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Carlton Turner understands that when you can't feed yourself the imagination is the first thing to go And if you can't "see" a different future you can't make change. Sipp Culture is about feeding both the body and the mind's eye. BIOCarlton Turner is an artist, agriculturalist, researcher, and co-founder of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production (Sipp Culture). Sipp Culture uses food and story to support rural community development in his hometown of Utica, Mississippi where his family has been for eight generations. He currently serves on the board of First Peoples Fund, Imagining America, Project South and the National Black Food and Justice Alliance. Carlton is a member of the We Shall Overcome Fund Advisory Committee at the Highlander Center for Research and Education and is the former Executive Director of Alternate ROOTS and is a founding partner of the Intercultural Leadership Institute.Carlton is a current Interdisciplinary Research Fellow with the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation and was named to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts YBCA100. He is also a former Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow and former Cultural Policy Fellow at the Creative Placemaking Institute at Arizona State University's Herberger Institute for Design in the Arts.Carlton Turner is also co-founder and co-artistic director, along with his brother Maurice Turner, of the group M.U.G.A.B.E.E. (Men Under Guidance Acting Before Early Extinction). M.U.G.A.B.E.E. is a Mississippi-based performing arts group that blends of jazz, hip-hop, spoken word poetry and soul music together with non-traditional storytelling. His current work is River Sols, a new play being developed in collaboration with Pangea World Theater that explores race, identity, class, faith, and difference across African American and South Asian communities through embodiment of a river.He is also a member of the Rural Wealth Lab at RUPRI (Rural Policy Research Institute) and an advisor to the Kresge Foundation's FreshLo Initiative. In 2018, Carlton was awarded the Sidney Yates Award for Advocacy in the Performing Arts by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals. Carlton has also received the M. Edgar Rosenblum award for outstanding contribution to Ensemble Theater (2011) and the Otto René Castillo Awards for Political Theatre (2015).Notable MentionsSIPP Culture: The Mississippi Center for Cultural Production is an approach and resource for cultivating thriving communities. Based in the rural South, “Sipp Culture” is honoring the history and building the future of our own community of Utica, MS. Sipp Culture supports community development from the ground up through cultural production focused on self-determination and agency designed by us and for us. We believe that history, culture, and food affirm our individual and collective humanity. So, we are strengthening our local food system, advancing health equity, and supporting rural artistic voices – while activating the power of story – all to promote the legacy and vision of our hometown.Octavia Butler: OCTAVIA E. BUTLER was a renowned African American author who received a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. Born in Pasadena in 1947, she was raised by her mother and her grandmother. She was the author of several award-winning novels including PARABLE OF THE SOWER (1993), which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and PARABLE OF THE TALENTS (1995) winner of the Nebula Award for the best science fiction novel published that year. She was acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations in stories that range from the distant past to the...

This August, the Asian American Literary Festival was to take place in Washington, DC.. The event had already garnered substantial investments and expectations from both national and international groups and states. Thus there was considerable shock and outrage when Acting Director Yao-Fen You abruptly cancelled the entire festival, without a word of explanation.The Washington Post and other sources have hinted that it might be because of potentially controversial content.  The Post wrote: "According to emails shared with The Post, You notified Lawrence-Minh Bui Davis, the festival's director since its founding in 2017 and a curator at the Smithsonian that “due to the current political climate,” Smithsonian leadership had requested that all upcoming exhibitions and multiday programs be reviewed under a policy known as Smithsonian Directive 603, which is meant to help identify any potentially sensitive or controversial content and prepare for potential responses from the public."On today's show we speak with Ching-In Chen, a poet who was curating a festival event featuring books by trans and nonbinary writers, and Kate Hao, a program coordinator on contract with the Smithsonian for the festival, about the controversy, and about the issues it raises about art for the community vs. art that must conform to state institutional preferences and politics. We discuss why this festival is absolutely essential for the present day, where we have Asian Americans being used to help dismantle affirmative action, and where we see persistent and deadly acts of anti-Asian violence.We also hear about possible plans to go forward without the Smithsonian, and ways we can help support the artists and organizers.Acting Director You declined to comment for this show.Descended from ocean dwellers, Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American writer, community organizer and teacher. They are author of The Heart's Traffic: a novel in poems (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2009) and recombinant (Kelsey Street Press, 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry) as well as chapbooks to make black paper sing (speCt! Books) and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, Leslie Scalapino Finalist). Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press, 1st edition; AK Press, 2nd edition) and currently a core member of the Massage Parlor Outreach Project as well as a Kelsey Street Press collective member. They have received fellowships from Kundiman, Lambda, Watering Hole, Can Serrat, Imagining America, Jack Straw Cultural Center and the Intercultural Leadership Institute as well as the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers. They are currently collaborating with Cassie Mira and others on Breathing in a Time of Disaster, a performance, installation and speculative writing project exploring breath through meditation, health and environmental justice. They teach in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the MFA program in Creative Writing and Poetics at University of Washington Bothell and serve as Writer in Residence at Hugo House. www.chinginchen.comKate Hao is a poet and fiction writer, a cultural worker, a shy Leo, an ex-pianist, a soup enthusiast, an aspiring morning person. She grew up in the suburbs of northern Virginia and currently calls Providence, Rhode Island home.

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The new monthly series “Art at the Intersection” will explore the ways the arts are helping to shape and inspire work being done in many areas of society, for example, in healthcare, city planning, infrastructure design, public spaces. The list is long, varied and sometimes unexpected. The Mississippi Center for Cultural Production (Sipp Culture)  is a case in point. Co-founded by artist, researcher, and organizer Carlton Turner in 2016 in his hometown of Utica, Mississippi, Sipp Culture uses story to address food insecurity and to support community, cultural, and economic development. In fact, its motto is “Telling our story. Growing our future.”  In this podcast, Carlton talks about the connection between story and food, the dinner table as focus for story-telling and sharing history, gathering stories about Utica from community-members and using that information to help create infrastructures that support the community's needs, creating a farm and apprenticeship programs, creating an artist residency program for rural artists in a five state region, their research program Equitable Food Futures-- a collaboration with Imagining America, and programming for the long-term around work that can take a generation to realize. Turner also talks about creating purposeful art in, with, and for community, his growing up in Utica where his family goes back eight generations, and what Sipp Culture's success in Utica will look like. Follow us on Apple Podcasts!  And let us know what you think, drop us an email at artworkspod@arts.gov  

The new monthly series “Art at the Intersection” will explore the ways the arts are helping to shape and inspire work being done in many areas of society, for example, in healthcare, city planning, infrastructure design, public spaces. The list is long, varied and sometimes unexpected. The Mississippi Center for Cultural Production (Sipp Culture)  is a case in point. Co-founded by artist, researcher, and organizer Carlton Turner in 2016 in his hometown of Utica, Mississippi, Sipp Culture uses story to address food insecurity and to support community, cultural, and economic development. In fact, its motto is “Telling our story. Growing our future.”  In this podcast, Carlton talks about the connection between story and food, the dinner table as focus for story-telling and sharing history, gathering stories about Utica from community-members and using that information to help create infrastructures that support the community's needs, creating a farm and apprenticeship programs, creating an artist residency program for rural artists in a five state region, their research program Equitable Food Futures-- a collaboration with Imagining America, and programming for the long-term around work that can take a generation to realize. Turner also talks about creating purposeful art in, with, and for community, his growing up in Utica where his family goes back eight generations, and what Sipp Culture's success in Utica will look like. Follow us on Apple Podcasts!  And let us know what you think, drop us an email at artworkspod@arts.gov  

This Bonus episode of Change the Story / Change the World is in celebration of the publishing of https://nyupress.org/9781613321546/meeting-the-moment/ (Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Performance - 1965-2020 by Those Who Lived It,) by Jan Cohen Cruz and Rad Pereira. Hi this is Bill Cleveland. I'd like to welcome you to a Bonus episode of Change the Story / Change the World in celebration of a publishing milestone. For the past 4 decades Jan Cohen Cruz has been working at the crossroads of theater and social change, as a performer, as a teacher, and as a storyteller documenting the continuing evolution of socially engaged performance. Now, I'm very happy to announce that her new book Meeting the Moment, shines a light on that extraordinary history by sharing the stories of the people lived it. In this episode, first broadcast in November of 2021, Jan talks about her own history as an activist, performer and teacher, and the genesis of Meeting the Moment, which was recently released by https://www.newvillagepress.org/about-us/mission-statement/ (New Village Press.) Links to both New Village, and a related episode featuring https://change-the-story-chan.captivate.fm/episode/episode-46-carlton-turner-sipp-culture-rising (Carlton Turner) who wrote the book's forward can be found in our show notes. Jan Cohen-Cruz has given a lot to the field of arts-based community development. By that, I mean that there's a significant body of academic and community-based artwork, scholarship, teaching, and organizing that are absolutely covered with her fingerprints. BIOJan Cohen-Cruz was the founding editor of http://public.imaginingamerica.org/ (Public: A Journal) of Imagining America. She directed Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (2007-12), and for 28 years before that, was a professor at NYU, directing a minor in applied theatre and initiating socially-engaged projects and courses. She wrote Engaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response and Local Acts: Community‑Based Performance in the US. She edited Radical Street Performance and co‑edited Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism and A Boal Companion. Jan was also a University Professor at Syracuse University. In 2012, she received the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's Award for Leadership in Community-Based Theatre and Civic Engagement. Here latest book, https://nyupress.org/9781613321546/meeting-the-moment/ (Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Theater, 1965 To 2020) written with https://nyupress.org/author/rad-pereira (Rad Pereira) will published by https://www.newvillagepress.org/about-us/mission-statement/ (New Village Press )in May 2022. Notable Mentions (in order of appearance)https://change-the-story-chan.captivate.fm/episode/episode-46-carlton-turner-sipp-culture-rising (Carlton Turner) is a brilliant artist and creative change agent whose work across the country and in his hometown of Utica Mississippi dramatically proves that if you can "see" a different future you can make make a different future. He makes this point and much more in his eloquent introduction to https://nyupress.org/9781613321546/meeting-the-moment/ (Meeting the Moment), the new book by this episode's guest Jan Cohen Cruz and Rad Pereira. https://change-the-story-chan.captivate.fm/episode/episode-46-carlton-turner-sipp-culture-rising (You can hear more from Carlton in Episode 47 ) https://www.newvillagepress.org/about-us/mission-statement/ (New Village Press:) “The mission of New Village Press is to promote and enrich public discussion and understanding of issues vital to the development of healthy, creative, and socially just communities. To that end, New Village publishes transdisciplinary books that animate emerging movements in societal transformation. In conjunction, the Press also sponsors lectures, forums, and exhibitions for the public, especially for those communities that are underserved.”...

Carlton Turner understands that when you can't feed yourself the imagination is the first thing to go And if you can't "see" a different future you can't make change. Sipp Culture is about feeding both the body and the mind's eye. BIOCarlton Turner is an artist, agriculturalist, researcher, and co-founder of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production (Sipp Culture). Sipp Culture uses food and story to support rural community development in his hometown of Utica, Mississippi where his family has been for eight generations. He currently serves on the board of First Peoples Fund, Imagining America, Project South and the National Black Food and Justice Alliance. Carlton is a member of the We Shall Overcome Fund Advisory Committee at the Highlander Center for Research and Education and is the former Executive Director of Alternate ROOTS and is a founding partner of the Intercultural Leadership Institute. Carlton is a current Interdisciplinary Research Fellow with the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation and was named to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts YBCA100. He is also a former Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow and former Cultural Policy Fellow at the Creative Placemaking Institute at Arizona State University's Herberger Institute for Design in the Arts. Carlton Turner is also co-founder and co-artistic director, along with his brother Maurice Turner, of the group M.U.G.A.B.E.E. (Men Under Guidance Acting Before Early Extinction). M.U.G.A.B.E.E. is a Mississippi-based performing arts group that blends of jazz, hip-hop, spoken word poetry and soul music together with non-traditional storytelling. His current work is River Sols, a new play being developed in collaboration with Pangea World Theater that explores race, identity, class, faith, and difference across African American and South Asian communities through embodiment of a river. He is also a member of the Rural Wealth Lab at RUPRI (Rural Policy Research Institute) and an advisor to the Kresge Foundation's FreshLo Initiative. In 2018, Carlton was awarded the Sidney Yates Award for Advocacy in the Performing Arts by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals. Carlton has also received the M. Edgar Rosenblum award for outstanding contribution to Ensemble Theater (2011) and the Otto René Castillo Awards for Political Theatre (2015). Notable Mentionshttps://sippculture.org/ (SIPP Culture): The Mississippi Center for Cultural Production is an approach and resource for cultivating thriving communities. Based in the rural South, “Sipp Culture” is honoring the history and building the future of our own community of Utica, MS.  Sipp Culture supports community development from the ground up through cultural production focused on self-determination and agency designed by us and for us. We believe that history, culture, and food affirm our individual and collective humanity. So, we are strengthening our local food system, advancing health equity, and supporting rural artistic voices – while activating the power of story – all to promote the legacy and vision of our hometown. https://www.octaviabutler.com/theauthor (Octavia Butler): OCTAVIA E. BUTLER was a renowned African American author who received a MacArthur “Genius” Grant and PEN West Lifetime Achievement Award for her body of work. Born in Pasadena in 1947, she was raised by her mother and her grandmother. She was the author of several award-winning novels including PARABLE OF THE SOWER (1993), which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and PARABLE OF THE TALENTS (1995) winner of the Nebula Award for the best science fiction novel published that year. She was acclaimed for her lean prose, strong protagonists, and social observations in stories that range from the distant past to the far future. https://www.newworldstation.com/artistlisting/maurice-s-turner-ii (Maurice Turner): Maurice S. Turner, II is co-founder of Turner World Around Productions, Inc.

Jan Cohen-Cruz has given a lot to the field of arts-based community development. By that, I mean that there's a significant body of academic and community-based artwork, scholarship, teaching, and organizing that are absolutely covered with their fingerprints. BIOJan Cohen-Cruz was the founding editor of http://public.imaginingamerica.org/ (Public: A Journal) of Imagining America. She directed Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (2007-12), and for 28 years before that, was a professor at NYU, directing a minor in applied theatre and initiating socially-engaged projects and courses. She wrote Engaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response and Local Acts: Community‑Based Performance in the US. She edited Radical Street Performance and co‑edited Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism and A Boal Companion. Jan was also a University Professor at Syracuse University. In 2012, she received the Association for Theatre in Higher Education's Award for Leadership in Community-Based Theatre and Civic Engagement. Here latest book, https://nyupress.org/9781613321546/meeting-the-moment/ (Meeting the Moment: Socially Engaged Theater, 1965 To 2020) written with https://nyupress.org/author/rad-pereira (Rad Pereira) will published by https://www.newvillagepress.org/about-us/mission-statement/ (New Village Press )in May 2022. Notable Mentions (in order of appearance)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Boal (Augusto Boal,) was a Brazilian theatre practitioner, drama theorist, and political activist. He was the founder of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed (Theatre of the Oppressed), a theatrical form originally used in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Party_of_the_Left (radical left) popular education movements. Boal served one term as a Vereador (the Brazilian equivalent of a city councillor) in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro) from 1993 to 1997, where he developed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed#Legislative_theatre (legislative theatre).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Boal#cite_note-PTO-1 ([1]) https://imaginingamerica.org/ (Imagining America:) “The Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars, artists, designers, humanists, and organizers to imagine, study, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America' and world. Working across institutional, disciplinary, and community divides, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship, cultural organizing, and campus change that inspires collective imagination, knowledge-making, and civic action on pressing public issues.” https://public.imaginingamerica.org/about/ (Public): “Public is a peer-reviewed, multimedia e-journal focused on humanities, arts, and design in public life. It aspires to connect what we can imagine with what we can do. We are interested in projects, pedagogies, resources, and ideas that reflect rich engagements among diverse participants, organizations, disciplines, and sectors.” https://nyupress.org/9781613321546/meeting-the-moment/ (Meeting the Moment Socially Engaged Theater, 1965 To 2020): https://nyupress.org/author/jan-cohen-cruz (Jan Cohen-Cruz) and https://nyupress.org/author/rad-pereira (Rad Pereira): Curated stories from over 75 interviews and informal exchanges offer insight into the field and point out limitations due to discrimination and unequal opportunity for performance artists in the United States over the past 55 years. In this work, performers, often unknown beyond their immediate audience, articulate diverse influences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Theater (Open Theater): The Open Theater was an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_theatre (experimental theatre) group active from 1963 to 1973. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trial (Franz Kafka's The Trial:) The Trial is a novel written by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka (Franz Kafka) between 1914... Support this podcast

Carlton Turner is an artist, agriculturalist, researcher and founder of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production, also known as Sipp Culture. Sipp Culture uses food and story to support rural community, cultural, and economic development in his hometown of Utica, MS. Before founding Sipp Culture, Carlton was executive director of Alternate ROOTS, an arts-service organization based in the South promoting the creation of art rooted in community and advocating for social and economic justice for all. A widely admired thought leader on the power and urgency of creative placemaking, Carlton speaks all over the country and is a current Interdisciplinary Research Fellow with the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation. He is also a former Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow and a Cultural Policy Fellow at the Creative Placemaking Institute at Arizona State University's Herberger Institute for Design in the Arts. He also currently serves on the board of First People's Fund, Imagining America, and Project South. As for his personal artistic projects, he is currently collaborating on a new performance piece titled “River Souls” with Meena Natarajan and Dipankar Mukherjee, the co-artistic directors of Pangea Theater Company in Minneapolis. In this interview with Rob Kramer and Pier Carlo Talenti, Carlton describes how rooting his work and art firmly in his hometown has allowed him to investigate and question on a micro and macro level the many systems that determine a community's overall well-being. He also celebrates how tapping into every community member's innate creativity can be the first step toward civic transformation. https://sippculture.com/

Last weekend, VP Harris published an op-ed where she re-imagined America's economy post-Covid, and her solutions were all government-based spending. I think it's time freedom-loving people did the same, so today, I welcome Robert Murphy from Mises, and we discuss some solutions for America's economy. You can find him on Twitter @BobMurphyEcon. Please like, subscribe and share this show with your family & friends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the fifth episode of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard and Francois Matarasso interview Denise Griffin Johnson, a cultural organizer in West Baltimore on the east coast of the U.S. She talks about racial justice, building on community strengths instead of deficits, the “highway to nowhere” and more. Denise Griffin Johnson is the director of the Arch Social Community Network in West Baltimore, a community-led cultural organizing network founded in 2015 and based at the historic Arch Social Club. Denise has decades of experience as an organizer and advocate in Baltimore, during which she has held many positions in government and nonprofit organizations and served on numerous boards and advisory groups. She is a co-founder of CultureWorks Baltimore, a member of the national network Alternate ROOTS, and a Cultural Agent with the US Department of Arts and Culture (a non-government entity). In 2011-2013 Denise collaborated with Alternate ROOTS and Roadside Theater to produce a cultural festival that drew an audience of 11,000, and in 2015 she collaborated with the higher education consortium Imagining America to produce a national conference and cultural organizing institute in Baltimore. Denise is a graduate of Coppin State University, with an MS in Family Counseling.

Caroline Cheung is a PhD Candidate in English, working at the intersections of women of color feminisms, theories of state violence, transformative justice and prison abolitionism. As an educator, her pedagogy focuses on creating radical community in the classroom and amplifying the power that revolutionary, grassroots study has outside of academia, as well. Since teaching at the University of Iowa, Caroline has received the Champion for Student Success Award, Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, and the Doug Trank Memorial Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her work has appeared in Creative Education, The Press-Citizen, The Daily Iowan, The Des Moines Register, and Imagining America. She has presented at various conferences including the Rethinking Poverty Conference, the Centre for Feminisms and Sexualities, the UCLA Thinking Gender Conference, the Mind-Body-Violence Symposium, Craft Critique Culture, the Jakobsen Conference, and NeMLA. She has also presented at the National Women's Studies Association and served on the NWSA Women of Color Leadership Project. She is an Imagining America PAGE Fellow, a UI Center for Teaching Fellow, an Obermann Humanities for the Public Good Advisory Board member, and a recipient of the Adah Johnson/Otilia Maria Fernandez Scholarship for feminist activism and research. The music for this podcast is "Ira" by Blake Shaw. Ongoing support comes from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Iowa Arts Council, and from the United States Regional Arts Resilience Fund. Phase 1 is an initiative of Arts Midwest and its peer United States Regional Arts Organizations made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The Writers of Color Reading Series is produced by the Englert in Iowa City, Iowa, and is supported by Friends of the Englert. Visit www.englert.org/friends to support our programming. -------------------- Host: Jesus “Chuy” Renteria Line Producer & Audio Engineer: Savannah Lane Executive Producers: John Schickedanz & Andre Perry

Anders found a book on the ground and read it and it was written by some jerkoff liberal in 2008 about all the crazy lib stuff that they imagined was going to be happening in America by the year 2033 since we destroyed George W Bush and defeated racism forever. He explains the books to us in great detail and you better believe we talk about Ralph Nader. Wild stuff. The book is called Imagining America in 2033 by Herbert J. Gans. FULL EPISODE AT PATREON.COM/PODDAMNAMERICA

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A new MP3 sermon from Effingham Falls Bible Baptist Church is now available on SermonAudio with the following details: Title: Re-imagining America, Marxist Subtitle: Video Speaker: David L. Gilpatric Broadcaster: Effingham Falls Bible Baptist Church Event: Video DVD Date: 12/14/2020 Length: 14 min.

(from New Orleans Center for the Gulf South website) Women and Movement #7: Agitators, Policymakers, and Dismantlers in New Orleans October 08, 2020 6:00 PM to 7:15 PM Uptown Campus Featuring Lisa D. Alexis, Jennifer M. Williams, Hannah Kreiger-Benson, Angela Tucker Women and Movement #7: Agitators, Policymakers, and Dismantlers in New Orleans will be a panel of women who are at the intersection of affecting change in New Orleans cultural policy. All three panelists and moderator have shifted, dismantled, and agitated calcified understandings of the status quo with regards to cultural policy and the New Orleans cultural climate. Panelists include the following: Lisa D. Alexis, Director of Mayor Latoya Cantrell's Office of Cultural Economy New Orleans; Jennifer M. Williams, DismantleNOMA and Alternate Roots; Hannah Kreiger-Benson, Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans. This event will be moderated by Angela Tucker, filmmaker and Tulane professor. The Women and Movement series is designed to collectively engage women scholars and artists from across the gulf south region to take part in discourse about place, performance and the social-political issues that transform their bodies, art, language, and greater community. This program is in conjunction with Imagining America 2020 Collective Creative Engagement: Through Tumultuous Times: Reimagining and Rebuilding ‘America’. Zoom Link: https://tulane.zoom.us/j/97722942901 For more information, please contact Regina Cairns at 504-314-2854 or rcairns@tulane.edu. For more information on Imagining America, please visit imaginingamerica.org. New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University For more information contact: Regina Cairns via email to rcairns@tulane.edu or by phone at 504-314-2854 Tickets are Not required

DHHS Director Clarence H. Carter and AEI Scholar Matt Weidinger discuss what America's Safety Net is, and what it could (and should) be. The post https://www.aei.org/multimedia/re-imagining-americas-safety-net/ (Re-imagining America's safety net) appeared first on https://www.aei.org (American Enterprise Institute - AEI).

Denise is a Cultural Organizer who has worked to develop and enhance art and cultural assets in southwest and west Baltimore. She’s a co-founder of CultureWorks and currently uses the group’s practices in her work with Baltimore’s historic Arch Social Club, where she’s director of the Arch Social Community Network. The club has been a fixture of Black Baltimore’s civil society for over 100 years and has served as a hub of community action. Beverly and Lee are on the faculty of UMBC, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Lee is an experimental media artist working to develop new and effective ways to use digital media to spread knowledge for pro-social outcomes. He has assembled widely interdisciplinary teams from the sciences, arts and humanities to explore the potential of an artist’s perspective to address vexing social issues. Beverly’s research aims at highlighting the essential role of building sustained relationships across differences while negotiating diverse knowledge sources, experiences, discourses and intellectual practices to address local and trans-national transformational challenges. Lee and Bev got to know each other when they traveled to the 2013 Imagining America conference in Syracuse, New York. They met Denise when she joined the effort to organize the 2015 IA conference in Baltimore. The three discuss how creating change can only be done by connecting people and listening. They also talk about how they connected and how Denise started out skeptical about the role U-M-B-C would be able to play planning IA’s Baltimore conference.

Scott is a professor of development sociology at Cornell University and is a former co-director of Imagining America. jesikah is a documentary mediamaker and Senior Community Engagement Strategist at Capital Public Radio, the NPR member station in Sacramento. They discuss the power of story, the value of storytelling in scholarship and transformational moments that shaped their lives and work.

Milmon and Gwen met each other for the first time at the 2017 Imagining America national conference, just two days before they sat down to record their conversation.  Milmon is a sociologist and member of the faculty in the African American and African Studies Department at the University of California, Davis.  His teaching interests include race and ethnic relations in the U-S, the Great Migration and the role of the Black Church in the African American freedom struggle.  Gwen is an educator, community volunteer and lover of Appalachia.  Her family has deep roots in the coal mining community of eastern Kentucky.  She works as an Early Childhood Training Coordinator at the University of Kentucky.  Despite their disparate backgrounds, they quickly learned they had a lot in common.  They discuss the importance of empathy, recognizing cycles of oppression and remembering our common humanity.

Danielle is an artist, teacher and community organizer living in Davis, CA. She creates artworks that transform people, places, and communities by working in a variety of mediums, including murals, ‘zines, performance, audio and posters. Meaghan is an arts educator at Belmont University in Tennessee.  She collaboratively created a huge Kids’ Arts Festival south of Nashville, that in its recent year attracted 6,000 attendees.The two met for the first time at the Imagining America conference about an hour before they sat down to record their conversation.  They quickly bonded over talking about the art they do in communities.They talk about the role of the arts in building kids’ identities, how art can be inserted into non-art areas of learning, the value of families making art together and how most artists are uncomfortable with the chaos of creating in community.

IAStoryShare is a podcast from Imagining America, where publicly engaged artists, designers, scholars, students and community members share stories about their life and work.  

In this week’s episode I spoke with Rachel H. Simmons, the archivist for the Winter Park Public Library (https://www.wppl.org/). Working with the community to craft a more holistic narrative that weaves the collective experience together relies on the support of archivist. In thinking about the project that inspires this podcast, we recognize it as public scholarship to enhance civic discourse. Public Scholarship is defined by Imagining America (https://imaginingamerica.org/). IA help to define public scholarship as projects that promote mutually-beneficial partnerships between higher education and organizations in the public and private sphere. Under that framework community institutions like the local library and academic institutions (Rollins College [https://www.rollins.edu/history/] and the University of Central Florida [http://history.cah.ucf.edu/]) can do much to bridge the gap between knowledge creation and community engagement. In this conversation, Ms. Simmons talks about h

Imagining America is an organization of publicly engaged artists, designers, scholars and community activists dedicated to the democratic transformation of higher education and civic life. They address issues of social justice, inclusion and community engagement in higher education, issues similar to those faced by the museum community. In fact, Imagining America partners with museums and cultural leadership to create stronger communities. Join me this week as I talk with the faculty co-directors Timothy Eatman and Scott Peters about this inspiring and insightful organization.

The first full episode of The Compact Nation Podcast! Conversations with Imagining America's Tim Eatman, and higher education's role in the work of healing communities most impacted by systemic inequality. Tim Eatman, Director of Research for Imagining America, spurs conversations among the podcast team on the power and responsibility higher education and community engagement has to be a force for healing the wounds left by systemic racism and deep-rooted inequality by "respecting the blind spots" and connecting through narrative. Hear your hosts' stories, and learn how these crazy kids and President Andrew Seligsohn grew up to engage communities with #compactnation Music Credits: Carefree by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1400037 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Circus Waltz - Silent Film Light by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100291 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Italian Afternoon by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/

On July 14-18, Appalshop and Imagining America, a national consortium of 100 colleges and universities based at Syracuse University in rural upstate New York, co-hosted a gathering. 45 people — faculty, students, and community members — sponsored by nine institutions of higher education from Oregon to Ontario,Canada to Florida came to Whitesburg and Letcher County to learn about the economic revival just beginning in our mountains. The participants’ goal was to take lessons home. In this episode of Mountain Talk Monday, some of those who made the trip speak about what motivates and challenges them to work for better economic, political, and cultural opportunities for everyone back in their home towns.

Imagining America is an organization of publicly engaged artists, designers, scholars and community activists dedicated to the democratic transformation of higher education and civic life. They address issues of social justice, inclusion and community engagement in higher education, issues similar to those faced by the museum community. In fact, Imagining America partners with museums and cultural leadership to create stronger communities. Join me this week as I talk with the faculty co-directors Timothy Eatman and Scott Peters about this inspiring and insightful organization.