August 2011
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MPR: The Walker's "reading room" vs. your local... →
Pitting Reading Room MPLS against the ‘Local Library’ is missing the point.
The public library is a place primarily about open access to information while Reading Room MPLS is an event primarily about the experience of intentional reading with others. It’s like apples to oranges, there’s no way to compare the two!
More importantly, Reading Room MPLS is a creative...
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Field Office Fellowship: Interview with Rachel...
This Monday we’ll hold the first of 6 public conversations with this summers Field Office Fellows, starting with Rachel Breen (see below for more details!). In anticipation of each discussion, we’ll be posting short interviews with the fellows. Here is what Rachel had to say:
You’re an associate at On the Commons, can you tell us about when and why you first started thinking about the commons...
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“I wonder if there are people out there who read creatively? If we can agree that...”
– Chris Fischbach, publisher at Coffee House Press and the creator of Reading Room MPLS, shares some questions that he hopes people will ask themselves (and others) when encountering his project. Reading Room MPLS is one of 8 artist projects created as part of the Field Office Fellowship, a...
WatchStumbled across SpeakeasyDC, an autobiographical open mic storytelling series that shares some of the same community building goals as our Give & Take program - though it seems they have a slightly more narrow definition of what storytelling is, what it can look like, and how participatory it can be. Still, looks like a great series! I love that they see their work “training”...
