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University
of Connecticut Launches Creative Community Building Program
An interdisciplinary team of university and community partners has
developed a new Creative Community Building Program. Through its Center
for Continuing Studies, the University of Connecticut will offer an
undergraduate emphasis in this topic in its Bachelor of General Studies
degree, as well as non-credit, professional development workshops and
seminars. Steven Dahlberg and Phoebe Godfrey will co-teach the first
course in this program this fall: Creativity and Social Change.
Engaging
Creative Community: Sculpting Society by Choice, Not by Chance
Steven Dahlberg contributed this piece to a cooperatively-produced
issue of New Village Online, which has has just been released on
the theme of "Unboxing
Democracy's Magic." The four articles explore creativity,
communities and democracy and include:
- Democracy
Without Boxes or Borders - By Len Krimerman
- Democracy
and Education: One Community Example - By Phoebe Godfrey
- Communiversity:
Weaving a Community Web of Love and Hope - By Gus Jaccaci
Steven
Dahlberg Participates in "COMV08: 2008 National Communiversity
Conference"
Dahlberg joined nearly 40 people from 14 communities -- including
Willimantic, Connecticut -- to share examples of community learning and
creative engagement. The conference was held in Maine from July 25 to 27.
Dahlberg and three other Windham-area residents represented the Imagine
Willimantic Communiversity.
Think
and Be Heard: Creativity, Aging, and Community Engagement (PDF)
Americans for
the Arts releases white paper about creativity, arts and aging, written by Steven Dahlberg as a follow up to the
2007 MetLife
Foundation National Arts Forum Series
Art
with heart ... Community banner project to brighten downtown Rock Hill
The Herald of Rock Hill, South Carolina (7 February 2008)
reports that "A splash of color will liven up the winter blahs in
downtown Rock Hill, part of a community arts program sponsored by the Arts
Council of York County and the Rock Hill school district. ... The
community art project, titled Creativity: The Heart of the Community, is
led by artists in residence Steven Dahlberg and JoAnn Moran, both from
Connecticut. The project is a way for people to express themselves and
participate in creating their own community through art, Dahlberg said.
'It is a way to engage people in creating their community and bring people
together that wouldn't normally work together, like youth and adults.'
Dahlberg said. ... Dahlberg said the project is collaborative, so everyone
can add something."
Steven
Dahlberg to Collaborate with Windham
High School Young Poets
Steven Dahlberg and the International Centre for Creativity and
Imagination will collaborate with Windham
High School, The Young Poets group, and teacher Lynn Frazier for a
semester-long, interdisciplinary "Think and Be Heard" creativity
project.
Steven
Dahlberg Selected in Case Foundation's Top 100 Breakthrough Ideas
Steven
Dahlberg's proposal -- on behalf of his Willimantic, Connecticut,
community -- has been selected from nearly 5,000 proposals as a
Top 100 Idea Finalist in the Case Foundation's "Make It Your Own"
Awards program. The project is for "Weaving a New
Willimantic": A former thread-mill town weaves a new creative
fabric -- where people's ideas matter, where we engage our
creativity together and where we co-create our community's common good. We
will use inclusive dialogue processes to coordinate current
citizen-centered projects and to include more voices. - NEW!
The Chronicle profiles Dahlberg and this project: "Dahlberg
Brings People Together Through Creativity."
Continental Creative President: European Leader Calls for Culture, Diversity and Openness to Solve Global Problems
By
Steven Dahlberg - European Commission President José Manuel Barroso's closing keynote at the Global Creative Leadership Summit made a strong case for the role of creativity, innovation and diversity for addressing global problems such as climate change and fighting poverty. "Those are the two main tasks of leadership in the 21st century," he said. The other global issue linked with solving climate change and poverty is culture. "Culture is a solution."
Local
view: Now could be creative turning point for Duluth
Steven Dahlberg writes in the Duluth News Tribune (June 2007): As
the Duluth-Superior area proceeds into the Knight Creative Communities
Initiative, it’s important to consider how to engage everyone’s
creativity — not just that of artists or the creative class — in
community and economic development. ... For more than 15 years, I’ve
been working internationally in the field of creativity, advocating for
the importance of creative thinking and helping people unleash and harness
more of their inherent creative abilities. Yet my creative endeavors began
in Duluth as a teenage entrepreneur, a freelance writer and photographer
and a political junkie. I am delighted to know that the Duluth-Superior
area was among just three cities chosen by the John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation to work with economist Richard Florida.
Seat-of-the-Pants
Innovation
Steven Dahlberg talks about workplace creativity and innovation in
Industrial Fabric Products Review article - May 2007
The
Right to Be Creative – In Schools, In Prison and In Life [Named
as Editors' Pick at Gather.com]
By
Steven Dahlberg - Inmates forfeit many rights while they are in prison.
But their "right to think and be heard" - to think creatively and
express their ideas
Applied Imagination
"It's not
hard to engage your core creativity, says Steve Dahlberg, but it can feel
awkward at first. ... 'Part of it is simply paying attention and noticing
whether you're judging what you're thinking or are remaining open to
putting the pieces together in different ways,' he says." - Quoted
in
Northwestern Mutual's Creative Living Magazine
After
Katrina: Creativity's Role in Trauma and Growth (PDF)
Commentary: The
residents in the Hurricane Katrina-hit areas are facing the challenge of
asking "what next?" and of looking for ways to meaningfully engage
in redefining their identities. The hurricane survivors aren't challenged
about how to simply adapt one particular aspect of their lives. Rather,
individuals, organizations and the community at-large are all asking: How
might I completely recreate my own life, while simultaneously recreating my
entire community from the ground up? This entire process and search is a
creative act. And thriving in one's post-hurricane life is a challenge of the
imagination.
Creativity by Choice, Not by Chance: Developing Imagination In the Intelligence
Community (PDF)
A response to the 9/11 Commission Report that declared that it is "crucial to find a way of routinizing, even bureaucratizing, the exercise of imagination" and
to the House of Representatives Committee on Intelligence hearings that followed in August to discuss the intelligence community’s
"failure of imagination" and the "requirement for imagination and creativity" going forward.
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COMING
UP:
Steven Dahlberg hosts WindhamARTS' monthly Creativity Networking event - Main Street Cafe, 967 Main Street, Willimantic, Connecticut -
5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
- AUGUST 6: "The Creative Life: Living with Meaning and Purpose"
with John Cusano and Reggie Marra
Steven Dahlberg to host monthly Creativity Networking event at the New
Britain Museum of American Art - July 31 and August
28, 2008 - New
Britain, Connecticut
"Creativity and Social Change" undergraduate course in the Creative
Community Building Program at the University of Connecticut - With Steven
Dahlberg and Phoebe Godfrey - 6:00-9:00 p.m. - Tuesdays and Thursday,
September 9 to October 23,
2008 - Storrs, Connecticut
Steven Dahlberg to lead panel at World
Cultural Economic Forum - October 29-31, 2008 - New Orleans, Louisiana
RECENT
NEWS AND EVENTS:
Steven Dahlberg appointed to serve on Ad-Hoc Committee on Economic Development for
the Town of Windham, Connecticut - July 2008
Steven Dahlberg leads keynote on "Making Creativity Visible" and creativity
workshop at Higher
Order Thinking (HOT) Schools Summer Institute - July 14-18, 2008 -
Hartford, Connecticut
Steven Dahlberg leads creativity workshop at Confratute 2008 -
July 7-18, 2008 - Storrs, Connecticut
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