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Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s Formula For Changing The World
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Conference blogger Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer reports on Mondays' morning plenary keynote performance from Marc Bamuthi Joseph:

As a conference blogger, I sat at Marc’s Keynote Performance at the Plenary Breakfast Session on Monday at the Grantmakers for the Arts 2011 Conference, confident in capturing the essence of the experience while having my morning coffee with a ballroom full of my colleagues.

It became very clear that Marc operates at speeds unfamiliar to most people and I was left both delighted and bewildered by his message.

Individual Artists, Social Justice and Fabulous Food Trucks: Preconference People and Their Stories
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The inimitable Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer, our third official conference blogger, checks in post-conference with a rundown of her preconference experience. Photos, and Hoong Yee drawings enrich the report. Look forward to more from her as she documents her San Francisco Conference experience.

Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s Formula For Changing The World
Posted on by Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer

Marc Bamuthi Joseph How do you listen to a whirlwind?   If the whirlwind has a name, such as Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and he is before you – natty, smart, hey let me check you outstylish with a sharp lid tossed … Continue reading →

Individual Artists, Social Justice and Fabulous Food Trucks: Preconference People and Their Stories
Posted on by Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer

  Rhodessa Jones,  how should I begin? Yes  you are a performing artist, writer & director, founder and artistic director of The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women – is everyone following me?  Stay with the tour, people. The Individual … Continue reading →

GIA Wrap Up
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Barry Hessenius' final blog for the GIA 2011conference.

My take-away from this conference is that the arts funder’s legacy of acting pretty much alone is no longer thought to be the preferred way to approach goals, and certainly not a viable way to deal with the “velocity of change” that was the theme of the gathering. I think the potential of this sleeping giant may in the not too distant future surprise even themselves.
GIA Conference D3: Final Thoughts (Arts Education IS Social Justice)
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Richard Kessler's final blog post of the GIA 2011 conference:

While this will be my final post as one of the three official conference bloggers, I have no doubt that so very much of what I encountered idea-wise will infiltrate not only my blogging on Dewey21C, but also my work for quite some time. That statement should tell you a lot about how I experienced the three days.
GIA Conference D3: Final Thoughts (Arts Education IS Social Justice)
Posted on by Richard Kessler

GIA Conference D3/Wrap Up While this will be my final post as one of the three official conference bloggers, I have no doubt that so very much of what I encountered idea-wise will infiltrate not only my blogging on Dewey21C, … Continue reading →

GIA Wrap Up
Posted on by Barry Hessenius

Good morning. “And the beat goes on…………………………” GIA – Day 3: The final day at any arts convention is usually a little anti-climatic.  People are checking out in the morning, some off for early flights; others are staying over to … Continue reading →

GIA Conference D2: Is Darwin in The House?
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Richard Kessler gives his high points on Tuesday at the San Francisco conference:

Mason Bates represents change in a vitally important way. He is, in so many respects, representative of the modern American composer. He’s hip, smart, also a DJ, draws upon a palatte that is not limited, by a long shot, by what most consider to be “classical” music, and here’s the best part, he’s one of two composers in residence with the orchestra that I consider to be among the most tradition bound. It’s the orchestra considered by many to be the standard bearer of quality and tradition. Not known for relationships with the American experimentalists nor great shape shifters of the 20th and 21st centuries, in my mind, the appointment of Mason Bates should be enough for people to rethink their long held opinions of what canonical organizations are and aren’t. Oh, and yes, by the way, he can compose.
Day 2 Report from Barry Hessenius
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Barry checks in from San Francisco on Tuesday:

(Tuesday) started out with a continental breakfast that included scrambled eggs, fresh fruit and croissants—a definite step up from the usual hotel continental fare—served in the Fairmont’s Venetian Room—once a high end night club in San Francisco where Ella Fitzgerald, Pearl Bailey (look her up all you Millennials out there—she was the real deal) and Tony Bennet held court.