Hello/hola, esteemed colleagues:
In response to requests for information, national context and what is happening in other communities, we are compiling this digest to support you in navigating current events
and in your commitment to equity in the long term. We will circulate this news digest weekly, every Wednesday. While this is certainly not a comprehensive or exhaustive list, we hope it boosts you in your exploration, knowledge and awareness building.
We are looking at additional ways to support your equity work and welcome resources, ideas, examples and opportunities to share with the field. Please send them to
services@artsusa.org.
Thank you for your continued work.
PROGRAMMING/RESOURCES
(We will feature new offerings here – free to low-cost opportunities. Previous listings have been moved down to below the signature)
This summer, ANA (American Neurological Association), with JHU SOM (John Hopkins School of Medicine) Neurology, is reaching out to its membership and the wider academic
community to examine the scope of the problem, solicit feedback, and prepare an actionable path forward that will be unique for our organization, neurology, and neuroscience. We envision remaking our community to respond to the perception that it still carries
too many vestiges of its exclusive past, and does not provide a welcoming home for all.
The Healing with The Actors Fund Groups will provide non-Black POC entertainment professionals a space to affirm experiences, discuss the impact of racial injustice within
the industry and community as a whole, while fostering a place for restorative dialog and compassion. This group will also process disproportionate ways Covid-19 has affected non-white communities and provide support and resources for each other.
Presented by Creative Capital. In this conversation, a group of artists, event programmers, and designers will talk about what it means to center access in creative encounters
both in-person and online. The panel will explore how disability intersects with user experience and design, and the larger role that access plays in movements towards social justice. This event will be moderated by Josh Halstead and Jarah Moesch of the Critical
Design Lab, a multi-disciplinary and multi-institution collaborative drawing on the methods of critical and interrogative design, intersectional feminist design theory, and crip technoscience to address thorny questions about accessibility. They
will be joined by Sina Bahram, founder of Prime Access Consulting, and Camisha L. Jones, poet and managing director of Split
This Rock.
2019 Guggenheim Fellow and New York Times bestselling author Ibram X. Kendi will discuss his renowned book “How to Be an Antiracist” on Monday, July 20 at 7:00 p.m. with
Dr. Charlene M. Dukes, president of Prince George’s Community College. Dr. Dukes is the first African-American woman to serve as president of the College and has 30 years of progressive leadership experience and administrative responsibility in higher education.
The conversation will be streamed live online on Crowdcast, Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter/Periscope, and will air on PGCC TV on a later date.
On the heels of the launch of the anthology edited by Shá Cage A Moment of Silence: 50+ Black MN Voices in a Moment of Transformation, Cage and featured artists
Shannon Gibney, JuCoby Johnson, and Danez Smith, hold the Community Salon BLACK MADE THAT. The event is meant to center blackness, joy, and truth telling. The artists will interview each other, share snatches of work from the anthology, and love on each other.
Presented by The Winters Group. Throughout the year, we host complimentary public VLLs to engage our clients and broader network in conversations that are pressing and
relevant to the workplace, but often times avoided. As part of our commitment to engaging in Bold, Inclusive Conversations®, and supporting other in building the skills to do so, we use our public VLLs to challenge the status quo and address the issues that
are critical to our strides towards equity.
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