Call for Blog Posts: What's Mentorship Like These Days?

Our team is sharing their experience with mentorship on the blog and we want to hear from you, too! Take a look at our Modern Membership series and tell us about how you have mentored or been mentored! We want to hear from arts learners, their adult co-conspirators, and everyone in between.

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Unlearning Ageism: Expanding the Definition of Mentorship in Arts & Cultural Education

In this model, each individual’s experience is honored from their own lived experiences. As an asset-based approach to mentorship, focus is placed on individual strengths and the diversity in thought, culture, and traits. We must ask ourselves, is that not essentially what arts education aims to do: amplify creative practices and embolden the perspectives of young people for the benefit of communities?

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Creativity for Good: Applying Creativity for Social Transformation

Last month, we announced the campaign for 2021: Creativity for Good. This campaign aims to share the stories, experiences, and projects led by young creatives applying their creativity for the social good. This blog explores how young creatives are applying their creativity for the social good and proposed new language, frameworks, and actions you can take to support creativity for good.

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Creative Economy: A Year of Activation and Actualization

In efforts to rebuild our post-pandemic societies – we turn to our creative and cultural practitioners. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) designated 2021 as the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development, demonstrating somewhat remarkable foresight whilst launching the Creative Economy Program towards the end of 2019 at the 74th session of the UN General Assembly.

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