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I'm knee-deep in an audaciously large new collaborative project, and I'm wondering who else would like to join us in the fun. If you're game, here's your challenge:
View ArticleA new film about what saves us
What saves us? What connects us? And what is it that allows people to feel like they belong to something (and/or someone) larger than themselves? Our newest film for 180 Studio, “Nuestra,” tells the...
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More than four hundred years after it was written, people around the world are still reading, performing, and wondering about Hamlet. Why? The simple answer is because it’s the world’s most famous...
View ArticleHow the Arts (& #artseducation) Can Save the World
In Australia, the country of his birth, Thanh Bui learned early on that kids who looked like him faced two possible paths. On one, traversed by the only other Asian student in his school, the cold...
View ArticleSeed Talk TONIGHT: Kim Carter on the future of #learning
I first met Kim Carter a lifetime ago, not long after she opened a public school in New Hampshire that remains, to this day, one of the most innovative and life-affirming I’ve ever witnessed. In...
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