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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." the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). vlogging, and podcasting). .

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Put Down the Clipboard:Visitor Feedback as Participatory Activity

Museum 2.0

Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. The event involved over fifty artists throughout the building helping visitors make their own paper, write poems, stitch books, etc. We got more feedback.

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Feelings and Participation

Museum 2.0

In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. In this case, I find the most interesting ones to be made by artists. Me with a friend As I keep saying, I’ve been to a few museums of late.

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Guest Post: Weaving Community Collaborations into Permanent Installations at the Denver Art Museum

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The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. Community artists gave their honest feedback, and we crafted a display based on these discussions and their contributions.

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Art Brings People Together: Measuring the Power of Social Bridging

Museum 2.0

We have witnessed and experienced incredible moments of transformation: homeless people and history buffs working together on historic restoration, graffiti artists and knitters collaborating on new artistic projects, visitors from different backgrounds making collages, or sculptures, or dance performances together.

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Guest Post: Radical Collaboration - Tools for Partnering with Community Members

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It’s not unusual for us to meet with an environmental activist, a balloon artist, a farmer, and the Mayor of Santa Cruz all in one day. When planning programs or events, we involve a combination of these groups to share and bridge audiences, bringing big, diverse crowds to new artists and ideas. Large and small (or no) followings.

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The Living Library: Using Our Institutions as New Models for Civic Dialogue

Museum 2.0

On the Living Library website , you can also find sample catalogues, Book application forms, and marketing materials for download. A museum tour in which a docent "tours" you to a variety of volunteer artists who talk about how they create their work. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. well, you know.

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