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Where the Old and New Collide: IBM Place Summit 2010
The IBM Center for Social Software hosts the first ever Place Summit in Cambridge, MA and I am one of over 100 people invited to the event. The Social and the Spacial: Occupying Place and Space is a two-day extended conversation held in un-conference style which is a facilitated, participant-driven event centered on a theme or purpose. We are sent an announcement that poses the following questions for thought:
Annals of Philanthropy: GIA 2010 Conference Blog 6: Cook It Up
This is my sixth and final post about the Grantmakers in the Arts 2010 conference, where I was invited to take part as a live blogger. It was tremendous fun: I got to write morning, noon, and night, which is my preferred type of ecstatic meditation. It was also a perfect antidote to the anxiety I sometimes feel when thrown into a sea of contacts and expected to network. Usually, the first time someone I'm talking to scans the room for a conversation-partner with more status, my heart sinks. This time, it was all just material. I've gotten lots of great response from readers already, a writer's dream. Now I want to do it more, so if you're planning a conference that needs up-to-the-minute blog commentary, let's talk.
Annals of Philanthropy: GIA 2010 Conference Blog 5: Prove It
On Tuesday, I attended a Grantmakers in the Arts conference presentation on "Participatory Arts and Community Health: Challenges and Opportunities," organized by Amy Kitchener of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts. It began with presentations on exemplary projects braiding art with individual and community well-being, offered by Maria Rosario Jackson of the Urban Institute, Beatriz Solis of The California Endowment; Josephine Ramirez of The James Irvine Foundation; Alaka Wali of The Field Museum; and Christine Dunford of Lookingglass Theatre and The Field Museum. They were so fiercely articulate that when I heard the Catalyst Quartet play Mu Kkubo Ery’Omusaalaba so beautifully at lunchtime, my mind skipped back to that group of women asserting art's bond with well-being: different instruments, same story.
Annals of Philanthropy: GIA 2010 Conference Blog 4: Third Space
Joi Ito, founder and CEO of Creative Commons, was the luncheon speaker at Monday's GIA meeting. His relaxed and likable presence comes across as realness personified. His low-key style gives me a sort of internal headshake. By the time Ito's presentation ended, I was buzzing with a frequency of intellectual excitement I'd normally associate with verbal pyrotechnics. How did he do it? Brilliance, originality, groundedness…. You had to be there: I wish you had been.
Annals of Philanthropy: GIA 2010 Conference Blog 3: Capitalization
The first plenary session of this Grantmakers in The Arts' conference focused on the National Capitalization Project, a GIA initiative launched this past January. It was premised on the plain truth that arts organizations are often under-capitalized. A task force of funders and experts studied the literature, agreed on terms, and has just now published a "National Capitalization Project 2010 Summary," summing up its findings. They are foregrounded in an extensive "Literature Review on Capitalization" issued last spring, (Both documents can be downloaded from this page.)
Annals of Philanthropy: GIA 2010 Conference Blog 2: Shine on Me: Scenes from the Support for Individual Artists Preconference
I spent the day at Grantmakers in The Arts' Support for Individual Artists preconference (entitled Artists and Grantmakers: A Shared Enterprise). Dozens of artists and funders took part in the program, performing, offering panel presentations, Web pages, video clips, and PowerPoints.
Annals of Philanthropy: GIA 2010 Conference Blog
Two notes to you, dear readers:
First, from Sunday through Wednesday (17-20 October 2010), I'll be one of three bloggers invited to attend and write about the annual conference of Grantmakers in the Arts. I'll be posting at least once a day, perhaps more, both through my own site and at GIA's site. If you're concerned about information overload, don't worry: I'll be back to my usual pace and range of subjects in a few days!
Making Media Now 2010: November 5-6, 2010 (Boston, MA)
This annual event for professional film, video, and new media makers in New England is right around the corner! Making Media Now 2010, hosted by Filmmakers Collaborative, and this year the theme is “The Changing Media Landscape: How do we keep up?”
Where the Old and New Collide: The SIEGE 2010 Expo
My NAMAC 'travelogue' series begins with my love of scavenger hunts, you know, those games in which the participants must gather, or perform tasks or take photographs of specific items. The aim of the scavenger hunt is usually to be the first to complete the game, or complete it in the most creative manner. With the advent and growth of the web and other emerging technologies scavenger hunts have been revived and are evolving with the help of new media forms such as augmented reality gaming which I will explain later in this post.
Facing Race Conference Highlights
The 2010 Biannual Facing Race national conference, held September 23-25 in Chicago, was both invigorating and inspiring. Presented by the Applied Research Center (ARC), the Facing Race Conference is a national event bringing together everyone from grassroots organizers to activists to academics to discuss race and politics. This year’s event included multiple films, live music, multimedia presentations, spoken word and poetry, and national level speakers.
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