“We are at our most inventive when we are falling.” This lesson from Liz Lerman, a choreographer and one of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ senior fellows, has stuck with me over this past year. Artists and the cultural sector have fallen harder in the past year than we could have ever imagined. The…
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The Biden administration has entered the White House with plans to tackle climate change on “an epic scale,” aiming to lead the world in a “clean energy revolution” and slash emissions in the US to net zero no later than 2050. The new government’s commitment to climate action may boost momentum around sustainability efforts across…
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The 22-year-old Los Angeles poet Amanda Gorman, America’s first ever National Youth Poet Laureate, helped set the symbolic tone at US President Joseph Biden Jr’s inauguration on Wednesday with the reading of her new work The Hill We Climb. Gorman powerfully urged those listening to turn away from the division and destruction the country has…
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