The College Fellowship
The College Fellowship (TCF) is designed to help students identify and grow more comfortable with their humanity, and includes a range of programs that engage both the self and the outside world. The core premise of The College Fellowship is that by focusing on human transformation, the prospect of wider social transformation is made more possible.
Offering university-level courses which incorporate enrichment and experiential programming for twelfth grade (sixth form), prep year, gap year and university students, TCF provides opportunities that enable students to attain broader self-development goals and a richer and more meaningful knowledge base.
Students will journey to foreign destinations for extended, authentic and intentional engagement with local populations, their cultures and the challenges they face. These immersions create the opportunity for what the post-colonial cultural critic Homi Bhabba called "third spaces of learning," in which students surface their own deeply held values and worldview, acknowledge and honour the perspectives of "others" along with their ways of knowing and being, reconcile global and local "subject" knowledge while developing new knowledge in areas of personal interest.
TCF enriches this growth process with an international speaker series that introduces students to leaders and experienced members of the NGO community, and philanthropic, governmental, and international organizations, and allows for additional networking and mentoring.
The goal of The College Fellowship is to produce generations of way-finders, citizens and innovators who contribute their leadership skills to the important and pressing issues of our era.
For further information about The College Fellowship, please contact office@thecollegefellowship.co.uk.
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In 2009, the Public Concern Foundation teamed up with Ballroom Marfa, a leading contemporary arts center in Far West Texas, to create the Marfa Dialogues project, an interdisciplinary exploration of social and political themes involving the participation of journalists, academics, activists, artists and participants from the wider creative community.
Held in September, 2010 in Marfa, Texas on the high-desert plateau of Presidio County, fifty miles north of Mexico, the first Marfa Dialogues examined the politics and culture of the border and featured a border-themed art exhibition at the Ballroom galleries, public conversations and panel discussions, film screenings, poetry readings, musical performances, and artists’ discussions of their work. In the fall of 2012, Ballroom and PCF, with the support of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, presented Marfa Dialogues: the Politics and Culture of Climate Change, with a diverse program of journalists, authors, scientists, artists, filmmakers, ecological tours, and performance artists. Ballroom Marfa again mounted a synergistic exhibition, curated by David Buckland of Cape Farewell, the London-based arts group that integrates climate themes in its exhibitions and productions throughout the world.
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