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City light shows: architectural lighting events

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Few cities have lighting master plans and even fewer address lighting as an element of special events and programming (" Philips changes name to Signify "). I've written about events like Glow in Georgetown DC, Dlectricity in Detroit, and Chestnut Hill's "Light of Night" in Philadelphia. 19 ," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ).

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DC Artomatic is a big arts exhibition: but not oriented to building the arts and culture ecosystem long term

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Despite Artomatic playing host to — and in some cases advancing the careers of — many amazing, well-respected artists, there’s a long history of the event being trashed by the art-reviewing press, often unfairly, because it has no bar to entry. The work is not curated. Is it any good?

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Why another shutdown would be bad for the U.S. military

Partnership for Public Service

25, 2019—shows that when our government closes up shop, both the economy and the ability of agencies to serve the public suffers. During the 2018-2019 shutdown, 42,000 members of the Coast Guard worked without pay —a first for active-duty service members—because the Department of Homeland Security’s appropriation lapsed.

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Economic impact of big name concert tours: Taylor Swift in Philadelphia

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Although other events also contributed to this, including the University of Pennsylvania graduation. SEPTA ridership was higher, and some food establishments had stronger business.

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First Aid for Projects

GovLoop

I worked on a project to put on a training event. Three months before the event, the budget was cut to $10,000. We had to figure out how to keep the event going with a significantly reduced cash (“oxygen”) flow. In projects, “breathing” can be whatever stops the flow of resources to the project.

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S13 - Episode 01: Healing Field Stories

ParkTalk podcast

Go behind the scenes of Naperville's 2019 Healing Field of Honor with Dave Wentz, Marty Walker and Sue Liston, who tell stories of what moves them to orchestrate this community event to honor and support veterans and active duty service men and women.

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S7 Episode 06: Partnerships and Progress

ParkTalk podcast

Community cooperation that makes District programs and events happen, program growth and new programs in 2018 and 2019 are discussed. Guests: Brad Wilson, Director of Recreation; Andrea Coates, Superintendent of Recreation

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