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Why Arts Activism & Cultural Organizing are a Pro-Democracy Imperative
A Preamble Block-Bridge-Build: It's shorthand for key elements in the anti-authoritarian, pro-democracy playbook. They ’ re often...
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Aug 78 min read
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The Tyranny of Comfort
Tyranny: 1. Cruel and oppressive rule. 2. Cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary use of power or control. Comfort: 1. A state of physical...
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Feb 13, 20232 min read
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What's Next: Design Standards for an Evolved & Equitable Cultural Support System
Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about some questions my friend David O’Fallon posed a while back to a group of cultural leaders...
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Jun 9, 20223 min read
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Democracy's Next Chapter
The Ultimate question facing American democracy today is not whether people will vote or, debate, or even organize. The threshold issue...
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Nov 3, 20204 min read
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Small Towns/Big Stories
Arts-based Community Development Makes its Mark in Southwest Minnesota Late in the afternoon of October 7, 2017, a fifteen-foot sea...
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Sep 29, 20209 min read
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One story at a time
Our collective, responsibility for everything from the environment, to human rights, to peace is as unavoidable as breathing.
Bill Cleveland
Sep 29, 20204 min read
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23 Admonitions, Insights and Ideas from the Great Masters
Here are 23 admonitions, insights and ideas about youth arts partnerships from the young people who know best.
Bill Cleveland
Sep 25, 20205 min read
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WaySquared
This is a brief response to "The Forgotten Art of Assembly." So many attempts at making sharp and relevant arguments about the critical...
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Sep 1, 20202 min read
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Do No Harm
This is the first of three previously published pieces dealing with the moral and ethical dimensions of community arts work. Given the...
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Sep 1, 20203 min read
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Of What Use?
I believe that the upside down world we are only just moving into will see a significant realignment within the cultural community....
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Sep 1, 20201 min read
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JP RIP
July 14, 1972, Toronto Island, Canada. There were close to 3000 freaks milling around eight scattered stages under a blue steamy sky. A...
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Sep 1, 20203 min read
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