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SHARING KNOWLEDGE, STORIES & EXPRESSION

8/14/2019

 
In May 2019, ILI Partner the National Association of Latino Arts & Cultures (NALAC) hosted the final of three place-based intensives for ILI Fellows in San Antonio, TX. The five-day leadership immersion brought together the second cohort of ILI Fellows for shared learning, personal exchange and to be immersed in a living Mexican-American culture grounded in indigeneity.
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2018/19 ILI Fellows Cohort, Partners and Facilitators at ILI San Antonio intensive. Photo: Melisa Cardona

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BIENVENIDOS A SAN ANTONIO

8/13/2019

 
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Welcome Message at ILI San Antonio by María López De León, President and CEO, NALAC
On behalf of the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures (NALAC), I welcome you to San Antonio! We are proud to be hosting the Intercultural Leadership Institute as NALAC celebrates its 30th Anniversary; three decades of supporting Latinx arts and culture from our base on San Antonio’s historic WestSide. 

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ENVISIONING INTERCULTURAL FRAMEWORK

8/12/2019

 
Evonne Gallardo is the ILI Host Facilitator for San Antonio, the location for the third and final of three place-based intensives for the ILI Fellows. She shared her thoughts about the vision for what an intercultural framework and methodology might look like and how her own understanding of interculturality influenced her work at ILI San Antonio.
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Photo: Melisa Cardona

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REFLECTIONS: ILI - Aloha Aina

8/11/2019

 
ILI Fellow Carol Zou  shares her thoughts on ILI Intensives.
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ILI Fellows, including Carol Zou (left) and Edyka Chilomé (right) during ILI Intensive #2 in Hawai’i. Photo: Melisa Cardona

2018 was the year I lovingly nicknamed
“the year I cried at conferences.”


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HIGHLIGHTS & RESOURCES FROM ILI SAN ANTONIO INTENSIVE

8/8/2019

 
Get a glimpse into the ILI intensive experience through this day-by-day look.
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ILI Fellows in group exercise on opening day of ILI Intensive #3 in San Antonio, TX. All Photos: Melisa Cardona

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#ILISanAntonio Instagram

8/5/2019

 

ILI LEADERS AFTA PRE-CONFERENCE

8/1/2019

 
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All Photos: Jenny Zander
In a partnership connected to the great cultural diversity of the Twin Cities region, Americans for the Arts (AFTA) joined with ILI Partners, Facilitators and Fellows to create a pre-conference learning experience prior to the 2019 AFTA National Convention in Minneapolis. ​

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SHARING RECLAIMED TRADITIONS

5/6/2019

 
In January 2019, ILI Partner PAʻI Foundation hosted the second of three place-based intensives for ILI Fellows in Hawaiʻi. The five-day leadership immersion brought together the second cohort of ILI Fellows for shared learning, personal exchange and direct experience with the true history and sacred places in Native Hawaiʻi. ​
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2018/19 ILI Fellows Cohort, Partners and Facilitators at ILI Hawaiʻi intensive. Photo: Melisa Cardona

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BRINGING THE BEST FORWARD

5/5/2019

 
Mehanaokala Hind is the ILI Host Facilitator for Hawaiʻi, the location for the second of three place-based intensives for the ILI Fellows. She shared her thoughts about preparing to engage Fellows in Native Hawaiian experiences, encouraging their best, and facilitating healing cultural practices.
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Photo: Melisa Cardona

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REFLECTIONS: ILI Intensive #2

5/4/2019

 
ILI Fellow muthi reed shares their thoughts and photos from ILI Hawaiʻi.
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Aloha. Mahalo. ‘Āina. Hawai’i. Land of sacred relationships thank you for welcoming us home to sovereign sensibility. Home is….. feelings and places of agreement, acceptance, awareness…. healing… sources of purpose….. kinships built from knowing and working side by side. Home is shared between us. Home is complex and difficult and maybe a myth. Regardless, the idea of kinship calls us lifetime after lifetime, in the people we meet, the conflicts we experience, the foods we savor and the places and spaces where we are held. ​

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HIGHLIGHTS & RESOURCES FROM ILI HAWAIʻI INTENSIVE

4/30/2019

 
Get a glimpse into the ILI intensive experience through this day-by-day look.
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Photo by Melisa Cardona

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SHOWING UP AND WORKING THROUGH

4/30/2019

 
Interview with Nijeul X. Porter, ILI Core Facilitator & Design Team Member
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Grounding moment at ILI Lakota intensive. Photo: Melisa Cardona
​Nijeul shared his thoughts about what he calls the “ILI Experience 2.0,” his personal reflections and his role as a model cultural leader.

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FELLOWS IN THE FIELD: Cultivating Love

4/29/2019

 
ILI Fellow liza garza and ILI Fellow Alum Eli Lakes form the mother/son musical duo GROW. In 2018/2019, they embarked on a tour of “living room shows” - connecting with like-minded communities to share their original music of Love and Healing. liza shared her experience, thoughts about interculturality and what she holds most dear as meaningful and valuable.
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#ILIHAWAII Instagram

4/28/2019

 

CO-CREATING IS RADICAL

3/19/2019

 
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These days,  it seems easier to talk online than in person. ILI Alumni Fellow, Shey Rivera Ríos, is trying to change that. Shey Rivera Ríos isan artist and former artistic director at AS220, an internationally renowned arts center in Providence, RI. Rivera uses the mediums of performance, video, installation, and narrative to produce works exploring gender, family history, and colonization in Puerto Rico. After eight years at AS220, Rivera accepted a new role as Director of Inclusive Regional Development at MIT CoLab, in the Urban Studies and Planning department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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FUNDA FEST 21: Celebration of Black Storytellers

3/11/2019

 
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Rhode Island Black Storytellers (RIBS) recently had their 21st Annual Funda Fest: A Celebration of Black Storytelling which took place from Westerly to Woonsocket, Peace Dale to Providence on January 26 to February 3rd. ILI Fellow Valerie Tutson who is the Creative Director of RIBS and Fund Fest founder wanted a space for storytellers to share, teach and entertain with stories from the African Diaspora.

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WHAT IS POSSIBLE

3/4/2019

 
ILI Fellow Kyoung Park guest blogs on Arts Leadership and the future of his own practice.
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Kyoung's Pacific Beat's PILLOWTALK (The Tank, Jan. 2018). Photo: Walter Wlodarczyk
I’ve been thinking a lot about Arts Leadership. Last year, I realized Kyoung’s Pacific Beat has outgrown its current limits and that I need to re-imagine its future for the long-term. It was easy for me to imagine what we’d strive for creatively, but I was stumped by what it’d look like to paint that picture in numbers and what it’d take to make it happen. I think of my mentor, Lee Breuer, who started as a playwright and director, and did not return to his creative writing until his 70’s, having lived a life in the theater teaching and directing. I think of Abe Rybeck, who reached out during a moment of crisis to tell me that he, too, started as an artist and then spent a lifetime building an institution.

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CELEBRATING "HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE MONTH"

2/27/2019

 
ILI Fellow Kahōkū Lindsey-Asing helped promote “Ōlelo Hawaiʻi Month” in February that celebrates and encourages the use and normalization of Hawaiian language. Here is his perspective and experience from this year’s activities:
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Pūnana Leo o Mānoa Hawaiian Medium Education Preschool students attending the “2017 Ke Au Hawaiʻi- Year of the Hawaiian” ceremony at Washington Place, Honolulu.

“...for me, every month is about celebrating, encouraging, and normalizing Hawaiian language. ”


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IN THE SPIRIT OF GENEROSITY

1/19/2019

 
In September 2018, ILI Partner First Peoples Fund hosted the first of three place-based intensives for ILI Fellows in Lakota Territory/South Dakota. The five-day leadership immersion brought together the second cohort of ILI Fellows for shared learning, personal exchange and direct experience with the true history and sacred places in Lakota Territory.
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2018/19 ILI Fellows Cohort at Red Shirt Overlook in Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Photo by Melisa Cardona
“This work is so important,” said First Peoples Fund President Lori Pourier. “The partners who came together to start ILI have long term relationships, but we need to widen the circle and provide space for other arts & cultural leaders who voices are an important part of the larger story.”

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He Sapa Tanyan Yahi / WELCOME TO HE SAPA

1/18/2019

 
​By Lori Lea Pourier, Maka Citomi Omani Win | Woman Who Walks the Earth.
Oglala Lakota, President, First Peoples Fund  ​

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My Lakota name was given to me by my Unci Olivia Black Elk Pourier who made her journey to the Wanagi Yata (the place of the Spirits) when my daughter Shahiyela, now 19, was 8 years old.

During your stay you will learn about the Lakol Wicho’an (the Lakota Way of Life) and how we are taught that our life here on Unci Maka (Grandmother Earth) mirrors the stars (Lakota cosmologies). Our Creation Story begins in the Black Hills. Through story and in practice you will learn about the Lakota virtues of Woksape (Wisdom), Woohitika (Bravery) Wowacintanka (Fortitude) and Wacantognaka (Generosity).


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REMIND, RECONNECT, RECLAIM

1/17/2019

 
Lynette Two Bulls is the ILI Host Facilitator for the Lakota Territory, the location for the first of three place-based intensives for the ILI Fellows. She shared her thoughts about empowerment, leadership and the sacred Black Hills as a powerful and centering place to start ILI Fellows on their year-long journey together.
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Photo by Melisa Cardona
Lynette Two Bulls is Oglala Lakota and Cheyenne and her Lakota name Tuŋwéyaŋ kiyapiwiŋ means “Scouts Woman.” She is originally from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and now resides with her family on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Lame Deer, Montana.

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HIGHLIGHTS & RESOURCES FROM ILI LAKOTA INTENSIVE

1/16/2019

 
Get a glimpse into the ILI intensive experience through this day-by-day look.
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ILI Facilitator Nijeul X. Porter (l) and ILI Fellow Joe Tolbert (r) at Pe Sla (Black Hills). Photo by Melisa Cardona

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REFLECTIONS: ILI Intensive #1

1/15/2019

 
ILI Fellow Christopher Sims shares his thoughts and experiences from Lakota Territory
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ILI Fellows Robert Martinez (l) and Christopher D. Sims (r)

“This is professional and spiritual development I will need to continue my work - the work we are all doing
​in our own unique ways.”


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LEADING THE WAY TO STATUE REMOVAL

1/14/2019

 
ILI Fellow Joel Garcia was an integral part of the community effort to remove the Columbus statue from Grand Park in downtown Los Angeles. Learn how it happened. 
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6-year old Farrah a Mvskoke member stands with her fist raised where the Columbus Statue stood just minutes ago. Photo by Kenneth Lopez

“Do good work, do good research and it pays off.”


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#ILILAKOTA Instagram

1/14/2019

 
​Get an Instagram glimpse into the ILI intensive experience

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