Festivals and Social Impact Webinar

 

Festivals and Social Impact Webinar
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
9 a.m. PST / 12 p.m. EST
How does a festival do more than just bring together people for a moment, but foster long-term community belonging, cultural resilience, and social cohesion as well? Come join the conversation to hear more. A conversation with Maria Rosario Jackson, Maribel Alvarez and Bernard G. Siquieros on the intentional process of community building before, during and after a festival as demonstrated by the annual heritage arts festival Tucson Meet Yourself in Tucson, Arizona.
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https://asu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lIZlivTKTpqJ0B-9FIy7mQ

This webinar is part of a series produced by the Studio for Creativity, Place and Equitable Communities at Arizona State University in collaboration with Drexel University’s Westphal College of Media, Arts and Design. The webinar series focuses on themes from a new publication, The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking,  available at Routledge's website. The Studio for Creativity, Place and Equitable Communities is supported with resources from the Kresge Foundation and ArtPlace America.

Maribel L. Alvarez, Ph.D., Panelist, Associate Dean for Community Engagement, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona
Maribel Alvarez is an anthropologist, folklorist, writer, and curator. She holds the Jim Griffith Chair in Public Folklore at the Southwest Center and is Associate Research Professor in the School of Anthropology. Dr. Alvarez wrote a chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking during her Senior Policy Fellowship with the Studio for Creativity, Place and Equitable Communities at ASU. Since Fall 2018 she has served as Associate Dean for Community Engagement in the College of Social & Behavioral Sciences. Her work portfolio in SBS includes a wide range of public-facing initiatives in partnership with faculty, staff, government agencies, philanthropy, and community organizations. Dr. Alvarez is the founder, and until recently served as Executive Director, of the Southwest Folklife Alliance, an independent nonprofit affiliated with the University of Arizona.

Bernard G. Siquieros (Tohono O’odham), Panelist
Bernard G. Siquieros is an enrolled member of the Tohono O’odham Nation recently retired as the Curator of Education at Himdag Ki: Hekĭhu, Hemu, Im B I-Ha’ap, the Tohono O’odham Nation’s Cultural Center and Museum. He has also worked as a counselor, researcher, program coordinator, and education administrator on and off the Tohono O’odham Nation. He is an avid photographer and has contributed immensely to the tribe’s photo documentation efforts at Himdag Ki.

Maria Rosario Jackson, Ph.D., Facilitator Director and Institute Professor, Studio for Creativity, Place and Equitable Communities at Arizona State University
Maria Rosario Jackson’s expertise is in comprehensive community revitalization, systems change, arts and culture in communities and dynamics of race and ethnicity. She’s worked widely with philanthropy and governments advising on strategy, program design, research, learning and evaluation. She’s an Institute Professor, Director of the Studio for Creativity, Place and Equitable Communities and is affiliated with Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions. Prior, she was with Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. for 18 years.

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