City Club of Boise Virtual Conversation: What can arts, culture & history orgs do to confront a legacy of racism?
Thu, Feb 11
|zoom
Join this City Club of Boise forum at noon Feb. 11 to hear from Leta Harris Neustaedter and John Michael Schert on how this coalition came together and why it is important for these artists and nonprofit leaders to tackle a challenge that is obviously far larger that the arts and cultural sector.
Time & Location
Feb 11, 2021, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM MST
zoom
About the Event
In one of the most divisive and isolating years in modern American history, a large group of Boise arts, cultural and history organizations did something unexpected: They came together.
It happened in the aftermath of the high-profile police killings of Black Americans including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others, when millions of Americans of all backgrounds and identities joined the existing efforts of antiracism activists by taking to the to the streets, to city and statehouse halls, and to social media to call for an end to the dismantling of racist systems and practices that continue to persist.
Locally, individual artists, staff members and leaders of organizations of all sizes started gathering via Zoom to confront the continued legacies that isolate, tokenize and exclude Black creativity, voices and art, and to explore how they, as nearly all white Idahoans, could do something beyond the lip service and "performative allyship" that…