The Maryland History Day Outreach and Professional Development Assistant is a position at Maryland Humanities that supports the History Day program as well as related programs and professional development associated with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program.
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The Director of Development (DOD), a member of the senior management team, reports to the Executive Director and is responsible for leading and overseeing all aspects of the museum’s Development, Marketing & Communications, including Board of Trustees activities, in collaboration with the Executive Director. The Development Department develops a strategic approach to fundraising, grant opportunities, donor cultivation and endowment growth in an effort to increase the financial position and sustainability of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum. In partnership with the Executive Director and the Board of Trustees, s/he will develop and manage relationships with stakeholders and key constituents of the museum. The Director of Development will serve as the key Board liaison and will participate in regular Board and standing committee meetings of the Board of Trustees. S/he ensures that the museum’s communication strategy reflects the mission, strategic direction and position of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum.
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The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture seeks a talented Exhibition Designer to design all phases of exhibition production in order to deliver an excellent museum experience for visitors. The ideal candidate will be highly creative and have a minimum of 5 years’ experience in museum related exhibit design, implementation and management. Must have a demonstrated ability to manage, produce, improve and repair both interactive and non-interactive exhibits. The Exhibition Designer, who reports to the Associate Curator, will budget and manage the design process from inception to implementation as well as develop and lead internal and external design teams, if any. Works in collaboration with museum staff, especially the Director of Education, Registrar and Collections Manager, Associate Curator, and the Executive Director who functions as the Chief Curator.
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The Membership and Database Manager is responsible for ensuring that the museum meets its annual membership goals and that all museum data is accurate and up-to-data. He/She supports the growth of the membership program as it relates to earned income, by driving new and repeat attendance, and working in close collaboration with the Education and Visitor Services team. This role is key to capturing institutional knowledge in order to drive business needs and solve problems. The Membership and Database Manager reports to the Director of Education and Visitor Services.
]]>Port Discovery Children's Museum is one of the top Children's Museums in the United States and a top cultural institution in Baltimore's Inner Harbor. Our mission is to educate children through play and to inspire life-long learning. This is an exciting time to join our team as we re-imagine the Museum through new world class exhibits and programming.
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]]>The Kuhn Library now provides access to course reserves through Ares from Atlas Systems; this new software seamlessly integrates with Blackboard (Bb) for streamlined availability and processing. Instructors who wish to submit course reserves requests and students who want to access their faculty reserves listings can now do so directly from their course site in Bb.
Questions? Email reserves-group@umbc.edu, visit our Course Reserves Information page, or stop by the Check-Out desk at the Library.
Information on submitting materials for course reserve can be found on our instructor’s guide page (download PDF)
The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) seeks an energetic, detail-oriented individual for the position of Assistant Registrar to assist with planning and implementation of loans from the collections and exhibitions.
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Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
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Exploring Diverse Experiences and Methods within an International Community of Practice
9th International Digital Storytelling Conference
Monday the 30th of March – Wednesday the 1st of April 2020
Loughborough University, UK
Call For Papers and Presentation Proposals
We invite you to join us at Loughborough University, UK, this Spring for an amazing gathering of digital storytelling professionals, academics, students, community partners, and activists.
The conference is part of a multi-institutional, multinational, two-year process and programme – organised in collaboration with StoryCenter (US), UMBC – University of Maryland Baltimore County (US), SCLDA – Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access (US), Montgomery College (US), Patient Voices (UK) – that includes a series of follow-on activities in the Washington, D.C. area and in Maryland, USA, in 2021.
The conference will host various events in its structure for inclusion of diverse perspectives and voices. In addition to academic papers, workshops, and roundtable discussions, we encourage practitioners from community settings, artists and students to contribute and express their creativity through various formats (short performances, artworks, video/audio submissions, etc.).
Storytelling has been defined as ‘the artform of social interaction’ (Wilson, 1998), not only for its inner dynamics, but also for its power to unlock grass-roots knowledge, explore dilemmas, develop community resilience, engender change.
Stories can generate empathy and trust in the audience and at the same time demonstrate their usefulness because they have the power to give meaning to human behaviors and to trigger emotions (Bourbonnais and Michaud, 2018). ‘This happens because stories are perceived as vectors of truth. They also challenge the meaning of truth itself and suggest a deeper reflection on how various perspectives embedded in personal narratives about contested themes and events can generate multiple truths’ (Liguori, 2020).
Yet we acknowledge the existence of multiple truths when we recognise, as the Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie observed, ‘the danger of a single story’ (2009). As she described, ‘because our lives and our cultures are composed of a series of overlapping stories, if we hear only a single story about another person, culture, or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding’.
In a time of worrying ‘critical misunderstandings’ worldwide, we want to explore with you the value of Applied Storytelling as a tool to co-develop ‘A Just Future’.
We are interested in proposals that will explore issues related to (but not limited to) the following sub-themes:
All interested conference contributors are invited to share their work through six types of contributions, but we also welcome other formats.
Conference Formats:
Submission guidelines & key dates:
Included in the Registration fee are coffee and tea breaks, lunch, access to all conference sessions, social activity (performance) during the opening evening, publication of the abstract in online conference proceedings.
Additional and optional social activity (trip to Stratford-upon-Avon, Visit to Loughborough sport event, etc.) will be booked separately by each participant.
For further submission requirements, accommodation and scholarships, please write to the Storytelling Research Team at Loughborough University: Saedstorytelling@lboro.ac.uk
The conference committee will capture all presentations for digital conference proceedings. The conference committee will submit a book proposal in 2020 of a selection of academic contributions from the conference.
Students and community members are welcomed and encouraged to apply! There will also be opportunities for students to participate digitally and be part of the event through various online engagement options.
Conference Chairs: Antonia Liguori and Michael Wilson (Loughborough University, UK)
Conference Committee Members: Darcy Alexandra (University of Bern, Switzerland), Jessica Berman (University of Maryland, Baltimore County UMBC, US), Bev Bickel (UMBC, US), Matthew Decker (Montgomery College, US), Lindsay DiCuirci (UMBC, US), Sara Ducey (Montgomery College, US), Daniela Gachago (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa), Jamie Gillan (Montgomery College, US), Pip Hardy (Patient Voices, UK), Charlotte Keniston (UMBC, US), Joe Lambert (StoryCenter, US), Michalis Meimaris (University of Athens, Greece), Philippa Rappoport (SCLDA – Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, US), Bill Shewbridge (UMBC, US), Tony Sumner (Patient Voices, UK), Pam Sykes (University of the Western Cape, South Africa).
Conference website: dst2020.org
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HSO auditions oare open to all orchestral musicians including JHU students (undergraduate and graduate), JHU faculty/staff, alumni, and community members with no direct JHU affiliation. Percussion and piano auditions are scheduled separately and/or on an as-needed basis. Hopkins Symphony Orchestra is a community orchestra and a program of Johns Hopkins University. Musicians are volunteer members.
Online audition signups: July 31-August 26, 2019
]]>Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (MAAF) seeks a full-time Program Associate who will work to administer and support the international portfolio at Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation: USArtists International, the largest grantmaking program in the United States supporting performing artists at their engagements abroad and Performing Arts Global Exchange, a National Endowment for the Arts-supported program that brings international artists to the United States to perform at nonprofit presenting organizations nationwide with grant support.
USArtists International (USAI)
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