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‘Communicating Across Cultures’ collaboration with Humanities DC and Howard University launches

September 24, 2019 / Natalie Hopkinson / Blog, Education

COMMUNICATING ACROSS CULTURES (GENTRIFICATION) DISCUSSIONS Some 75 DC residents came out for the launch of the “Vision Grant” award-winning partnership between IF, Howard University and Humanities DC. BRINK Media designed an advertising campaign that included promotional videos that framed the discussion. The Washington, D.C. Mayor’s Office of African American Affairs arranged to make the Frank … Read more »

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IF Fellow Longlisted for PEN America Award

January 15, 2019 / Natalie Hopkinson / Blog

IF Fellow Natalie Hopkinson’s book, A Mouth is Always Muzzled: Six Dissidents, Five Continents and the Art of Resistance was longlisted for PEN America’s 2019 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award. Hopkinson was one of ten semi-finalists honored in a category for books that “exemplifies the dignity and esteem that the essay form imparts to literature.” Muzzled originated in … Read more »

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IF ‘Connects Beyond the Page’

May 4, 2018 / Natalie Hopkinson / Blog

IF participated in the inaugural “Connect Beyond the Page” festival in Asheville, North Carolina April 20-22, which featured writers, musicians, filmmakers, television creatives who explored how the arts, storytelling and activism can bring people together. This festival was the brainchild of cultural entrepreneur Jessica Tomasin, who is active in the Asheville arts and community development … Read more »

Read More asheville, connect beyond the page, future of the arts, future of the arts and society, jessica tomasin, shaping our towns

IF Fellow Delivers “Republic Lecture” on Art & Citizenship in Georgetown, Guyana

March 8, 2018 / Natalie Hopkinson / Blog, Education, Public Discussion Blog

IF Fellow Dr. Natalie Hopkinson was invited to deliver the Republic Lecture by the government of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana on Feb. 22, 2018 on the role of the creative arts in citizenship. She was also invited to launch her new book, “A Mouth is Always Muzzled: Six Dissidents, Five Continents and the Art … Read more »

Read More A Mouth is Always Muzzled, afrofuturism, art and citizenship, artists and citizenship, Black Panther film, ethnofuturism, Guyana, Khadija Benn, Letitia Wright, Mashramani, Natalie Hopkinson, Sherlina Nageer, Vidya Kissoon

New Book Spins Off IF Arts Policy Project

May 1, 2017 / Natalie Hopkinson / Blog, Education, Public Discussion Blog

IF Fellow Natalie Hopkinson’s new book is now available on Amazon for preorder. The book, A Mouth is Always Muzzled, first originated in 2012 as a public policy discussion project with IF. The original discussion guide remains available as a free download. The book, published by the New York-based The New Press, builds on some of … Read more »

Read More art in action, art in defiance, arts and public policy, free download arts discussions, Natalie Hopkinson, new book, The New Press

IF LIVE: “Making of a Murderer” 2/23

January 12, 2016 / Natalie Hopkinson / Blog, Public Discussion Blog

Noon-1 p.m. EST  2/23/2015 IF fellows and staff are obsessed with the new viral Netflix series, “Making of a Murderer.” The 10-part documentary series looks at the case of a Wisconsin man who spent 18 years in jail for a rape that he did not commit. Steven Avery was exonerated in 2003 by DNA evidence, … Read more »

Read More crime and punishment, Google Hangout, IF discussions, Making of a Murder, Making of a murder class issues, making of a murder news media, Making of a Murderer, Making of a Murderer Netflix, the news media, Wisconsin making of a murderer

The White House, Open Society Foundations Featured at IF Philanthropy Roundtable

October 5, 2015 / Natalie Hopkinson / Blog

On March 11, 2009, President Obama signed an Executive Order creating the White House Council on Women and Girls. The council’s purpose, President Obama said, is “to ensure that in America, all things are still possible for all people.”  Members of the council are traveling around the country to canvas stakeholders in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors … Read more »

Read More Allison R. Brown, gender, gender equity, intersections, Kimberlyn Leary, Midwest philanthropy, Open Society Foundations, philanthropy, President Obama, race, racial equity, White House, White House Council on Women and Girls, women and girls of color

IF Talks and the Baltimore Uprisings

June 22, 2015 / Natalie Hopkinson / Blog

– Natalie Hopkinson The newly renovated grounds of the campus of the old St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Washington, D.C. was packed with residents who came to explore the policy opportunities that have surfaced in the wake of several urban uprisings around the country during a #BlackMomsMatter conversation. Demonstrations against police brutality 40 miles away in Baltimore … Read more »

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IF Talks Back to the Baltimore Uprisings

June 8, 2015 / Natalie Hopkinson / Blog, Public Discussion Blog

  More than one hundred people packed the newly renovated grounds of the campus of the old St. Elizabeth’s hospital in Washington, D.C. to explore the policy opportunities that have surfaced in the wake of several urban uprisings around the country. The #BlackMomsMatter conversation cast a critical eye on the discourse around a mother of six whose viral video … Read more »

Read More #blackmomsmatter, baltimore riots, baltimore uprising, future of sex policy, gender policy, Natalie Hopkinson, ronald moten, stacey patton, toya graham
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