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Cultural Forum’s Drones Quilt Project Opening Cancelled
January 7, 2017
Due to inclement weather today’s event is cancelled. Stay safe and warm. We will see you next Read More

Puffin Cultural Forum Events
January 4, 2017
The Puffin Cultural Forum will start the new year off this Friday at 7pm with Han Chung Eun Band’s “The Starlight Forest,” Sound of Bamboo Meets Jazz. Please visit PuffinCulturalForum.org for more info and for the full January Read More

Open Call for Artwork for Puffin Cultural Forum’s Women’s History Month Exhibition
January 3, 2017
The Puffin Cultural Forum is a small and passionate art and performance space located in Teaneck, NJ just outside of New York City that seeks to promote the meeting of the Arts and Activism. To that end, the Puffin Cultural Forum hosts art exhibitions, and performances of music, theater, poetry, Read More

2017 Colin Kaepernick
Colin Kaepernick receives the 2017 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship) in partnership with Type Media Center. During last year’s NFL pre-season, then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began refusing to stand for the playing of the national anthem in protest of racism and Read More

2017 Puffin Prize: Colin Kaepernick
January 1, 2017
Colin Kaepernick receives the 2017 Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship (formerly the Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship). During last year’s NFL pre-season, then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began refusing to stand for the playing of the national anthem in protest of racism and police violence. “I am not going Read More

2016 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship
December 21, 2016
Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, is the winner of the 2016 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship. Stevenson is a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned. Under his leadership, the EJI has Read More

2016 Bryan Stevenson
Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, is the winner of the annual $100,000 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship in partnership with Type Media (fka the Nation Institute). The award honors work that challenges the status quo through distinctive, courageous, imaginative, and socially responsible work of Read More

Puffin Foundation honored by NJ Peace Action as Peace Site of the Year
December 1, 2016
You can view the award ceremony and the statement read by Jules Orkin, Puffin Peace Fellow, here: Read More

A disturbing look at the resurgent paramilitary movement in Mother Jones. Another piece of investigative journalism supported by the Puffin Foundation
October 27, 2016
I went undercover with a militia on the US-Mexico border. Here’s what I saw. “I crawl out of the back of the pickup with my rifle in hand. “Keep your weapons nice and tight,” Captain Pain orders. I am traveling light. Unlike the others, I don’t view southern Arizona as Read More

Rosenberg Sons on 60 Minutes
October 15, 2016
Sunday, October 16, 7:00pm CBS (channel 2 in NJ) “The sons of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg tell Anderson Cooper what it was like to be the children of infamous Communist spies during the McCarthy era, in a story that sheds new light on one of the most dramatic espionage cases Read More