Help Kindness Go Viral

The #KindnessBeatsTheVirus Challenge

Help Kindness Go Viral

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What if Kindness goes viral?

What if a novel strain of #CoronaKindness infected #humanKIND during the quarantine? A kindness not inoculated by mistrust and cynicism.

What if #HopeAndHealing were as infectious as COVID-19?

What if we #ConquerCorona because #KindnessBeatsTheVirus?

This week, five public school students gathered in lower Manhattan with #ThriveCollective teaching artist Jon Souza and street art legend Toofly to imagine what such a world might look like. How might the world be different than it was a week ago if we #InfectKindness?

What if students, mentors, #artivists and artist friends everywhere used this time of #SocialDistancing to #IsolateToCreate and imagine together?

We are asking you to join our #KindnessBeatsTheVirus Challenge. Shared trauma creates opportunities for shared healing.

Help Kindness go viral with your own iconic artwork: drawings, emojis, paintings, photos, videos, songs, stories, whatever. Post on social media and tag @nycthrive and #KindnessBeatsTheVirus.

Let’s #BringArtBack to help eradicate loneliness and isolation now and always.

What Makes us Human

Meet some of the architects of #KindnessBeatsTheVirus: artist Toofly and students Sydney, Lymarie, and Edmond. They describe their inspiration, their why, like this: “All the things we are afraid to do are the things that make us human. We are trying to bring that humanity back, and give people hope.”

#KindnessBeatsTheVirus

The Hashtag Challenge

In a series of social media posts, we polled our audiences for the most compelling hashtag. Salma Abdelrahman, a graduating senior at Harvard College, submitted the winning #KindnessBeatsTheVirus hashtag.

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