Imagining America's 7th annual conference - Syracuse University - for
details: imaginingamerica.org.
Imagining America (IA) is a national consortium of 80+ colleges and
universities committed to strengthening the public role and democratic
purposes orf the humanities, arts and design. IA has just appointed Jan
Cohen-Cruz as its new director. A long-time major figure in
community-based arts and former director of the Tisch School of the Arts Office
of Community Connections, which anchored students to do community-based
art internships, as its new director. Cohen-Cruz is authora of "Radical
STreet Performance" (1998), "PLaying boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism
(1994), and Local Acts: Community-Based Performance in the United
States" (2005).
*** I'D LOVE TO SEE COMMUNITY-BASED ARTS INTERNSHIPS FOR ITHACA -
ANYONE ELSE INTERESTED?
The Sept conference - Citizenship for a Just World: Activating
Knowledge, Cultivating Engagement - will focus on "the challenges of a
globalizing environment when public scholarship increasingly means engagement
with regional and national communities."The format includes Open
Space, a Publicly Active Graduate Education Summit, concurrent discussion
sessions, case study presentations, and a keynote by James T. Campbell,
Professor of American Civilization and AFricana Studies at Brown.
Student registration $35 - community member registration $110
- fostering social, economic and environmental justice through collaborative
initiatives in hospitality, education and the arts, in the 150 year-old
democratic community spirit of the Danish Folk School
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Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha!
Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.
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