Montclair has countless reasons to attract new residents, from its beautiful parks and museums to its thriving restaurant scene as motivation for choosing this vibrant community to be their new home. For details: https://lnkd.in/et6M-zwy
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Absolutely, and they in most historic (settled midcentury) Black neighborhoods. What if we created a national redevelopment and restoration fund for Prince Hall, Elks, Eastern Star and Pythian lodges? These could be cornerstone, "third place" projects redeveloped by Black developers, financed by Black banks, and owned in part by the residents community. This idea for a fund started spinning in my head in 2019, when I realized the amount of Prince Hall lodges in historically Black business districts. In Birmingham, we have Pythian, Prince Hall and Elks temples and lodges street-facing on high traffic corridors. If you bundle this, you can create economies of scale for developers. What if a team of Black developers took on these types of projects for Black communities in a state? these buildings have similar financing challenges but great upside as "catalytic" (strongly dislike that word) cool space, studio space, wellness clinics, mini grocers for Black farmers, housing and flex office for Black people and private and cooperatively owned Black businesses.
African American fraternal lodges are significant community institutions. These locations are often at risk. Check out this great article from the Florida Preservationist and Laura Lee Corbett on the importance of these sites. https://zurl.co/GuFe Adrienne had the opportunity to work on a local landmark designation for the Liberty City Elks Lodge (pictured below) while working in Miami, one of the last active lodges in the area. It was also an opportunity to utilize the Miami-Dade County preservation ordinance that allows for designation related to cultural significance, not just architectural significance. #historicpreservation #urbanplanning #culturalheritage #publichistory #africanamericanhistory
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In our latest opinion piece, Tajh Morris writes on the decades-old injustice at the heart of the recent decision to celebrate the city's club culture. Read the full feature here
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Missed Heritage Matters Live with Jay Pitter? Learn more of what the future of culture is through a heritage lens. Explore how heritage is defined, whose heritage is deemed worthy of municipal protection and confronting the complexity of colonial heritage symbols. Listen now on CBC Ideas: http://ow.ly/Y6X450OFH0q
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Huge thanks to the Urban Land Institute Sacramento for creating space to have such an important conversation. When you build with arts & culture at the center of development, you get a better community. The question then becomes: How can we work together to facilitate more projects that line up with the intention to create inclusive places?
Arts + Built Environment at WAL : 5-25-2023
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"I KNOW THIS PLACE!" The answer to yesterday's guessing game is...... the National Mall in Washington, D.C.! Click on the link below to know more about the historic monument! Were you able to get it right? Let me know by your comments below! #NationalMall #washingtondc #history #democracy #memorials #monuments #travel #park #iknowthisplace #guessinggames #strolling #prevailingwage #wagesandsalaries #wageandhour #wagedetermination #wageclassifications #wages #payrollservices #accountingservices #payrollmanagement #constructionindustry #constructionprojects #consultingservices #consultingbusiness #DavisBaconAct #federalcontractors
"I KNOW THIS PLACE!" "National Mall, Washington, D.C.: Where History and Democracy Unite" At the heart of the National Mall stands the impressive Washington Monument, a towering obelisk honoring the first President of the United States, George Washington. Flanking the Mall are the Lincoln Memorial, dedicated to President Abraham Lincoln, and the Jefferson Memorial, honoring Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. The National Mall also features the iconic Reflecting Pool, a long, shimmering waterway that mirrors the surrounding memorials and serves as a place for peaceful contemplation. The Mall is surrounded by a collection of world-class museums known as the Smithsonian Institution, including the National Air and Space Museum, the National Museum of American History, and the National Gallery of Art. With its grandeur, rich history, and symbolic importance, the National Mall is a must-visit destination for tourists, history enthusiasts, and anyone seeking to explore and appreciate the core values and achievements of the United States. Were you able to get it right? Comment below! Photo from nationalmall.org #NationalMall #washingtondc #history #democracy #memorials #monuments #travel #park #iknowthisplace #guessinggames #strolling #prevailingwage #wagesandsalaries #wageandhour #wagedetermination #wageclassifications #wages #payrollservices #accountingservices #payrollmanagement #constructionindustry #constructionprojects #consultingservices #consultingbusiness #DavisBaconAct #federalcontractors
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"The argument isn’t made any easier by the fact that councils don’t have a statutory duty to support cultural organisations. ... So, culture often loses out in the fight for scarce resources against services that council do have a statutory duty to deliver. But there are arguments that can and should be deployed to justify spending money on culture. A powerful one is that culture actively helps councils deliver many of their other strategic priorities." 🙋♀️ I find this interesting, as someone currently renegotiating our working relationships between local authority and arts and culture delivery partners. Moving support away from cash and towards action, is a challenge, but one with long term benefits in sight. I absolutely believe that better alignment with place-based strategic priorities can strengthen our arts and culture organisations, and our councils, and is vital for diversifying investment and reach for both in turn. BUT, and it's a big one, it is doing very little in the short term, our arts and culture organisations are in danger of having long closed their doors by the time we get to these long term benefits. We can not shy away from the fact they need money and resource now to deliver these shared aims, with funding scarcer and more competitive than ever to obtain, how do we keep up morale and engagement from our cultural workforce. A few things we are doing in the New Forest to tackle this: 👉 creating a community of like-minded, creative and cultural organisations and professionals in Folio, New Forest Arts and Culture . We are louder together and support of each other is invaluable. 👉 partnership working. As a result of Folio growing year on year, we are seeing more than ever, joint projects, pooling of funds and the building of joint funding applications, for bigger impact. 👉 looking for the gaps. We are identifying where specific art forms or demographics are being underfunded and actively working on pulling in more investment in these areas. For example, we have recently secured funding for a theatre development project, an art form of least investment locally. Also, funds to develop a creative industry work experience programme for those aged 14-18, an under served demographic in our area. 👉 - developing resource internally to explore ways we can embed arts and culture practice and projects in other departments. 👉 - networking and advocating on behalf of our arts and cultural organisations across other sectors and regions. Something small organisations and individuals don't always have the resource to do. 👉 - outsourcing all delivery. Councils are not arts and culture experts. When funding is sourced we will always commission/contract delivery of projects to arts and cultural organisations/professionals, the people that do it best. I am interested to know your thoughts on what can be done by local authorities, in the short term to support arts and culture, through action not cash?
Grateful to Arts Professional for choosing my article for The Audience Agency on the symbiotic relationship between councils and culture as one of their highlights of the year. Having been appointed by Southwark Council as a trustee for the amazing South London Gallery I'm seeing first hand how important the relationship is both at a wider strategic level but also right on the ground and how a forward thinking gallery serves its local communities. But talking to Sarah Thelwall at MyCake Ltd I know how much the pressure on local government finances is bleeding through into their spending on cultural and heritage bodies.
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