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Monday 12 April 2021

Narrative Power, Cultural Strategies, and New Civic Vision

A peer learning exchange about how stories, narrative and cultural power can help create a just and liberatory vision for the future

Monday 12 April 2021

Arts & Democracy and Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts NY (NOCD-NY) presented the conversation Narrative Power, Cultural Strategies, and New Civic Vision livestreaming on the global, commons-based, peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 12 April 2021 at 2 p.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 4 p.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 5 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).

“Stories are like stars...Stories can be connected together into narratives, like stars can be connected together into constellations, to make a deeper kind of sense and meaning...A culture, then, is like a galaxy.”

Join Arts & Democracy and Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts NY (NOCD-NY) for a peer learning exchange about how stories, narrative and cultural power can help create a just and liberatory vision for the future. Join us and connect with your peers from across the country and share your experiences!

We will discuss:

Community stories about public health, public safety, and sustainability
How narrative power shifts dominant narratives and advances racial justice
Cultural strategies that forge a collective consciousness for transformative change
New civic narratives that further belonging and participatory democracy
The infrastructure and ecosystems needed to support this work

The event will be moderated by amalia deloney (Board Chair, Arts & Democracy) with presentations by Roberto Bedoya (Cultural Affairs Manager, City of Oakland); Claudie Mabry (Program Consultant, NOCD-NY); Masoom Moitra (Director of the Green Light District, El Puente); Nayantara Sen (Director of Programs and Cultural Strategies for Real Food Real Stories and Senior Fellow at the Pop Culture Collaborative); Rashid Shabazz (Executive Director, Critical Minded); and Gwendolyn Wilson (Director of Senior Services, Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement).

It is important to us that the virtual event is accessible to all. To make a specific access request, please email [email protected]

Note that this online conversation will be recorded for our online web archives.

Artwork by Kate DeCiccio, via Amplifier.org

Stars and constellations quote from: Jeff Chang, Liz Manne, and Erin Potts, A Conversation about Cultural Strategy

About HowlRound TV
HowlRound TV is a global, commons-based peer produced, open access livestreaming and video archive project stewarded by the nonprofit HowlRound. HowlRound TV is a free and shared resource for live conversations and performances relevant to the world's performing arts and cultural fields. Its mission is to break geographic isolation, promote resource sharing, and to develop our knowledge commons collectively. Participate in a community of peer organizations revolutionizing the flow of information, knowledge, and access in our field by becoming a producer and co-producing with us. Learn more by going to our participate page. For any other queries, email [email protected], or call Vijay Mathew at +1 917.686.3185 Signal/WhatsApp. View the video archive of past events.

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