 2023 CAF grant for “Vive La Résistance,” a project of art, films, and audio pieces on animal agency and subversion. This work was featured in a solo exhibition (her first) at the Fort Institute for Photography in Warsaw, Poland, December 5th, 2024—February 16th, 2025.
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Two New Books from CAF Grantees
Congratulations to CAF grantees Isabella La Rocca Gonzalez (2014) and Nadja Lubiw-Hazard (2023) for the publication in December 2024 of their two books!
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CAF Begins Its Oral History Project
CAF is committed to ensuring the knowledge and experience of animal and vegan advocates are not lost. To that end, we’ve begun a year-long oral history project to gather the life stories and recollections of activists from the 1950s to the present.
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