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TONIGHT, Tonight, tonight!!! (as in, in three hours from now)

Education, Action & Social Change Discussions 7:00 PM in the Tap Room

These discussions, lectures and screenings focus on how education – whether in formal learning settings or through public interventions — can be a force for social change.

• Sebastian Ruth, Founder & Executive Director of Community MusicWorks, 19 January, 7PM in the Tap Room: Community MusicWorks creates cohesive urban community through music education and performance that transforms the lives of children, families, and musicians. At the center of this mission are the teaching, mentoring, program design, and performance activities of the Providence String Quartet. Sebastian Ruth founded Community MusicWorks in 1997 with the conviction that music and musicians have an important role to play in creating and transforming communities.

Tonight! Josh MacPhee: founder of Just Seeds

1.14.2010
7:00 pm, TAP ROOM
Street Art for Social Change

Justseeds was originally started in 1998 by artist Josh PacPhee as a way to distribute his art and the Celebrate People’s History poster series. In 2006, MacPhee reached out to a dozen like-minded artists and previous collaborators as well as the political street art Blog Visual Resistance in order to re-envision Justseeds as a cooperative effort.

*ALSO: don’t miss Project Open Door’s Student Exhibition TONIGHT before Josh MacPhee. (details posted below)

These discussions, lectures and screenings focus on how education – whether in formal learning settings or through public interventions — can be a force for social change.

TONIGHT:

·       Sam Seidel, RISD Public Engagement Community Fellow and founding director of Broad Street Studio, 11 January, 7PM in the Tap Room: Over the last decade, Sam’s work has focused on the intersections between education, arts and incarceration.  Certified as a high school Language Arts teacher, Sam has taught a variety of ages and subjects from first grade reading to post-secondary screenplay writing.  He directed AS220 Broad Street Studio, a grassroots arts program for young people in and transitioning out of prison and was the founding director of the Maysles Institute youth documentary film program.