Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

And in several cases, the projects constituted "empowerment lite" for participants rather than true collaboration, co-creation, or transformation. Interestingly--for good and ill--this transformative funding program coincided with a national funding crisis in the arts in the UK. This made the work more urgent, fragile.

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Museum Participatory Resource Place 20

Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 8, 2022

event held at the United Nations headquarters in New York, we presented the first adidas x Parley prototype: a shoe made with plastic waste collected in the Maldives, and illegal fishing nets recovered from the Southern Ocean by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society during their record-breaking campaign to thwart notorious toothfish poachers.

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Maldives Environment Collaboration Life 52

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Paul Orselli made a thoughtful and challenging comment, saying: many data visualization art pieces, albeit elegant, seem to be inherently "push" technologies. Bottom line, this comparison has made me realize that the thing that excites me about data visualizations is this empowerment.

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Data Exercise Empowerment Comparison 20

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ).

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Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

A snapshot of the market for the arts? Arts audiences, on average, are older, whiter, and more affluent than the American population. Supporting data comes from many corners, but primarily the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Since 1982, the NEA has conducted a Survey of Public Participation in the Arts.

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Demographics Audience Museum Arts 20

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 13, 2009

Organizations like these teach everything from sports, to science, to the arts, to girl empowerment. public school volunteer education donation By Tweeting on momdot Image credit: Cover from Streetside Stories ' student anthology of autobiographical stories (I used to work there).

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Public San Francisco Volunteer Los Angeles 41

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

Off the Mat, Into the World is an educational, experiential and motivational process for people interested in conscious activism and service. She utilizes her national platform to bring awareness to the HIV/AIDS crisis. It got the seeds planted in my head that this is an altruistic community, it's an educated community.

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Interview Cambodia Children Uganda 46

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Many of them had almost nothing by way of material resources, but they had imagination, and if you have imagination, you can, it turns out, light the dark with all kinds of creative arts. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing.

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Photography Interview Zimbabwe Change 40

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

Today's Big Vision Podcast transcript is from an interview with arts activist, Alli Chagi-Starr. We'll be taking with arts activist Alli Chagi-Starr, the Cultural Arts Director for the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights ' Reclaim the Future Program. You can hear the orginal podcast on Gcast , Odeo or iTunes.

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Arts Podcast Action Interview 40