How museums help communities heal | Honor Harger

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While on lockdown, the galleries of Singapore's iconic ArtScience Museum were empty — but online, the museum was abuzz. Honor Harger shares how they're engaging deeply with its visitors through streamed talks, performances and workshops that investigate the COVID-19 landscape and uplift marginalized voices. (This virtual conversation, hosted by TED's current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers, was recorded June 17, 2020.)

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20 Comments on How museums help communities heal | Honor Harger

  1. What I love about older museums apart from their exhibits is the architecture, specifically in the matter of their acoustics.
    The reverberations from the hard stone surfaces give me a sense of a space for quiet contemplation, unhindered by matters spiritual necessarily.

    • That sound you hear is called “striving for perfection”. Striving for perfection is now a white priviledge thing according to BLM.
      Kiss it goodbye

    • Democrat policies. They incentivize the breakup of the nuclear family. Having no father in the home is directly correlated with crime in the community.

    • please be aware that the other commenter is referencing an outdated paper called the moynihan report that discredited the civil rights movement of the 60s by purporting that black families simply need to pick themselves up by their bootstraps compared to the “success” of asian immigrants. the report is flawed in that it disregards the unique climates, treatment, and (dis)placement that resulted in both groups living in the US under rather different conditions (the african diaspora thru slavery and systemic disenfranchisement versus selective asian immigration policies that favored workers, educated professionals, and refugees). for your question, the hardships of poverty, unemployment, families being affected by death and hospital bills, and increasingly extreme weather events are surely sources of community suffering felt worldwide

  2. The Democrats have to stop Trump or they go to jail for crimes against children, drug running and working with China to seel us out.

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