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SUMMARY:CANCELED DUE TO LIGHTNING - Dance for World Community Festival
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO LIGHTNING!\nSpread your organization’s mission with Greater Boston’s largest and most popular indoor/outdoor dance event!\n \nFeature your organization in front of 20\,000 festival attendees in the heart of Harvard Square! As a DWC Advocacy Partner\, your organization will have the opportunity to showcase the great work it does and gain greater visibility at our annual festival through the many partnership benefits below! \n\n\nShare your message on stage \nDWC Advocacy Partners will directly address festival attendees at one of our performance stages during the day. This is a great opportunity to tell attendees all about the important work your organization does and offer ways they can become involved. \n\nMan your table along Advocacy Way \nJoin other advocacy partners by securing a table along “Advocacy Way” – the main strip of the festival along Mass Ave – where you can share information with attendees all day that pass by. Have face-to-face interactions\, recruit volunteers\, collect donations\, and even sell retail. \n \nIncrease visibility \nAs a DWC Advocacy Partner\, your organization will appear on all printed and digital promotional materials to be seen by thousands of festival attendees\, including being featured on our website\, social media\, festival program\, and large banners to be posted at each stage and studio! \nA stop on DWC’s Passport to Change \nThe Passport to Change booklet handed out to all festival attendees along with the festival program encourages attendees to visit tables along Advocacy Way\, where they collect stamps of partners to win a prize. Advocacy Partners will have their name and mission included in the Passport to Change. \nFeature in the community \nIn addition to making your organization’s informational materials available at your table on the day of the festival\, Advocacy Partners are free to post their materials on our DWC bulletin board located in JMBT Studios in Harvard Square to be seen by hundreds of community members every week.
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LOCATION:400 Harvard St Cambridge MA\, MA\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dance for World Community Conference
DESCRIPTION:Conference Registration is now open!\nJune 5-8\, 2025\nHarvard Square\, Cambridge MA\n \nConcern about climate change and its disproportionate impact on under-resourced or otherwise disadvantaged communities continues to grow. After decades of persistent advocacy and activism to advance social and environmental justice\, recent destabilizing orders from top US government officials are brazenly countermanding advances in climate science\, public health\, education\, diversity\, inclusion\, equity and other areas. It is no wonder why\, in today’s environment\, independent artists and arts organizations are looking to expand their role as advocates and activists\, to support creative and rational solutions to the critical global issues that ultimately affect us all. \nFrom the muralist who mobilizes an entire community to paint uplifting images in a depressed urban space\, to the composer who writes a symphony to evince the destruction that humanity is inflicting on the planet’s ecological systems\, artists of all media and forms continue to respond to the urgencies of our age. \n \nDance for World Community\, initiated in 2009 by a ballet organization in Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, proposes that dance is particularly well suited to effective advocacy and activism. Inherently social\, dance is universally understandable\, has great potential to bring diverse people together across cultural divides and can quickly build trust and community cohesion. \nPowerful as it is\, dance is one of the most under-resourced sectors in America and is underrepresented in many institutional settings. In spite of the steady increases in the number of training and performance centers\, established schools and companies are notoriously insular and inward-looking. The sector lacks the inclusive\, unified voice it needs to respond to the challenges that now all the arts and other industries are facing in 2025. \n \nHow will we as dancers — performers\, instructors\, choreographers\, administrators\, scholars\, independent dance artists and aficionados — respond to the critical social and environmental crises that can no longer be ignored by any of us? \nIn this conference\, we will examine different initiatives and models\, exchange ideas and begin to build the necessary networks to strengthen our efforts to make a difference. Through this shared process\, we will rouse the advocate and activist in each of us. 
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