Owl & Ibis - A Confluence Of Minds

~  The British Museum ~ On September 26, 2020, Ramona Leiter gave an outstanding multimedia presentation at Owl & Ibis titled "The Role of Museums in the 21st Century." Mona expertly informed us and presented the various facets and difficulties attendant to museums, past, present, and future. Here is Mona to discuss her presentation and provide links to key elements of her talk: Hello everyone! Thank you very much to all that participated in the discussion last Saturday. I was thrilled to have a project to use my editing software, Movavi, on. Seeing things come together with the different transitions, effects etc... and how quickly I could edit it all into something that was how I envisioned it in my head was thrilling. This gives me the confidence to move on to more challenging things. As I said in the presentation I am very passionate about museums and loved working on this presentation and talking about museums with other museum lovers. It was hard to research some of ...

  Here are two new documentaries on the back stories of US history and current affairs most of us were not taught in school. Master researcher, social critic, author, and documentary producer, Pamela Starr Dewey, calls them DocuCommentaries though they are longer on documentary than on commentary. By that I mean Pam Dewey insists on presenting the unvarnished lesser-known facts of US history and society, then letting her audience draw their own conclusions. I recommend both her new productions very highly. Here’s Pam:   My latest DocuCommentary is now available on my  Meet MythAmerica  YouTube channel. I am starting a new "miniseries" that is called The 2020 Twilight Zone. The 2020 Twilight Zone, Episode 1: Down the Rabbit Hole In early 2020 the Lincoln Project, a group of Republicans who were totally disillusioned with the presidency of Donald Trump and wanted to prevent him from being elected to a second term, began producing and airing a series of very creative an...

After an eight-month break, Owl & Ibis - A Confluence of Minds resumed holding meetings on August 29, 2020. This internationally attended meeting was held via Zoom. A PDF of the slideshow accompanying the meeting’s presentation may be viewed here . The recorded narration accompanying the slideshow is below. Also, readers may find links to the slideshow and narrative located in the upper left drop down menu.  The next meeting of Owl & Ibis will be held on September 26, 2020 from 4-6PM Eastern US Time. Mona Leiter will chair and present “The Role of Museums in the 21st Century.” Send me an email if you would like to join future meetings. JEL }:> & ~:) Cultural Appropriation Narration*   An Owl & Ibis – Confluence of Minds Presentation (33 minutes) Jim Lassiter August 29, 2020 SLIDE 1   In 1727, Philadelphia newspaper printer Benjamin Franklin, then 21, formed the Junto, also known as the Leather Apron Club, a group of "like minded aspiring ...