Crossroads Leadership Lab

08/28/2021

Dear friends, we are thrilled to share with you an invitation to an upcoming workshop!

Virtual Vocables Workshop: Add Your Voice with Shruthi Veena Vishwanath & Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees

Saturday, Sept. 4 at 11am-12:30pm ET

Register Here! https://cutt.ly/7Q1rrOs

You are invited to add your voice to the next iteration of the soundscape for Falling Into Language, a film by Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees. During the workshop the visuals of the film become a catalyst to explore vocal sounding as an expression of individual connection to our cosmic origins. Participants will be guided to make their own “vocables” soundtrack to the film and to submit the audio recordings as part of a new iteration of the film’s soundscape for the end of the current exhibition. This workshop will be led by Shruthi Veena Vishnawanth, one of musicians of the original two film soundscapes and Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees.

All are welcome to join! Vocal or music experience is not required to participate in this session.

*vocables: sounds that are linked to the larger web of relationships to land, place, and the non-human world – rather than to words and literal meaning.

Co-presented by UVM’s Crossroads Leadership Lab and Burlington City Arts.

07/19/2021

Friends, we hope you can join us to celebrate the upcoming Artist Talk with Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees about the current exhibition of Falling Into Language: A Travelogue on Thursday, July 22nd, at 11am EDT/8:30pm India time.

Click the link below to register for the online webinar event:

https://www.burlingtoncityarts.org/event/artist-talk-kaylynn-sullivan-twotrees

07/15/2021

We are so excited to share the link to stream Sharon Bridgforth's work/show on Twin Cities PBS!! Please check it out! https://www.tpt.org/tpt-stage/video/dat-black-mermaid-man-ladythe-show-38818/?fbclid=IwAR0Iqzi1TavZmg9wO8wI19n-6RCJ_H3wDYn82wEX2YD3pX-eHqDDd8vZDck

dat Black Mermaid Man Lady is a performance celebrating the spirit of Black traditions.

06/14/2021

Dear friends of the CLL, we are thrilled to share with you an invitation to an upcoming workshop featuring beloved, Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees!

Virtual Vocables Workshop: Add Your Voice with Heidi Ann Wilson and Kaylynn Sullivan

June 24th at 7:30-9:00PM Eastern Time
REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7316232440740/WN_FzsHGFYwSR2ks23ZpDbPBg

Add your voice to the next iteration of Falling Into Language's soundscape, a film and art installation by Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees, currently on view at BCA Center as part of the exhibit Falling Into Language: A Travelogue. Workshop participants will view the film with its imagery becoming a catalyst to explore vocal sounding as an expression of individual connection to our cosmic origins. Participants are guided to make their own vocables* in response to the film's soundscape, and will have the opportunity to submit audio recordings to be used for the final iteration of the film’s soundscape.

Song leader Heidi Ann Wilson, one of the musicians the artist collaborated with to create Falling Into Language's original soundscape, and Kaylynn Sullivan TwoTrees will lead the workshop.

Add Your Voice workshop series is co-presented by Burlington City Arts and UVM’s Crossroads Leadership Lab.

04/02/2021

Hi friends! In case you missed this week's webinar, its now available for watching at your convivence.

Leadership, Love & Liberation: a virtual conversation with Chernor Bah, Kathy Boudin, Rosa Bransky & Cheryl Wilkins

Facilitated by Pamela Shifman and Anna Quinn, in partnership with the CLL, this conversation explored connections between leadership practice and social justice work, with insights from leaders promoting adolescent girls’ rights and challenging mass incarceration.

Webinar, March 31, 2021 Leadership, Love & Liberation: a virtual conversation with Chernor Bah, Kathy Boudin, Rosa Bransky & Cheryl Wilkins Facilitated by Pa...

03/15/2021

UVM Master's in Leadership for Sustainability and Crossroads Leadership Lab are excited to partner with community sparkplugs, Anna Quinn and Pamela Shifman, who will be facilitating an upcoming webinar in the spirit of Women’s History Month!

Leadership, Love & Liberation: a virtual conversation with Chernor Bah, Kathy Boudin, Rosa Bransky & Cheryl Wilkins

Wednesday, March 31st | Noon -1:15pm ET

Join us to explore the connections between leadership practice and social justice work, with insights from leaders promoting adolescent girls’ rights and challenging mass incarceration.

Register today at: https://forms.gle/DwZwyYGm8LGZpbVD8
A Zoom link will be sent to you after registration.

If you have any questions or accessibility needs, contact [email protected].

In spirit,
Crossroads Leadership Lab

06/04/2020

The MLS Program stands in solidarity with Black-led movements that continue to rise up against systemic racial violence, anti-blackness, and white supremacy. We join the call for accountability and justice for the murders of George Floyd, Tony McDade, Breonna Taylor and all other victims of racial violence over hundreds of years on this continent, and we stand with Black-led movements taking courageous action toward liberation and systemic change.

At this moment, the MLS program returns to the wisdom, teachings, and practices of our partners and affiliate community on leadership, learning, change, and social movements. We are reminded that transformational change is possible through deep solidarity, relationship, learning and love.

We deepen our resolve and commitment to practices for unlearning and dismantling the mindsets, structures, and systems of white supremacy and anti-blackness in ourselves, our relationships, the MLS program, our institutions, and the larger world of which we are part.

We reaffirm our commitment to follow and center the leadership of Black-led social movements and center the voices, experiences, and wisdom of Black, Indigenous, and PoC leaders and practitioners. The MLS Program recommits to our core values of love, learning, relationship, and well being; while doing all we can to leverage institutional and positional power and resources towards transforming higher education to support and create spaces where all life can thrive, and where all Black Lives Matter.

This is a time for showing up for each other in action, with courage and in alignment with our deepest values. We commit to this work over the long haul with love and in solidarity.

05/21/2020

Do you ever wonder what people have to say about a Master's program once they have completed it?

We are so grateful that our Alumni wanted to share how the program has impacted their lives and their work.

The Master's in Leadership for sustainability program is still accepting applications and scholarship applications for Fall 2020.

If you would like to attend an Online Open House on May 27, 2020 or June 10, 2020 please visit our website to RSVP and learn more about the program values of love, learning, well-being, relationships and to read more about the essential questions that students focus on throughout the two year program.