Readings

Reading the journals, blogs, and press in the philanthropic sector, one would think there is a conspiracy afoot to create meaningless buzzwords. Somewhere in a secret underground laboratory, teams of evil linguists work overtime coining new words and phrases designed to bewilder grantwriters and obfuscate funders' true intentions—a covert operation designed to keep grant money from being awarded.

It would be cool if this were true, but I am inclined to think otherwise.

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   Designing a Twenty-First Century Cultural Hub to Build Community (839Kb)

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   Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Amendment (852Kb)

See the full interview with Edwidge Dandicat at http://publiceye.org/magazine/v27n1/Books_Edwidge_danticat.html http://www.politicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/11/Public_Eye_spring_2011_final-1.pdf (page 24).

“Small Righteous Angers” is an excerpt from Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer, copyright 2011 by Liz Lerman and reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press. All rights reserved.