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Step Up - Savannah’s Poverty Reduction Initiative - invites you to step up and out of your comfort zone and into the shoes of our community’s working poor. “Welcome to the State of Poverty†is Savannah’s adaptation of a copyrighted poverty simulation tool made available by the Missouri Association for Community Action (MACA). It will be held on Tuesday, November 27th from 1:00-3:30pm at the Savannah Civic Center.
UPDATE: Step Up Savannah’s Poverty Simulation has been postponed until further notice. I will be sure to post the new date, as soon as I hear when it will take place.
Poverty simulations are intended to bring individuals together from all walks of the community who assume the roles of family members living in poverty trying to survive for a month, in four 15-minute “weeks.†(Please note that while I do not think one can fully be exposed to the true experience of poverty in a 2-hour event - this program definitely serves to educate, open eyes and make participants more sensitive to those who struggle with this reality on a daily basis.)
Step Up will utilize volunteers to play the roles of landlords, utility company representatives, lenders and others, while participants are exposed to the feeling of what it’s like to live as a family, making less than $20,000 a year. Exposing community members to the day-to-day of people living in poverty sheds a light on the realities of poverty and opens eyes to how difficult daily decisions may be.
Water or heat; diapers or formula? These are some of the unpleasant, but all too realistic decisions you’re asked to make.
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So, my friend and colleague, Amanda, asked me to help her out with an event this week. Now, I knew going in that she has affection for maps and all things geography, what with a degree in it, and all. The event - GIS Day, Savannah - was the creative coast’s first effort to recognize GIS Day, which is an internationally observed acknowledgment and celebration of geography and careers in geographic information systems (GIS).
And, I would like to tell you that Savannah’s inaugural celebration of maps, data, geography and general nerdery was a great success!
A whole lot of folks came together from various organizations to help Savannah Area GIS (SAGIS) put on the local event that not only exhibited the truly diverse capabilities and applications of GIS analysts, engineers, cartographers and various scientists, but was actually cool and educational. Seriously. I learned a lot. And, more importantly, so did over 200 local middle school students who were invited to attend the event, held at the Savannah Civic Center.
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Have you seen some interesting activity around Forsyth Park in the past couple of days? Well, the word on the street (actually I got the tip from my roommate, Kelly, and the full scoop from this super article by Jim Morekis at ConnectSavannah.com) is that there is an art piece being installed on nearly 2500 square yards of the downtown green titled, “The Orange Step.”
Photo by Steve Bisson, Savannah Morning News
The Historic Savannah Foundation (HSF) is sponsoring the public display of art, created by painter Kiril Jeliazkov, a SCAD graduate. Originally from Bulgaria, Kiril has been working with HSF to exhibit his series of 128 twenty-foot-tall abstract paintings in Forsyth Park.
The project, should everything go smoothly, will be completed by noon today (Oct. 18) and will be on display to the public (for FREE) through Tuesday, October 23 October 30th.
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Don’t tell my boss… but, my job rocks. Seriously. There are a few friends of mine (don’t worry I’m not going to rat you out) who have to sneak around their old-school, suit-wearing supervisors to log-in to their favorite social networking site while on the clock.
Yet, the pull of these sites that allow you to connect with friends - real and “cyber,†stay informed of up-and-coming musicians and “secret shows,†as well as join professional-type networks is just too great. Me - well, I get paid to play on research MySpace and Facebook. (I know!) It is with good reason. Seriously.
These social networking sites have become viable marketing tools that not only bands and bars, but also artists and entrepreneurs view as a necessary piece of their promotions arsenal.
TCCi has had a MySpace presence for some time, and while it was informative and we did manage to “friend†over 800 people – it did not match our sister sites (the TCCi website and this blog – they’re pretty nifty, in case you hadn’t noticed.) So we put our noggins together with those folks from Paragon and Nicasio and TAH-DAH! We have a brand new face for our MySpace page. (And yes, we do have the dramatic before and after photos. Just hold your horses.)
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So… here goes. In trying to find something just perfectly relevant, timely and apolitical for my first published blog post I considered many topics. A few ideas flowed through the noggin: the recycling issue (too touchy), the Post Secret lecture (taken by Brandi) and the VMA’s debacle(s) (completely irrelevant), but were all ruled out for their respective reasons. And so then I took a gander at TCCi’s very own events page. Duh. It was there all along - The Perfect Post!
What is it, you ask. It’s the coolest (FREE, kid AND adult friendly, fun AND educational) event going on next weekend. It is the fourth-annual Gray’s Reef National Marine Sanctuary Ocean Film Festival, taking place September 21-23. The festival plays host to short films and documentaries for three days at Trustee’s Theater on Broughton Street and will also host a day of screenings on Tybee Island. There over a dozen works included in this year’s festival - and as you might suspect, there are movies on a variety of topics, but all are tied to the sea.
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