Sentences with phrase «encourage public conversations»

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's (PHS) Farm for the City transforms center city Philadelphia's Thomas Paine Plaza into a temporary, 2,000 - square - foot «farm - as - art installation» to encourage public conversations about the role of urban agriculture in strengthening communities.

There is no evident government interest in encouraging a public conversation about shared or differing values.

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the program would afford an unparalleled opportunity to dramatize the interest of the Christian Church in the creative process in the arts, would encourage the production of films and programs of the highest standards, would give public support to those individuals in the film and broadcast industries who are striving to lift the general level of production, would present the Church in a positive rather than a negative stance in relation to these media, and would provide the opportunity for the Church in general and the B.F.C. and its members in particular to enter into significant conversations with the entertainment industry on standards, values, and goals.

«I have already had conversations with people at the local, state and federal level, both in the public and private sectors, who are curious about my plans and who have encouraged me to consider it.

Phillips suggests limiting the power of «Internet trolls» — and encouraging meaningful conversation with the rest of the public — by deleting anything they (the trolls) post on your blog, banning them from your site, and using word filters.

Reimers encourages alums, educators, and the public to get involved in the conversation.

The intent of presenting this discussion concept is to encourage conversation about school finance solutions among the Council and the public.

We are especially grateful for the hard work of the teachers and administrators in our public schools and encourage conversations about district improvement to begin with them.

She wrote: ``... the real reason for encouraging novelists to overcome their critical inhibitions is that their contributions help maintain the rigor and vitality of the public conversation about books.»

The purpose of the Pet Effect is to raise awareness and encourage conversation about why pets make us healthier and happier, and how veterinarians — the professionals who help keep pets healthy — are also key contributors to human health and public health.

As part of the 2009 Creative Time - presented project It Is What It Is, British artist Jeremy Deller (born 1966) encouraged the public to address the conflict in Iraq by inviting a revolving cast of participants to take up residence in New York's New Museum and discuss the war, later setting up at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago to record conversations and photograph each participant in the project.

Organized by the ADAA, a nonprofit membership organization of art dealers across the country, The Art Show offers collectors, art professionals, and the public the opportunity to engage with artworks of the highest quality through thoughtfully curated presentations that encourage close looking and active conversation with the nation's leading art gallerists.

They will exhibit their methods of working, encouraging conversation with the public — and inviting interested viewers to participate in various aspects of the project.

Organized by the ADAA, a nonprofit membership organization of art dealers from around the country, The Art Show offers collectors, arts professionals, and the public the opportunity to engage with artworks of the highest quality through intimately scaled and thoughtfully curated exhibitions that encourage close looking and active conversation with art experts.

Organized by the ADAA, a nonprofit membership organization of art dealers from around the country, The Art Show offers collectors, arts professionals, and the public the opportunity to engage with artworks of the highest quality through intimately scaled and thoughtfully curated exhibitions that encourage close looking and active conversation with gallerists.

The project will encourage public discussion of the history, present circumstances, and future of Iraq through unscripted, nonpartisan conversations in cities across the country.

The festival aims to foster emerging talent, encourage active community participation, and initiate public conversation about photography as an art form, as a means of communication, and as a mode of cultural documentation and social reflection.

The poet and founder of the online avant - garde repository UbuWeb, Kenneth Goldsmith, is the keynote speaker of Frieze Talks, the fair's conversation series; he is perhaps as famous for inspiring young actors to upend their careers (earlier this year he encouraged Shia LaBeouf to declare his retirement from public life and #stopcreating) as for his long championing of «uncreativity» (he once spent months retyping a copy of The New York Times).

Now, Facebook and Twitter are struggling to encourage civil conversations, and the Cambridge Analytica scandal has thrust their privacy practices into the public eye.