Connection Cafe
FEBRUARY 14, 2019
As a kid, I was saturated by symphony performances and choral music. You gravitated toward the museum, zoo, gallery, symphony, cultural management organization because of your roots. As kids become teens, encourage them to volunteer with your organization. Could your teen volunteers help run the kids programs?
Museum 2.0
JANUARY 15, 2014
This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.
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Museum 2.0
JULY 26, 2010
I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. In the past, I've highlighted a few--like 826 Valencia and the Denver Community Museum --that I think have already influenced the way many traditional cultural organization do business. Skill-sharing free schools.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 2, 2009
Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. The mother from Missouri that pretended to be a teen boy and cyberbullied a young girl to the point where she committed suicide.Tragic yes, but MySpace’s fault? MySpace is primary used to participate in pop culture.
Museum 2.0
JULY 20, 2010
Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres. Second, teens today are incredibly aware of "stranger danger." More so than teens in the past, teens today have grown up in a culture of fear around engagement with strangers. This is true for two reasons.
Museum 2.0
JUNE 29, 2009
By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. It was a rare moment where the cultural and historical importance museums tend to bestow on all exhibits was sought and appreciated by the public. Do these teens need EMPSFM to survive?
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 19, 2015
Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon. We start with the community and build to projects.
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