{"id":5869,"date":"2014-06-13T12:18:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T19:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/?p=5869"},"modified":"2014-06-14T10:53:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T17:53:50","slug":"bonnie-ora-sherk-open-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/bernal-heights-living-library-nature-walk\/bonnie-ora-sherk-open-engagement","title":{"rendered":"Bonnie Ora Sherk and A Living Library Featured at Open Engagement Conference at Queens Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10269449_10152054550930877_3431463568495041080_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5870\" alt=\"10269449_10152054550930877_3431463568495041080_n\" src=\"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10269449_10152054550930877_3431463568495041080_n.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10269449_10152054550930877_3431463568495041080_n.jpg 604w, https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10269449_10152054550930877_3431463568495041080_n-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Bonnie Ora Sherk<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>A Living Library<\/strong><\/em> were featured at the <em><strong>Open Engagement Conference<\/strong><\/em> on <em><strong>Social Practice Art<\/strong> <\/em>at the <em><strong>Queens Museum<\/strong><\/em> in <em><strong>New York<\/strong><\/em>, on <em>May 17, 2014<\/em>.\u00a0 The panel focussed on <em><strong>Watersheds<\/strong><\/em>, and Ms. Sherk discussed, with a slide presentation, the <em><strong>Branch Living Library &amp; Think Parks<\/strong><\/em> underway at five schools in the <em><strong>Islais Creek Watershed in San Francisco,<\/strong><\/em> and the <em><strong>Bernal Heights Living Library Nature Walk,<\/strong> <\/em>that is linking multiple schools, parks, public housing, streets, and other open spaces, and that serves as a prototype for what could be happening throughout the whole <em>Islais Creek Watershed<\/em>, the largest watershed in San Francisco, that interconnects eleven communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The audience was very interested and several groups from around the United States want to now develop a place-based, <em><strong>Branch Living Library<\/strong><\/em> in their community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6653.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6653\" src=\"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6653-250x187.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6666.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_6666\" src=\"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/IMG_6666-250x187.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Matthew Friday<\/strong><\/em> wrote: <em>&#8220;Many thanks to\u00a0Gregory Sholette,\u00a0Linda Weintraub,\u00a0Bonnie Ora Sherk,\u00a0Iain Kerr, and Emily Vail for participating in the Watershed Panel at Open Engagement. So excited to be able to sustain a fluid and dynamic conversation about this important topic and looking forward to future collaborations.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10325596_10152054550715877_8300253750237287471_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5872\" alt=\"10325596_10152054550715877_8300253750237287471_n\" src=\"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10325596_10152054550715877_8300253750237287471_n.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10325596_10152054550715877_8300253750237287471_n.jpg 604w, https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/10325596_10152054550715877_8300253750237287471_n-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bonnie Ora Sherk and A Living Library were featured at the Open Engagement Conference on Social Practice Art at the Queens Museum in New York, on May 17, 2014.\u00a0 The panel focussed on Watersheds, and Ms. Sherk discussed, with a slide presentation, the Branch Living Library &amp; Think Parks underway at five schools in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Bonnie Ora Sherk and A Living Library Featured at Open Engagement Conference at Queens Museum - A Living Library - Archive Site","description":"Bonnie Ora Sherk and A Living Library were featured at the Open Engagement Conference on Social Practice Art at the Queens Museum in New York , on May 17, 2014"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-landscape-architecture-systemic-design","category-bernal-heights-living-library-nature-walk","category-islais-creek-watershed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5907,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5869\/revisions\/5907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}