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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

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There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). One of the things I always focus on in participatory exhibit design is ensuring that everyone has the same tools to work with.

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Getting in on the Act: New Report on Participatory Arts Engagement

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Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. I've often been asked about examples of participatory practice in theater, dance, and classical music, and this report is a great starting point.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Adults who work for nonprofits and feeling pressured to adopt and incorporate social networking tools and techniques. Performance ???

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Facebook as Staff Backchannel: A Simple Way to Promote Transparency and Intimacy

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People use it to share surprises in the archives, inspiring meetings with artists, dead birds in the lobby, and free food in the fridge. We could have adopted a tool like Yammer that is made specifically for private company conversations. participatory museum professional development' Technology Tools Worth Checking Out web2.0

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Katya's Five Minute Guide to Social Networking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is really about how individuals within the organization could be more comfortable with adopting technology tools. It got at the human barriers around technology adoption in the early days: stress, fear, anxiety, frustration. He defines participatory culture as a culture: 1. With strong support for creating and sharing one???s

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Think Like a (Real Estate) Developer: Introducing Abbott Square, Part 9

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Working with creative people taught me to think like an artist: observe, explore, dive in, look out. Real estate developers have two distinctive qualities I’m learning to adopt: they think from the outside in, and they balance flexible optimism with clear criteria for success. We develop the ideas. We explore the possible programs.

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Wandering Down the "Don't Touch" Line

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Engagement with local artists. One of the things we love about exhibiting local artists is that they are often here to talk with visitors about their work. It's not unusual to see an artist showing a visitor how she constructed something or created an effect. We do have friendly gallery hosts, but not every hour of the day.

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