OG Giving: media, creative & technology

Sharing our light. Beauty and the arts is the essence of humanity. Creativity and ingenuity are born of passion: we inspire others, we know joy and we feel alive.

Save the Hiroshima Panels

Oct 2024 | Website

Preserving and showcasing the poignant Hiroshima Panels, the Maruki Gallery shares the powerful anti-war artworks of Iri and Toshi Maruki. These evocative paintings depict the devastating impact of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, inviting reflection on the horrors of war and the need for peace. Located in Saitama, Japan, the gallery serves as a vital space for education, dialogue, and remembrance, encouraging visitors to engage with the profound consequences of violence.

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Nicole & Martin

Sep 2024 | Website

Journeying across Europe by road and sea, Nicole & Martin bring their magical white tent to life, enchanting audiences with their one-of-a-kind travelling theatre. With award-winning performances rooted in traditional tales, they weave together storytelling, music, song, dance, juggling, acrobatics, and a dash of wild imagination. Their art knows no borders, having been showcased in 15 countries and brought to life in 8 different languages.

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Campfire Stories

Aug 2024 | Website

Focusing on solutions and addressing the root cause of the troubles of our times via a small film platform operated as much as possible within the realm of gift economy. Aiming to empower individuals rather than fostering a sense of helplessness. Offering storytelling that envisions a collaborative future with nature.

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YES Together Foundation

Aug 2024 | Website

Empowering youth to reach their highest potential through art, movement, and nature by offering classes that foster connection and opportunities to discover their unique passions. Providing opportunities for young people to connect with their innate wisdom in a safe, fun, and nurturing environment in Snohomish, USA, where everyone can learn, play, and grow.

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DeDae

Aug 2024 | Website

Delivering contemporary eurythmy performances to audiences in the Netherlands. Collaborating across art forms and serving as a nurturing ground for young eurythmy talents to develop into professional artists. Offering a variety of workshops such as mindfulness in movement and using dance as a language.

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Meadow Arts

Jul 2024 | Website

Engaging audiences with inspirational, contemporary art in the West Midlands, UK. Curating exhibitions and projects in unexpected, often rural locations, aiming to spark dialogue and reflection on contemporary issues. Supporting emerging and established artists alike, fostering creativity and pushing boundaries in the regional and national arts scene. Making art accessible and impactful for all communities through a diverse range of events, workshops, and educational programs.

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Sandblast

Jul 2024 | Website

Raising awareness of the indigenous Saharawis of Western Sahara, advocating for their self-determination rights. Running skills-training and creative education projects, providing English language and music education to primary school-age children in the Saharawi refugee camps in SW Algeria. Engaging on a consultative and collaborative basis to understand their needs to implement projects that foster self-reliance and sustainability.

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Lighthouse Library Bookswaps

Jun 2024 | Website

Offering free books to members of the community in BurryPort, Wales, UK. Stopping books from going into landfill by making them available for book swaps. Running a book club and a monthly group where children listen to a reader share stories in Welsh, encouraging them to read in their local language.

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Raymundo

Mar 2024 | Website

Sharing his experience of living, working and travelling for 10 months without money. Using a web platform and blog to convey his ideas about building a living-working community, to inspire others to live a healthy, connected and powerful life. Receiving donations for his book, allowing his audience to determine how much they wish to give.

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AudioActive

Mar 2024 | Website

Offering innovative, accessible interventions that use music to support young people and emerging artists in reaching their full potential in the UK. Giving free access to projects, resources, and support to improve young people’s mental health, reduce gender inequalities, and improve school attendance. Providing a creative outlet for self-expression.

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Debbie Baxter / Paint Finland

Mar 2024 | Website

Painting landscapes around the world, drawing constant inspiration from nature's pure beauty. Planning to travel around northern Finland in a campervan to be immersed in the magic and beauty of the natural surroundings. Raising funds to facilitate this trip and cover expenses including fuel, ferry crossing and food.

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Symfonia Jong Twente

Feb 2024 | Website

Using the power of music to stimulate the socio-emotional development of young musicians in Enschede, Netherlands. Offering three levels of symphony orchestra for children from 8 years old to young adults of 25. Working together musically and socially as an ensemble whilst participating in festivals and concerts all over Europe.

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Mongabay

Dec 2023 | Website

Publishing environmental news online with a dedication to evidence-driven objective journalism. Reporting on nature and planetary challenges via a global network of local journalists. Striving to improve the understanding of the concurrent global scale forces undermining the health of earth’s systems.

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Golden Butterfly

Nov 2023 | Website

Publishing stories for adults and children that uphold and nurture values of kindness, courage, beauty, peace, perseverance, generosity and love. Inspiring children through storytelling to find their own truth. Collaborating with students who illustrate the stories, making them available digitally, and soon publishing a first book, Golden Butterfly.

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Nun's Welfare Foundation Arya Tara School

Oct 2023 | Website

Presenting Himalayan Buddhist mantra, ritual chanting and Nepali music to the world. Using funds from concerts, CD sales and donations to support projects that promote education, health, children’s right and women empowerment. 

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Love Without Borders

Sep 2023 | Website

Helping refugees displaced around Greece regain stability and autonomy over their lives. Offering an outlet for emotional expression and economic self-empowerment through a platform where refugees can share their art. Distributing art supplies, exhibiting and selling the resulting works of art, with earnings going directly to the artist. Raising awareness and educating the public about the struggles refugees face. 

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SIFAIS

July 2023 | Website

Providing free social and educational services in Costa Rica through volunteers in locations marked by economic deprivation and social exclusion. Empowering communities through specialised classes in art, environment, sports, technical training, languages and music. 

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Green Renaissance

Jun 2023 | Website

Supporting 2 passionate film creatives on a journey to share beautiful and meaningful stories which inspire change. Capturing real people and their messages without a corporate agenda or linked to any advertising of brands or products. 

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Hospitality House - Community Arts Program

May 2023 | Website

San Francisco’s only free-of-charge fine art studio and gallery space. Connecting artists from all walks of life: artists who range in experience and differ in style, who have different goals and aspirations. Artists create, exhibit, and sell their artwork, keeping 100% of the proceeds from their work. 

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Jori Snell: There is a place

Sep 2022 | Website

Making physical, non-verbal, visual and poetic theatre accessible for children in schools, institutions and public places in Costa Rica regardless of their nation, background or mental or physical capabilities. Telling stories which draw on nature, deeply touch and inspire body expression. Embodying the creativity, wildness and rawness of the uncensored self. Bringing joy and dreaming to young audiences through play based on the animals, insects, flowers and vital Earth energies arising on the planet at this time. 

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Oracle Films

May 2022 | Telegram

Fighting for open debate and freedom of information, in the face of global government encroachment and big-tech censorship. Oracle Films has recently been deplatformed while supporting the free speech of many important global figures at this time.

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Tiltik

Apr 2022 | Facebook page

Artists in Cuetzalan, Mexico City offering a space to learn drawing, painting, engraving, and other trades associated with these skills. Painting murals in schools, public spaces, and businesses in the belief that art is an essential part of life to be shared with youth and children. 

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Lee Carter Body Focus

Mar 2022 | London, UK

Body Focus workshops for the general public offering a safe and relaxing space for people to learn to listen to their own body wisdom and interact with others in the space in a playful, spontaneous, creative way. Providing the invaluable experience of relief and expansiveness at not having to think or get anything right - just the freedom to discover and surprise oneself in a space where there is no right or wrong. 

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Alexander Chapman Campbell

May 2021 | Website

Striking beauty and originality. Piano composition dedicated to the beautiful place we all share; the living world we call Earth. Celebrating the strength of the human spirit.

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Source Connected podcast

Mar 2021 | Website

Phil Simpson showcasing creative, innovative and high frequency solutions for a new way of being. talking to creative people who are aligning to a positive future timeline, and coming up with new solutions for food production, education, community development, healthcare, music and the arts.

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Mario Cardona Lang

Mar 2021 | Website

New stories for a new Earth. Using the senses of the inner eye while connecting the heartbeat with the beat of the life form interacted with. Following the flow where the raw and the sublime become one. 

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Lyric Deep

Mar 2021 | Website

Poetry, words and video. Lyrics drawn deep from nature, the city and women's consciousness. 

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Octave Leap Podcast

Dec 2020 | Website

David Khan building a positive future based on a future where humans can intelligently innovate in alignment with nature through business innovation, Earth regeneration, and human optimization. 

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Happen Films

Nov 2020 | Website

Keeping making films happen. Showcasing and demonstrate inspiring solutions to the multiple global crises we’re facing today. Exploring the question: "How do we transition to not just living ‘sustainably’, but in a way that heals and regenerates the damage that’s been done?"

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Jessica Boles

Nov 2020 | Website

Musical composition aligning with Mother Nature through source connection. Returning home to yourself and what you came here to do, while listening to the song of nature. Enhancing your experience of life through hearing and expressing your own voice.

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The Performing Arts Children's Charity

Sep 2020 | Website

Promoting the inclusion and personal development of all children and young people with disabilities to gain confidence and achieve independence through the foundations of the performing arts. Adding support to their families and strivig to give the highest quality of life possible.

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Owen Vaughan Hanner

Sep 2020 | Website

Music which can turn the day to night, bring the rains, loosen clinging vines, enchant the gods and beasts, and serve as a bridge between worlds. Music, used to exorcise, exalt, mark moments significant, enchant, soothe, console, stimulate, connect, revitalise, remember, forget, refresh, play, and send great waves of change through the world.

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