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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MODERN MENTORSHIP: Thinking about mentorship in a horizontal way

While this may not be the only way to consider what mentorship typically looks like, I feel safe to assume that we typically think of mentors as people who are above us. Mentorship is often based on a one-way stream of experience, or in other words knowledge that is not openly available, from the mentor to the mentee.

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Porto Santo Charter:  Promoting Civic Participation in the Cultural Landscape 

Earlier this year, in April 2021, the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU organized the Porto Santo Conference titled, “From Democratization to Cultural Democracy: Rethinking Institutions and Practices.” The two-day hybrid (in-person and online) event brought together major European cultural networks and non-governmental organizations to generate policy recommendations focused on advancing and strengthening democracy at the nexus of arts, culture, and education.

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The Role of Music in Well-being: New Report from WolfBrown and Bernard Van Leer Foundation

A new report has been published by WolfBrown and the Bernard van Leer Foundation, titled “Making a Joyful Noise: The Potential Role of Music Making in the Well-Being of Young Families.”

Seeking to answer the question: What role does music play in building a world in which young families thrive? This report combines a comprehensive literature and landscape review that highlights the value, impact and scaling potential of music and sustainable music interventions/programmes throughout the world.

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