Once a month we gather up and share our favourite reads and listens and pop them in our newsletter. Here’s a quick recap of the most recent ones – in reverse order.
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August 2017 – What we’re reading and listening to
- “Curation can be a form of community organizing,” from the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s Culture Lab Manifesto
- What the conversation about rural America is missing, from vox.com
- Playing to the Gallery, in which Grayson Perry answers our most basic questions about the art world we were too embarrassed to ask
- Watch: What have journalists learned from listening to America?, from the Aspen Ideas Festival
- Millennials are the ones keeping libraries alive, on Quartz
July 2017 – What we’re reading and listening to
- The work of group Voice of Witness (VOW), sharing oral histories that challenge assumptions and start dialogues
- Millennials are the most likely generation of Americans to use public libraries, from Pew Research Center
- The “trouble with reality” and dealing with moral panic in the Trump-era, from journalist Brooke Gladstone
- Ear Hustle, an insightful podcast about life inside prison, produced by those experiencing it
- Why it’s so hard for us to change our views, from NPR’s The Hidden Brain
June 2017 – What we’re reading and listening to
- Mapping the sounds of protest, demonstration, and politics, a project of Cities and Memory
- Why the opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, on an episode of The Ezra Klein Show
- “The Living Museum,” an a16z Podcast on how museums are bringing innovating storytelling techniques to their spaces and beyond
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