2008 Civil Discourse-Related
Events in Arizona
This nationally recognized, award-winning program for students in grades 9-12 features eye-opening workshops and activities focusing on interpersonal, group, and intergroup relationships with an emphasis on diversity, identity, and inclusion. Application due 5/1/08.
Sponsor: Anytown Arizona
Location: Prescott
Location Details: Prescott
Time: All Day
Cost: $450, scholarships available
Category: Youth
Phone: 602-265-9256
Email: general@anytownarizona.org
Website: www.anytownarizona.org
Contemporary Chinese Film Series/Discussion
Blue Kite (Lan feng zheng)
On Dry Well Lane in Beijing in 1953, Chen Shujuan and Lin Shaolong marry. A year later their son, nicknamed Tietou, is born. After Shaolong dies in a reform camp, Shujuan’s love for Tietou sustains her, and the child’s blue kite embodies hope.
After the screening, Arizona State University’s John Zou, Ph.D., will lead a discussion examining how the film is part of a larger discourse among cultures attempting to understand one another in a rapidly changing world. The series is being screened in conjunction with A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, 1950-2000, an exhibition of 60 works that reveal the fundamental transformation of Chinese painting resulting from dynamic social, political and cultural developments in China, Taiwan and the United States in recent years.
Sponsor: Phoenix Art MuseumLocation: Whiteman Hall, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix
Location Details: Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004
Time: 1:00 PM
Cost: FREE
Category: Public
Phone: 602-257-1222
Email: jbernstein@azhumanities.org
Website: www.phxart.org
This program is based on the Anytown curriculum but tailored for students in grades 7-8. The activities center around improving self-awareness, peer relationships, communication, and conflict resolution, giving youth the guidance they need to resolve issues encountered in their schools and communities. Application due 5/1/08.
Sponsor: Anytown Arizona
Location: Prescott
Location Details: Prescott
Time: All Day
Cost: $365, scholarships available
Category: Youth
Phone: 602-265-9256
Email: general@anytownarizona.org
Website: www.anytownarizona.org
This nationally recognized, award-winning program for students in grades 9-12 features eye-opening workshops and activities focusing on interpersonal, group, and intergroup relationships with an emphasis on diversity, identity, and inclusion. Application due 5/1/08.
Sponsor: Anytown Arizona
Location: Prescott
Location Details: Prescott
Time: All Day
Cost: $450, scholarships available
Category: Youth
Phone: 602-265-9256
Email: general@anytownarizona.org
Website: www.anytownarizona.org
For potential school board members. Tackles some of the most difficult issues in education in-depth, building board members' capacity to respond to serious national and state issues when they affect their local schools.
Sponsor: Arizona School Boards Association
Location: Flagstaff
Location Details: Little America Resort, Flagstaff
Time: All Day
Cost:
Category: By Invitation
Phone: 602-254-1100
Email: kbeckvar@azsba.org
Website: www.azsba.org
Arizona YMCA Youth & Government is a statewide youth civic education and leadership development program in which YMCAs, schools, and community organizations involve high school students in a five-month hands-on experience. Since its inception in 1948, the Arizona program has used a variety of activities to build, encourage and strengthen those life assets and character traits that will help high school youth become involved and responsible citizens. The tool used is a high-quality experiential and educational simulation based on Arizona’s state government. The program is comprehensive, and its impact on the youth participants is dramatic. The purpose of this highly regarded program is exemplified in the program’s motto: “Democracy must be learned by each generation.”
Sponsor: YMCA
Location: Various locations and State Capitol
Location Details: Various locations and State Capitol
Time: All Day
Cost: $350 plus local fees
Category: Youth
Phone: 602-252-2963 X101
Email: eahebert@vosymca.org
Website: www.azymcayag.org
Contemporary Chinese Film Series/Discussion
Blind Shaft (Mang jing)
Two Chinese coal miners hit upon the perfect scam: murder one of their fellow mine workers, make the death look like an accident and extort money from the boss to keep the incident hushed up. As they prepare to carry out their newest plan, things start to get complicated.
After the screening, Arizona State University’s John Zou, Ph.D., will lead a discussion examining how the film is part of a larger discourse among cultures attempting to understand one another in a rapidly changing world. The series is being screened in conjunction with A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, 1950-2000, an exhibition of 60 works that reveal the fundamental transformation of Chinese painting resulting from dynamic social, political and cultural developments in China, Taiwan and the United States in recent years.
Sponsor: Phoenix Art MuseumLocation: Whiteman Hall, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix
Location Details: Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004
Time: 1:00 PM
Cost: FREE
Category: Public
Phone: 602-257-1222
Email: jbernstein@azhumanities.org
Website: www.phxart.org
This course was created for those wishing to become highly skilled ToP® facilitators. It provides a theoretical foundation for the methods as well as opportunities for practice and feedback. A learning community is created that supports and deepens the participant's journey. Included are mentoring opportunities for participants in their own practice and with other participants.
Sponsor: Partners in Participation
Location: Partners in ParticipationOffices, Phoenix
Location Details: 4208 North 25th Street, Phoenix
Time: All Day
Cost: $4,000
Category: By Registration
Phone: 602-468-0605
Email: info@partnersinparticipation.com
Website: http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/
Contemporary Chinese Film Series/Discussion
Still Life (Sanxia haoren)
Two couples reunite amid the construction of a new neighborhood along the Yangtze River near the old city of Fengjie, which is now under water after the opening of the Three Gorges Dam. After 16 years apart, Han Sanming returns to look for his ex-wife, while Shen Hong has come back in search of her husband who's been away for more than two years. Like the submerged city, the couples must decide what's worth saving and what's best left behind.
After the screening, Arizona State University’s John Zou, Ph.D., will lead a discussion examining how the film is part of a larger discourse among cultures attempting to understand one another in a rapidly changing world. The series is being screened in conjunction with A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Chu-tsing Li Collection, 1950-2000, an exhibition of 60 works that reveal the fundamental transformation of Chinese painting resulting from dynamic social, political and cultural developments in China, Taiwan and the United States in recent years.
Sponsor: Phoenix Art MuseumLocation: Whiteman Hall, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix
Location Details: Phoenix Art Museum, 1625 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004
Time: 1:00 PM
Cost: FREE
Category: Public
Phone: 602-257-1222
Email: jbernstein@azhumanities.org
Website: www.phxart.org
This is an intensive methods transfer course for participants to learn the three collaborative methods that are the foundation of the Technology of Participation: focused conversation, the consensus workshop method, and action planning.
Sponsor: Partners in Participation
Location: Partners in ParticipationOffices, Phoenix
Location Details: 4208 North 25th Street, Phoenix
Time: All Day
Cost: $545
Category: By Registration
Phone: 602-468-0605
Email: info@partnersinparticipation.com
Website: http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/
Students in grades 6-9 learn about another country, YMCA values, and the global community. Teens learn about the basic structure and function of the UN. They work in teams to research a foreign country, write proposals, and create a display about their country. Clubs meet weekly at various locations. Many leadership opportunities are available. The program concludes with a two-day Model UN Assembly where countries propose and debate solutions to international issues. This program involves an overnight stay in a local Phoenix hotel.
Sponsor: YMCA
Location: Various locations
Location Details: Various locations
Time: All Day
Cost: $215 plus local fees
Category: Youth
Phone: 602-252-2963 X101
Email: eahebert@vosymca.org
Website: http://www.valleyymca.org/teens.php
This is an intensive methods transfer course for participants to learn the three collaborative methods that are the foundation of the Technology of Participation: focused conversation, the consensus workshop method, and action planning.
Sponsor: Partners in Participation
Location: Partners in ParticipationOffices, Phoenix
Location Details: 4208 North 25th Street, Phoenix
Time: All Day
Cost: $545
Category: By Registration
Phone: 602-468-0605
Email: info@partnersinparticipation.com
Website: http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/
This is an intensive methods transfer course for participants to learn the three collaborative methods that are the foundation of the Technology of Participation: focused conversation, the consensus workshop method, and action planning. In Spanish.
Sponsor: Partners in Participation
Location: Partners in ParticipationOffices, Phoenix
Location Details: 4208 North 25th Street, Phoenix
Time: All Day
Cost: $545
Category: By Registration
Phone: 602-468-0605
Email: info@partnersinparticipation.com
Website: http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/
93rd Arizona Town Hall will concentrate discussion on finding solutions for filling the need for workforce/affordable housing.
Sponsor: Arizona Town Hall
Location: Grand Canyon
Location Details: Grand Canyon
Time: All Day
Cost:
Category: By Invitation
Phone: 602-252-9600
Email:
Website: http://www.aztownhall.org/
Participants learn a systematic and comprehensive participatory strategic planning method for organizational change and transformation. (Prerequisite: GFM)
Sponsor: Partners in Participation
Location: Partners in ParticipationOffices, Phoenix
Location Details: 4208 North 25th Street, Phoenix
Time: All Day
Cost: $545
Category: By Registration
Phone: 602-468-0605
Email: info@partnersinparticipation.com
Website: http://www.partnersinparticipation.com/
