Fw FYI: Join Us for the City of Boston Artist-Led Civic Infrastructure Panel
Joan Pasquale
From: "Yuko Okabe" <ykoo...@gmail.com>
To: PCB...@Mail.com Cc: bur...@iiilabs.org
Subject: Join Us for the City of Boston Artist-Led Civic Infrastructure Panel
Hi,
My name is Yuko Okabe and I’m an artist consulting with the City of Boston’s Office of Arts and Culture. I'm working alongside other local artists and creative practitioners to redesign the City’s Artist-in-Residence (AiR) program to be more inclusive, thoughtful, and reflective of Boston’s creative community. A large part of our consultancy involves organizing community listening sessions in Boston neighborhoods as a way to collect critical feedback from artists and creatives in order to shape creative civic engagement at the City.
I would love to personally invite you and your network to two upcoming events focused on collecting feedback from Allston-Brighton artists specifically. I'll be facilitating these conversations alongside another consultant and artist, Burhan from iiiLabs:
1. Filling the Gaps: How Can We Leverage Artists to Build a Stronger Civic Infrastructure
⏰Thursday May 28th from 6–8PM
📍Zoom (we will email out the invitation link closer to the event)
The virtual panel will engage four local Allston-Brighton artists and former City of Boston Artist-in-Residence (AiR) participants in a discussion about how artists can help build stronger, more responsive civic systems. Following the panel, participants will join breakout room activities to imagine how artists can be more meaningfully embedded across city systems and help shape a more community-centered City of Boston AiR (Artist-in-Residence) program.
Featured Panelists
Prophet Paker-McWhorter @prophetpm
Golden @goldenthem_
Wayne Strattman @strattman_design
Melissa Teng
2. Crafting Civic Practice: An Evening Exploring the Artist-in-Residence (AiR) Program at the City of Boston
⏰ Tuesday, June 2nd from 6:00-8:00pm
📍Unbound Visual Arts Gallery at 175 Washington St., Brighton, MA 02135 (lower level of Overlook at St. Gabriel's
An evening of chatting and crafting with local Allston-Brighton artists interested in learning about creative civic engagement at the City of Boston. This event will include a craft + design intensive where Allston-Brighton artists explore how to use their “artistic thinking” to explore and solve hypothetical City issues. Feedback from this session will help the City reimagine their Artist-in-Residence (AiR) program which pairs artists with City departments to uncover community needs and find creative solutions to City-wide infrastructure.
Light refreshments will be provided. We can accommodate 25 people with priority to artists living and/or working in Allston-Brighton
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**YOU CAN RSVP TO BOTH EVENTS at this link and select our events on the third page.**
We welcome you to join us in these discussions and to invite any artists or creatives in the Allston-Brighton neighborhood that would benefit from these events or others listed in the RSVP Form in different neighborhoods. We also welcome you to post the invite on your social channels or newsletters to get the word out.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Warmly,
Yuko + Burhan