HOLD THE DATE for this very special World Cafe Live! ...
We're really excited about this community event, which will be co-hosted by new World Cafe hosts Jenessa Hansen-Evans and Mindy London.
Jenessa and Mindy are both recent graduates of two different World Cafe Hosting Fundamentals learning programs - Jenessa from the 2020 Fall Semester course we offer in partnership with Fielding Graduate University and Mindy from the St Pete Community training, completed last November.
This World Cafe Live! came together because of their shared passion for art, and their vocations - Jenessa works at the Boise City Department of Arts & History and Mindy serves as a docent at several museums. As new subscribers to the Community Table, they've stepped up to the challenge and opportunity of co-hosting a World Cafe Live! for others in the international community around this topic that is so crucial to them and many of the rest of us alike.
The thought-provoking creative conversation they are inviting us into is focused on how the arts impact all of us, all the time, while at the same time contributing to our understanding and experience of specific times throughout history. At this moment, the arts give us particularly valuable windows into the multiple realities of life in today's world, including a scenario where the arts are both threatened - by museum closures, fund-cutting measures and the resulting economic challenges for creatives and create communites across the globe - and experiencing a kind of renaissance.
The Black Lives Matter movement, for example, is a beacon, using public art to amplify cultural perspectives and voices that may not have been heard so clearly before, as black lives (and deaths) are illuminated in full colour - on the streets, in new films, books, music and video. The global pandemic, too, is pushing new art forms to the fore and spawning a richly creative public discourse about health, health workers, the economy, and social transformation.
If you are intrigued, please read more about this World Cafe and the two inspired new hosts who are bringing it to us by clicking the link below. Register now and join us in this important and timely conversation (free to Community Table subscribers - check the Community Table calendar for your discount code).
