Fulbright Riga, Latvia:
This fall, Linda will be working with colleagues in Riga, Latvia, as a Fulbright Scholar, affiliated with the Latvian Academy of Culture.  She’ll be teaching graduate courses, participating in other projects, and also developing workshops for museum/heritage colleagues in Riga and throughout the country.

EU Heritage CIRCLE – Collaborative Innovation for Responsible, Critical and Localised Engagement with Europe’s Dissonant Heritage, Italy:
The Heritage CIRCLE project brings together eleven institutions throughout Europe to advance constructive and ethical approaches to discussing, interpreting, presenting, and reusing Europe’s dissonant and contentious heritage.  Creative Futures will be facilitating conversations with the core team and creating a Careful Dialogue guide.

Angel Island Immigration Station, Angel Island, California, US:

Linda and Stacey are working with Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation and Angel Island State Park teams to create a new interpretive Theory of Change for engaging visitors at the site. This year-long project includes facilitating three all staff workshops for the teams to build relationships, align their desired impact, identify people-centered outcomes, and build skills in dialogue, storytelling, prototyping and connecting past to present. Small groups of staff are currently working collaboratively to prototype new engagement and interpretation strategies directly with visitors in order to learn what will best achieve their outcomes. The project will culminate with a finalized Interpretive Theory of Change, a road map for implementation, and training materials for future team members.

The Mark Twain House & Museum, Hartford, Connecticut, US:
It isn’t easy building deep conversations about icons who are full of complexity and contradiction. But the staff at the Mark Twain House and Museum do it every day. Creative Futures has worked with the MHMT team to think about building productive experiences out of the moments that challenge them and visitors the most. Relatedly, CF is also working with staff on building people centered community engagement.

California State Parks, Statewide in California, US:
Braden and Stacey are working with California State Parks in a variety of capacities. Braden is collaboratively supporting a cohort of State Park Sites looking to tell more inclusive stories, engage visitors in meaningful dialogue, and build more reciprocal community partnerships. The cohort includes sites of colonial violence, former military sites, forts and gold rush era sites. Stacey led a training at the annual Cultural Resources Interpretation Training for interpreters across the state to strengthen their creative dialogic interpretation practices. In the spring, she deepened those practices with the Angeles District’s staff and volunteers. 

Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden:

Stacey and Linda facilitated a lively two-day workshop Climate, Heritage, and Policy: Dialogues in Learning at Linneaus University in Kalmar, Sweden. The workshop used a framework of learning and dialogue to begin a body of practice that integrates across fields of climate change, archaeology and heritage, and governance and science-policy translation.

International Network of Museums for Peace Conference at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Canada:
Braden, Stacey, and Naomi Kawamura will lead a workshop at the Peacebuilding Through Truth and Reconciliation: International Network of Museums for Peace Conference at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Canada. This session offers a space for peace museum workers to share and reflect on the unique pressures of  unpeaceful times. Through personal reflection, deep listening, creativity, and dialogue, participants will explore shared challenges and hopes

Troutbeck Symposium, Amenia, New York, US:

This spring, Braden and Linda facilitated faculty and student training in advance, observed, and provided follow-up recommendations for  the Troutbeck Symposium, a regional educational program where middle and high school students uncover the histories of their own communities through archival research, oral history, and creative storytelling.