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Slought encourages dialogue and relationships through social and cultural programs.
We foster intercultural exchange, research, and advocacy around the world.
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Featured Projects

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Second Life
Begins May 01, 2016
A series of previously unfinalized works about social and institutional boundaries and thresholds
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Beyond the Financialized Public?
Begins Jan 01, 2016
A series of roundtables about democracy, economy, and how we measure value in society
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While I Breathe
Begins Jul 01, 2016
An online project about environmental toxicity and the social determinants of health
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Current Events

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In Philadelphia
Sep 24, 2016
Translating Race in Eurasia

A conference and film program exploring the construction of race and racialized identities in Eurasia

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Values
Sep 27, 2016
Hellgoers: Beckett, Dante and Ireland

A conversation and film screening exploring the motif of hell and purgatory in modern Irish culture and politics

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In the World
Sep 07, 2016
Erasures in East Jerusalem and Ramallah

A series of programs that brings the Erasures project back to the communities most directly affected by the issues it raises

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Values
Oct 28, 2016
How to Get Started - Live at the University of Michigan and MOCAD

The Institute for the Humanities and MOCAD joins Slought and the John Cage Trust in reviving John Cage's "How To Get Started" (1989) for the first time in the Midwest

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Current Projects

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Current Initiatives

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Public Voices

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Alanna Rebbeck, a local musician and high school senior, recently interned at Slought, with a focus on exhibitions.

Jeannine Cook, the co-Director of Positive Minds, was a youth facilitator active in Mixplace Studio at Slought.

Sue Ann Prince, the founding director of the American Philosophical Society Museum, has supported Slought since its formation.

Advocacy Blog

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In Philadelphia
May 19, 2016
Write My Future

MK Asante, the acclaimed author of Buck, speaks with Lorene Cary and young adults about safety, agency, and the power of language.

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In the World
Jul 07, 2016
A willful erasure of those very acts of erasure

An interview with artist Fazal Sheikh about dispossession and the loss of memory and identity following the the Arab-Israeli War of 1948

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In the Cloud
Aug 08, 2015
Violence and the Visible

Alanna Rebbeck reflects on the invisibility of "slow violence" and how cultural institutions can visualize a new aesthetic of resistance.

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