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Hurricane Sandy Art Relief: An Interview with Elana Haviv

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CMCE creates academic and artistic programs to help children and youth understand and overcome violent world events. Elana designed The Telling History Project: Understanding the Past to Create the Future , a curriculum to teach students about human rights.

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5 Podcasts That Keep Me Company

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I listen to podcasts while I cook, garden, walk, commute, and travel. Although podcasts haven't reached the same popularity as blogs and online video, their audience is increasing. According to Podcasting News , a recent Edison Research report found that podcast audiences are up 22% since last year.

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Quick Hit: Five Great Links

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I''m one of the guests in the newest episode of Museopunks , a podcast series by Jeffrey Inscho and Suse Cairns. The podcast let us dive into the topic and discuss how online and offline worlds complement and complicate each other. Some serious parallels to curating exhibitions and performances, especially with living artists.

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What's Your Moment of Obligation?

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At the time, I was a program director for an arts education program and a facilitator of career counseling workshops for artists. Clinton Global Initiative -- Q&A with Maya Ajmera, Global Fund for Children by Mitch Nauffts on PhilanTopic. Full disclosure: I'm the host of Echoing Green's Be Bold podcast.

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Making Alternative Meaning out of Museum Artifacts

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The Odditoreum is a temporary gallery for the summer school holiday in which the Powerhouse is displaying eighteen very odd objects alongside fanciful (and fictitious) labels written by children's book author Shaun Tan, schoolchildren, and visitors. That's functionally what the Portland Art Museum renegade podcasters did.

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Cleaning Off My Desk for the New Year

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They launched an annual fundraiser and gift-collecting drive for the children's hospital in their community (in WA). It was a huge success and it's now become an international drive , with toys and books going to children's hospitals all over. Free Books for Kids!

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These teens are actively involved what Jenkins calls "participatory culture" - a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing one's creations, and some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices. .