There is a part of me that didn’t want to write this blog. Our news and social media feeds have been bombarded with news of COVID-19, the worldwide pandemic of a new virus that has no vaccine (as of yet) and that has upended our lives in so many ways.
Archive for tag: storytelling matters

Empowering New Storytellers
“The theater became a space for multi-tribal community of people -- celebrating who they are and rising up their stories. I was in the back of the theater, weeping,” remembers Wendy Levy, Executive Director of The Alliance for Media Arts + Culture, an international nonprofit whose mission is to facilitate collaboration, strategic growth, innovation and cultural impact for the media arts field.

Antecedent Technology
Antecedent Technology Don’t colonize our future By: Amelia Winger-Bearskin Reprinted From Immerse In data science, we talk about models suffering from either “overfitting” or “underfitting.”...

Aden Suchak on Instagram
Put some respect on Instagram’s name. That isn’t to say put some respect on the corporate engine it is a part of, but to realize its importance in counter-culture and visual media.

Youth Media Playlist 2019
During my time with the Alliance, I have had the pleasure to dive into the realm of Youth Media, and interact with passionate leaders in the field, which is something I have always wanted to do.

Healing Through the Arts: LoveTopia
If you can create your own world what would it be? What would it look like?

TRANSITIONS
I recently picked up Adrienne Marie Brown’s Emergent Strategies. In it, Brown describes a way of thinking and organizing that she calls fractal. A fractal is “a curve or geometric figure, each part of which has the same statistical character as the whole.”

OFF BALANCE
Balance. I’ve never really been all that good at it. As a child, I would take a running leap off the public dock, curl myself up, and land cannonball-style into Lake Minnetonka at the first hint of spring.