WHAT'S NEW AT LORD: NEW PROJECTS, NEW IDEAS
Lord Cultural Resources, in partnership The University of Toronto’s School of Cities, Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, the Faculty of Information (iSchool), invite you to join us for the North American launch of Museum Development in China: Understanding the Building Boom.
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This month's issue of Cultural News features the International African American Museum (IAAM) that held its groundbreaking ceremony Friday, October 25th at 10 a.m. The overflow crowd included friends and supporters from over the nearly twenty years the IAAM has been in development. Honored guests included Congressman Jim Clyburn (D-SC), Congressman Joe Cunningham (D-SC), Governor Henry McMaster (R-SC), Mayor John Tecklenburg (Charleston, SC), former Charleston mayor Joe Riley, and Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr (Freetown, Sierra Leone). The IAAM will tell the story of the hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans who were taken from West Africa, entered North America in Charleston, SC, endured hardship and cruelty, and then contributed so significantly to the greatness of America and the world. The Museum will honor the site where these enslaved Africans arrived and thousands died, tell their untold stories, and in doing so, will promote compassion and empathy among all people. “I argued that this had to be an African American museum,” said Congressman Clyburn. “It cannot just be about the institution of slavery. It has to be about what African Americans are, can be, and will be.”
IAAM engaged Lord Cultural Resources to prepare a strategic business and facility plan to support architectural and exhibition planning and design, projecting attendance, operating revenues and expenses for the Museum. See Our Work with International African American Museum. Read More
Over the past two years, Sidewalk Toronto has brought some important questions about cities – and our collective futures – into sharp focus. Some of those questions are new; others we’ve been asking for a long time. This is a collection of ideas to help build on and continue these discussions.
Gail Lord is one of more than 90 urban thought leaders invited to contribute an entry to this collection. The entries are presented in tables, to represent conversations that might happen over a meal. Read Gail's entry "Building Livable Communities" as part of the discussion at Table 14.
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The National Ballet of Canada announced the launch of Digital Reach, an exciting, multi-organization project to examine how the arts and culture sector can use screen technologies to reach new and existing audiences.
Lord Cultural Resources partnered with Nordicity and OCAD University on the project.
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A new exhibition at the Meridian Arts Centre opening in Toronto on October 10 immerses visitors in Nelson Mandela’s profound struggle for freedom and equality. Mandela: Struggle for Freedom was originally created for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. Toronto now becomes the first stop on the exhibition’s multi-year North American tour, which is being managed by Lord Cultural Resources.
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