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MetroWest Regional Collaborative’s February meeting will feature special guest Barry Keppard, the Director of Public Health at MAPC, talking about the role of public health in planning (and just about everything else municipal). Coffee and a morning snack will be served.
Join us for a night of appetizers, drinks and conversation with cross-sector professionals that are working to create buy-in, trust, and inclusion with an array of audiences. Connect with other practitioners working in industries such as community development, urban planning, design, nonprofit, public relations, conflict resolution, public health, education, social work, communications and media, local government, law and more. This event will allow you to build your network, learn new strategies, and enjoy a fun night out.
Please register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/community-engagement-professional-mixer-tickets-50089084801
What is community engagement?
The process of utilizing relationships and different strategies to involve people to participate in decision-making and collaboration in a community.
Thank you to our event partners:
Institute for Non-profit Practice
The Mel King Institute
The Mediation Group
How do monuments and memorials shape our understanding of place—and what we choose to forget? And how might we reframe public memory to address the harmful legacy of colonialism in our region? This artist panel will consider how remembering and forgetting of Indigenous peoples and colonial history shaped the landscape and collective consciousness of Greater Boston—and the necessary role of Indigenous artists in shaping more just public spaces.
Reclaim? Recontextualize? Relocate? Remove? What should we do with monuments that no longer reflect our shared history and collective values (or never did to begin with)? This conversation among artists, designers, and educators will explore how creative commemoration can help us see the past and present in a new light—and chart a path toward more just futures.
For more information, please reach out to the MWRC Subregional Coordinator:
Leah Robins
lrobins@mapc.org
Learn more about the MetroWest Regional Collaborative here.