We wanted to hold the time, we’ll reflect on the year, we’ll talk about what we saw over the holidays, and discuss what the future brings. Stay tuned for more specific updates – but join us to kickoff the new year!

Host Peer Group: Advocacy Committee Topic of Discussion: Mutual Aid Date: February 2, 2021 Time: 5:00 pm–6:15 pm Location:  Please RSVP to join us. We will have limited capacity. The Zoom link to virtually meet will be emailed a few days prior to the book club meeting. Questions? Contact Sejin and Dyeemah at spark@noguchi.org and…

Join us for a discussion on how ELL education has changed in the virtual realm and what benefits we can translate into a  post-virtual realm.Please RSVP if you plan to come so I can send everyone a zoom invite link!

To join this Access Peer Group Meeting, please RSVP to Julia Zubrovich or through this Google Form.

We’re going on a (virtual) field trip to the Alice Austen House! The staff at the house have recently mounted “Powerful and Dangerous: The Words of Audre Lorde,” and the NYC LGBT Sites Project recently co-hosted a virtual tour. For this meeting we’ll view the virtual tour (available here) followed by a discussion on how…

How do museums and cultural institutions amplify the visibility of LGBTQ+ voices when there is a history of erasureand absence in curatorial content? To what extent does erasure impact you at work as a staff member? Does not being visibly queer leave you out of the loop in discussions? We will explore a case study…

Our next Adult Peer Group will explore the current state of adult programming.  Some museums are now open and transitioning back to onsite programming while others remain online. How do we build meaningful audience engagement and increase our impact while socially distanced and/or through a screen. How can we utilize virtual tools to expand program…

In partnership with NYSOEA, join for a casual conversation with other non-formal educators and outdoor program managers about how valuable aspects of outdoor programs may be translated to a virtual environment. What does outdoor education look like now? How have you been using virtual platforms? What works and what doesn’t? We encourage you to bring…

RSVP: Jessica Pastore Description:  In a collaboration between the K-12 and Family Programs and Exhibits and Interpretation Peer Groups, this meeting will focus on the reinterpretation of collections through an anti-racist and anti-biased lens. Inspired by the current political atmosphere surrounding Black Lives Matter and the resulting conversations about museums’ place in society as cultural…

Location:  Please RSVP to join us We will have a limited RSVP capacity. The Zoom link to virtually meet will be emailed a few days prior to the book club meeting. Questions? Contact Sejin and Dyeemah at spark@noguchi.org and dyeemah.simmons@gmail.com. Description:  To commemorate World AIDS Day (Dec 1) and the critical history of artists raising…