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...
The residents of the city of Merrill and the surrounding areas of Lincoln county Wisconsin continue to talk, listen, and work together on "Building Merrill Together," a now-ongoing public discussion program hosted by the T.B. Scott Library in Merrill and supported...
On March 16 the online project IF joined about this time last year, USATalk, convened more than a dozen organizations and advisors at Zoom’s headquarters in San Jose, California. Zoom graciously put their state of the art video chat facility at our disposal and...
For the past two years, Wesleyan College students have worked with the help of faculty and staff to develop a discussion-based peer-to-peer program. The Diversity and Inclusion Discussions (DID) aims to empower students to become agents of change through civil...
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...
By: Marc Erlbaum, founder of the Common Party Originally posted on Medium and re-posted here with the author's permission. In the wake of the Parkland shooting, millions of people around the country are both anxious, and anxious to react. The frequency of mass...
In November IF Fellow Ieva Notturno and IF Vice President Jeff Prudhomme delivered a two-day training workshop for twelve young artists at the Joan Mitchell Foundation in New York City. The trainees are part of the Youth Leadership Council working to develop and...
Students at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia, co-created a second year of successful Diversity and Inclusion Discussions (DID) based on skills they learned from the Interactivity Foundation’s IF Discussion Facilitation Process. This renewed series of discussions...
As reported in a recent newsletter, this past summer IF collaborated with Ballotpedia on USATalk’s first real-world pilot project—a fall 2017 voter information initiative in Des Moines, Iowa. That project, was a resounding success. We have now had time to digest...
Who has responsibilities for higher education? What are different ways to envision these responsibilities? Eleven discussion participants came together using the Zoom videoconferencing platform for a mini-series of discussions to explore questions such as these....
