Think Again

Hey everyone, The Salt Lake Gallery Association is organizing a bus trip to the Springville Museum of Art where the director, Vern Swanson, will provide a short introduction to the exhibits. Details: Saturday, May 2nd; Leaving at 11:45 am Returning to Salt Lake by 4:30 pm. Meet at the SDI parking lot right behind the Rio Grande Depot on 300 South and 500 West. The buses are already paid for by the SLGA and TRASA Urban Arts Collective. If you want to meet the group at the Springville Art Museum, show up at 1 PM. Tell them you're with the Gallery Association tour. Maybe drop the name "Cheryl." Although the permanent collection is available for viewing, we will focus on the 85th Spring Salon . This is a well-known juried exhibition for Utah artists which features all styles of artistic expression. There will also be an exhibit called Redrock, Sage and Pinon with an accompanying book by Drs. Vern G. Swanson and Donna Poulton, Painters of Utah’s ...

Oh you who loved elementary school, this is your month. Time for a FIELD TRIP and SHOW & TELL, kiddos. The prep work for April's Think Again is to visit a visual arts museum or gallery. You can go somewhere on your own ( need ideas? ) or meet with other Think Again groupies at the UMFA at the University of Utah on SATURDAY, APRIL 25 at 1:30 pm for the half hour tour called Highlights of the Collection . Meet at the place where the tour starts at 1:20 pm. Call the museum at 801-581-7332 if you have any questions about the tour. Wherever you go, take a notebook on your visit and make notes on what you like and don't like. Try to articulate what draws you to certain pieces and what drives you away from others. If you are allowed to take photos, snap a few so you can share them with the group on Tuesday. At the actual dialogue on April 28, bring your thoughts to share from your museum/gallery visit and if you can, any visual examples of art you love or hate (doesn't have t...

When we chose topics for 2009, we left April and September open so we could add one on the fly. Suggest a topic, or vote on someone else's suggestion by APRIL 10.

March 31 2009 Topic Sexual Responsibility:How Are Individuals and Society Helped or Hurt by Personal Sexual Choices I'm excited for this discussion. I'd like for it to be open, frank, and thought-provoking. While morality can and should come up, I hope to avoid excessive moralizing and would rather use our time to identify and discuss the questions critical for helping each of us to develop our personal moral opinions about sex. The core questions of our discussion are: What does it mean to be sexually responsible? How are individuals and society helped by personal sexual choices? How are individuals and society hurt by personal sexual choices? Required Readings & Video:(4 short readings and 1 short video, all totaling about 45 minutes; all documents and video located online): 1. What Are the Major Issues Involved in Sexual Responsibility? These issues will form the foundation of our discussion. I have compiled a summary of some of the critical issues and questions we cou...

For February's Think Again dialogue, we'll try to get a taste of life during The Great Depression and draw some lessons that have relevance to the current economic downturn. The question is not whether our experience will be "as bad," or "the same" as the 1930s, but what the voices from that time can teach us today, regardless of the severity, duration, or nature of our crisis. A few questions to consider as we prepare for the dialogue: What was gained and what was lost in that time? Who was hardest hit - women, blacks, children, white men, migrants, laborers? If all we know about that time comes from artists (writers, journalists, painters, photographers, musicians, etc.), what attention should we give to the creative chroniclers of our day? Feel free to add questions you would like to explore in the comments. The prep work includes 30 minutes of audio and 30 - 45 minutes of reading/looking at art. 1) Introduction to the book, "First-Person America...

Here’s a tentative schedule for 2009. I assigned the top nine topics and left two months open so we can decide as a group if we want to pick from the remaining topics, or create new ones. We will discuss this schedule at January’s dialogue and make sure it works for the topic hosts. February : Lessons From the Great Depression: What Should We Know Going Into Recession? March : Sexual Responsibility: How is Society Helped or Hindered by Personal Sexual Choices? April : OPEN May : The Future of Marriage: What will "the institution" of marriage look like in 20 years? June : Aging Boomers: Understanding the Economic Impacts of a Nation of Retirees July : What Determines Attraction? August : Texting, Email, Blogs, and the Fall of the English Language September : OPEN October : The Future of Education November : How Americans View Food December : Is the World Better or Worse Off Because of International Aid? Here's the vote tally, FYI: (13) Sexual Responsibility: How is Society...

Topic Host: Tiffany Ivins In your opinion, is the "right to education" a basic human right? Why or why not? In your opinion, does technology enable better *access* to free, high-quality educational opportunity and are the costs (economic, social, cultural) worth the benefits? To prepare for our dialogue session, please spend about 30 minutes doing the following: 1) Browse 2 links on "Right to Education" and the 4 As ( the right to education must be available, accessible, acceptable and adaptable): http://right-to-education.org/node/46 http://right-to-education.org/node/226 2) Watch this 4 minute video on Youth-Managed Resource Centers (YMRC) in Nepal. 3) Browse this website to learn about projects where information and communication technologies (ICT) are central to social and economic development. 4) Find out what is happening with Open Educational Resources , Open Content and Open CourseWare . If you are still interested, here are some more links (not ma...