Why Change? Why Poetry?: Poetry is the Language of the People

In this series, Dr. Camea Davis explores Season 2 of the Why Change? podcast through poetic inquiry. Poetic Inquiry is a research process created by multiculturalists and feminists in the 1970s who urged the field of qualitative research to make substantial space for the ways of knowing and being of minoritized people, including but not limited to women, people of color, among other groups. 

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REDEFINING ELDERSHIP: Intergenerational Co-Mentoring Project

Since 2019, Creative Generation has conducted myriad campaigns through its Campaign for a Creative Generation, which is dedicated to empowering young creatives and their communities by providing a hub for stories, resources, and opportunities. This year’s campaign is focused on Intergenerational Collaboration, explored through quarterly topics. In this blog, Podcast Co-Host Madeleine McGirk writes a forward on this quarter’s theme: Redefining Eldership.

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Making It a Movement, Not a Moment

In this blog, Manager of Community Knowledge André Solomon analyzes the responses of funders of color speaking on previous season of Creative Generation's Why Change? podcast. Why Change? invites listeners around the globe to learn how artists, educators, and cultural practitioners can change the world, one community at a time, while envisioning new, creative futures through the question, “why change?” Season 2 investigated how funders and funder-adjacent individuals (i.e. consultants) approach changes to the philanthropic sector in the United States. 

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Introducing This Quarter’s Theme: Redefining Eldership

Since 2019, Creative Generation has conducted myriad campaigns through its Campaign for a Creative Generation, which is dedicated to empowering young creatives and their communities by providing a hub for stories, resources, and opportunities. This year’s campaign is focused on Intergenerational Collaboration, explored through quarterly topics. In this blog, Director of Communications Katie Rainey writes about this quarter’s topic: Redefining Eldership.

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