The Racial Unity Team Exeter funded by a $5000 grant by New Hampshire Charitable Foundations is working with Phillips Exeter Academy and the University of New Hampshire to conduct a free conversation and art program called Culture Keeping and Culture Making. The project, is to create change through the arts and seeks to engage multigenerational, multicultural Exeter and Seacoast residents in dialogue on diversity and new directions required in our culture. The project would involve participants engaged in o Defining what diversity means to our community, o Uncovering what we know/don’t know about culture and systems, o Creating visual interpretations of the importance of diversity o Learning how we may support equity o Sharing the expressions of the importance of diversity in an art space. The project with support from UNH Social Justice educator Kristen Butterfield alongside artist Richard Hayes M.F.A., Pratt Institute, recognized artist, Associate Director of Admissions for Diversity at the University of NH. With their leadership, participants would form their expressions of key concepts in, not only being keepers of culture, but also being makers of culture. The art generated by participants of this project will tell us what the artists learned about diversity in the present moment and will serve to create a new direction for those who have participated in the art program and the community at large. Artists work will go on display in Exeter art galleries and can also be viewed during the Third Annual Walk a mile for Racial Unit that will be held in Exeter on October 21, 2017. No experience is required to participate and educators involved in our SAU 16 school district are encouraged to attend. The Building Bridges Culture Keepers | Culture Makers Team is now accepting applications for the August 30 – October 16, 2017 program. For more information and how you may participate contact Ken Mendis Racialunityteam1@gmail.com or call 1-610-904-8001 or visit us on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/unity2030/
Wednesday Aug 30, 2017
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM EDT
Aug 30, 2017 6:00 PM
Phillips Exeter Academy 20 Main Street Exeter NH 03833
Free
Ken Mendis
Racial Unity Team
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