Join DS4SI's first DANCE COURT & PUBLIC KITCHEN COHORT!

 
 
 
 

 Participants will:

  • Learn the core elements of designing a Dance Court or Public Kitchen

  • Collaboratively co-design and experience mini versions of a Dance Court and Public Kitchen

  • Get to network with others who are interested in co-creating these new public infrastructures

  • Receive a $500 stipend plus $500 for running a small prototype of their own Dance Court or Public Kitchen this summer

  • Be invited to join us again next fall to debrief their first iteration and get a stipend to do a second one

Participants should bring:

  • an interest in design, public space, dance and/or food

  • experience running public events

  • connections to the community you want to do a Dance Court or Public Kitchen in


Click below to learn more and apply.

Rolling admissions.

FINAL DEADLINE - MAY 24th.

Design Gym Re-Opening Party!

Design Gym Spring Re-Opening
Monday, 3/20 @ 6pm - 8pm
572 Columbia Road, Dorchester

RSVP HERE.

The Design Gym re-opens on Monday, March 20th, and we are excited to welcome you back into the space as we dream, strategize and create this season. We have such a dynamic roster of workshops around Making (painting, sewing, sign making, photography, woodworking, etc.), Designing (Civic Design, Youth Activism Design Intensive, I-A-E and more), and Strategizing for success for artists (grant writing, financials, time management and balance), and so much more.

And get this!! For the very first time, we are opening up a DESIGN GYM MEMBERSHIP for YOU -- our community -- to be a part of regular convenings and work out your ideas with like-minded people immersed in creativity.

Join us on March 20th at The Design Gym for a tour of the new and improved space, sign up for classes for the season, and leave with your Design Gym Membership Card in hand, which gives you access to our Open Gym hours, our Personal Trainers and our monthly Friday Night Life events!! 

Also-- this is all FREE and open to the public! So bring a friend. Bring the youth.
Let's build Together!

COVID SAFETY PROTOCOL: We are not requiring folks to wear masks in the Design Gym space, but please know that it is a preferred practice. We all have various comfort levels and loved ones that may have compromised immune systems. We want everyone to feel and be safe. Please do stay home if you are feeling ill, and know that we will have masks and sanitizer on site for those who need it.

Many thanks to our generous partners and funders! All Design Gym programming is FREE thanks to the Barr Foundation, Kresge Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, Surdna Foundation, as well as our partners at Radical Imagination for Racial Justice: MassArt and the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture.

Social Emergency Response Center (SERC) POSTPONED

This SERC is POSTPONED DUE TO EXTREME COLD.

Given the back to back events in California and Memphis, DS4SI will be hosting a Social Emergency Response Center this Friday. Our hopes are to create space for our friends, colleagues, and loved ones to witness each other, talk, eat together, reconnect with our breath and bodies, and--if desired--move into radical action.

Opening with Dzidzor Azaglo
Making a Collective Altar with mica
Interactive taiko drumming with Karen Young, mica, and Mel
Breathing with Born
Reflections on the moment with ds4si
Reiki with Nicole Flynt
and more...

Plus, we know it's gonna be COLD. Join us for delicious hot soups and bouyon, dirty rice, greens, sweet potato pie, and more! (All homemade with love.)

If you've never been to a SERC, you can learn more about our thinking by reading A Case for Social Emergency Procedures and/or watching our SERC video.

We hope to see you on Friday. For the safety of us all, we ask folks to wear masks or take one of ours. We will also have free Covid test kits to take home!

Friday, February 3rd, at 6pm - 8pm
@ The Design Gym, 572 Columbia Road, Dorchester

New Design Gym Classes

Maker Classes (Thursday nights, 6-8pm):

Documentary Video
Thursdays, November 3rd, 10th, 17th 6pm-8pm

This is an introductory workshop teaching the basic ideas and skills necessary to create a short piece of work in 3 weeks.

Born and raised in an immigrant family in Roxbury, Massachusetts, instructor Donté Thomas is an educator, filmmaker, and installation artist who has worked in the media industry for over 10 years, creating motion and still graphics at design houses and working with award winning filmmakers, playwrights and curators. He has also been a media educator in the Boston Public Schools.

Email us here to register. Space is limited!

Woodworking
2 classes!
1) NEW: Woodworking with Ayako Maruyama on Mondays, 11/21 and 11/28, 6pm-8pm

This 2-part workshop will introduce you to power and hand tools, basic joinery and construction. Beginners welcome!


2) Woodworking series on Thursdays, December 1st, 8th, 15th 6pm-8pm

In this workshop, you will learn the how to use large and small woodworking tools in order to manifest your own project during the winter holidays! Instructor Jemuel Stephenson, artist, designer, digital creator, and inventor from Dorchester, MA.  

Email us here to register. Space is limited!

One-off Classes in December

Persona Poem Workshop
Monday, December 12th, 6-8pm
Learn how to write a poem in the 1st person voice from a different perspective. A persona poem is a poem in which the poet takes on the voice of a character, a fictional identity, or a persona. Because a dramatic monologue is by definition one person’s speech, it is offered without overt analysis or commentary, placing emphasis on subjective qualities that are left to the audience to interpret. Join us for this 1 evening, 2 hour workshop.
Email us here to register.

Critical Love
Wednesday, December 14th, 5:30-7:30

Join us for an evening of loving critique. You have an idea, a project, a prototype, a song, a poem, a joke, a video....that isn't finished yet. You want to hear back from peers who want the best for you and your endeavor?! Join us. Share what you've got and we'll share what we experience thus far. Facilitator Letta Neely.
Email us here to register.

Imagination Methodologies Series

(Image above from Sahyeh Sorkh / Red Shadow, an experimental short film by Rashin Fahandej.)


Imagination Methodologies Series (on zoom)

DS4SI’s Design Gym will be offering their first online series, Imagination Methodologies.

Wednesdays 6-7:30pm ET (come to any or all), November 9th, 16th, 30th,
Design Dialogues w/ John Sharp, Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, and Rashin Fahandej

Can one become better at creativity and imagination or is it simply a gift? In Imagination Methodologies, we’ll talk with three different creatives who use methods and techniques as part of their practice of imagination. Through the sharing of these techniques, we hope to make the case that we can all practice imagination.

John Sharp--November 9th

Register here for zoom event.

John Sharp is a designer, art historian, curator and educator. John's current design work focuses on cultural games, art games and non-digital games. Along with Colleen Macklin, John co-directs PETLab (Prototyping, Education and Technology Lab), a research group focused on games and their design as a form of social discourse. He is an associate professor at Parsons The New School for Design.

Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo--Nov 16th

Register here for zoom event.

Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo is a Black feminist rap artist and producer from Ithaca, NY, with family roots in Cote D'Ivoire and the Congo. She is an Assistant Professor of Music at Brown University, teaching rap songwriting and feminist sound studies.  Enongo is also the Director of Audio for Glow Up Games, a women-of-color led game studio and a member of theKEEPERS, a Hip Hop collective mapping the international contributions of womxn and girls across Hip Hop's 50-year history.

Rashin Fahandej--Nov 30th

Register here for zoom event.

Rashin Fahandej is an Iranian-American futurist, immersive storyteller, and cultural activist. Fahandej’s artistic initiatives are multiyear experimental laboratories for collective radical reimaginations of social systems, using counter-narratives of care and community co-creation to design equitable futures. Her projects center on marginalized voices and the role of media, technology, and public collaboration in generating emotional connections to drive social change.

Last day for Public Kitchen and Dance Court

Public Kitchen & Dance Court…

Don't miss our last big day at Mary Hannon Park!

Saturday, October 22nd, 2-6pm
Sunday--rained out

(621 Dudley St, Roxbury)

Public Kitchen:
Saturday: Jollof Cook-off! Featuring Suya Joint, Pelloma and Kwasi of Comfort Kitchen (4pm tasting and voting!)
Conversations about rice, Boston Food Forests, and more...

Dance Court:
Saturday 2-6: 6 workshops + Social Clash Exhibition

  • 2:00 - Kizomba workshop

  • 2:45 - House w/ @rthymz

  • 3:30 - New Style Hustle w/ @kenzie_j_illnest

  • 4:15 - Popping w/ @mega_kingz

  • 5:00 - Dancehall w/ @ice_mpyre

  • 5:45 - Latin Movement w/ @lumyrd

  • 6:30 - Social Clash Exhibition (Street & Club vs Partner Dance)

Public Kitchen & Dance Court!

Dance Court & Public Kitchen

Mary Hannon Park, 621 Dudley St, Roxbury (across from the Kroc Center)

Friday--CANCELLED DUE TO RAIN
Saturday, October 15th, 5-9pm
Sunday, October 16th, 2-6pm

Highlights of Weekend 1 include:
Dance Court:
Dance classes, DJ Savuth, Madtunez & Ninrod, open floor
Saturday night: performances by Modern Connections/ Samba Viva/ Lock Unity/ Sidestreet/ Afro Beats Boston
Sunday: DJ Ninrod, 2pm salsa workshop by Liliana, open dance session led by Lumry, , Salsa Y Control, and Kenzie J Illnest
Public Kitchen:
Food demos by Kray Plates, Elle Simone Scott, founder of SheChef (SUNDAY), and more!
Spanish and Haitian rice, fresh greens from Dudley Greenhouse, tricked out rice krispie treats, and more!

2nd weekend
Friday, October 21st, 5-9pm
Saturday, October 22nd, 2-6pm
Sunday, October 23rd, 2-6pm

Highlights of Weekend 2 include:
Dance Court:
Dance classes, DJ Indiglo and Black Mamba, open floor
Saturday night: 6 workshops + Social Clash Exhibition (Hustle, House, Popping, Chicago Step, Dance Hall, and more!)
Sunday: Bachata with Lumyr, open dance, and more
Public Kitchen:
Food demos, garlic circle, and more
Saturday night: Jollof Cook-off!
Sunday: Rice Party! Who makes the best rice?

The Dance Court and Public Kitchen serve as installations designed to help us reimagine, experiment and realize the ways in which public infrastructures can improve the quality of our lives. We have room to imagine the futures we want to create! Doing this takes experimentation and creativity. To spark this, we invite you to experience the Dance Court and Public Kitchen as “productive fictions" in Mary Hannon Park* in Roxbury, over the course of two consecutive weekends.

We are honored to welcome Ashton Lites as our Dance Court Design Lead and Sasha Coleman in partnership with Comfort Kitchen as our Public Kitchen Design Leads. These community gatherings will include music, dance, and food from a variety of cultures and genres. There will also be opportunities for YOU to lead your own workshops.

MORE DETAILS COMING SOON! We can't wait to share time, space and a meal with you…

Imagined Futures with Barrington Edwards

Imagined Futures: COMICS & GRAFFITI
Saturday, July 30th, 12-6pm

Free and open to the public.

On Saturday, July 30th, we welcome our long time friend and amazing artist Barrington "Vex8" Edwards to share his newest body of work at the DS4SI Design Gym. Join us from 12pm-6pm as we feature his Imagined Futures Spatial Justice project: Comics & Graffiti, in collaboration with NEFA. Come dream and design a new future with us in the form of reimagining and recreating our city, designing our alter egos, and crafting a new story-- Our Story!

The day will feature:
-Art exhibition by Barrington Edwards
-Live mural creation by Cedric Douglas and Francois Leandre
-A Reimagined City/ paper building workshop by Althea Bennett that will allow us to create the city we want to see
- A workshop on Designing Your Alter-ego: your story, your superpower, your kryptonite and your physical costume and cape by Joelle Fontaine of I Am Kreyol
-Live podcasting by Obvious Nonsense
- Music
- Food by Gaveyann Stephens
- Art/design activities and games for the entire family

We can't wait to see you!

All are Welcome!!

inPUBLIC Summer Series 2022

inPUBLIC Summer Series creates and nurtures atmospheres which allow ALL of US to play, connect, dance and BE in public space.

inPUBLIC Summer Series is a collection of events held in different locations across Boston from May to August, 2022. These events range from open invitations to nap in Boston’s parks, a reunion for chosen family to dance + play games, open mics, to a 3 day arts festival centered around the theme of PLAY. The events are curated by a multi-racial team of local artists with the intentions of centering joy and creative expressions of Black, Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) in the heart of Downtown Boston.

Join us in public space in Boston this summer by checking out our full event schedule and upcoming events below!

upcoming Event:

inPUBLIC: Wild Rumpus

A 3-day festival of Joy and public art making

inPUBLIC: Wild Rumpus, A 3-day Festival invites you to experience play in public space through movement, dance, rest, creation, games, and music. Wild Rumpus is curated by a multi-racial team of local artists (Dzidzor Azaglo, Crystal Bi, Letta Neely, Sheila Novak, Stefanie D. Belnavis, Diya Ghosh, Diamond McMillion, and Bedelyn Dabel) with the intentions of centering joy and creative expression across communities of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) in the heart of Downtown Boston. In collaboration with over 30 artists, each day will offer a dimension of collective nourishment, imagination building, and play in public.

WHAT: inPUBLIC: Wild Rumpus

WHERE: The Steps at Downtown Crossing (next to old navy)

WHEN:

Thurs. August 11th, 2022; 5-8pm

Fri. August 12th, 2022; 5-8pm

Sat. August 13th, 2022; 12-4pm

*Rain date is Sunday, August 14th; 12-4pm

Thursday, August 11, 5:00-8:00 PM: The People’s Rest - this day highlights rest and rejuvenation.

Featuring…

  • Excerpt from “Can I Touch It?” from Company One Theatre

  • Imagining and co-creating a paper city with Althea Bennett

  • Crochet Mat workshop with Diya Ghosh + Ann Hayek

  • Yoga with Born Bi-Kim

  • Immersive therapeutic sound bowl with Marlene Boyette

Friday, August 12, 5:00-8:00 PM: The People’s Prom - explore play through movement and dance!

Featuring…

  • Community Dance Cipher with The Flavor Continues (5:15-6p)

  • Salsa Dance workshop and open dance (6-7:40p)

  • Drag Performance with De-zyre (7:40-8p)

  • Double Dutch Tournament with Shelisse Stroud

Saturday, August 13, 12:00-4:00 PM: The People’s Playground - this day invites you to go back to your childhood to experience joy + play in public space.

Featuring…

  • Capoeira with Sinha Capoeira

  • Finger painting + four square hosted by ICA Teens

  • Multicultural Story Hour

  • Drag Performance with De-zyre

  • Music to move to by DJ LadyLY

  • Family Portraits Gallery by Stefanie Belnavis

  • Colorful life-size maze by Ponnapa Prakkamakul

  • Giant life-size games by Urbano Youth

Past Events:

inPUBLIC: Black Love

A Jam session hosted by Black Cotton Club

inPUBLIC: Black Love, A Jam Session Hosted by Black Cotton Club invites you to share a poem, song, story, love letter, affirmation or more at The Steps at Downtown Crossing. This jam session invites the audience to participate and interact impromptu with a live band. This month the theme is Black love: inviting poems, stories, songs, affirmations and more on the topic of love within black bodies.

WHAT: inPUBLIC: Black Love - A jam session hosted by Black Cotton Club

WHEN: July 14, 2022; 5:00-9:30pm

WHERE: The Steps at Downtown Crossing (next to old navy)

This event is free and open to the public.

More info about the event host:

Black Cotton Club welcomes the audience to amplify their voices, be uplifted, and be empowered. In the act of demystifying the role of a performer, we invite voices to sing songs, recite poetry, share affirmations, and more in partnership with a live band. The audience controls the ambience of the event through their own narrative. The only rule is, Take Off Your Cool! We believe that there is an artist in everyone and you deserve to be heard.


inPUBLIC: All our relations

A Family Reunion Celebrating Juneteenth

Flyer for inPUBLIC: ALL Our Relations 2022

“This event will honor and celebrate the inherent liberation of our past, present and future selves, our inner children and our ancestors. All Our Relations is a public afro-futuristic practice of making something new from our collective expressions of freedom.”
— Letta Neely

 ALL Our Relations: A Family Reunion Celebrating Juneteenth is an invitation for Boston to come together at The Steps at Downtown Crossing – to play, connect, dance and BE together in public again. ALL Our Relations is curated by a multi-racial team of local artists with the intentions of centering joy and creative expressions of Black, Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) in the heart of Downtown Boston.

WHAT: ALL Our Relations: A Family Reunion Celebrating Juneteenth 

WHEN: June 17, 2022; 5:00-9:30pm

WHERE: The Steps at Downtown Crossing (between TJMaxx and Old Navy)

Free and open to the public.

Curated by a team of local artists (Dzidzor Azaglo, Crystal Bi Wegner, Letta Neely, Sheila Novak and Jenny Oliver), All Our Relations features Boston area artists welcoming the whole family to play summer games together, have a family portrait taken by Stefanie Belnavis of the Diahann Project, dance with DJ Jo Saint-Surin and a Trike Called Funk, and enjoy performances by Vogue X, and Boston Latin Academy Step and Stroll Team. MC’d by Ashton Lites.

FULL Summer Event Schedule:

May 11, 12-2p - inPUBLIC: Rest (see info and locations here)

June 8, 12-2p - inPUBLIC: Rest (see info and locations here)

June 17, 5-9:30p - inPUBLIC: ALL Our Relations, a Family Reunion in Celebration of Juneteenth

July 13, 12-2p - inPUBLIC: Rest (see info and locations here)

July 14, 5-9:30p - inPUBLIC: Black Love

August 10, 12-2p - inPUBLIC: Rest (see info and locations here)

August 11-14 - inPUBLIC: Wild Rumpus

Downtown Crossing Event Location:

 

On Reparations

DS4SI is excited to announce that we have rescheduled our talk On Reparations, with Denise Ferreira da Silva, for May 10th at 6pm EST.

Register via Zoom link here. The talk is FREE and open to all.

Demands and organizing strategies for reparations are gaining traction. What might growing efforts and advocates need to consider ethically and politically? How do we calculate ethically for example? And should we conceive of a reparations politic that extends beyond boundaries of the nation-state? We will take up these questions and more in conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva, film producer, artist and author of Toward a Global Idea of Race and, her most recent work, Unpayable Debt.

To read Unpayable Debt, click this link for a PDF.

This conversation will be led by Tia-Simone Gardner, interdisciplinary artist, educator, and Black feminist scholar.

Register via Zoom link here. The talk is FREE and open to all.

inPUBLIC @ DTX November 5th-7th! (Due to rain)

inPUBLIC 2021 is coming! Featuring over 60 artists.

a space for collective healing at the heart of the city

Friday, October 29th, 4-7pm--UnBound Bodies Collective


Saturday & Sunday, October 30th & 31st, 1-4pm

inPUBLIC: We will tend to the moment...

We are inviting artists and community members to collectively create an installation at Boston's Downtown Crossing Steps. The installation will transform the steps into a space of reflection and collective commitment to tending to one another.

Please join us to listen, witness, reflect and add to the interactive installation.

Check out work by over 60 local and national artists, listen to DJ Bruno, the inPUBLIC Voice Mail Project, and more...

Many thanks to our partners, the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) and the Downtown Boston BID for their on-going support and thought-partnership.

On Reparations Talk

On Reparations, a talk with Denise Ferreira da Silva

November 3rd, 6-7:30 (
register via zoom)

Demands and organizing strategies for reparations are gaining traction. What might growing efforts and advocates need to consider ethically and politically? How do we calculate ethically for example? And should we conceive of a reparations politic that extends beyond boundaries of the nation-state? We will take up these questions and more in conversation with Denise Ferreira da Silva, film producer, artist and author of Toward a Global Idea of Race and, her most recent work, Unpayable Debt.

To read Unpayable Debt, click this link for a PDF.

This conversation will be led by Tia-Simone Gardner, interdisciplinary artist, educator, and Black feminist scholar.

Register for zoom here. [FREE]

Radical Welcoming Art Commission

What is Radical Welcoming?

Radical Welcoming says we see you, we hear you, and we’re glad you are here. Radical Welcoming is greeting people with intention, honoring any past experiences (good and bad, new and old) they have had in a space, and attending to the current one in ways that invite them to bring their whole self.

Why an artist commission?

We believe artists bring nuance and beauty to public life and everyday interactions. Artists’ understanding of energy, beauty and the symbolic mean that they can lead us in intentional acts of welcoming that help community members both feel welcome in public spaces and feel the desire to welcome others.

This art commission invites artists to radically welcome people back into Upham’s Corner’s public spaces and public life. While some members of the community are holding a lot of anxiety about being in public spaces again, others have been frontline workers, out in public and keeping Upham’s going throughout the pandemic. We want to welcome all with deep intention.

We are looking for a diverse group of local artists to design welcoming rituals and activities that invite people to bring their whole selves, whether they are:

- People who’ve already been gentrified out of the neighborhood

- People new to Upham’s, including new immigrant communities

- People who’ve been harassed or profiled by police while going about their business

- Families looking for safe and free activities to do together

- Elders and folks with disabilities who may be challenged by Upham’s hectic traffic

- Young artists and students of color looking for community in Boston

- People re-entering our community after being taken from us through incarceration

- People who may have experienced xenophobia, Afrophobia, anti-Asian violence or discrimination based on their culture, language or country of origin

- Shopkeepers and others who work to make Upham’s Corner a destination for all of us

What is the criteria for the artist commissions?

Priority will be given to BIPOC artists who live and/or work in the Upham’s Corner neighborhood or along the Fairmount Cultural Corridor.

If you are applying for the $2,500 commission, you must include multiple artists and/or multiple activity dates.

Application Deadline: June 25th

inPUBLIC is back @ Downtown Crossing! Now hiring!

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inPUBLIC Festival past & present:

In 2019, DS4SI hosted inPUBLIC, a 2-day festival in Boston that highlighted the importance of “public-making”—the collective creation of opportunities for interaction, laughter, dialogue, learning and surprise. inPUBLIC exuberantly demonstrated the connections between public space and public discourse, outdoor play and collective healing, pop-up performances and shared food, comedy nights and performance art.

Now we want to radically welcome one another back into public spaces, while honoring the complexities of public life in this moment of multiple pandemics. We are individually and collectively processing prolonged grief, trauma, and exhaustion, as well as the continued impacts of violence experienced by communities of color for simply existing in public space across the country. In the midst of this, DS4SI is partnering with the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) and the Downtown Boston BID to engage artists in co-creating inPUBLIC 2021, a space for collective healing, imagination, and connection.

inPUBLIC 2021 will take place in Downtown Crossing in Boston on Friday evenings and Saturday afternoons in September.

inPUBLIC EVENT PRODUCER:

The inPUBLIC Event Producer will lead DS4SI’s collective planning process, coordination, and promotion for this year’s festival, including onsite logistics during the festival.

Skills and Experience:

We are interested in candidates who have:

·       Extensive experience with artistic production, particularly but not exclusively in outdoor spaces

·       Knowledge of and experience working with artists of color from the greater Boston area

·       Experience working across arts and activism

·       Ability to work independently and on a team

·       Can both listen and lead in collaborative working environments.

·       Strong organizational, communication and relationship-building skills

·       Experience with promotions including social media campaigns

·       Strong understanding/knowledge about Boston and Boston’s neighborhoods and communities

 

Salary:  This part-time temporary position will take approximately 18-20 hours per week. Salary range is $32-38/hour. The position runs from late June to mid-October. Estimated total compensation will be approximately $15,000.

To download the job description as a PDF, click here.

Applications DUE by June 16th. Please apply here via our fiscal sponsor, TSNE MissionWorks. BIPOC artists and arts administrators with outdoor event production experience strongly encouraged to apply.

 

DS4SI is hiring!

Cedric Douglas engages passers-by during DS4SI’s Making Planning Processes Public

Cedric Douglas engages passers-by during DS4SI’s Making Planning Processes Public

Full time Creative Civic Engagement Design Lead (Principal)

APPLY BY JANUARY 13TH, 11:59PM.

At DS4SI, we deeply believe in the right of the public to shape their surroundings and everyday life. Our civic engagement projects are dedicated to finding creative ways for community members to engage each other in imagining the spaces they want to live, work and play in, and the futures they want to build together. We aim to create unique opportunities for residents, artists, activists, merchants and others to both imagine and advocate for equitable development and civic life. Our Creative Civic Engagement D­­esign Lead is responsible for the design, development and documentation of all of our civic engagement projects.

 Additionally, all principals of DS4SI participate in project design and implementation, fund development and organizational development. Additionally, principals are responsible for securing projects and contracts as well as reporting on the projects they lead.

Key Responsibilities

  • Communicating with partners and clients to co-design and deliver high quality, interactive and accessible engagement experiences

  • Co-creating civic engagement activities and participatory action research projects that ensure real community input in civic projects

  • Project management from design through implementation and documentation

  • Supervising artists and community members collaborating on civic engagement

  • Developing new clients and methodologies

Qualifications

  • At least 3 years of experience in community engaged arts, community/urban development, civic engagement design, community organizing or related activity

  • At least 2 years of experience in project management

  • Experience working in public in ways that facilitate dialog, engage passers-by and welcome a diversity of experiences, opinions and backgrounds

  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal

  • Good analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Strong time and task management skills

  • Genuine commitment and sensitivity to residents and community issues

  • Respect for economic and cultural diversity, experience working with diverse groups of people

  • Highly motivated and independent, yet team-oriented

  • Must be able to work occasional weekends and evenings

  • Must be willing to work onsite in Boston (office is currently open, working remotely is fine until conditions improve and a vaccine is available)

  • Must be available for occasional travel (post Covid-19 vaccine, when travel is safe)

  • Reliable transportation a plus (not required)

  • Computer and other standard office equipment skills sufficient to prepare flyers and other communications, maintain databases, run zoom meetings, update social media, etc.

Additional Skills and Experience

  • Background in 2 and/or 3D design a strong plus

  • Background in design research and/or Participatory Action Research a strong plus

  • Bilingual (particularly English/Spanish) a strong plus

  • Background in training facilitation and/or community development a plus

Salary and Benefits
Salary range is $43,000-$60,000 based on skills and experience. This is a full-time, benefited position.

To Apply

Apply online HERE via our fiscal sponsor, TSNE MissionWorks. You will need to attach a CV or resume and paste in a cover letter.

DOWNLOAD this job description as PDF.