Terry Amsler Program Director, Public Engagement Program, Institute for Local Government Amsler is the program director of the Institute for Local Government’s Public Engagement program, which promotes and supports effective and inclusive public engagement in California’s cities and counties and helps local officials involve the public in decision making. The Institute is the nonprofit research […]
PART OF A KNIGHT FOUNDATION SERIES ON PUBLIC MEDIA 50 YEARS AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING ACT In mid-1971, less than a year after the Public Broadcasting Service was created, a 35-year-old lawyer in the Nixon White House warned that conservatives were being “confronted with a long-range problem of significant social consequences – […]
The penultimate chapter of the Mainly Mozart Festival 2016–leading up to the multimedia grand finale, “Timeless Rose,” scheduled for Friday, July 1, at Knight Concert Hall–was a noble, delightful example of how things should be done. Subtly innovative in concept and focus, without any pretentions except making good music (which is enough), and definitely refreshing on […]
2012 MEDIA LEARNING SEMINAR Bookbrewer (formerly Printcasting) BookBrewer is a web-based publishing tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish a book, both as an eBook and Print on Demand. Setup fees per title range from $20-$60, depending on various features and distribution options chosen by the author, and the author keeps […]
Above: An overflow audience listens to venture capital discussion at eMerge Americas. Photo by R. Adams. The opening day of eMerge Americas 2016, the tech conference and expo taking place at the Miami Beach Convention Center Monday and Tuesday, offered impressive numbers, inspiring talk and serious business. Not bad for an event only in its […]
Photos courtesy Reading Terminal Market. Ann Mintz is the manager of development and special projects for Philadelphia’s Reading Terminal Market, a winner of Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia to curate a performing arts series at the popular shopping venue. A white-haired woman watches a group of salsa dancers, moving to the music. One of the dancers […]
Photo: Soprano Christine Goerke, right, with Megan Barrera, taught a master class in July for the Miami Summer Music Festival. Photo by Synthia Steinman/Courtesy Miami Summer Music Festival A hurricane swept through Miami, but instead of leaving destruction and desolation in its wake, it left an unprecedented number of happy, hopeful faces. The hurricane had a […]
Institute of the Future launches effort with $250,000 from Knight Foundation
eMerge 2015 (above). Photo by Michael Bolden. eMerge Americas 2015 presented technology and business with a Miami flair last week. There was serious business transacted from Downtown Miami to the Miami Beach Convention Center May 1-5. There were discussions about eGovernment, including data security and governance in a new technological environment; the Women, Innovation and […]
David Blaszkiewicz, president and CEO, Invest Detroit; Katy Locker, program director/Detroit, Knight Foundation; and Rodrick T. Miller president and CEO, Detroit Economic Growth Corp., present awards to winning contestants. Photos courtesy Detroit Economic Growth Corp. Ruth Bell was so nervous about pitching Chugga’s, her wholesale bread-baking company, she had to be shoved into the room […]
I entered curious and vaguely intrigued, but reserved about going in. On an uncharacteristically chilly Miami night, I invited my husband to watch “Now Now Oh Now,” an interactive theater experience from Rude Mechs, an Austin-based theater ensemble made up by Robert S. Fisher, Thomas Graves, Hannah Kenah, Lana Lesley, E. Jason Liebrecht and Shawn […]