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On "Emerging"
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As Corporate Giving Bounces Back, Six Things Nonprofits Need to Know
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As Charity Goes, So Goes the Arts?
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Reflections on the National Arts Marketing Project Conference 2013
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Giving: Arts and Culture
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Looking for the Punch Line
Animating Democracy’s December blog salon explored how artists, comedians, and other cultural commentators employ humor in the heavy work of social justice. Starting out the salon, I posed several questions to bloggers including the seemingly simple inquiry, how does humor work? When is humor a strategic choice and toward what social effects? Similar to other art forms, humor is fundamentally about emotions and human connection, which makes it simultaneously risky and inviting; relatable and inexplicable. While their methods and approach vary greatly – from slapstick to satire; political cartoon to YouTube musical number – the bloggers for this salon all seem to agree on the aspects of humor that make it so effective in social justice work:
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In A Field Walking: Reflections on the Importance of Humor in Our Lives
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"The Holy Fool" as a Tool
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Changing Habits With Humor
Typically, if I ask my 12-year old a question, I’ll get a short answer that I’ll need to probe with many more questions to get the information I need. If you’re a parent of an older child, you recognize that scenario. But when my daughter mentioned her math class was working on integers, I asked, “do you mean positive numbers, the ones that say ‘You go, girl. You can do it!’ and negative numbers, the ones that are sad and discouraged?” She laughed, and we had a free-flowing conversation. If humor can wrestle information from an adolescent habituated to clam up rather than share, what other habits can we change with humor?
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The Power of Humor
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From the Seats of Power in Brisbane City Hall
