Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Hundreds of unique, hand-made art postcards, containing words of compassion and solidarity are hand delivered to individuals and communities all over the world, bringing connection, hope, visibility and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence or repression. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do.

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Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary. We''re seen as a trusted and desirable partner to diverse cultural practitioners in our community. In the meantime, here are some.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 19, 2015

After jumping in, you swam across the short length of the hole (about 10 yards), and emerge, wet and freezing, only to get to race through temps in the teens to try to warm up in a lukewarm hot tub. They didn’t need to come up with a walk-a-thon, run-a-thon, or even a polar plunge to appeal to the public. But here I am, still alive.

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Arts Wisconsin Los Angeles Denver 20

NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. ” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue.

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Game Change Classroom Machinima 81

NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton - Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History Elaine Charnov - The NY Public Library Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image Syed Salahuddin - Babycastles Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library 100 Years of the flagship library in New York.

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Game Culture Change Museum 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

It will be interesting to see if this advice holds true for the voters of the future based on Dannah Boyd's post " What i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens. Do they use it as their primary form of asynchronous communication for talking with their friends? "Do young people have email accounts?

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Wiki Vlog Machinima Bookmarking 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects. This was particularly true for Click!,

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

But her experience and those of the residents in her community inspired her greatest work, A Raisin in the Sun , the first play written by an African American to be produced on Broadway. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art. Edmonia Lewis. Dorothy Arzner. Roxane Gay.

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Story Angola Sierra Leone History 133

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. In 2004, Anna was the Director of Exhibitions and Programs at the International Spy Museum.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. We experimented with many different forms of visitor participation throughout the building, trying to balance social and individual, text-based and artistic, cerebral and silly.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Tom compared public perception of racial intelligence to that of sexual orientation, commenting that over the last thirty years, the left has advocated to have racial intelligence categorized as nurture and sexual orientation categorized as nature. And so my question is, why are we keeping them away? Why aren't we developing our audiences?"

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20

DipJar

AUGUST 24, 2022

Ah, public libraries! We enjoy every opportunity to speak with library customers, learning how they serve their communities and how DipJar supports those efforts. A recent conversation with Erica Busillo Adams of Providence Public Library is a perfect case in point! Providence Public Library first opened to the public in 1878.

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