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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Museum programs can be designed to further bond similar groups together such as families and friends in family workshops such as the Dallas Museum of Art’s First Tuesdays. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?

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This highlights the fact that while participatory design is by no means exclusive to the Web, that is the place most of the current experimentation is happening. Relatedly, the geography question could glean some relevant data about how local and non-local visitors view and judge the efforts of a community-based museum.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Council on Foundations / Dallas, TX / Not available.

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Are the Arts Habit-Forming?

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This is a question I've been puzzling over now for a few months, both professionally and personally. Museums and other venues are offering special programs for teens, for hipsters, for people who want a more active or spiritual or participatory experience. What will it take for you to do it again? How do you form an arts habit?

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