Robyn Shapiro, Director of Community at the Lowline, speaks at the Faith & Work Conference about how imagination and innovation have often led us underground. With beautiful design and inspiring architecture, the Lowline seeks to be the first underground park in New York City using a new type of solar technology. The Lowline's Kickstarter campaign is HERE. As Direc...
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Innovation:
Collaboration
and Conflict
Required
How does innovation proliferate? Conflict, tension, and failure are key hurdles that any business, team, or innovation must face in order to flourish. So what steps can we take to steward the imagination through human interaction? What makes collaboration click? Author and consultant Nancy Ortberg will give us practical tools for team dynamics, and will explore how...
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Start-Up
Pitch
Night
Winners
On Thursday, April 30th, CFW hosted the first Start-Up Pitch Night. Judges awarded $5,000 prizes to the non-profit pitches by Service to School and The Golden Spoon and for-profit awards to Forward Comix and Uplitalk. An audience of over 120 voted for their favorite pitches in each category awarding an additional $2,500 People’s Choice Award to Serv...
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Choreographers
Chosen for
CFW's
Spring
Residency
The Center for Faith & Work is pleased to announce our Spring 2015 Artists-in-Residence: choreographers Miro Magloire and Andrew Nemr. The two artists were chosen from invited proposals that explored the idea of “Friction”. Each resident artist is now in the process of creating a brand new work on that theme, as it’s uniquely expressed through dan...
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Creativity,
Critique
and Community
By Peter Kong Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have chosen Bezalel son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills — to make artistic designs for work in gold, silver and bronze, to cut and set stones, to work in wood, and to engage in all ki...
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Another
Saturday Night
at the Clam King
“I think I’ve always been an old soul. My two best friends when I was little were my Grandmother and my Great Aunt. And now in my thirties, I look back at the things they did for me, an example is the story I’m going to tell, and those things have new (additional) meanings for me. When I was little, they showed their love to protect me and my confidence. Now as an ad...
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