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June Cause Awareness: LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

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The purpose of Pride Month is to recognize the impact that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals have had on history. QC Pride was founded in 2008, revived in 2017, and serves the Quad Cities area of Iowa and Illinois. Pride Month isn’t all celebrations and rainbows! Donate to support their cause here. QC Pride, Inc.

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A Revolution in Documentary Film

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This year’s Academy Award winning film – Inside Job – is one of the most powerful descriptions of what went wrong leading up to the financial collapse of 2008. Note From Beth: Yesterday, I attended a convening called “ Beyond Dynamic Adaptability ” for arts organizations about cultural participation in the arts.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

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Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian''s excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title.

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Favianna Rodriguez: Political Digital Artist and Printmaker

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I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I'm an artist and an institution builder. The kind of art I do is art that gets engaged into the public.

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Answers to the Ten Questions I am Most Often Asked

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In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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Women's Earth Alliance: Co-Directors Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond

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"To us, it's really about collaboration. This was a collaboration among several organizations, A Single Drop, Crabgrass, ProNet Accra, and Women's Earth Alliance. The level of joy and celebration was unforgettable because of what we were making happen, and the history we were making each day that we were there.

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

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It's a model to show other people how to work together in community, how to collaborate ideas, how to create a vision, and then how to work towards that vision coming more from a truth and love aspect, than from fear and attachment. For example, we put together the 2008 Seva Challenge. My history is one of sexual molestation.