The Civic Engagement Track at the Americans for the Arts Convention invites arts administrators, activists, artists, and others to discuss the role that arts and culture can play in fostering civic participation and building healthy communities. Through case based sessions, experiential activity, and research updates, sessions will illuminate the many ways the arts are providing platforms for civic engagement and build participant skills for designing and delivering arts-based civic engagement opportunities in their own communities.
Engage Now! We are offering a series of audio conversations with practitioners and professionals who will present at the event. The first in our series explores the National Constitution Center’s Living News project and features Nora Berger Green, Theater Programs Producer at the National Constitution Center and David Bradley, Living News Director. Through innovative use of theater, the project engages local youth around questions of citizenship and civic participation through the lens of the constitution. Listen, as Nora and David describe the project – and stay tuned to the end of the conversation for cues from David and Nora as we start some conversation and reflection in the comments below.
To learn more about the program and other tracks at the Convention, visit the Convention section of the website.
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April 14th, 2008 at 02:01pm
Michael del Vecchio
The Leadership Track at the Annual Convention is about vision and inspiring others to think and work differently. Examples of leadership can be seen in every session at convention, but in the Leadership Track it is on stage and under the spotlight. Come learn how to lead by cultivating the best in oneself and in others, and how to lead an organization through a new initiative or institutional challenge.
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March 24th, 2008 at 12:59pm
Rebecca Borden
This peice comes by way of Julia McBride’s “Coach Julia” e-newsletter. It is too good not to share. Julia is one of the coaches in the Personal Evolution advanced workshop of our Annual Convention.
A North Carolina teacher named Julia Scatliff O’Grady has created the Leap Day Challenge, urging readers of her blog “to take a leap during the year of the leap.” A leap can be anything you choose to pay attention to in 2008 that will make you and the world stronger as a result. O’Grady has designated Friday, February 29 as the day on which all of us who accept the challenge will set aside some time to act on our leap and to celebrate. (more…)
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February 28th, 2008 at 03:08pm
Rebecca Borden
There’s been a lot of buzz lately about coaching and I thought I’d extend this invitation to anyone who is interested in finding out more about and actually experiencing peer coaching circles. You’ll have an opportunity to find out more at the 2008 Annual Convention in June.
Finding time to rejuvenate ourselves is a constant challenge when we commit our personal and professional lives to nurturing others. Are you asking yourself the difficult questions about your career? Trying to find a life-work balance? Put yourself in a solution-focused state of mind for the annual conference at this Advance Workshop.
Personal Evolution: Peer-Coaching Circles Thursday, June 19 1:30 to 5:00pm at the Americans for the Arts Annual Convention in Philadelphia. Space is limited to 50 people. (more…)
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February 19th, 2008 at 02:15pm
Rebecca Borden
