The Power of Dialogue

The 2007 Baltimore Bioneers Conference featured an unforgettable array of some of the most insightful, inspiring innovators working to change the region and the world.  We witnessed how the power of collaboration across all disciplines can solve problems that some think are unchangeable. 

Based on the premise that dialogue is an essential form of communication in a diverse society seeking common ground, Civic Frame presented a session that highlighted the best practices of people and organizations who host successful dialogues—dialogues that use media art and intellectual work to encourage informed civic engagement, dialogues that seek to build coalitions committed to correcting current social ills, and dialogues focused on building and sustaining relationships between different cultural groups.  Additionally, we discussed the use of radio, television, the Internet and appropriate physical space in promoting dialogue.

Saturday, October 20, 2007
11 a.m. – 12 noon

Maryland Institute College of Art
1300 Mount Royal Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21217

Panelists:

                Leon Faruq
                Director
                Re-Entry Services & Operation Sate Streets, East
                The Living Classrooms Foundation

                Troy Johnson
                Host of “The Back Room”
                FM Talk Radio 105.7 WHFS

                Matthew Weinstein
                Past President, The Black Jewish Forum of Baltimore
                Baltimore Region Director, Progressive Maryland

Matthew Weinstein, Troy Johnson, April Yvonne Garrett, Leon Faruq and Tracy Ward Durkin

Attendance:  50 persons
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