The Cultural Placekeeping Guide
The Cultural Placekeeping Guide: How to Create a Network for Local Emergency Action introduces a network-building approach, called “cultural placekeeping,” for safeguarding and strengthening local arts and culture communities. Organizing a self-help emergency action network to supplement and coordinate with the existing disaster management system is a way to foster community cohesion and connectedness—important when a crisis strikes.
SPOTLIGHT: The Dignity Museum shares stories of the forgotten
A traveling exhibit, “The Dignity Museum”, created by Love Beyond Walls, an Atlanta-based non-profit shares the stories of the forgotten. Through interactive technology, storytelling and thought-provoking questions, visitors confront their ideas of homelessness and what it takes to escape it.
SPOTLIGHT: Drawing Good at The Sketch Effect
The Sketch Effect make ideas understandable and actionable through awesome visual communication. They partner with non-profit organizations in underserved communities in Atlanta, GA in a project called “Drawing Good”.
Sharpsburg Youth Design Camp
The Youth Design Camp in Sharpsburg, KY was a 3-day immersive program that aimed to equip students with design principles and how those can be applied to community life. The Design Camp was built on 2 main program components: a Design Thinking Process Presentation and an Asphalt Mural Installation.
SPOTLIGHT: Black in Appalachia: The Podcast
Through historical and contemporary stories of people, places and experiences, hosts Enkeshi El-Amin and Angela Dennis interrogate what it means to be Black in Appalachia, creating space where under-told stories can be heard and Black identity can be reclaimed.
SPOTLIGHT: Yes And… Laughter Lab (YALL)
The Yes And… Laughter Lab (YALL) is a competitive incubation lab, pitch program and showcase that lifts up the best comedy writers and performers creating new comedy about topics that matter, with a focus on BIPOC, immigrant, Muslim, LGBTQ, and female talent and bringing people together to connect about urgent topics like racial justice, gender equity, climate change, and Islamophobia.
SPOTLIGHT: Maryland SBDC supports Bekoz Strategic Marketing
Maryland Small Business Development Center (SBDC) provides ongoing support for local small businesses like Bekoz Strategic Marketing, who in turn, dedicate their business endeavors to community enhancement and social improvement through event management, campaign creation, and creative conversation strategies.
SPOTLIGHT: Aria Strategies’ City of Rochester Neighborhood Safety Plans
Aria Strategies teamed up with The Office of Neighborhood Safety to establish and implement a community-based intervention and prevention strategy to combat and eliminate violence in the City of Rochester through public meetings and group engagements.
SPOTLIGHT: Urality’s Story Maps
Urality's Story Maps provide curated, interactive experiences within your community by merging location, media, and narrative to tell a story through a platform for building well designed, interactive map-based content.
SPOTLIGHT: Higher Ground Community Theater
Higher Ground uses oral histories, music, visual art and community conversations as the inspiration for dialogue, created and shared by local actors from diverse walks of life, about specific issues in Harlan County, Kentucky.