UC San Diego, Conflict Resolution Center team up on civility project
UC San Diego and the National Conflict Resolution Center have launched a new research program aimed at evaluating and and building civility in American life.
The Applied Research Center for Civility, based at the university, will study the dynamics behind hate,
intolerance, racial injustice and other social ills, then identify and assess ways to curb them. It will share the findings in reports and conferences.
“Civility in our public life as we know it is on life support,” said Steven Dinkin, president of the San Diego-based Conflict Resolution Center and co-chair of the new civility center. “The breakdown of civil
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Eleven San Diego County arts organizations received a combined $203,000 in grants Wednesday from the National Endowment for Arts as part of the federal agency’s spring 2021 funding program.
Overall, the NEA disbursed $88 million in grants to more than 1,000 organizations nationwide. The funding included $27 million in individual grants for arts projects planned in the coming year.
In California, 177 organizations received a combined $5.5 million in grants for arts projects. The spring funding also included “Our Town” matching grants for arts programs that enrich the community through the arts, as well as grants to state and regional arts organizations.
This spring’s grants were designed to help arts organizations most of which have been closed or drastically reduced by the pandemic over the past year re-engage with their audiences, according to Ann Eilers, NEA’s acting chair.
Spelman College Archives to house African Voices magazine
The African Voices archive will include magazine editions from 1993 through 2021.
ATLANTA, GA
.-The Spelman College Archives will be the new repository for African Voices, a literary magazine devoted to publishing emerging writers and visual artists of color from the diaspora.
Founded in 1992, African Voices Communications, Inc., a nonprofit arts institution, publishes one of the few surviving print magazines documenting Black art, literature and culture.
Past editions of the magazine, along with organizational records, videos and digitized photographs that span three decades, will be preserved by Spelman College, alongside a historical archive of the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series, the first Academy Awards qualifying film festival dedicated to providing opportunities to women of color in the film industry.
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For the past few weeks, as vaccinations rolled out across the state and movie theaters reopened, I told myself the first theater I would go back to was the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood.
Now it looks like that is not going to happen. Late on Monday, ArcLight and sister chain Pacific Theatres, which together operated some of L.A.’s top cinematic destinations, said they would not be opening their doors after the pandemic.
Perhaps we should have seen it coming. Ever since Los Angeles County moved out of the dreaded “purple” tier, we watched as AMC, Regal and even Laemmle announced their reopening dates. But not ArcLight.