Projects to support intercultural dialogue: #1
In South America, one of the most diverse places on the planet, indigenous cultures have developed unique practices for understanding and relating to other cultural groups (those that represent radical otherness). Rituals and exchanges of various kinds (gifts, song and dance exchanges, commensality) are spaces for dialogue, practices that create space to mark, understand, and overcome polarization in different cultures, creating possibilities and common narratives.
Shine a Light and Usina da Imaginação have collaborated to fund 10 innovative projects to promote dialogue between groups that often wouldn’t have the chance to talk. The "call for small projects to encounter the other" funds activities, rites, research, works of art, and other ways of encountering otherness.
Nonprofit Funding Exchange Podcast
Many nonprofits invest valuable time and money into messaging that never quite connects. In today's episode, Josh Gryniewicz interviews Kurt Shaw about innovative strategies for finding and amplifying the voices that inspire action and change. You'll learn practical techniques for building trust, co-creating stories with community members, and using both fictional and non-fictional narratives to reveal deeper truths that challenge the status quo and create more genuine, transformative communication.
On the Stories for Impact Podcast
Over the last five years, we’ve explored stories with countless scientists whose thoughtful research reveals the way they’re answering big questions and solving big problems. We’ve shared conversations about studies done in labs and out in the field. Well, today’s field is Brazil. The labs are crowded city streets and verdant jungles. And the big question? What happens when you stop fearing and fighting against diversity, and start exploring and embracing difference? The researchers we learn from today, anthropologists Kurt Shaw and Rita da Silva, have found their answers through play — in music, drumming, dance, martial arts, food, ritual, and shared experiences in Brazilian wise, but marginalized, communities.