Recipe for a Thriving Performing Arts Series: Part 1
We’re delighted to welcome Nick Demske back to the Library as Incubator Project for the next installment in his series of posts focusing on process and strategy librarians can use to implement excellent performing arts programs for their communities using a principle we call “Programming as Collection Development.” Nick’s work at Racine Public Library is...
Poem in Your Pocket Day at Jefferson-Madison Regional Library System
Welcome to National Poem in your Pocket Day! We’re delighted to welcome Wendy Saz to the site as part of our National Poetry Month line-up. Wendy is the Branch Manager for Crozet Library in the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library System in Charlottesville, where she launched a Poem in Your Pocket program that has become a huge outreach...
Featuring: Mwatabu Okantah
Today, we feature Mwatabu Okantah, a performance poet based in Akron, Ohio, who also serves as Assistant Professor and Poet in Residence for the Department of Pan-African Studies at Kent State University. His new book, Muntu Kuntu Energy: New and Selected Poetry, is new from Chatter House Press. ~Erinn I am now able to see The Library in the same...
BONK! Performance Series at Racine Public Library
We’re pleased to welcome Nick Demske to the site today to share Racine Public Library’s BONK! Performance Series. Nick is the director and curator of the BONK! Series, which aims to bring challenging poetry, art, and performance to the established local arts community. The series has garnered national attention in the American poetry scene and...
The Labs @ Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh | Life After the Launch, Part Two: The Labs as a Recording Studio (and More!)
Last week, we shared an exciting update from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh which focused on filmmaking programs for teens at their digital, multi-site makerspace, The Labs @ CLP. Today, Labs mentor Molly Dickerson is back to share more on CLP’s successful maker programs. You can catch up on the previous post here: “Life After the Launch, Part One: Filmmaking in The...
The Labs @ Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh | Life After the Launch, Part One: Filmmaking at The Labs
After successfully launching a digital, multi-site makerspace initiative in a large, urban library system, The Labs team at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh got down to business with six months of exciting programming in filmmaking, graphic design, and audio recording. We’re delighted to continue our partnership with The Labs @ CLP to share the team’s insights...
Student filmmaking at Cal Poly’s Kennedy Library
by Laura Damon-Moore Thanks to Victoria Billings and Karen Lauritsen for providing content for this feature. As a former university student who worked in an academic library during graduate school, I know personally how valuable that kind of employment can be. Student interns and employees help academic libraries with important “extras” that may not be...
Featuring: Josephine Decker
I have to say, I love reading emails like the one we got from today’s featured artist, Josephine Decker. I love libraries, writes Josephine — the physical ones, the invisible ones, the ones deep underground, the ones in our brains, the ones in our bedrooms. Josephine is a filmmaker, and one who was kind enough...
A little holiday video for you
A little video by Kimmy, sent to us this fall. The Library from gidget on Vimeo. A question for us all to ponder: what’s in your library?
Join our Indiegogo Campaign!
If we have more time to work on the project, we’ll be able to do a lot more to make the library an experience. Welcome to the official launch of our IArtLibraries Indiegogo fundraising campaign! Earlier this week, Laura shared the big news about our decision to raise funds for the Library as Incubator Project. In...
Home Movie Day 2012 at Madison Public Library
Home Movie Day! What a fantastic idea–culture isn’t just the stuff that the studios make, it’s what we make of it. Content isn’t king, conversation is– and what better conversation-starters than the significant moments of your neighbors’ lives? ~Cory Doctorow Are you the person in your family who always had a camcorder pressed to your...
The Labs @ Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh | Stop-Motion Animation at Summer Dreamers’ Academy
The Library as Incubator Project is delighted to partner with Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and guest blogger Emily Fear to showcase a new digital literacy initiative at CLP called The Labs. For this installment, The Labs programs are put to the test in a classroom environment. Don’t miss Emily’s other blogs in this exciting series: The Labs...
