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Video from City Share: “One Goal, Many Approaches” Monday, June 28, 2010
Last week at City Share, we heard from an activist, an academic, and a police officer about different approaches to Chattanooga’s crime problem. It was a lively, informative discussion that will continue July 7 at Urban League. We’d encourage you to check out the video below if you didn’t get to attend and would love to see you join in the ongoing Stand & Deliver: Safety conversation in what ever way possible.
City Share: One Goal, Many Approaches from CreateHere on Vimeo.
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Hate Crime Forum at UTC Monday, June 21, 2010
This Wednesday, City Share will continue the conversation about crime and safety in Chattanooga. The following evening, UTC will host “A Community Education Forum on Hate Crime.” Though not associated with the Stand & Deliver process, this is another opportunity to gain further knowledge about how crime affects our communities.
Featuring presentations from the FBI Community Relations Office in Atlanta and the Eastern District U.S. Attorney’s office in Knoxville, the forum is presented by The City of Chattanooga Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Criminal Justice Department at UTC. It is a free event and will take place from 6-8 pm in the Dorothy Ward Theater at the UTC Fine Arts Center (615 McCallie Ave. at the corner of Vine and Palmetto).
For more information, contact Nicole Gwyn at the Office of Multicultural Affairs either by phone at 423-643-6715 or by email at gwyn_n [at] mail [dot] Chattanooga [dot] gov.
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City Share: “One Goal, Many Approaches” Thursday, June 17, 2010
Next Wednesday, our popular lunch series City Share will continue an ongoing conversation about crime and safety issues in Chattanooga with “One Goal, Many Approaches,” another free luncheon at Bessie Smith Hall.
At the last City Share (“Crime in Context”), citizens were given an overview of Chattanooga’s crime problem by a panel of informed local voices and asked to interact with the panel via a question and answer time. “One Goal, Many Approaches” will proceed in the same format, but with the twofold purpose of helping citizens gain a greater understanding of how local crime prevention happens and connecting them with opportunities to contribute their individual interests, talents, and professional skills to the end goal of making Chattanooga a safer city.
The “One Goal, Many Approaches” panel will feature Bea Lurie, President and CEO of Girls Inc. of Chattanooga, a non-profit organization that seeks to support the needs of all girls; Lt. Brian Cotter of the Chattanooga Police Department and East Chattanooga Weed and Seed; and Helen Eigenberg, Professor and Chair of UTC’s Department of Criminal Justice.
Please join us from 12:00-1:00 pm on June 23 at Bessie Smith Hall for light lunch, thoughtful conversation, and insight from local experts and enthusiasts.
As always, City Share is free and open to the public, but space is limited. Please RSVP to rsvp [at] createhere [dot] org or through the Facebook event page. For more information about City Share or Stand & Deliver and how to get involved, email participate [at] createhere [dot] org or call 423-648-2195.
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This Thursday: 21st Century Enlightenment Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Helen Davis Johnson is Co-Founder and Creative Strategist at CreateHere. She brings us this announcement of an important opportunity for learning how to better receive and communicate information in the 21st century.
Never in history has there been such a proliferation of information available to so much of the world’s population. With access to so much information, the challenge is set before us to engage it in meaningful ways. Without engagement, information exists only as a busy backdrop.
It’s true: the Internet is actually rewiring our brains, making it harder to focus. That’s a difficult and urgent issue, particularly when we’re presented with information that can feel simultaneously essential and out-of-reach.
But focus we must. While we can (and undoubtedly should) develop a global perspective, the value we can add to the big conversation starts at home. If we want to turn information into knowledge and put it to the test, we need to do it in ways that are big-picture oriented and place-based in execution.
Each of us must decide to contribute information that is relevant to our neighborhoods and community. The great designer Charles Eames said that “Beyond the age of information is the age of choices.” Charles Eames and his wife Ray chose to solve problems through design. They understood that the creative process enables change-focused participation in outcome-based and proactive culture.
We can choose what we learn about and how creatively we participate in it, but how do we ensure that we’re digesting information in a productive way? In our knowledge-based economy, the challenge lies in our ability to process information resourcefully, make ethical choices, and deploy the tools we have to make our world a better place.
With the 18th century came the Age of Enlightenment, during which a collision of culture and science developed a set of values that have historically underscored progress in many places. These values determined to stomp out tyranny and prejudice for the betterment of society. Because of this knowledge-based movement, both France and England developed as hotbeds of intellectual correspondence and deft facilitation of idea and information exchange.
England revives this tradition of enlightenment conversation this Thursday at 1:00 pm when Matthew Taylor will discuss how he thinks we might go about the development of a 21st Century brand of enlightenment. Matthew Taylor is Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), headquartered in London. Prior to this appointment, he was Chief Adviser on Political Strategy to Prime Minister Tony Blair.
As RSA Chief Executive, Taylor provides an annual lecture. This Thursday, he will explore what is meant by the idea of 21st century enlightenment and why he thinks the original enlightenment period was not just about new ideas, but was concerned with a more fundamental shift in consciousness.
Matthew will discuss whether another such a shift is required for us to meet the challenges we face today—climate change, achieving human security and dignity on a global scale, promoting human fulfillment and well-being—and the role played by institutions such as the RSA.
We’ll be live streaming the talk at CreateHere and invite you to join the conversation in person. We’ll have a screen set up and plenty of coffee to boot. If you would like to follow the talk on Twitter, the hashtag is #21CE.
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Video from City Share: “Crime in Context” Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Last week’s City Share event was an interactive conversation designed to bring local law enforcement agencies, community initiatives, and individuals who deal with crime on a daily basis together to offer a context from which Chattanooga citizens can act in the civic process. The conversation will continue at Bessie Smith Hall on June 23 with “One Goal, Many Approaches”.
CityShare | Crime in Context from CreateHere on Vimeo.
