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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

Museum 2.0

But if you want to hear them, you have to play them yourself--or check out hundreds of interpretations shared by musicians on the Song Reader website. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. Constrain the input, free the output.

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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

Museum 2.0

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. What's the "use" of visitors' comments? That's hardly revolutionary.

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Celebrate, Educate, and Fundraise: Planning Winning AAPI Heritage Month Events

The Modern Nonprofit

Curate an exhibit of paintings, photographs, sculptures or crafts by AAPI artists. Artists, writers, and cultural leaders. If budget allows, run ads both in Asian language publications and general market newspapers/websites. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators. Displaying AAPI visual arts is another engaging activity.

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A Revolution in Documentary Film

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They also created a website that serves up clips from the film, plus a wealth of supporting information backing up the provocative claims contained in the movie and myriad ways for citizens to get involved in their own communities.

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Lessons in Participatory Design from SFMOMA's Exhibition on (you guessed) The Art of Participation

Museum 2.0

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. As the museum's website puts it, "this exhibition examines how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the art-making process."

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Psst. Want an Internship?

Museum 2.0

I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. Here's specifically what I'm looking for: Website redesign. Ever wanted to build a museum website from scratch? Please help us.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Inside the Design of an Amazing Museum Project to Capture People's Stories

Museum 2.0

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. We invited a cross-section of artists, filmmakers, and advertisers to join us for a think tank. The website for the stories is beautiful. So what did you do next?

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